Professor Ashcroft, who discovered the previously missing link connecting an increase in blood sugar level to the secretion of insulin (the KATP channel), delivered a talk about her pioneering research in honour of Sir Hans Krebs, the 1953 Nobel Laureate in Physiology and Medicine who discovered the critic acid cycle.
Professor Peter Agre visited DPAG to deliver a talk about his Nobel winning discovery of the aquaporin water channels, known as the 'plumbing system of cells'.
Congratulations are in order to Professor Scott Waddell FRS, Visiting Professor Sue Black FRS and Honorary Professor Irene Tracey FRS on their election to The Royal Society.
The renowned neuroscientist recognised for her work on the organisation and function of neuronal circuits controlling movement gave the lecture in honour of Sir Charles Sherrington, who became Waynflete Professor of Physiology in 1913 and is widely regarded to be the father of neurophysiology.
Re-defining Excellence - Oxford Anatomy and Physiology ranked #1 in the QS World University Rankings by subject 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023.
The Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics is delighted to welcome Professor Molly Stevens FREng FRS, as she takes up the post of John Black Professor of Bionanoscience on 1 April 2023. We also extend a warm welcome to Professor Stevens\u2019s large, interdisciplinary research group whose members are drawn from disciplines across the medical and physical sciences.
The bronze portrait bust created by Sir Jacob Epstein was originally presented to the Department of Human Anatomy to mark the occasion of Sir Wilfrid Le Gros Clark's silver jubilee as Dr Lee's Professor of Anatomy.
Chief Medical Officer of England Professor Sir Chris Whitty KCB FMedSci delivers the Sherrington Prize Lecture: Public Understanding of Science to an audience of Oxford staff and students.
Congratulations are in order for Professor Gero Miesenb\u00f6ck, who has been awarded the 2023 Japan Prize in the field of Life Sciences, together with Professor Karl Deisseroth, for pioneering work in the field of optogenetics.
Congratulations are in order for the winners Katherine Brimblecombe and Anna Kordala, and also to J\u00e9ssica Luiz and Andia Redpath who were highly commended for their outreach and public engagement work.
The Physiological Society President and Head of DPAG Professor David Paterson presented the 2022 Presidential Medal to Sir Patrick Vallance at a ceremony at the Royal Society on 2 December.
Congratulations are in order for Professor Irene Tracey CBE FMedSci, who has received the highest honour presented by The Physiological Society to an individual.
The annual Burdon Sanderson Prize lecture, given this year by Professor Richard W. Tsien, a pioneer in the study of calcium channels and synaptic transmission, is held in honour of John Burdon Sanderson (1828 - 1905), the University of Oxford's first Waynflete Professor of Physiology, after whom the Cardiac Centre is named.
On Monday 17 October 2022, as part of The Physiological Society roadshow at the University of Oxford, Emeritus Professor of Cardiovasular Physiology Denis Noble FRS unveiled a new plaque honouring the Department's first Waynflete Professor of Physiology, Sir John Burdon Sanderson.
Attended by Head of Department Professor David Paterson, an Oxfordshire Blue Plaque commemorating Mabel Purefoy FitzGerald (1872 - 1973), pioneering physiologist and high altitude explorer, was unveiled on Friday 14 October at 12 Crick Road, Oxford.
Professor David Paterson, Head of the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics and President of The Physiological Society congratulates Professor Svante P\u00e4\u00e4bo ForMemRS, who has been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
The Department welcomes Professor Dame Sue Black DBE OBE FRSE FBA FRAI FRSB ChFA, Baroness Black of Strome and one of the world\u2019s leading forensic scientists, as our Visiting Professor of Forensic Anatomy.
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