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Dr Karina Pombo-Garcia is the first in a new scheme that will allow opportunities for new scientific collaborations.

We are delighted to announce that Professor Kevin Foster has been appointed to the Chair of Microbiology, in association with Wadham College.

This honour recognises Prof Ivan Ahel’s leading contribution to the field of ADP-ribosylation and genome stability.

We are pleased to announce that Dr Yiqi Zhao, a researcher in the Smith group at the Dunn School, has been awarded the 2024 Peter Medawar Prize for Immunology.

Cat Vicente, the Head of Scientific Strategy and Projects at the Dunn School and a fellow of Reuben College, has co-authored an article advocating for public engagement to be more interdisciplinary to enable academics to better engage with broad-ranging public audiences.

Many congratulations to Professor Ivan Ahel and Professor Omer Dushek for securing these prestigious 8-year programme grants.

The collaboration between the Serum Institute of India Pvt. Ltd and the University of Oxford will provide lifesaving protection against Men-B through the production of a chimeric protein-based vaccine.

A pioneer in the field of leukocyte membrane proteins, Alan Williams was elected Head of Department in 1991. The unveiling of the new photographic portrait was hosted by the current Head of Department Professor Matthew Freeman earlier this year, in the company of friends and family.

In a study published in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, the Proudfoot lab demonstrates how the use of dCas9 might affect transcriptional elongation and RNA processing, and how it can be harnessed to manipulate Pol II progression along the gene.