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Celebrating DPAG Heroines
Ashcroft Group News EDI News Head of Department's News Lakhal-Littleton Group News Smart Group News
5 July 2022
On Friday 1 July 2022, the Department gathered to hear from Professor Dame Frances Ashcroft FRS about the pioneering women physiologists and anatomists throughout Oxford's history, followed by talks from Associate Professors Samira Lakhal-Littleton and Nicola Smart, and the unveiling of The Physiological Society's blue plaque commemorating one of DPAG's earliest pioneering women, Florence Buchanan.
Anant Parekh to deliver The Physiological Society's Annual Review Prize Lecture
Awards and Honours Cell Physiology
4 July 2022
The Annual Review Prize Lecture is The Physiological Society's most prestigious lecture.
Neil Herring to give prestigious Bayliss-Starling Prize Lecture
Awards and Honours Cardiac Theme Herring Group News
30 June 2022
The annual Prize Lecture from The Physiological Society will provide an opportunity to highlight the importance of the Herring lab's work into the nervous system’s critical role in cardiovascular health and disease.
Fellowship awarded to Mootaz Salman could pave the way for early intervention in Parkinson’s
Awards and Honours EDI News OPDC News Salman Group News Wade-Martins Group News
29 June 2022
Congratulations are in order for Departmental Research Lecturer Dr Mootaz Salman who has been awarded a prestigious Early Career Fellowship funded by the Leverhulme Trust.
BHF Senior Fellowship renewal for Duncan Sparrow could pave the way to revealing unknown causes of heart defects in babies
Awards and Honours Cardiac Theme
27 June 2022
Congratulations are in order for Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow, who has been awarded a renewal of his British Heart Foundation Senior Basic Science Research Fellowship. The award will fund crucial investigations into little understood environmental risk factors of congenital heart disease, and could one day lead to new therapeutic strategies.
Researchers discover novel form of adaptation in the auditory system
Integrative Neuroscience Publication Research
21 June 2022
DPAG’s auditory neuroscience researchers have found that the auditory system adapts to the changing acoustics of reverberant environments by temporally shifting the inhibitory tuning of cortical neurons to remove reverberation.
Sherrington Talks 2022 Prize Winners
Awards and Honours EDI Events Simoes Group News Students
17 June 2022
The 2022 Sherrington talks were presented by graduate students in their third year of DPhil research study.
DPAG tops World Rankings by Subject for third consecutive year
General Head of Department's News Teaching
15 June 2022
Defining Excellence - Oxford Anatomy and Physiology ranked #1 in the QS World University Rankings by subject 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, and 2022.
Professor Sir Stephen O'Rahilly FRS delivers 2022 Krebs Prize Lecture
General Head of Department's News
10 June 2022
The annual lecture, which has made a triumphant return following postponement during the Covid-19 pandemic, is held in honour of Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine for his ground-breaking discovery of the citric acid cycle.
Peregrine Green honoured by British Cardiovascular Society
Awards and Honours Cardiac Theme Herring Group News Students
9 June 2022
Congratulations are in order for Dr Peregrine Green, who has won a prestigious abstract award at the BCS Annual Conference.
Collaborative team driven by DPAG and Chemistry awarded RSC Horizon Prize
Awards and Honours Cell Physiology Research
7 June 2022
The Molecular Flow Sensor Team, with collaborating members principally from DPAG’s Robbins and Talbot groups and the Department of Chemistry, has been named the winner of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s (RSC) Analytical Division Horizon Prize for the development of a new technology for measuring lung function.
Nikita Ved recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours
Awards and Honours Outreach
2 June 2022
Congratulations are in order for Dr Nikita Ved, who has been appointed a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) for her services during the COVID-19 pandemic.
DPAG researchers to take on the London to Brighton Bike Ride for the British Heart Foundation
De Val Group News EDI News Outreach
24 May 2022
Associate Professor Sarah De Val will lead a team of researchers as they take on the British Heart Foundation’s (BHF) London to Brighton Bike Ride.
Randy Bruno named Academy of Medical Sciences Professor
Awards and Honours Integrative Neuroscience
19 May 2022
Congratulations are in order for Professor Randy Bruno, who has been awarded an AMS Professorship. The AMS Professorship Scheme provides a package of support to biomedical and healthcare researchers taking up a full Professorship in the UK.
Nicola Smart appointed Associate Professor of Cellular and Integrative Physiology
Awards and Honours EDI News Head of Department's News Smart Group News
18 May 2022
The post is in association with a Tutorial Fellowship at Christ Church College.
Joaquim Vieira brings heart regeneration research to the public at Pint of Science
Outreach Vieira Group News
10 May 2022
Pint of Science is the world’s largest public science festival bringing researchers to local pubs, cafes and spaces to share their scientific discoveries with the public.
Professor Irene Tracey CBE FMedSci nominated as next Oxford Vice-Chancellor
Awards and Honours Head of Department's News
10 May 2022
Congratulations are in order for Professor Irene Tracey, Warden of Merton College and former University Lecturer at DPAG, who has been nominated as the next Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford.
DPAG researchers showcased at premier European Society of Cardiology meeting
Awards and Honours Cardiac Theme Cell Physiology EDI News Heather Group News Postdoctoral Riley Group News
5 May 2022
DPAG scientists across four research groups were highlighted at the major annual European Society of Cardiology basic science conference (FCVB 2022). Congratulations are in order for Dr KC Park on receiving the Young Investigator Award and to Dr Elisabetta Gamen on winning the Moderated Poster Prize.