Introduction to the Department
DPAG is a basic science Department within the Medical Sciences Division (MSD) at the University of Oxford, and is located across three buildings at the South Parks Road Campus: the Sherrington Building, which incorporates the Burdon Sanderson Cardiac Science Centre, the Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, the Centre for Integrative Physiology and the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology (formerly the Oxford Centre for Gene Function); the Le Gros Clark Building; and the Tinsley Building on Mansfield Road, which houses the Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour.
The Department undertakes 45% of the Pre-Clinical Medicine teaching, and is home to 53 research groups and more than 500 members, including 152 graduate students and 48 administration and support staff.
The Department is governed by its Executive and Departmental Committees, which are supported by a number of specialist sub-committees, including Teaching, Athena Swan and Departmental Safety. The Department is supported by various groups including finance, HR, facilities, IT, research administration, and communications.
