Contributions of Dr Kuang-Yu Chen to our understanding of host adaptation of SARS-CoV-2 earned her an esteemed Wellcome Trust grant.

Recognising her research on the cell biology of viral infection, as well as her teaching contributions, Sumana Sanyal has been awarded the title Professor of Molecular Pathology by the University of Oxford.

Applications are now open to apply for our four year, fully-funded PhD programme in Molecular Cell Biology in Health and Disease.

The honour recognises our previous Head of Department’s pioneering work in fundamental and therapeutic immunology research, which spearheaded the development of engineered antibodies for treatment of cancer, multiple sclerosis and other immune disorders.

A new collaborative study led by Matthew Freeman shows that a fifth of the human genome remains poorly characterised, and further highlights that many of these mystery genes could have vital functions in diverse biological processes.