Thirty-three University of Oxford researchers have been named Turing Fellows for the 2021/22 academic year, including eight from the Medical Sciences Division.
For the second year in a row, The British Medical Journal have selected a publication co-authored by Oxford University researchers for their prestigious UK Research Paper of the Year Award. This award recognises original UK research that has the potential to contribute significantly to improving health and healthcare.
Researchers at Oxford University have received a prestigious Wellcome Innovator Grant for investigating the role of the pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN) \u2013 a brainstem nucleus \u2013 in human consciousness.
We are pleased to announce that Professor Sir John Bell has been selected for induction into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame, for his pioneering advances in the era of translation research, bringing ground-breaking laboratory discoveries into the world of practical medicine.
A University of Oxford professor has been awarded the 2021 EASD-Novo Nordisk Foundation Prize for Excellence for his decades of effort to understand, prevent and combat type 1 diabetes.
Dr Alexander (Sandy) Douglas, an investigator at the Jenner Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, has recently received two prestigious Wellcome accolades.
Today eight Oxford University academics have been awarded significant financial funding from the UKRI \u2018Future Leaders Fellowships scheme\u2019 that was created to help develop the next wave of world-class research and innovation leaders in academia and business.\r\n\r\nScience Minister Amanda Solloway announced nearly 100 new Fellows, who will share in \u00a3113 million funding, with individual researchers receiving up to \u00a31.5 million.
Professor Alison Simmons, the Director of the Oxford University MRC Human Immunology Unit (MRC HIU), together with Dr Hashem Koohy, group leader at Radcliffe Department of Medicine and the MRC HIU, have been awarded a Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Paediatric Networks for the Human Cell Atlas grant.
Every year the Royal Society honours the hard work and achievements of researchers with medals and prizes named after the great scientists of the past. Among the award winners this year the Royal Society recognised five Oxford University Professors, including two from Medical Sciences, for their outstanding contributions to science and medicine
Five graduate students currently studying at Oxford, including two Medical Sciences students, have been awarded \u00a31,000 grants from the Vice Chancellor\u2019s COVID-19 African Innovation Seed Fund for entrepreneurial projects aimed at addressing global challenges stemming from the pandemic.
A gift from the Red Avenue Foundation will enable the expansion of a major research programme aimed at rapidly identifying and interrogating emerging COVID-19 variants.
Tanmay Bharat, a group leader at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, has been awarded a prestigious Lister Institute Research Prize in the 2021 funding round.
UKRI have announced a major \u00a324 million investment into improving the mental health and wellbeing of adolescents in the UK. One of the projects being funded is led by Professor Kam Bhui in the Department of Psychiatry, it will bring together diverse creative-arts, digital and health experts to investigate how adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can affect adolescents' mental health.
Dr Lee (Department of Oncology) received the award to acknowledge his contributions during the COVID-19 pandemic, through the establishment of the UK Coronavirus Cancer Monitoring Project.
Susan Jebb, Professor of Diet and Population Health in Oxford University\u2019s Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, has been appointed as the new Chair of the Food Standards Agency.
The pioneering work of members of the University, including research into tackling the Coronavirus pandemic, has been recognised in The Queen's Birthday Honours List.
Professor Belinda Lennox has been welcomed to the role of Head of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford and will take over leadership in October 2021.
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