The Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics is the largest pre-clinical department within the Division of Medical Sciences of the University of Oxford. Building on an outstanding legacy in physiology and anatomy, the Department has a world-class reputation in both its research and teaching. Its integrative and multidisciplinary research programmes focus on many of the major questions in modern biomedicine, while its staff undertake the majority of preclinical teaching for the top-ranked medical degree in Oxford and for the new Biomedical Sciences course.

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DPAG researchers recognised for outstanding contribution to medical science

 Three members of DPAG have been recognised for excellence in medical science by election to the Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Science in 2012.

They are Professor Gero Miesenboeck, Waynflete Professor of Physiology and Director of the Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, Professor Anant Parekh, Professor of Physiology, and Professor Chris Ponting, Professor of Genomics and Deputy Director of the MRC Functional Genomics Unit.

 Professor Ponting has also been elected a member of EMBO, a European organization of leading life scientists. These prestigious recognitions illustrate the strength of DPAG science across the range of our research themes.

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