Researcher Society

About Us

Run by and for researchers, The DPAG Researcher Society aims to promote interactions between postdocs, research assistants and other research scientists to create a friendly network of skills and expertise and to welcome new researchers to the Department.

All researchers will be added automatically to a mailing list when they start to be kept up to date with events etc.

Committee

Susann Bruche, Chair

Luana Campos Soares

Susanna Cooper

Claudio Cortes Rodriguez, DPAG Research Staff Representative

Johanna Michl

Christophe Ravaud

Ricardo Marquez Gomez

Sarah Sigal

Ozren Stojanovic

Mary Strevens

Researcher News

Inaugural winners of the DPAG Prize for Public Engagement with Research announced

11 January 2023

Congratulations are in order for the winners Katherine Brimblecombe and Anna Kordala, and also to Jéssica Luiz and Andia Redpath who were highly commended for their outreach and public engagement work.

Strong performance for DPAG cardiac research at the Oxford BHF CRE Annual Symposium

30 November 2022

Congratulations are in order for Kaitlyn Dennis, Dr Ni Li and Dr KC Park on their awards at this year's major showcase for Oxford's British Heart Foundation funded researchers.

Key cause of type 2 diabetes uncovered

14 November 2022

Research led by Dr Elizabeth Haythorne and Professor Frances Ashcroft reveals high blood glucose reprograms the metabolism of pancreatic beta-cells in diabetes. They have discovered that glucose metabolites, rather than glucose itself, are key to the progression of type 2 diabetes. Glucose metabolites damage pancreatic beta-cell function, so they are unable to release enough of the hormone insulin. Reducing the rate at which glucose is metabolised, and these glucose metabolites build up, can prevent the effects of hyperglycaemia.

DPAG Myth Busters and Shaping Destiny teams engage the public at IF Oxford 2022

12 October 2022

Two DPAG-led teams of volunteers engaged hundreds of visitors at Wesley Memorial Church on Saturday 8 October 2022 as part of The Oxford Science and Ideas Festival’s Explorazone. The Myth Busters team assembled by DPAG’s Outreach and Public Engagement Working Group sought to discuss and debunk myths and misconceptions of biology. The Shaping Destiny team run by members of the Srinivas Group, IDRM, in collaboration with Prof Wes Williams at TORCH explored with the public what is human and how body forms have been historically perceived with a unique virtual reality experience.