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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe 2023 Sherrington talks were presented by graduate students in their third year of DPhil research study.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nCongratulations are in order for Associate Professor Lisa Heather, who has been awarded an extension of her British Heart Foundation Intermediate Basic Science Research Fellowship. The extension recognises her successful research on the impact of abnormal metabolism in diabetes on the heart and will prepare her for progression to a Senior Fellowship.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nDPAG's new John Black Professor of Bionanoscience Professor Molly Stevens has been shortlisted as a nominee for the Institution of Engineering and Technology\u2019s (IET) prestigious \u00a3350,000 A F Harvey Engineering Research Prize.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nProfessor David Paterson, in collaboration with the UCLA\u2019s Professor Kalyanam Shivkumar, has been awarded a prestigious Leducq International Network of Excellence Program Award of $8 million (\u00a36.3M) to set up a major new transatlantic network linking world leading researchers from the USA and Europe to develop \u2018Bioelectronics for neurocardiology diagnosis and therapeutics\u2019.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nCongratulations are in order for Associate Professor Sarah De Val, who has been awarded a renewal of her British Heart Foundation Senior Basic Science Research Fellowship. The award recognises her pioneering research on coronary vessel formation and differentiation.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nProfessor 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.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nAn exciting new collaborative study from RDM and DPAG researchers has found that fat metabolism could be the key to tackling heart failure.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nCongratulations are in order to Sian Wilcox on winning a Goodger and Schorstein Award from the Medical Sciences Internal Fund.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nCongratulations are in order to Professor Manuela Zaccolo on being awarded Membership of the Academia Europaea (MAE).
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\n \n\n \n \n \nProfessor 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'.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nCongratulations are in order to Dr Jose Prius Mengual who has been awarded an Emerging Leader Fellowship Award from Epilepsy Research UK and the Nucleic Acid Therapy Accelerator (NATA). With this award, Dr Mengual will develop a new genetic therapy to rebalance protein levels in the neurons affected by epilepsy to prevent seizures.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nCongratulations are in order to Associate Professor Nicol Harper and Associate Professor Dan Li.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nCongratulations 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.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nCongratulations are in order to Dr Hugo Fernandes who has been awarded a sought after Alzheimer\u2019s Society Dementia Research Leader Fellowship. With this award, Dr Fernandes will reveal the role of dysfunctional lipid metabolism in dementia using innovative self-designed tools and models to identify new therapeutic targets.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nCongratulations to DPAG's Mark Selwood whose fantastic performance at the 24th World Transplant Games brings home gold and bronze medals for Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe 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.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe Debrecen Award for Molecular Medicine was established in 2003 to recognise extraordinary achievements in the field of biomedicine. Scientists are nominated for making great strides in the life sciences leading to remarkable progress in our understanding and more efficient treatment of diseases.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nOn Saturday 15 April 2023, a team of researchers from the Oxford Parkinson's Disease Centre (OPDC) joined members of the Parkinson\u2019s UK Oxford Branch to support \u2018The Big Cream Tea\u2019, which was organised to help raise awareness and funds for Parkinson\u2019s UK.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nNew research published in Nature, led by researchers Dr Zeynep Okray, Dr Pedro Jacob and Professor Scott Waddell at the Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, has discovered a detailed neural circuit mechanism that explains how multisensory learning improves memory performance.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nCongratulations are in order to Professor Manuela Zaccolo on being elected Fellow of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, one of the most prestigious Academies in Italy.
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