News items
December 2009
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 has been awarded the Ita Askonas award by the EFIS (European Federation of Immunological Societies). This award is to recognise female immunologiests in Europe. Congratulations Fiona.
August 2009
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
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
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.
February 2009
We are very pleased to announce that Susan Vaughan (Gull lab) has been awarded the title of University Research Lecturer.
December 2008
Congratulations to Keith Gull on being elected Principal of St Edmund's Hall. This joint appointment between a department and a college is a first for Oxford .
October 2008
Many congratulations to Stephen Bell who has been selected as an Alexander M Cruikshank Award Lecturer by Gordon Research Conferences. Stephen will give his lecture at the Waterville Valley Resort, July 09
August 2008
Distinction titles: our congratulations to Marion Brown, Ervin Fodor, Thomas Harder and David Vaux who were awarded the title of Reader and to Susan Lea who has gained the title of Professor in the 2008 Recognition of Distinction exercise.
July 2008
We have received the excellent news that David Vaux has been awarded A Medical Sciences Division:Teaching Excellence Award in the "Major Educator" category. Congratulations to David. Also to Paul Fairchild who has also received a Medical Sciences Division:Teaching Excellence Award for his project on outreach activities.
June 2008
Congratulations to Janine Coombes (Powrie lab) and Johanna Hoog (Gull lab) who have both been awarded Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowships. This Fellowship is for the most promising newly qualified postdoctoral researchers to make an early start in developing their independent research careers. Also our congratulations to Clare Jolly (Sattentau lab) who has been awarded an MRC Career Development Award. She will start this next year at UCL.
Good news and congratulations also to Pietro Roversi (Lea lab) who has won first prize in the Oxford University Research Staff Society Annual Poster Competition.
May 2008
We are delighted to announce that Jordan Raff has been elected to the Milstein Chair in Cancer Cell Biology. We look forward to him arriving at the Dunn School in January 2009. Jordan will be coming from the The Gurdon Institute, Cambridge where he is a Cancer Research UK Senior Group Leader
Honorary Degrees: Professor Herman Waldmann has been awarded an honorary doctrate (Doctor of Science) from the University of Cambridge. This will be conferred at a special Congregation to be held in the Senate House on 23 June. Professor Keith Gull has been awarded an honorary DSc degree by the University of Kent (to be awarded at the summer 2008 degree ceremony).
Also our congratulations to:
Professor Liz Robertson who was awarded the 2007 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize from Rockefeller University, and also the 2008 EG Conklin Medal from the Society of Developmental Biology.
Sylvain Lacomble (Gull lab) who has been awarded the Henry Goodger Scholarship from the Medical Sciences Division
Susan Vaughan (Gull Lab) who has been awarded a Research Fellowship from Wolfson College
February 2008
We would like to congratulate Helen Dawe (Gull lab) who has been awarded the title of University Research Lecturer.
December 2007
Congratulations to Kevin Maloy who has been awarded a Lecturership in Experimental Pathology. He will take up the post on 1st October, 2008.
Professor Herman Waldmann received a BTG Lifetime Achievement Award at the Scrip Awards on December 4th at the Park Lane Hilton, London.
November 2007
The 16th annual Norman Heatley lecture was given on 29th November by Professor Anthony Hyman, Max Plank Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden. Professor Hyman's talk was on the subject of "Boveri revisted".
September 2007
We would like to congratulate Paul Fairchild who has been awarded an RCUK Academic Fellowship in 'Immunological acceptance of stem cell-derived tissues'.
July 2007
Many congratulations to David Greaves who has received a Teaching Excellence Award in recognition of his contribution in the development and delivery of the First BM General Pathology and Microbiology course. He will be presented with the award on 16th October.
July 2007
Herman Waldmann has been selected to receive the 2008 Thomas E. Starzl Prize in surgery and immunology. He will give a lecture and receive the prize at Pittsburgh in March 2008.
May 2007
Congratulations to Siamon Gordon, who was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society.
December 2006
Many congratulations to Professor Gillian Griffiths, who has been awarded a Wellcome Principal Research Fellowship and will be moving to University of Cambridge to take up the position.
November 2006
Congratulations to Michael Dye ((Proudfoot Group) who has been awarded a Divisional Research Prize for his work on "CoTC a novel RNA processing activity"
October 2006
On 26th October Professor Carl Nathan, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, gave the 15th annual Norman Heatley Lecture. "Can immunology contribute to chemotherapy? Challenges of Tuberculosis"
July 2006
Many congratulations to Stephen Goss and William James who have each received a Teaching Excellence Award which will be presented to them later in the year by the Medical Sciences Division.
July 2006
We are pleased to announce that the following members of the Department have been awarded Titles of Distinction:
William James: Professor of Virology; Quentin Sattentau: Professor of Immunology; Susan Lea: Reader in Structural Biology; Shona Murphy: Reader in Molecular Biology and Nigel Saunders Reader in Microbiology.
June 2006
Congratulations to Helen Dawe, Gull Lab, who has been awarded a 3-year Biet Memorial Fellowship for Medical Research.
April 2006
March 2006
Oreste Acuto, formerly at the Institute Pasteur, Paris, has joined the Dunn School as a University Senior Research Fellow.
February 2006
Congratulations to Ariel Blocker, Michael Ginger and Philip Taylor, who were each awarded the title of University Research Lecturer
January 2006
We welcomed Professor Susan Lea to the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology. Susan, who was formerly at the Department of Biochemistry, was awarded a Lectureship in Chemical Pathology.
November 2005
The 14th Annual Norman Heatley Lecture was given by Nobel Laureate, Professor Peter Doherty from the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne on 14th November. His lecture was on the subject of Virus Killers and Killer T Cells
January 2005
Professor Waldmann, Head of the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, has been awarded the 2005 Jose Carreras Award for his contributions to haematology. He gave the award lecture at the Meeting of the European Haematology Association in Stockholm, June 2005.
December 2004
Professor Siamon Gordon, Dr Joanna Miller, and Dr Ben de Wet have been awarded over $700,000 in the first round of funding from the Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Initiative. They will be investigating how the dengue fever group of viruses infect human cells.
September 2004
The Memorial Event for Dr Norman Heatley took place in the Dunn School on 18 September, and was well attended by former members of the Dunn School and family friends.
August 2004
Congratulations to Fiona Powrie and Keith Gull, both awarded the title of Professor, and Quentin Sattentau, awarded the title of Reader, in the recent University Distinctions exercise.
Well done to the Dunn School cricket team, ably captained by Stephen Daley, who made it to the finals of the inter-departmental cricket team – but lost to physics in the final on 11 August.
June 2004
Professor Waldmann’s group is one of the beneficiaries of a £20m cross-research council investment in stem cell research announced in May. His group has received £300,000 for research into the immune response to stem cell therapy. For more information, click here .
Robert Tjian, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California at Berkeley is our 14th Norman Heatley Lecturer. His lecture on 17 June is entitled ‘Deconstructing the Metazoan Transcriptional Apparatus’. All welcome.
February 2004
Proteomics Day – 24th February. An overview of research in Oxford’s medical science departments using proteomic technologies, chaired by Dr Sasha Akoulitchev.
January 2004
It is with sadness that we announce the death of Dr Norman Heatley today. 5th January. Dr Heatley (b. 1911) is best known for his pioneering work on penicillin alongside Lord Florey and Sir Ernst Chain at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, and for his remarkable ability to solve scientific problems through technical ingenuity and lateral thinking. He was the first person to be awarded an honorary doctorate in medicine by the University of Oxford.
Many congratulations to Keith Gull, FRS, FMedSci, Wellcome Trust Principal Fellow at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology and Senior Research Fellow, Lincoln College, who was awarded a CBE in the New Year Honours list for services to microbiology.
October 2003
Congratulations to Dr Rut Carballido-Lopez, who is the European regional winner of the Amersham Biosciences and Science Prize for Young Scientists. Rut was awarded the prize for her essay ‘Shaping Bacteria: The Actin-Like Prokaryotic Cytoskeleton’, based on her D. Phil research undertaken in the Dunn School under the guidance of Professor Jeff Errington.
August 2003
Professor Nicholas J. Proudfoot has been elected to the Brownlee-Abraham Professorship of Molecular Biology, with effect from 1 October 2003. Congratulations to Nick, who is currently Professor of Experimental Pathology at the Dunn School, and internationally known for his work on polyadenylation and transcription termination. The Brownlee-Abraham Chair is a newly endowed Chair at the Dunn School, in association with Lincoln College, and was made possible through the generosity of a number of benefactors.
July 2003
The Edward Abraham Building was officially opened on 10 July by Nobel Laureate for Physiology of Medicine, Dr Tim Hunt. Dr Hunt also gave the 12th Norman Heatley Lecture later that day. On a gloriously sunny day, over 250 people were present to hear addresses from the Vice-Chancellor, the Head of Department, and Sir Henry Harris, and to see Tim unveil a carved slate monolith (by sculptor Martin Jennings). If you would like to see some of Simon Hunt’s pictures of the event, click here: http://users.path.ox.ac.uk/~svhunt/EPA_Opening/
June 2003
Congratulations to:
Dr Gordon Brown, awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship
Dr Philip Taylor, awarded a Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellowship
Dr Rut Carballido-Lopez, co-winner and first UK recipient of the 2003 Nat Sternberg Award for ‘The best doctoral thesis in prokaryotic molecular genetic’
Namir Hassan, on achieving a graduate award for outstanding achievements from Trinity College.
May 2003
Two members of the Dunn School have been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society. Jeff Errington, Professor of Microbiology was honoured for his contributions to our understanding of cell differentiation and cell division using the bacterium Bacillus subtilis; and Professor Keith Gull, Wellcome Trust Principal Investigator, who is distinguished for his contributions to our understanding of the cell and molecular biology of eukaryotic microbes, especially fungi, slime moulds, and trypanosomes.
The Royal Society has also awarded a Research Fellowship to Dr Michael Ginger.
Siamon Gordon, GlaxoWellcome Professor of Cellular Pathology has been elected to the Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
Dr Alexandre Akoulitchev has been awarded a Monsanto Senior Fellowship at Exeter College.
