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« Back to NewsYitao Zhu awarded Goodger and Schorstein scholarship
21 July 2023
Awards and Honours Domingos Group News EDI News Herring Group News Students
Congratulations are in order to Yitao Zhu on winning a Goodger and Schorstein Award from the Medical Sciences Internal Fund.
Old and “hangry” monocytes turn from friend to foe under assault
13 April 2023
Domingos Group News EDI News Publication Research Students
Professor Ana Domingos and DPhil student Conan O’Brien review a new study demonstrating that fasting and re-feeding causes monocytes to re-enter the bone marrow and alter the body's response to infection.
Updating the circuit maps of the sympathetic neural network
3 November 2022
Domingos Group News Publication Research
A new review from Professor Ana Domingos’ lab and colleagues offers a fresh modern viewpoint on sympathetic neurons and their relation to immune cells and obesity.
New Pfizer grant paves the way to a better understanding of how body fat is controlled
1 November 2022
Awards and Honours Domingos Group News EDI News Research
Professor Ana Domingos has been awarded a highly competitive independent research grant from Pfizer to discover ‘the role of Sympathetic-associated Perineurial barrier Cells in obesity’.
DPAG has two new Professors
22 August 2022
Awards and Honours Domingos Group News EDI News Head of Department's News Smart Group News
Congratulations are in order to Ana Domingos and Nicola Smart who have been awarded the title of Professor in the recent Recognition of Distinction round.
Ana Domingos Awarded Carl Ludwig Distinguished Lectureship Award
5 April 2022
Awards and Honours Domingos Group News
Congratulations are in order for Associate Professor Ana Domingos, who has been awarded the 2023 Carl Ludwig Distinguished Lectureship from the American Physiological Society.
Ana Domingos appointed Editor-in-Chief for distinguished American Physiological Society journal
30 November 2021
Awards and Honours Domingos Group News EDI News
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.
Scientists Decipher How NeuroImmune Interactions Burn Deep Fat
20 August 2021
Domingos Group News Publication Research
A pioneering collaborative mouse study from an international team of researchers including DPAG's Associate Professor Ana Domingos published in Nature offers new therapeutic avenues for reducing visceral fat stores, which have been associated with cardiovascular disease and multiple types of cancer.
New review reveals proof of concept for an anti-obesity immunotherapy
2 July 2021
Domingos Group News Publication Research
The Domingos lab has published a new opinion piece in Science investigating the implications of a Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center study that lays the foundations for a potential new anti-obesity treatment in the form of targeting adipose tissue-resident macrophages.
Ana Domingos joins the Cell Metabolism Advisory Board
6 October 2020
Awards and Honours Domingos Group News EDI News
Congratulations are in order to Associate Professor Ana Domingos on her appointment to the Advisory Board of the top research journal dedicated to publishing novel, impactful papers spanning basic to clinical metabolic research.
New weight-loss drug brings hope for safer obesity treatment
13 May 2020
Domingos Group News Publication Research
A collaborative research team from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge co-led by DPAG's Associate Professor Ana Domingos have developed a new weight-loss amphetamine that could potentially avoid the harmful side effects of traditional treatments.
Understanding the mechanisms driving a major type of immune cell to keep our gut healthy
10 January 2020
Domingos Group News Postdoctoral Publication Research
A news and views article published in Nature Immunology by Domingos Group researchers examines significant recent research revealing how group 3 innate lymphoid cells (ILC3s), the cells responsible for protecting the gut and maintaining intestinal homeostasis, are regulated. In doing so, they also reveal important new research avenues of ILCs activation in the body.
Neuroimmunometabolism identified as a new field of research
11 December 2019
Domingos Group News Publication Research
A new review from the Domingos Lab, authored by Chelsea Larabee, Oliver Neeley and Ana Domingos, examines the intersection between neuroimmunology and immunometabolism, and in doing so reveals the existence of an exciting new area of study.
Leptin is the missing piece in the immunometabolism puzzle
10 December 2019
Domingos Group News Publication Research
Associate Professor Ana Domingos reviews the identification of the hormone leptin and explores its significance in the function of immune cells in obesity.
DPAG's inaugural Sir Hans Krebs Lecture speaker, Jeffrey Friedman ForMemRS, has been awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
13 September 2019
Domingos Group News Head of Department's News
The Breakthrough Prize is renowned as the “Oscars of Science" and honours transformative advances towards understanding living systems and extending human life. Associate Professor Ana Domingos reflects on her past experiences working with Dr Friedman and how these impacted her research today.
DPAG Researchers bring perfectly pitched talks to Pint of Science 2019
24 May 2019
Domingos Group News EDI Events Lakhal-Littleton Group News Outreach Wade-Martins Group News
DPAG sponsored a hit "Our Body" night for Pint of Science 2019 with well received talks from Prof Ana Domingos and Prof Samira Lakhal-Littleton.
Champion of cell physiology and friend to DPAG, David C. Gadsby, has died
29 March 2019
Domingos Group News General Head of Department's News
Members of our Department remember the renowned cell physiologist who has passed away this month at age 71.