The Sir William Dunn School of Pathology
is a Department within the University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division. It has an extensive research programme covering a wide range of fields including, bacteriology and virology, cell biology, immunology, microbiology and molecular biology. It is involved in the teaching of medical sciences to undergraduates.
The Dunn School is famous for pioneering work on penicillin, which brought in the antibiotic era, and other key findings noted in its brief history. The department was rated as the highest scoring UK biomedical research department in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise.
Research
The Dunn School's research specialises in the fundamental causes of human disease and new approaches to therapy. The Head of Department is Professor Matthew Freeman.
Graduate Studies
The Department takes on about 20 graduate (postgraduate) students each year for study and research towards a DPhil degree, with usually 60-80 graduate students in the department. The Director of Graduate Studies is Professor Anton van der Merwe.
OMPI
The Oxford Molecular Pathology Institute (OMPI) was completed in February 2011. It is a $50m investment at the Sir William Dunn school of Pathology to house leaders in the fields of Immunology, Microbiology and Cancer.
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Seminar Information
Next Pathology seminar is Wednesday 29th May at 1600. Prof. Jorg Vogel, "Small non-coding RNAs and the regulation of bacterial responses to stress".
