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Professor Dame Kay Davies awarded for Outstanding Contribution to British Neuroscience
Awards and Honours Davies Group News EDI News
5 November 2014
Professor Dame Kay Davies, Dr Lee’s Professor of Anatomy, was selected as the 2014 recipient of the British Neuroscience Association award for Outstanding Contribution to British Neuroscience.
Prof David Paterson receives Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Awards and Honours Cardiac Theme
4 November 2014
Professor David Paterson, Associate Head of the Medical Sciences Division (Education) and professor in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, was elected as an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
Team OPDC complete Oxford Parkinson's Walk
EDI News OPDC News Outreach Wade-Martins Group News
24 October 2014
Dr Manish Kalla receives the Young investigator award for basic science
Awards and Honours Cardiac Theme EDI News Students
24 October 2014
The Thirsty Mind
Publication Research
3 October 2014
The New Yorker reports on an article by a group of researchers from the Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour in the latest issue of the journal Nature Neuroscience. The group, which is led by Scott Waddell, studies rewards, motivation, and memory in the comparatively simple brain of the fruit fly.
Former Waynflete Professor of Physiology, Sir Colin Blakemore FRS knighted in Queen's Birthday Honours
Awards and Honours
18 September 2014
Professor Colin Blakemore, FRS, FMedSci, was recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours.
Leading charity announces increased funding for Oxford network of dementia researchers
OPDC News Research Wade-Martins Group News
10 September 2014
Scientific excellence in Oxford has once again been recognised as Alzheimer’s Research UK doubles its investment in dementia research through the Oxford Research Network Centre.
Male exosomes affect female behaviour
Publication Wilson Group News
9 September 2014
Nature Review Genetics - Signalling
Interview - Stephen Goodwin in Current Biology
CNCB General Goodwin Group News
3 September 2014
Stephen Goodwin is an Associate Professor in Biomedical Sciences and a Tutorial Fellow in Medicine and Physiology Sciences at Magdalen College. His laboratory uses the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, to study the genetic, developmental, and neural mechanisms that underlie sex-specific behaviors.
Paving the way for gene therapy in Huntington's disease
Research
14 August 2014
Prof. Matthew Wood and Dr. Samir El Andaloussi, both of DPAG, have been awarded a new £1m grant from the MRC to study gene therapy for Huntington’s Disease.
Just 8.2 per cent of our DNA is ‘functional’
Publication Research
6 August 2014
Only 8.2 per cent of human DNA is likely to be doing something important – is ‘functional’ – say researchers from Oxford University.
DPhil student Brianna Stubbs makes GB Rowing Team
Awards and Honours EDI News Students
6 August 2014
New Associate Professors in DPAG
Awards and Honours
29 July 2014
The Department would like to congratulate Victoria Bajo Lorenzana, Kristine Krug, Damian Tyler and Ji-Long Liu on the award of their title of Associate Professor.
Hege Larsen awarded Pfizer Prize
Awards and Honours Cardiac Theme EDI News Research Students
14 July 2014
Dr Manish Kalla and Mr Sumeth Perera awarded with Peter Beaconfield prize
Awards and Honours Cardiac Theme Students
10 July 2014
The Peter Beaconfield prizes are intended to reward young researchers who are capable of escaping from the stereotype of narrow specialisation to engage with translational medicine, and display a wider grasp of the significance and potential applicability of their research
Think global, act local
Publication Research
3 July 2014
Dr Pulak Kar, Professor Anant Parekh and colleagues are a step closer to understanding how specificity is achieved in the immune system.
Computer-aided diagnosis of rare genetic disorders from family snaps
Publication Research
24 June 2014
Computer analysis of photographs could help doctors diagnose which condition a child with a rare genetic disorder has, says lead researcher Dr Christoffer Nellåker along Quentin Ferry, a DPhil research student, and Professor Andrew Zisserman of the Department of Engineering Science.
Strictly Science Star
Students
10 June 2014
DPhil student Latt Mansor tells us about competing in the Varsity Match - Ballroom against Cambridge. Although not strictly science, dancing requires concentration, attention to detail and commitment to his partner, Emily Sergeant (Kellogg College).