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Sian Wilcox awarded Goodger and Schorstein scholarship
Awards and Honours EDI News Students Vyazovskiy Group News
25 May 2023
Congratulations are in order to Sian Wilcox on winning a Goodger and Schorstein Award from the Medical Sciences Internal Fund.
Manuela Zaccolo is an Elected Member of Academia Europaea
Awards and Honours Cardiac Theme EDI News
24 May 2023
Congratulations are in order to Professor Manuela Zaccolo on being awarded Membership of the Academia Europaea (MAE).
Nobel Laureate Peter Agre delivers special lecture
General Head of Department's News
24 May 2023
Professor Peter Agre visited DPAG to deliver a talk about his Nobel winning discovery of the aquaporin water channels, known as the 'plumbing system of cells'.
Fellowship to Jose Prius Mengual paves the way to new genetic therapy for epilepsy
Awards and Honours EDI News Postdoctoral Research Vyazovskiy Group News
22 May 2023
Congratulations are in order to Dr Jose Prius Mengual who has been awarded an Emerging Leader Fellowship Award from Epilepsy Research UK and the Nucleic Acid Therapy Accelerator (NATA). With this award, Dr Mengual will develop a new genetic therapy to rebalance protein levels in the neurons affected by epilepsy to prevent seizures.
Two new DPAG Associate Professors
Awards and Honours EDI News
19 May 2023
Congratulations are in order to Associate Professor Nicol Harper and Associate Professor Dan Li.
Three new DPAG Fellows of the Royal Society
Awards and Honours EDI News Head of Department's News
10 May 2023
Congratulations are in order to Professor Scott Waddell FRS, Visiting Professor Sue Black FRS and Honorary Professor Irene Tracey FRS on their election to The Royal Society.
Fellowship to Hugo Fernandes paves the way to improved treatment options for dementia
Awards and Honours OPDC News Postdoctoral Research Wade-Martins Group News
4 May 2023
Congratulations are in order to Dr Hugo Fernandes who has been awarded a sought after Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Research Leader Fellowship. With this award, Dr Fernandes will reveal the role of dysfunctional lipid metabolism in dementia using innovative self-designed tools and models to identify new therapeutic targets.
Mark Selwood makes a medal winning appearance at the World Transplant Games
Awards and Honours
4 May 2023
Congratulations to DPAG's Mark Selwood whose fantastic performance at the 24th World Transplant Games brings home gold and bronze medals for Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Silvia Arber delivers 2023 Sherrington Prize Lecture
EDI News General Head of Department's News
3 May 2023
The renowned neuroscientist recognised for her work on the organisation and function of neuronal circuits controlling movement gave the lecture in honour of Sir Charles Sherrington, who became Waynflete Professor of Physiology in 1913 and is widely regarded to be the father of neurophysiology.
Professor Dame Frances Ashcroft receives Debrecen Award for Molecular Medicine
Ashcroft Group News Awards and Honours EDI News
3 May 2023
The Debrecen Award for Molecular Medicine was established in 2003 to recognise extraordinary achievements in the field of biomedicine. Scientists are nominated for making great strides in the life sciences leading to remarkable progress in our understanding and more efficient treatment of diseases.
OPDC researchers support The Big Cream Tea for Parkinson’s
OPDC News Outreach Wade-Martins Group News
3 May 2023
On Saturday 15 April 2023, a team of researchers from the Oxford Parkinson's Disease Centre (OPDC) joined members of the Parkinson’s UK Oxford Branch to support ‘The Big Cream Tea’, which was organised to help raise awareness and funds for Parkinson’s UK.
Researchers discover why multisensory learning is beneficial for memory
CNCB Postdoctoral Publication Research
26 April 2023
New research published in Nature, led by researchers Dr Zeynep Okray, Dr Pedro Jacob and Professor Scott Waddell at the Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, has discovered a detailed neural circuit mechanism that explains how multisensory learning improves memory performance.
Manuela Zaccolo honoured by leading Italian Academy
Awards and Honours Cardiac Theme EDI News
17 April 2023
Congratulations are in order to Professor Manuela Zaccolo on being elected Fellow of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, one of the most prestigious Academies in Italy.
Old and “hangry” monocytes turn from friend to foe under assault
Domingos Group News EDI News Publication Research Students
13 April 2023
Professor Ana Domingos and DPhil student Conan O’Brien review a new study demonstrating that fasting and re-feeding causes monocytes to re-enter the bone marrow and alter the body's response to infection.
DPAG top of the world rankings for fourth consecutive year
General Head of Department's News Teaching
11 April 2023
Re-defining Excellence - Oxford Anatomy and Physiology ranked #1 in the QS World University Rankings by subject 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023.
Auguste Vadisiute returns to DPAG to shed light on how immune cells interact with the developing neuronal network
Awards and Honours EDI News Integrative Neuroscience Molnar Group News
5 April 2023
Dr Auguste Vadisiute has been awarded a St John’s College Research Centre Grant to study the 'Cellular and Molecular Interactions between Neurons and Microglia in Normal and Altered Cerebral Cortical Development'.
Jaideep Pandit appointed Editor-in-Chief for world's leading anaesthesia journal
Awards and Honours EDI News
4 April 2023
Congratulations are in order for Professor Jaideep Pandit, Professor of Anaesthesia and DPAG Academic Visitor, on his appointment as the next Editor-in-Chief of Anesthesia & Analgesia (A&A) and its companion journal, A&A Practice. Professor Pandit is the first A&A Editor-in-Chief based outside the United States to lead this prestigious journal.
Professor Molly Stevens joins DPAG as John Black Professor of Bionanoscience
EDI News General Head of Department's News Stevens Group News
3 April 2023
The Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics is delighted to welcome Professor Molly Stevens FREng FRS, as she takes up the post of John Black Professor of Bionanoscience on 1 April 2023. We also extend a warm welcome to Professor Stevens’s large, interdisciplinary research group whose members are drawn from disciplines across the medical and physical sciences.
A human egg looks nothing like a human: Professor Shankar Srinivas on 'Made The Same Way' Podcast
EDI News Outreach Srinivas Group news
31 March 2023
Professor Shankar Srinivas and hip-hop artist Aubz discuss human developmental biology on 'Made the Same Way', a new podcast series from HDBI, Reform Radio and The Gurdon Institute.