Timeline
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c.1100 |
Teaching begins at the University of Oxford |
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c.1310 |
Oxford doctor John of Gaddesden publishes the Rosa Anglica, Britain’s earliest surviving medical textbook |
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1546 |
Henry VIII established the position of Regius Professor of Physic at Oxford, a role that remains to this day as the Regius Professor of Medicine |
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1619 |
The Anatomy School was built in the Bodleian Schools Quadrangle |
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1624 |
The Chair of the Tomlins Readership in Anatomy was founded |
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1683 |
Anatomy Lectures moved from the Anatomy School to the Ashmolean |
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1750 |
The Dr Lee Readership in Anatomy was founded |
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1767 |
A new Anatomy School was built at Christ Church |
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1797 |
The first academic teaching post in physiology at Oxford, the Aldrichian Praelectorship in Anatomy, was founded |
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1851 |
37 St Giles was left to Christ Church to become the residence of the Dr Lee's Reader in Anatomy |
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1860 |
Merton endowed the Linacre Professorship of Physiology |
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The University Museum opened, where to Oxford's physiological and anatomical specimen collections were moved, marking the starting point of modern physiology at Oxford |
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1877 |
The Linacre Professorship of Physiology became a Professorship of Human and Comparative Anatomy, and the Waynflete Professorship of Physiology was endowed by Magdalen |
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1883 |
The Laboratory of Physiology was established under the direction of John Burdon Sanderson |
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1893 |
The Department of Anatomy was established in the present-day Le Gros Clark Building |
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1953 |
The Laboratory of Physiology moved to the Sherrington Building, and the Old Physiology Building became the Genetics Laboratory |
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2000 |
The Oxford Centre for Gene Function was opened as a wing of the Sherrington Building |
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2005 |
The Burdon Sanderson Cardiac Science Centre was established in a purpose-built wing of the Sherrington Building |
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2006 |
The Medical Science Division merged the Department of Human Anatomy and Genetics, and the University Laboratory of Physiology to create the single Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics |
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2011 |
The Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour was opened in the Tinsley Building |
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2018 |
The Centre for Integrative Neuroscience was opened in the Sherrington Building |
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2019 |
The Oxford Centre for Gene Function is renamed to The Centre for Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology |