Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, BSc MA MBBS MRCP(UK) FRCPCH PhD DIC FHEA FIDSA FMedSci, is Professor of Paediatric Infection and Immunity at the University of Oxford, Honorary Consultant Paediatrician at Oxford Children\u2019s Hospital and Vice Master of St Cross College, Oxford.
Congratulations to Nuffield Department of Women's & Reproductive Health DPhil student Josephine Agyeman-Duah on being named winner of PhD Student of the Year at the Postgrad Awards 2022.
The University of Oxford has been awarded more than \u00a37 million, the highest amount of funding given to organisations across the UK, in the latest round of UK Research and Innovation\u2019s (UKRI) Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) funding - aimed at fueling the best, brightest and most disruptive ideas from UK research institutions.
Members of the University have been recognised in the 2022 Queen's Birthday Honours List, including scientists from across the Medical Sciences Division.
The Molecular Flow Sensor Team, with collaborating members principally from DPAG\u2019s Robbins and Talbot groups and the Department of Chemistry, has been named the winner of the Royal Society of Chemistry\u2019s (RSC) Analytical Division Horizon Prize for the development of a new technology for measuring lung function.
At last night\u2019s glittering Museums + Heritage Awards ceremony, LEAP and the Oxford Museum of Natural History were over the moon to win the 2022 Partnership of the Year Award for Meat the Future: A partnership to feed minds and bodies.
Cathy Creswell, Professor of Developmental Clinical Psychology at the Departments of Psychiatry and Experimental Psychology, David Roberts, Professor of Haematology at the Radcliffe Department of Medicine and Consultant Haematologist, and Matthew Costa, Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery at the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, have been elected Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
Many congratulations to Susan and Jordan for this prestigious honour, recognising their contributions to structural and centrosome biology, respectively
Pharmacology Head of Department, Professor Fran Platt, has been announced as the winner of the 2023 Thudichum Medal, presented by the Biochemical Society.
Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences have been successful in the renewal of their Athena Swan Silver Award, recognising their work in advancing gender equality.
The use of data, evidence and digital tools in healthcare and policy takes a major stride forward with the official launch of the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science and appointment of Ben Goldacre as Bennett Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine
Professors Matthew Higgins and Michael Dustin from the University of Oxford, Prof Gavin Wright from the University of York, and Professors Shiroh Iwanaga and Hisashi Arase from Osaka University have secured a Wellcome Collaborative Award for their study \u201cHow do RIFINs and STEVORs modulate human immunity during malaria?\u201d
The Oxford Health Clinical Research Facility (OH CRF) is one of 28 facilities across England to benefit from nearly \u00a3161 million that has been awarded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to expand early phase clinical research delivery in NHS hospitals.
Seven academics in Oxford have been named National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Senior Investigators in recognition of their outstanding leadership in research.
Professor Sally Collins has been awarded the prestigious and highly competitive Sir Jules Thorn Translational Biomedical Research Award 2021 for further translational development of the OxNNet Toolkit.
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