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Local school students engaged in exciting new careers mentoring programme
EDI News Outreach Postdoctoral Riley Group News
2 April 2020
DPAG Postdoctoral Research Scientist Dr Sophia Malandraki-Miller took part in a pilot careers mentoring session at Oxford High School. This exciting new engagement programme is a collaboration between Medical Sciences Division researchers and Oxford Biomedical Research Centre and aims to increase awareness of the variety of careers in biomedicine.
DPAG Students win 2020 Goodger and Schorstein Awards
Awards and Honours EDI News Students
20 March 2020
Congratulations are in order to Britt Hanson and Dr Lukas Krone, who have won Goodger and Schorstein Awards from the Medical Sciences Internal Fund.
Congratulations to DPAG's new Departmental Lecturers
Awards and Honours EDI News Head of Department's News Teaching
25 February 2020
Professor Eve Marder delivers the 2020 Mabel FitzGerald Prize Lecture
EDI Events Head of Department's News
24 February 2020
The annual lecture is held in honour of the pioneering physiologist and clinical pathologist, Mabel Purefoy FitzGerald.
Cristina Blanco Duque is a CSF 2019 Award Winner
Awards and Honours EDI News Students Vyazovskiy Group News
7 November 2019
Congratulations are in order for Wellcome Trust doctoral student Cristina Blanco Duque, the winner of the Travel Award and the Award for Best Contribution at the International Conference of Advanced Sleep Modulation Technologies.
Winners of the DPAG Student Poster Day 2019 announced
Awards and Honours EDI Events Students Vieira Group News
7 November 2019
"A Year of Progress" was held in the Sherrington Library on Wednesday 6 November 2019.
Research Spotlight: ‘I want to get high enough up the chain to pull others over the wall with me’
EDI News OPDC News Wade-Martins Group News
1 November 2019
Continuing their series celebrating ‘amazing people at Oxford who you should know about’, Central University's Science Blog talks to Dayne Beccano-Kelly, an electrophysiologist and Career Development Fellow in our department and part of the Oxford Parkinson’s Disease Centre.
Professor Dame Pamela Shaw delivers the GL Brown Prize Lecture 2019
EDI Events Head of Department's News
31 October 2019
The GL Brown Prize Lecture series from The Physiological Society is aimed at an early career audience to stimulate an interest in physiology.
NIH-OxCam: a graduate student's journey to Oxford
EDI News Long Read OPDC News Outreach Students Wade-Martins Group News
29 October 2019
Stewart Humble came to the Wade-Martins Lab at DPAG from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans during Michaelmas Term in October 2016 as part of the National Institutes of Health Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Programme (NIH-OxCam), an accelerated, individualised doctoral training programme, to help him make the transition to a Physician-Scientist career path. This opened up the world of basic science, translational research, and international collaboration. Over the summer of 2019, Stewart organised a lab symposium to encourage and inspire students from his home university to consider the opportunities available to them. This is the story of his journey to Oxford and what he has discovered here.
Research Spotlight for Black History Month: Pavandeep Rai
EDI News Long Read OPDC News Postdoctoral Wade-Martins Group News
28 October 2019
October is Black History Month, which is celebrated nationwide every year to recognise the contributions that people from BAME backgrounds have made to this country. Here at DPAG, we get to know one of our Researchers - Pavandeep Rai, a Postdoctoral Research Scientist working in the Wade-Martins Group. Pavandeep is working at the forefront of an industry/academia collaborative project aimed at developing potential new drugs to treat Parkinson’s.
Manuela Zaccolo honoured by the Royal Society of Biology
Awards and Honours Cardiac Theme EDI News
21 October 2019
Congratulations are in order to Professor Manuela Zaccolo on being elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology.
DPAG Researchers participate at the Parliamentary launch of The Physiological Society's new ageing report
EDI News Postdoctoral Research Vyazovskiy Group News
18 October 2019
The new Physiological Society report "Growing Older, Better" highlights physiology's role in meeting the UK Government's healthy ageing mission. Associate Professor Vladyslav Vyazovskiy and Novo Nordisk Postdoctoral Fellow Laura McKillop contributed a research spotlight at the report's launch at the Houses of Parliament.
DPAG Women's Dinner 2019
EDI Events Postdoctoral
11 October 2019
In conjunction with the Athena SWAN initiative and organised by Professor Kieran Clarke, a dinner was held on Monday 30 September at Merton College for female researchers.
KC Park wins the OXION 2019 Poster Prize
Ashcroft Group News Awards and Honours EDI News Research Students
1 October 2019
Congratulations are in order to KC Park, the winner of this year's OXION Poster Prize.
Three DPAG Academics recognised with Teaching Excellence Awards
Awards and Honours EDI News Heather Group News Teaching
6 September 2019
The Medical Sciences Teaching Excellence Awards scheme recognises and rewards excellence in teaching, supervision, the organisation and development of teaching, and support for teaching and learning, within a research-intensive environment.
Deborah Goberdhan receives DPAG’s first LAB282 award
EDI News Research
2 September 2019
The scheme is a collaboration between Oxford University, the global drug discovery company Evotec, and the investment fund Oxford Sciences Innovation (OSI).
Professor Dame Frances Ashcroft awarded Jacob Henle Medal
Ashcroft Group News Awards and Honours EDI News
22 July 2019
The Jacob Henle Medal recognises outstanding, medically relevant scientific achievements in physiology and medicine. It is awarded by Gottingen University, one of Germany's oldest institutions of higher learning.
DPAG Academics deliver UNIQ Summer School in Medicine classes
EDI Events Outreach Teaching Wilson Group News
18 July 2019
UNIQ is open to students studying in their first year of further education, who are based at UK state schools or colleges. The Summer School provides an opportunity for students to receive first-hand experience of life at university, meet like-minded people and gain a deeper understanding of a subject that interests them.
Emma Bardsley and David Paterson awarded Hypertension's top paper for 2018
Awards and Honours EDI News Head of Department's News Publication
17 July 2019
Congratulations are in order for Dr Emma Bardsley and Professor David Paterson, who have been awarded top paper for 2018 by the journal Hypertension.