News
March 2012: MRC New Investigator grant awarded to Natalia Gromak
Congratulations to Natalia Gromak who has recently been awarded an MRC New Investigator grant entitled 'RNA metabolism in pathology of AOA2/ALS4 neurodegenerative disorders'. Natalia has recently moved into her own lab in the main Dunn School building.
March 2012: Aartjan te Velthuis awarded prestigious Rubicon Grant to study at Dunn School.
Congratulations to Aartjan te Velthuis who was recently awarded a prestigious Rubicon Grant to study the dynamics of the influenza virus RNA polymerase using single-molecule technologies. He will be associated with the Fodor laboratory
January 2012: Fiona Powrie awarded the 2012 Louis-Jeantet Prize in Medicine
We are delighted to announce that Fiona Powrie has been awarded the 2012 Louis-Jeantet Prize in Medicine.This is a great achievement and reflects the substantial contributions she has made in Immunology and Gastroenterology.
January 2012: Chris Norbury awarded Professorial title of distinction
Many congratulations to Chris Norbury who was recently awarded the title of Professor of Molecular Pathology.
December 11. Four members of the department awarded the title of University Research Lecturer
We are delighted to announce that four members of the Dunn School have been awarded the distinction title of University Research Lecturer. They are: Fumiko Esashi, Natalia Gromak, Eva Gluenz and Frank Vreede. We sincerely congratulate them on their success in this scheme.
November 11. Neil Portman awarded prestigious Australian Fellowship
After completing his DPhil, Neil Portman (Gull lab) will be off to Australia having been awarded a University of Sydney Postdoctoral Fellowship. These Fellowships were established in 1996 to support excellence in full-time research undertaken in any Department or School at the University. The Fellowships are extremely prestigious and highly competitive internationally, in line with equivalent externally funded fellowships. They are intended to support early career researchers
October 11. Jordan Raff: election to EMBO membership
Congratulations to Jordan Raff on his recent election to EMBO membership. "Election to EMBO membership is recognition of the commitment to research excellence and the exceptional achievements made by a life scientist. The new EMBO Members join the ranks of 1,500 of the best researchers in Europe and around the world. They are leaders in their research fields and communities." For further information see http://www.embo.org/news-a-media-centre/press-releases/46-outstanding-life-scientists-elected-to-embo-membership.html
October 11: Richard Wheeler wins prize for the best talk at Molecular Cell Biology Meeting
Richard Wheeler, a WT 4-year PhD student on IITM, (Gull lab), has been awarded the prize for best talk presented by a PhD or post-doc at the Kinetoplastid Molecular Cell Biology Meeting 2011 in Woods Hole Massachusetts, USA. He presented his new methods for differential staining of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA and the tools which he developed, based on this technique, for automated analysis of the morphology of large numbers of cells from micrographs. This work is part of his DPhil project with Keith Gull and Eva Gluenz. As a prize he has been invited, with full expenses paid, to present this work at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 60th annual meeting.
October 11 - Peter Beaconsfield Prize awarded to Naren Srinivasan
The 2011 Peter Beaconsfield Prize has been awarded to Mr Naren Srinivasan from Brasenose College and the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology. Winner Announcement.
August: Herman Waldmann elected to the Princess Lillian Visiting Professorship
The Princess Lilian Foundation has created a high-profile visiting professorship with the specific aim to foster interaction between researchers based in Belgium and Europe and established experts. We are delighted to announce that Herman Waldmann has been elected to this Chair for 2012. He will be required to give an inauguration lecture that is usually attended by the Princess' daughter and scientists from all Belgian medical schools; to give a lecture for the members of the Framework 7 cell therapy –program of the European Community and to meet groups of 3 to 4 scientists from diverse Belgian universities who are working in Biomedicine These activities will be planned during 4 consecutive days, during which an official dinner will be organized by the wife of the late Prince Alexander and the chairman of the committee, Minister De Croo, prior chair of the Belgian parliament.
August: Titles of distinction awarded.
Congratulations to our colleagues below who have been awarded Professorial titles of distinction: Stephen Cobbold: Professor of Cellular Immunology Ervin Fodor: Professor of Virology David Greaves: Professor of Inflammation Biology Bass Hassan: Professor of Medical Oncology David Vaux: Professor of Cell Biology
July: Chris Goulbourne receives the Centenary Prize by the Biochemical Society
Congratulations to Chris Goulbourne (Vaux lab) who was awarded the Centenary Prize by the Biochemical Society for his presentation of his work at the Nuclear envelope disease and chromatin organization conference in Cambridge. This will involve him being flown back from UCLA by the Biochemical Society to attend an awards ceremony in London later in the year.
June: Monika Gullerova awarded the Loreal-UNESCO Woman in Science UK award
Congratulations to Monika Gullerova on being awarded this Fellowship. The L’Oréal-UNESCO UK and Ireland Fellowships For Women In Science are awards offered by a partnership between L’Oréal UK & Ireland, the UK National Commission for UNESCO and the Irish National Commission for UNESCO, with the support of the Royal Society, to encourage and promote the role and achievements of women pursuing their research careers in the UK or Ireland in the fields of the life or physical sciences. Four Fellowships are awarded each year to outstanding women scientists at postdoctoral level to enable promising scientific research in the life or physical sciences.
June: Frank Vreede awarded MRC New Investigator Research Grant
Congratulations to Frank Vreede (Fodor lab) who was recently awarded an MRC New Investigator Research Grant to study the regulation of influenza A virus replication and transcription. The grant will start in October 2011 at the Dunn School.
June: Fiona Powrie becomes a Fellow of the Royal Society
We are delighted to announce that Fiona Powrie has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Fiona, who is associated with the Dunn School, holds the Sidney Truelove Chair in Gastroenterology at the Nuffield Dept of Medicine.
June: Chris Goulbourne awarded American Heart Foundation postdoctoral Fellowship
Congratulations to Chris Goulbourne who has been awarded an Americal Heart Foundation Fellowship. Chris will move from David Vaux's lab to work in Steve Young's lab at UCLA.
Professor William James is to become Oxford University’s Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Planning and Resources), in August.
Professor William James, Professor of Virology, Fellow of Brasenose College and James Martin Fellow, is to become Oxford University’s Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Planning and Resources), in August. In the role Professor James will be responsible for institutional and strategic planning, and resource allocation. Professor James said: ‘I’m very honoured to have been chosen to coordinate the University’s plans to make best use of its resources in support of its academic priorities. We have entered a period of financial uncertainty, and it will be important for Oxford to use its collective wisdom to sustain our unique contributions to the world of knowledge and continue to open new areas of scholarship. My role will be to ensure resources are most efficiently deployed to support these goals, and to reduce risks to our long term academic achievements by careful joint planning.’ Among his duties as Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Professor James will chair the University’s Planning and Resource Allocation Committee; take lead responsibility for ensuring the successful implementation and evolution of the objectives within the University’s current Strategic Plan; and chair the Joint Teaching and Student Funding Review Group, developing policy following recent developments in national policy on teaching and student funding. The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Andrew Hamilton, said: ‘At a time of great change for higher education it is vital that we make the right decisions about how to support and sustain the excellence of our teaching and research in the years ahead. Professor James’s experience and understanding of the many different facets of Oxford education and research will be invaluable in helping us to plan for the future of our University.’ William James came to Oxford from Birmingham University in 1981, and completed a DPhil in bacterial genetics under Joel Mandelstam. He has held academic appointments in Oxford since 1984 at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, in conjunction with, sequentially, Linacre College, St Edmund Hall, Christ Church, Exeter College, Magdalen College and Brasenose College. He is a Medical Tutor at Brasenose, and lectures on virology to medical students. Professor James’s research focuses on the interaction of HIV, the AIDS virus, with cells called macrophages, which the virus uniquely subverts in order to establish infection in the body. In developing stem cells as a research tool for these studies, he founded the Oxford Stem Cell Facility, which is generously supported by the James Martin School, and this now supports researchers around Oxford and abroad working on diseases such as Parkinson’s and Chronic Granulomatous Diseases, as well as HIV/AIDS. Professor James will take up the post on 1 August 2011, for an initial term of five years. He will succeed Professor Tony Monaco, who has been appointed the next President of Tufts University, Massachusetts, USA.
May: Natalia Gromak awarded Royal Society University Research Fellowship
Many congratulations to Natalia Gromak who was awarded a RS University Research Fellowship to study transcription and RNA processing in neurodegenerative diseases. She will start her project in October 2011 at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology.
May: Congratulations to Eva Gluenz who has been awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship
Eva will start her Fellowship in October 2011 and will work in the Dunn School on the project: "Host-parasite interactions: the role of the Leishmania flagellum in infection".
Anton van der Merwe appointed Divisional Director of Graduate Studies
Having transformed our graduate training programme in the Dunn School we are pleased to announce that Anton van der Merwe's achievements have been recognised by his recent appointment to Divisional Director of Graduate Studies. Anton has also recently been awarded a project grant from CRUK.
Ervin Fodor appointed to the Readership in Experimental Pathology
We are pleased to announce that Dr Ervin Fodor was recently appointed to the Readership in Experimental Pathology at the Dunn School. He will take up the position on 1st May. Ervin will deliver his inaugural lecture on 12th May in the MSTC lecture Theatre. His talk is entitled: "Influenza virus RNA polymerase: from transcriptional control to innat immunity".
November: David Greaves awarded 5-year Programme Grant
Our congratulations go to David R Greaves who has been awarded a 5-year Programme Grant from the British Heart Foundation to study: "Monocyte recruitment and macrophage retention in atherosclerosis".
June: Herman Waldmann elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
Professor Herman Waldmann has been elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP). The admission ceremony took place at the college on 16th June.
July: Blue Plaque for Norman Heatley
Norman Heatley's work as a key member of the Oxford penicillin team 1939-43, at the Dunn School, has been commemorated by the placing of a blue plaque on the Oxford home where he lived for nearly 60 years. The unveiling ceremony took place on 17th July.
May 10, Dr Elizabeth Blackburn gives Norman Heatley Lecture
On 27th May we were delighted to have as our guest Dr Elizabeth Blackburn, Nobel laureate 2009, who gave the 19th annual Norman Heatley Lecture. She spoke on the subject of "Responses to Perturbing Telomere Maintenance" to a packed lecture theatre
May 2010 - OMPI Topping Out
The Vice-Chancellor Professor Andrew Hamilton performed the Topping Out ceremony on the OMPI building on 27th May 2010.
May 2010 Leadership Positions advertised
3 Leadership Positions are now being advertised - see http://www.path.ox.ac.uk/contact/Vacancies/vacancies
May 2010 Royal Society University Research Fellowship for Janet Lovett
Our congratulations go to Janet Lovett (Lea Group) who has been successful in obtaining a Royal Society University Research Fellowship to move to University of Leicester. We wish her well in her future career.
April 2010 Eva Gluenz features in recent ASCB news publication
Eva Glunz is featured in a recent ASCB news publication following her talk on 'using "virtual labs" in African Workshops' at the ASCB Meeting in December in San Diego. Read the full article on page 28.
April 2010 Keith Gull chairs report on teaching in Universities
A new report from the Academy of Medical Sciences draw attention to the need to value teaching in UK universities. The report comes from a committee chaired by the Principal, Professor Keith Gull.
March 2010: Neil Barclay awarded program grant
Neil Barclay has been awarded a 5 year programme grant of £1.8M by the MRC to continue the analysis of the leukocyte cell surface and in particular the class of proteins called paired receptors.
December 2009: Welcome Fumiko Esashi
We welcome Fumiko Esashi, Cancer Research UK Senior Cancer Research Fellow, and her group who has relocated to the Dunn School from the WIMM.
September 2009: Fiona Powrie awarded Ita Askonas award
Fiona Powrie has been awarded the Ita Askonas award by the EFIS (European Federation of Immunological Societies). This award is to recognise female immunologists in Europe. Congratulations Fiona.
August 2009: Welcome Professor Bass Hassan
We would like to welcome Professor Bass Hassan and his
group who is joining the Dunn School from the Weatherall Institute of
Molecular Medicine. Bass is Professor of Medical Oncology and CRUK
Clinical Scientist and Consultant Medical Oncologist.
July 2009: More staff members of the Dunn School receive awards
Teaching Excellence: our congratulations go to Anton van der Merwe
who will receive an award in the Major Educator category for his work
on embedding graduate studies within the Dunn School. Also to Chris Norbury
who has received an Excellent Teacher award; the selection panel was
particularly impressed by his innovative approach to introducing FHS
Molecular Medicine students to cancer biology and finally to Duncan Howie who also received an Excellent Teacher Award and was nominated for this by a group of students here at the Dunn School. Congratulations to Catarina Gadelha (Bell Lab) who
has been elected Lecturer of Pathology at Trinity College, and awarded
the status of Associate of the Higher Education Academy in recognition
of her training and contributions to teaching at Oxford.
June 2009: Fiona Powrie elected to Sidney Truelove Chair
We are very pleased to report the excellent news that Fiona Powrie
has been elected to the Sidney Truelove Chair in Gastroenterology which
will be located in the clinical and preclinical departments of the
medical school here at Oxford.
