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For many years, we have been using beta-blockers to neutralise a specific stress hormone and prevent dangerous heart rhythms following a heart attack. However, a new study led by Associate Professor Neil Herring and published in the European Heart Journal has uncovered evidence for an additional stress hormone acting as a key trigger for dangerous heart rhythms that is not currently targeted by these drugs.

Professor Tony Movshon delivers the Sir Charles Sherrington Prize Lecture 2026

New research reveals how development and sex shape the brain

Professor Ana Domingos joins one of five Global Teams Awarded $125 Million to take on the toughest challenges at the frontiers of cancer science

Study Reveals Unexpected Astrocyte Enlargement Enhances Brain Repair After Transplantation

An interview with Professor Tony Movshon FRS, Sherrington Prize Lecturer 2026

Oxford Parkinson’s Disease Centre Host 2025 Public Open Day

On Monday 22nd September 2025, the Oxford Parkinson’s Disease Centre (OPDC) held its eighth Open Day at the Leonardo Hotel, Oxford.

Oxford Parkinson’s Disease Centre Host 2025 Public Open Day

On Monday 22nd September 2025, the Oxford Parkinson’s Disease Centre (OPDC) held its eighth Open Day at the Leonardo Hotel, Oxford.

Long-overlooked cerebral cortical cell layer may hold key to attention

Berlin and Oxford collaborative researchers funded by Einstein Foundation propose a new circuit theory linking a little-known cortical layer to attention and brain disorders.

DPAG Renews Athena Swan Silver Award

Associate Professor Dan Li awarded a British Heart Foundation Project Grant

A DPAG-led team introduces a new biomarker of intravascular haemolysis and a rapid, urine-based test for accessible diagnostics

Associate Professor Armin Lak one of eleven Oxford academics awarded ERC Consolidator Grants

Sir Charles Sherrington Prize Lecture: Professor Ardem Patapoutian

Professor Pawel Swietach appointed to a Skou professorship at Aarhus University

In Piam Memoriam: Emeritus Professor Margaret Matthews

Pawel Swietach made Honorary Professor at Cayetano Heredia University

An interview with Professor Kristine Krug ahead of her Marianne Fillenz Award Lecture

The BBC's Clive Myrie delivers his Sherrington Public Understanding of Science lecture on Media, Science and Truth

Hippocampus helps us learn to navigate unknown environments, study finds

New work by the Heather and Carr groups has developed a model of human diabetic cardiomyopathy in a dish

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