Honours, Fellowships and Prizes
Awards and Prizes
Dr Thamali Ayagama, Physiology 2023 Poster Prize, July 2023
Professor Manuela Zaccolo, ISHR-ES Ketty Schwartz Award, July 2023
Wade-Martins Group, Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework (LEAF) Gold award, June 2023
Cragg Group, Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework (LEAF) Bronze award, June 2023
Ni Li, 2023 Peter Beaconsfield Prize in Physiological Sciences, June 2023
Dr Raffaele Sarnataro, GRS 2023 Poster Award, May 2023
Sian Wilcox and Yitao Zhu, Goodger and Schorstein Award, May 2023
Professor Dame Frances Ashcroft, Debrecen Award for Molecular Medicine, May 2023
Mark Selwood, Gold and Bronze medals at the 24th World Transplant Games, April 2023
Professor Dame Frances Ashcroft, Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science, March 2023
Professor Gero Miesenböck, 2023 Japan Prize, January 2023
Dr Mootaz Salman, National Medal of Distinctive Scientific Achievement by the Government of Iraq, January 2023
Professor Denis Noble, Lomonosov Gold Medal, January 2023
Professor Dame Frances Ashcroft, 2022 Manpei Suzuki International Prize for Diabetes Research, January 2023
Marcos Castro Guarda, IMPRES 2022 best oral presenter, December 2022
Professor Jaideep Pandit, RCoA Gold Medal, November 2022
Dr Louisa Zolkiewski, 2022 Bruce Cattanach Prize, November 2022
Dr Peregrine Green, HRC 2022 Young Investigator Award, October 2022
Kaitlyn Dennis, William C. Stanley Early Investigator Award, September 2022
Professor Gero Miesenböck, 2022 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, September 2022
Adam Wells, Krebs Memorial Scholarship by the Biochemical Society, August 2022
Wade-Martins Group, Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework (LEAF) Silver award, July 2022
Dr Mootaz Salman, International Society of Neurochemistry (ISN) Young Scientist Lectureship Award, July 2022
Judith Sayers, University College senior G A Paul Scholarship for research excellence, July 2022
Professors Randy Bruno and Scott Waddell, Wellcome Trust Discovery Awards, July 2022
Professor Anant Parekh, The Physiological Society Annual Review Prize Lecture 2023, June 2022
Associate Professor Neil Herring, 2022 Bayliss-Starling Prize Lecture, Physiological Society, June 2022
Dr Peregrine Green, British Cardiovascular Society "Best of the Best" abstract award for cardiac rhythm management, June 2022
DPAG members of The Molecular Flow Sensor Team: Professor Peter Robbins, Asma Alamoudi, Dr Matthew Frise, Dr Chris Fullerton, Snapper Magor-Elliott, David O’Neill, the late Tim Pragnell, Dr Peter Santer, Dr Nick Talbot, Royal Society of Chemistry Horizon Prize, June 2022
Dr Nikita Ved, appointed a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE), June 2022
Professor Randy Bruno, named Academy of Medical Sciences Professor, May 2022
Dr KC Park, European Society of Cardiology Young Investigator Award, May 2022
Associate Professor Ana Domingos, 2023 Carl Ludwig Distinguished Lectureship, April 2022
Professor Dame Frances Ashcroft, Banting Medal, March 2022
Professor Gillian Morriss-Kay, Anatomical Society Prize Medal, January 2022
Wade-Martins Group, Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework (LEAF) Bronze award, October 2021
Kaitlyn Dennis, William C. Stanley Young Investigator Award, September 2021
Dr Richard Tyser and Dr Jack Miller, Bernard and Joan Marshall Early Career Investigator Prize winner and runner-up, September 2021
Gosia Cyranka and Sian Wilcox, Physiology 2021 Early Career Researcher Poster Competition Prize, August 2021
Associate Professor Nicola Smart, The John French Memorial Lecture, June 2021
Professor Gero Miesenböck, The Physiological Society Annual Review Prize Lecture 2022, April 2021
Professor Dame Frances Ashcroft, 2020 Dale Medal, October 2020
Dr Lukas Krone, 2020 Christian Guilleminault Young Investigator Award, October 2020
Sonali Munshaw, 2020 International Vascular Biology Meeting E-poster Award, October 2020
Dr Richard Tyser, 2020 British Science Association Award lecturer, July 2020
Associate Professor Samira Lakhal-Littleton, 2021 Bayliss-Starling Prize Lecture, Physiological Society, June 2020
Professor Anant Parekh, Honorary Guest Speaker at the 108th Indian Science Congress 2021, June 2020
Oliver Neely, 2020 Peter Beaconsfield Prize, June 2020
Professor Gero Miesenböck, The Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine, May 2020
Britt Hanson and Dr Lukas Krone, 2020 Goodger and Schorstein Award, March 2020
KC Park, OXION 2019 Poster Prize, October 2019
Associate Professor Lisa Heather, Associate Professor Robert Wilkins, Teaching Excellence Awards, September 2019
Professor Dame Frances Ashcroft, Jacob Henle Medal, July 2019
Professor Gero Miesenböck, Warren Alpert Foundation Award, July 2019
Professor Kieran Clarke, William C. Stanley Award Lecture, June 2019
Professor Gero Miesenböck, Rumford Prize, April 2019
Dr Elizabeth Haythorne, Poster Awards from Diabetes UK and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, April 2019
Professor Dame Kay Davies, Biochemical Society's Centenary Award 2020, March 2019
Dr Lukas Krone, Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar Poster Prize, March 2019
Professor Anant Parekh, Batsheva de Rothschild Prize, January 2019
Professor Zoltan Molnar, Anatomical Society New Fellow of the Year Award 2018, November 2018
Professor Scott Waddell, 2018 Bindra Lecture, November 2018
Professor Gero Miesenböck, 2018 Francis Crick Lecture, October 2018
Professor Dame Kay Davies, Royal Society Croonian Medal and Lecture 2019, July 2018
Professor Sir Colin Blakemore, President's Research Medal, UK College of Optometrists, January 2018
Associate Professor Esther Becker, 2016 UK Golden Triangle Discovery Fast Track Challenge winner
Professor Gero Miesenböck, Weizmann Memorial Lecture 2017
Dr Samira Lakhal-Littleton, International BioIron Society Gunshin Levy Award 2017
Professor Andrew Parker, UK Physiological Society GL Brown Prize lecture, 2017
Professor David Paterson, American Physiological Society Carl Ludwig Distinguished Lecture 2018, April 2017
Professor Gero Miesenböck, Massry Prize 2016, October 2016
Professor Gero Miesenböck, Wilhelm Exner Medal 2016, October 2016
Professor Gero Miesenböck, BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award 2015, Jan 2016
Professor Gero Miesenböck, Heinrich Wieland Prize 2015, Sept 2015
Professor Dame Kay Davies, William Allan Award 2015, American Society of Human Genetics, July 2015
Dr Lisa Heather, 2016 Bayliss-Starling Prize Lecture, Physiological Society, July 2015
Professor Dame Kay Davies, 2015 WHRI Outstanding Contribution to Science Lecture & Medal, William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, June 2015
Professor David Paterson, 2016 Brookhart Lecture at the School of Medicine, Oregon Health Science University, U.S., June 2015
Professor Dame Kay Davies, British Neuroscience Association Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Neuroscience 2014
Professor Scott Waddell, Liliane Bettencourt Prize for Life Sciences 2014
Professor Dame Kay Davies, WISE Lifetime Achievement Award 2014, Nov 2014
Professor Frances Ashcroft, Novo Nordisk Foundation Jacobæus Prize 2014, Nov 2014
Professor Dame Kay Davies, one of Britain’s top ten ‘Explorer Scientists’, Science Council, Jan 2014
Professor Gero Miesenböck, Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award in Biotechnology and Medicine, 2013
Professor Gero Miesenböck, Brain Prize, 2013
Professor Anant Parekh, UK Physiological Society GL Brown Prize lecture, 2013
Professor Frances Ashcroft, European Laureate, L’Oreal-UNESCO Women in Science Award, 2012
Professor Gero Miesenböck, InBev Baillet-Latour International Health Prize, 2012
Dr Nicola Smart, British Cardiovascular Society Michael Davies Early Career Award, 2012
Dr Nicola Smart, BHF Research Fellow of the Year, 2011
Professor Andrew Parker, Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award, 2005-2010
Professor Anant Parekh, Lister Prize Fellow, 2001-2005
Professor David Paterson, UK Physiological Society GL Brown Prize lecture, 2000
Appointments
Dr Dan Li, conferral of title of Associate Professor, May 2023
Dr Nicol Harper, conferral of title of Associate Professor, May 2023
Professor Jaideep Pandit, appointed as the next Editor-in-Chief of Anesthesia & Analgesia (A&A) and its companion journal, A&A Practice, April 2023
Dr Armin Lak, appointed Associate Professor of Integrative Neuroscience and Tutorial Fellow at St John's College, February 2023
Professor Vladyslav Vyazovskiy, elected Vice President (Basic) of the European Sleep Research Society, October 2022
Associate Professor Ana Domingos, conferral of title of Professor of Neuroscience, August 2022
Associate Professor Nicola Smart, conferral of title of Professor of Cardiovascular Science, August 2022
Associate Professor Nicola Smart, appointed Associate Professor in Cellular and Integrative Physiology and Tutorial Fellow at Christ Church College, May 2022
Dr Charmaine Lang, conferral of title of Departmental Research Lecturer, April 2022
Dr Mootaz Salman, conferral of title of Departmental Research Lecturer, December 2021
Associate Professor Vladyslav Vyazovskiy, conferral of title of Professor of Physiology, December 2021
Associate Professor Ana Domingos, appointment as Editor-in-Chief for the American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism, November 2021, assuming office July 2022
Associate Professor Samira Lakhal-Littleton, appointed Associate Professor in Cell Physiology and Tutorial Fellow at Brasenose College, April 2021
Associate Professor Pawel Swietach, conferral of title of Professor of Physiology, October 2020
Associate Professor Ana Domingos, appointment to the Advisory Board of Cell Metabolism, October 2020
Professor Paul Riley, appointed Director of Oxford's Institute of Developmental and Regenerative Medicine, September 2020
Associate Professor Deborah Goberdhan, election to the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles Board of Directors, September 2020
Dr Dayne Beccano-Kelly, World Parkinson Coalition Science Ambassador for 6th World Parkinson Congress in June 2022, September 2020
Associate Professor Robin Klemm, appointed Associate Professor of Physiological Metabolism and Tutorial Fellow at Somerville College, June 2020
Dr Megan Cameron Neville, Dr Johannes Dahmen, Dr Anna Hoerder-Suabedissen, Dr Dan Li, Dr Michael Puljung, Dr Fernando Rodriquez Nodal and Dr Ben Willmore, conferral of title of Departmental Lecturer, February 2020
Dr Duncan Sparrow, awarded title of Associate Professor, January 2020
Dr Dan Li, awarded title of University Research Lecturer, January 2020
Dr Kerry Walker, awarded conversion from the title of University Research Lecturer to Associate Professor, January 2020
Associate Professor Neil Herring, appointed Associate Professor in Cardiovascular Physiology and Tutorial Fellow at Exeter College, November 2019
Association Professor Samira Lakhal-Littleton, election to the International Biolron Society's Board of Directors, May 2019
Associate Professor Damian Tyler, conferral of title of Professor of Physiological Metabolism, August 2018
Associate Professor Sarah de Val, conferral of title of Associate Professor, August 2018
Dr Lisa Heather, conferral of title of Associate Professor, August 2018
Dr Carlo Rinaldi, conferral of title of Associate Professor, August 2018
Dr Samira Lakhal-Littleton, conferral of title of Associate Professor, August 2018
Dr Nicola Smart, conferral of title of Associate Professor, August 2018
Dr Michael Kohl, conferral of title of University Research Lecturer, August 2018
Dr Kerry Walker, conferral of title of University Research Lecturer, August 2018
Dr Nicol Harper, conferral of title of University Research Lecturer, August 2018
Professor Caleb Webber, conferral of title of Professor of Bioinformatics, October 2017
Dr Esther Becker, conferral of title of Associate Professor, July 2016
Dr Deborah Goberdhan, conferral of title of Associate Professor, July 2016
Dr Tim Vogels, conferral of title of Associate Professor, July 2016
Professor Stephen Goodwin, conferral of title of Professor of Neurogenetics, July 2015
Professor Richard Wade-Martins, conferral of title of Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, July 2015
Professor Clive Wilson, conferral of title of Professor of Cell and Developmental Genetics, July 2015
Dr Lisa Heather, conferral of title of University Research Lecturer, April 2015
Dr Samira Lakhal-Littleton, conferral of title of University Research Lecturer, April 2015
Dr Carolyn Carr, conferral of title of Associate Professor of Biomedical Science, April 2015
Dr Neil Herring, conferral of title of Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Physiology, April 2015
Dr Peter Oliver, conferral of title of Associate Professor of Neuroscience, April 2015
Dr Vladyslav Vyazovskiy, conferral of title of Associate Professor of Neuroscience, April 2015
Professor Stephanie Cragg, conferral of title of Professor of Neuroscience, October 2014
Dr Victoria Bajo Lorenzana, conferral of title of Associate Professor, July 2014
Dr Kristine Krug, conferral of title of Associate Professor, July 2014
Dr Ji-Long Liu, conferral of title of Associate Professor, July 2014
Dr Damian Tyler, conferral of title of Associate Professor, July 2014
Dr Esther Becker, conferral of title of University Research Lecturer, Dec 2013
Dr Carolyn Carr, conferral of title of University Research Lecturer, Dec 2013
Dr Peter Oliver, conferral of title of University Research Lecturer, Dec 2013
Professor Jaideep Pandit, Difficult Airway Society Faculty Professor, since 2013
Professor Paul Riley, BHF Professor of Regenerative Medicine, 2011-2016
Dr Victoria Bajo Lorenzana, conferral of title of University Reserarch Lecturer, December 2009
Honourary and Visiting
Professor Irene Tracey, Honorary Fellow of The Physiological Society, December 2022
Professor Zoltan Molnar, Einstein Visiting Fellowship at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, September 2020 (3 years)
Professor Damian Tyler, Honorary Skou Professor at the University of Aarhus, October 2019
Professor Zoltan Molnar, Allan and Maria Myers International Visiting Fellowship, The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Australia, Nov 2014
Professor David Paterson, Hon Research Professor at the Florey Institute for Neuroscience, University of Melbourne, 2011
Professor David Paterson, Hon Professorial Fellow at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland, 2008
Fellowships
Life Fellows
Professor Frances Ashcroft DBE, FMedSci, FRS, MAE, FIUPS
Professor Sue Black DBE, OBE, FRSE, FBA, FRAI, FRSB, ChFA, FRS
Professor Kay Davies CBE, DBE, FMedSci, FRCP (hon), FRS, MAE, HonDSc (Kingston), HonDSc (Victoria, BC, Canada)
Professor em. Clive Ellory FMedSci
Associate Professor Neil Herring, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
Professor Andrew King FMedSci FRS
Associate Professor Kristine Krug FRSB
Professor Gero Miesenböck FMedSci FRS, MAE, Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation EMBO
Professor Zoltan Molnar FAS, FRSB, MAE
Professor em. Denis Noble CBE, FMedSci, FRS, MAE, FIUPS
Professor Anant Parekh FMedSci, FRS, MAE
Professor Andrew Parker FRSB, ScD (Cantab)
Professor David Paterson FRSB, FAPS, MAE, Hon FRSNZ
Professor Paul Riley FMedSci
Professor em. John Stein FMedSci
Professor Molly Stevens FREng FRS
Associate Professor Pawel Swietach FPhysiol
Professor Irene Tracey, CBE, FMedSci, FRS
Professor Damian Tyler, Fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM)
Professor Scott Waddell FMedSci, FRS, Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation EMBO
Professor Manuela Zaccolo FRSB, MAE, Fellow of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti
Research Fellows (by grant end date)
Dr Hugo Fernandes, Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Research Leader Fellowship, 2023-2028
Dr Annie Park, Wellcome Early-Career Award, 2023-2028
Associate Professor Sarah de Val, BHF Senior Basic Science Research Fellow, 2018 - 2028 (extended from 2023)
Associate Professor Duncan Sparrow, BHF Senior Basic Science Research Fellow, 2017 - 2028 (extended from 2023)
Dr Ian McCracken, BHF Immediate Basic Science Research Fellowship, 2023 - 2027
Dr Filipa Simões, BHF Intermediate Basic Science Research Fellowship, 2022 - 2027
Dr Charmaine Lang, Parkinson’s UK and Rosetrees Trust Joint Senior Research Fellowship, 2023-2026
Dr Becky Carlyle, Alzheimer's Research UK Senior Research Fellowship, 2022 - 2026
Professor Andrew King, Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, 2006 - 2026
Dr Jose Prius Mengual, Epilepsy Research UK & NATA Emerging Leader Fellowship Award, 2023-2025
Dr Mootaz Salman, Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, 2022-2025
Dr Huriye Atilgan, Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow, 2021-2025
Associate Professor Neil Herring, BHF Senior Clinical Research Fellow, 2020 - 2025
Associate Professor Samira Lakhal-Littleton, MRC Senior Non-Clinical Fellow, 2020 - 2025
Dr Oliver Stone, Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Dale Fellow, 2020 - 2025
Associate Professor Lisa Heather, BHF Intermediate Basic Science Research Fellow, 2017 - 2025
Dr Armin Lak, Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Dale Fellow, 2019 - 2024
Associate Professor Nicola Smart, BHF Senior Basic Science Research Fellow, 2014 - 2024 (extended from 2019)
Dr Joaquim Miguel Vieira, BHF Intermediate Basic Science Research Fellow, 2019 - 2024
Professor Damian Tyler, BHF Senior Basic Science Research Fellow, 2019 - 2024
Dr Adam Packer, Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Dale Fellow, 2018 - 2023
Dr Gitalee Sarker, Novo Nordisk Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2019 - 2022
Professor Gero Miesenböck, Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator, 2015 - 2022
Professor Scott Waddell, Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, 2016 - 2022
Professor Stephen Goodwin, Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator, 2015 - 2022
ERC Grants (by grant end date)
Dr Armin Lak, ERC Starting Grant, 2022 - 2027
Dr Christoph Treiber, ERC Starting Grant, 2022 - 2027
Dr Adam Packer, ERC Starting Grant, 2019 - 2024
Professor Gero Miesenböck FMedSci FRS, ERC Advanced Grant, 2019 - 2024
Associate Professor Ana Domingos, ERC Consolidator Grant, 2018-2023
Professor Scott Waddell, ERC Advanced Grant, 2018-2023
Associate Professor Pawel Swietach, ERC Consolidator Grant, 2017-2022
Associate Professor Mathilda Mommersteeg, ERC Starting Grant, 2017-2021
College Fellowships
Each member of Faculty at the department (except Departmental Lecturers) holds a College Fellowship at an Oxford College.