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Decoding the cardiac response to stress
20 April 2017
A study carried out by the research group led by Prof Zaccolo provides novel insight into how the heart reacts to the fight-or-flight response to stress
OPDC's George Tofaris heads up new consortium to investigate aggregated proteins in Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s
10 April 2017
The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) launched IMPRiND in March 2017, an innovative research project that is devoted to investigating whether mechanisms of propagation of aggregated proteins between cells could enable novel therapeutic approaches in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
DPAG ranked top in the World for Anatomy and Physiology
13 March 2017
In the 2017 QS World University Rankings by Subject, the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics has been placed top for Anatomy and Physiology.
Professor Denis Noble gives Biochemistry Society Lecture
13 March 2017
Professor Denis Noble gave a Lecture at the University of Oxford's Biochemistry Society.
Brain Diaries Exhibition Opens at Natural History Museum
10 March 2017
Top neuroscientists from across the Medical Sciences Division have collaborated to produce an exhibition of the 'life cycle' of the brain.
Mabel FitzGerald Lecture 2017
9 March 2017
Professor Maria Fitzgerald FMedSci, FRS gives the third, annual Mabel FitzGerald lecture.
Matthew Kerr awarded 1st prize at Biochemical Society Bioenergetics meeting
10 February 2017
Matthew Kerr, a second year British Heart Foundation-funded DPhil student, was awarded first prize at the Biochemical Society Bioenergetics meeting in December.
Winners of the Image Competition Announced
10 February 2017
A competition amongst the graduate students in the Department has yielded some wonderful images, and four prize winners.
New way of repurposing drugs could lead to better Parkinson’s treatments
19 January 2017
By bringing together cutting-edge stem cell technologies and computational biology, researchers at OPDC have developed a unique way to identify existing drugs that could potentially be repurposed for treating Parkinson’s.
Rave reviews for DPAG's surgical anatomy course
4 January 2017
A surgical anatomy course which took place in September of last year has received excellent reviews from its participants, reports 'Surgeon's News'. The course, held in the Anatomy Suite, catered for senior medical students and aimed to increase awareness of the important links between anatomy and surgical practice.
Professor David Paterson part of consortium awarded $8.6m grant from the National Institutes of Health.
3 January 2017
A consortium directed by Dr. Kalyanam Shivkumar at UCLA has received a three-year, $8.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The consortium hopes to map the heart’s nervous system, ultimately developing new treatments for cardiovascular disease.
OPDC researchers on BBC news
15 December 2016
OPDC researchers on BBC news to highlight the need for volunteers to take as healthy controls and to join our RBD sleep study.
Healthy males needed for our study
9 December 2016
We are looking for up to 300 male volunteers, ideally aged between 50 and 75, who are healthy with no family history of Parkinson’s. Ideally they should be English speaking with no sleep or memory issues. The study is investigating whether it is possible to detect and diagnose Parkinson’s earlier. It is running for the next five years.