The King group has published a new paper in the journal eLife
9 November 2023
Professor Andrew King and members of his research group have just published a new paper ‘Hierarchical temporal prediction captures motion processing along the visual pathway’ in the journal eLife.
Congratulations to DPAG Award winners at the Medical Sciences Teaching Excellence 2023 Awards Ceremony!
2 November 2023
Awards and Honours Heather Group News Teaching
Four of DPAG’s academic community were Award winners at the Teaching excellence awards.
DPAG World Anatomy Day event success
2 November 2023
On October 24, 2023, the Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics (DPAG) hosted an inspiring 'World Anatomy Day' event at the Natural History Museum.
Robin Klemm wins grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
1 November 2023
Awards and Honours Klemm Group News
Robin Klemm has won, together with with Carol Robinson (Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Discovery) and Bart Deplancke (EPFL, Switzerland) a grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to profile metabolism across scales.
First digital atlas of human fetal brain development published
1 November 2023
The first digital atlas showing how the human brain develops in the womb has been published by a global research team led by the University of Oxford.
Oxford researchers make first step in engineering human cortical columns for brain repair
25 October 2023
A collaborative team of DPAG, Chemistry and Oxford Martin School (OMS) researchers have achieved the first step to printing the 6 distinct layers of the cerebral cortex as part of a landmark project seeking to repair brain damage by transplanting replicated ‘pre-organised’ printed neural tissue.
New artwork by Patrick Hughes unveiled
20 October 2023
General Head of Department's News
DPAG welcomed artist Patrick Hughes back to an unveiling event and reception
Burdon Sanderson Prize Lecture 2023
18 October 2023
We were delighted to welcome Olujimi Ajijola to deliver this year's Burdon Sanderson Prize Lecture
OPDC join in the annual Walk for Parkinson’s
12 October 2023
OPDC News Wade-Martins Group News
A team of Oxford Parkinson’s Disease Centre (OPDC) researchers and supporters including Professor Laura Parkkinen, Dr Ira Milosevic and a team from the Wade-Martins Group took part in the annual Walk for Parkinson's in Henley-on-Thames organised by Parkinson's UK, in conjunction with the Parkinson’s UK Oxford Branch.
Professor Shankar Srinivas awarded a Wellcome Discovery Award
9 October 2023
Professor Shankar Srinivas (based in the IDRM), has received a Wellcome Discovery Award.
Andrew Parker awarded Senior Professorship at Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg
7 October 2023
Andrew Parker (an Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience from DPAG) has been awarded the title of “Senior Professor” by the Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg Germany.
Career Development Fellowship awarded to Mootaz Salman could pave the way for early intervention in neurodegenerative diseases
5 October 2023
Awards and Honours Salman Group News
Dr Mootaz Salman has been awarded the MRC Career Development Fellowship.
BBSRC-funded Oxford-Cambridge consortium to close the gap in our understanding of human heart development
3 October 2023
Awards and Honours EDI News Riley Group News Simoes Group News
A research consortium of DPAG/IDRM and University of Cambridge scientists have been awarded a major strategic grant by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to answer the pressing long-standing questions of how the human heart grows, how it is put together, and how the different heart cells communicate with each other during pregnancy.
Congratulations are in order for Professor Jaideep Pandit, who has been awarded the Sir Ivan Magill Gold Medal of the Association of Anaesthetists
21 September 2023
Congratulations are in order for Professor Jaideep Pandit, Professor of Anaesthesia and Fellow and Tutor in Medicine at St John’s College, who has been awarded the Sir Ivan Magill Gold Medal of the Association of Anaesthetists, the organisation’s most prestigious honour. He becomes only the 8th recipient of the Medal in the Association’s 90-year history.