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Could Humans Hibernate? DPAG's Vladyslav Vyazovskiy joins The Conversation
Outreach Research Vyazovskiy Group News
16 March 2016
Professor Vyazovskiy is part of a team of experts tasked by the European Space Agency with investigating whether and how we might be able to put humans into a state of stasis to enable long-distance space travel.
DPAG to Host the UK's First White Fibre Dissection Course
Outreach Research
11 March 2016
From 21st to 23rd March 2016, the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics will host a white fibre dissection course covering the cortical and subcortical white fibre anatomy, which is the first of its kind in the country.
Gero Miesenböck Wins Frontiers of Knowledge Award
Awards and Honours CNCB Research
28 January 2016
Gero Miesenböck has won a BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award for the development of optogenetics. He shares the € 400,000 prize with Edward Boyden of MIT and Karl Deisseroth of Stanford University.
Multi-year £3.3M Extension of Strategic Alliance with Summit Therapeutics
Davies Group News General Research
18 November 2015
Researchers learn how to steer the heart – with light
Cardiac Theme Publication Research
20 October 2015
We depend on electrical waves to regulate the rhythm of our heartbeat. When those signals go awry, the result is a potentially fatal arrhythmia. Now, a team of researchers from the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics and Stony Brook University has found a way to precisely control these waves – using light. Their results are published in the journal Nature Photonics.
How the zebrafish could hold the key to heart disease cure
Research Riley Group News
13 October 2015
Stimulating the heart to repair itself is within scientific touching distance, thanks in large part to the work of Professor Paul Riley and his team in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics
Cancer tumours could be starved to death after discovery of how they hunt for food
Publication Research Wilson Group News
5 October 2015
Dr Deborah Goberdhan and her team have identified a protein used by tumours to help them detect food supplies. Initial studies show that targeting the protein could restrict cancerous cells’ ability to grow.
Confusion afoot
Publication Research
28 September 2015
Most people can’t tell their toes apart without looking. Some healthy people can 'lose' a toe if their eyes are closed. While most of us would assume we’ve got a pretty good idea of where the various parts of our body are, research from Oxford University suggests we may have a problem telling our toes apart – with implications for the way our brains see our bodies.
Specialised mammalian stem cells evolved for interhemispheric connections
Publication Research
21 September 2015
According to Fernando García-Moreno and Zoltán Molnár understanding development and evolution of the neocortex has important implications. Differential timing of developmental events sculpts the brains of different species into distinct organs. The latest investigations on the development of the dorsal forebrain in chick and mouse embryos showed a major difference between vertebrate brains. A delay in the neurogenic properties of a subset of progenitors is specific to mammals and could be responsible for the evolutionary origin of the corpus callosum...
Friedreich’s Ataxia Research Collaboration Announced
Research
2 August 2015
A new collaborative drug discovery project in Friedreich’s Ataxia (FA) between the University of Oxford, Ataxia UK, Pfizer Inc, UCL and Imperial College London was recently announced.
Talking to your neigbours increases gene expression
Publication Research
29 July 2015
Researchers in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics establish a link between talking to neighbours and an increase in gene expression in a paper published in the prestigious journal Cell Reports.
New hope to tackle third biggest killer disease
Research
9 July 2015
A potential new way to treat one of the world’s most common lung diseases is to be investigated after a study found a link between sufferers’ iron levels and worse health outcomes.
Zoltan Molnar & partner are first recipients of Newton Advanced Fellowships
Awards and Honours Molnar Group News Research
26 June 2015
Dr Xiaoqun Wang is one of the first recipient of the prestigious Newton Advanced Fellowships with Professor Zoltan Molnar as his UK partner.
Success for Kristie McCormick at the CRUK Oxford Centre Symposium
Awards and Honours EDI News Research Students
11 June 2015
Kristie McCormick was awarded a prize for the presentation of her poster at the CRUK Oxford Centre 2015 Symposium on June 5th.
1950s drug is future heart treatment
Cardiac Theme Publication Research
22 May 2015
Oxford researcher have found a promising future treatment for heart disease, going back to a drug first developed in 1950.
Research in Conversation - Michael Kohl
Research
11 May 2015
Dr Michael Kohl is interviewed for Oxford University's Research in Conversation series in which Oxford's medical researchers explain their work into understanding more about our relationship with sleep, learning, healthy eating and addiction.
DPAG researchers identify a mechanism for selective activation of closely related signalling proteins
Publication Research
21 April 2015
Researchers in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics publish in the prestigious Molecular Cell an article entitled "Distinct Spatial Ca2+ Signatures Selectively Activate Different NFAT Transcription Factor Isoforms"
New function of obesity gene revealed
Ashcroft Group News Publication Research
17 April 2015
Professor Roger Cox, Dr Dyan Sellayah and Professor Frances Ashcroft have discovered a previously unknown mechanism behind how the fat mass and obesity associated (FTO) gene promotes obesity. Their findings may have important implications for future therapeutic strategies to combat obesity.
Oxford lab wins £6M for Parkinson's Disease research
Awards and Honours OPDC News Research Wade-Martins Group News
9 March 2015
Researchers at Oxford University have been awarded a £6 million grant for their cutting-edge research programme on finding drug targets for Parkinson's Disease.
University announces collaborative research projects with Pfizer
Awards and Honours Davies Group News Research
24 February 2015
The University of Oxford is delighted to announce that the first collaborative research projects to be agreed by the University under the Pfizer Rare Disease Consortium have been signed.