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Japanese cultural journal, ACT4, features DPAG and the University of Oxford
10 December 2014
ACT4 features the University of Oxford and the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics.
Memorandum of Understanding signed between Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the University of Oxford
28 November 2014
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has been signed between President Jie Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, SJTU) and Professor Andrew Hamilton (Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford).
DPAG Parkinson’s researchers recognised in national image competition
20 November 2014
The Picturing Parkinson's competition was organised by support and research charity Parkinson’s UK.
Professor Zoltan Molnar elected to the Allan and Maria Myers International Visiting Fellowship
19 November 2014
Professor Zoltan Molnar has been elected to the Allan and Maria Myers International Visiting Fellowship to The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Australia.
Professor Dame Kay Davies receives the WISE Lifetime Achievement Award
17 November 2014
Professor Dame Kay Davies, Dr Lee’s Professor of Anatomy, was awarded the WISE Lifetime Achievement Award for her research on Duchenne muscular dystrophy and championing of women in science.
Professor Fran Ashcroft wins the Jacobæus Prize 2014
13 November 2014
Professor Frances Ashcroft has been selected as the recipient of the Jacobæus Prize 2014. The Prize is awarded annually by the Novo Nordisk Foundation to an internationally recognized researcher for extraordinary achievements within medical research.
Professor Dame Kay Davies nominated for a WISE award
11 November 2014
Professor Dame Kay Davies has been nominated for a WISE Lifetime Achievement Award.
Professor Dame Kay Davies awarded for Outstanding Contribution to British Neuroscience
5 November 2014
Professor Dame Kay Davies, Dr Lee’s Professor of Anatomy, was selected as the 2014 recipient of the British Neuroscience Association award for Outstanding Contribution to British Neuroscience.
Prof David Paterson receives Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Society of New Zealand
4 November 2014
Professor David Paterson, Associate Head of the Medical Sciences Division (Education) and professor in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, was elected as an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
The Thirsty Mind
3 October 2014
The New Yorker reports on an article by a group of researchers from the Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour in the latest issue of the journal Nature Neuroscience. The group, which is led by Scott Waddell, studies rewards, motivation, and memory in the comparatively simple brain of the fruit fly.
Former Waynflete Professor of Physiology, Sir Colin Blakemore FRS knighted in Queen's Birthday Honours
18 September 2014
Professor Colin Blakemore, FRS, FMedSci, was recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours.
Leading charity announces increased funding for Oxford network of dementia researchers
10 September 2014
Scientific excellence in Oxford has once again been recognised as Alzheimer’s Research UK doubles its investment in dementia research through the Oxford Research Network Centre.
Interview - Stephen Goodwin in Current Biology
3 September 2014
Stephen Goodwin is an Associate Professor in Biomedical Sciences and a Tutorial Fellow in Medicine and Physiology Sciences at Magdalen College. His laboratory uses the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, to study the genetic, developmental, and neural mechanisms that underlie sex-specific behaviors.
Paving the way for gene therapy in Huntington's disease
14 August 2014
Prof. Matthew Wood and Dr. Samir El Andaloussi, both of DPAG, have been awarded a new £1m grant from the MRC to study gene therapy for Huntington’s Disease.
Just 8.2 per cent of our DNA is ‘functional’
6 August 2014
Only 8.2 per cent of human DNA is likely to be doing something important – is ‘functional’ – say researchers from Oxford University.
