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Mootaz Salman appointed Departmental Research Lecturer
Awards and Honours EDI News Head of Department's News OPDC News Salman Group News Teaching Wade-Martins Group News
9 December 2021
Congratulations are in order to Mootaz Salman on his conferral of the title of Departmental Research Lecturer.
Vladyslav Vyazovskiy becomes Professor Vladyslav Vyazovskiy
Awards and Honours Head of Department's News Vyazovskiy Group News
9 December 2021
Congratulations are in order to Vladyslav Vyazovskiy on his conferral of the title of full Professor. Research in the Vyazovskiy Lab aims to understand the fundamental questions of "what is sleep?" and “why do we sleep?”
Molly Stevens FRS delivers 2021 Mabel FitzGerald Prize Lecture
General Head of Department's News Stevens Group News
3 December 2021
The annual lecture is held in dedication to pioneering Physiologist and Scientific Explorer, Mabel FitzGerald, in whose honour the Department recently erected The Physiological Society blue plaque outside the Cardiac Science Centre.
Ana Domingos appointed Editor-in-Chief for distinguished American Physiological Society journal
Awards and Honours Domingos Group News EDI News
30 November 2021
Congratulations are in order to Associate Professor Ana Domingos on her appointment as Editor-in-Chief for the American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism.
Winners of the DPAG Student Poster Day 2021 announced
Awards and Honours EDI Events Riley Group News Students Wade-Martins Group News
19 November 2021
"A Year of Progress" was held in the Sherrington Library and Sherrington PCR Café on Thursday 18 November 2021.
Dr Jessica Meir inspires the next generation of scientists and explorers
EDI Events Head of Department's News
18 November 2021
NASA Astronaut and Physiologist Dr Jessica Meir delivers the Sherrington Prize Lecture: Public Understanding of Science to an audience of DPAG staff, students and their families.
One high altitude explorer acknowledges another
EDI Events Head of Department's News
18 November 2021
NASA Astronaut and Physiologist Dr Jessica Meir unveils The Physiological Society blue plaque in honour of fellow pioneering Physiologist and Scientific Explorer Mabel FitzGerald.
Oxford-led research maps milestone stage of human development for the first time
Postdoctoral Publication Research Srinivas Group news
18 November 2021
Scientists have shed light on an important stage of early embryonic development that has never been fully mapped out in humans before.
Pioneer of 'reverspective' art unveils celebrated optical illusion piece in honour of Sir Colin Blakemore FRS
General Head of Department's News
5 November 2021
British artist Patrick Hughes has donated an artwork entitled “Popsee” to DPAG in honour of Emeritus Professor of Physiology Sir Colin Blakemore FRS and their shared interest in visual perception.
Dame Kay Davies FRS delivers inaugural Sir Wilfrid Le Gros Clark Prize Lecture
Davies Group News EDI Events General Head of Department's News
4 November 2021
The new annual lecture is held in honour of Sir Wilfrid Le Gros Clark, the Department’s former Chair of Anatomy, after whom the Le Gros Clark building is named, who was a leading figure in British anatomy.
Wade-Martins Group achieves Bronze award for sustainable practices
Awards and Honours Wade-Martins Group News
28 October 2021
The Wade-Martins Group has achieved a Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework (LEAF) Bronze award in recognition of its sustainable practices.
Mapping uncharted networks in the progression of Parkinson’s
Cragg Group News OPDC News Research Wade-Martins Group News
26 October 2021
A major new $9 million project funded by the Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) initiative will map the original circuits vulnerable to Parkinson’s on an unprecedented scale. The project is a collaboration between core investigators Stephanie Cragg, Richard Wade-Martins, and Peter Magill at Oxford, Mark Howe at Boston University and Dinos Meletis at the Karolinska Institutet, as well as collaborators Yulong Li at Peking University and Michael Lin at Stanford University.
Mapping uncharted networks in the progression of Parkinson’s
Cragg Group News OPDC News Research Wade-Martins Group News
26 October 2021
A major new $9 million project funded by the Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) initiative will map the original circuits vulnerable to Parkinson’s on an unprecedented scale. The project is a collaboration between core investigators Stephanie Cragg, Richard Wade-Martins, and Peter Magill at Oxford, Mark Howe at Boston University and Dinos Meletis at the Karolinska Institutet, as well as collaborators Yulong Li at Peking University and Michael Lin at Stanford University.
Drug could help diabetic hearts recover after a heart attack
Cardiac Theme Heather Group News Publication Research
20 October 2021
New research led by Associate Professor Lisa Heather has found that a drug known as molidustat, currently in clinical trials for another condition, could reduce risk of heart failure after heart attacks.
DPAG Academics receive Teaching Excellence Awards
Awards and Honours EDI News Teaching
13 October 2021
The Medical Sciences Division's 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.
From Cells to Systems: New animation brings physiology to life for students
Head of Department's News Outreach Teaching
6 October 2021
Head of Department and President of The Physiological Society Professor David Paterson has been involved in developing a new animation about physiology fundamentals which launches today during Biology Week 2021.
Head of Department and President of The Physiological Society congratulates 2021 Nobel Prize Winners
Head of Department's News
4 October 2021
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch.
OPDC participate in the annual Walk for Parkinson’s in Oxford
OPDC News Wade-Martins Group News
28 September 2021
DPAG Researchers honoured for their work in cardiac metabolism
Awards and Honours Cardiac Theme EDI News Heather Group News Students
27 September 2021
Kaitlyn Dennis, Ujang Purnama and Kerstin Timm have won prizes across each of the three award categories at this year’s Society for Heart and Vascular Metabolism conference, demonstrating DPAG's continued excellence in cardiac metabolism research.
Richard Tyser and Jack Miller honoured by the British Society of Cardiovascular Research
Awards and Honours Cardiac Theme Postdoctoral Srinivas Group news
14 September 2021
Dr Richard Tyser is this year’s winner of the Bernard and Joan Marshall Early Career Investigator Prize, and Dr Jack Miller has received a runner-up award, at the British Society of Cardiovascular Research Autumn Meeting.