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Dr Claudia Ribeiro de Almeida, a postdoc in Nick Proudfoot’s lab, is leaving the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology to set up her independent research group at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, on 1st November 2018. Claudia, who joined the Proudfoot lab in August 2012 as an EMBO fellow, has been recruited...

Dr Marc LaForce, an eminent figure in the field of meningococcal meningitis whose work has helped eradicate the disease from sub-Saharan Africa, is visiting the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology for two months as a Guy Newton Fellow from 1st September 2018.

A total of seventeen students have joined the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology in October to commence their DPhil studies for the 2018-19 academic year. Thirteen students have been admitted through the annual Departmental Prize Studentship competition and individual scholarships offered by funding agencies such as Cancer Research UK and the Royal...

Richard Wheeler, a postdoctoral researcher in the Gull lab, has received the Sir Henry Dale Fellowship by the Wellcome Trust. This prestigious award will provide funding for him to set up his own research group in the Nuffield Department of Medicine at the University of Oxford, starting in October 2018.

The inhabitants of the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology hail from all over the world, and to showcase how internationally engaged the Dunn School is, an internal Holiday Snap Competition was organised in late summer 2018. Participants were asked to submit a photograph of themselves on holiday anywhere around the world, while wearing the...

One of the latest postdoctoral scientists recruited to the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Dr Shaked Ashkenazi, has been awarded a Royal Society – Newton International Fellowship starting in October 2018. Shaked Ashkenazi joined Professor Matthew Freeman’s lab in May 2018, coming from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. Her...

A Dunn School final year graduate student, Alice Jiyoon Ahn, recently won a best poster prize at the 27th International Complement Workshop held in Santa Fe (New Mexico, USA) from 16th-21st September 2018. Alice is a DPhil student in Professor Susan Lea’s research group. The Lea laboratory investigates host-pathogen interactions to better understand the nature and extent of disease caused by the...

The seeds for the science video were sown in December 2017, when Dr. Hazel Hall-Roberts, from the William James lab at Dunn School of Pathology, won a competition hosted by Oxford Sparks – a platform that brings together resources and information from across the University. Now, her vision has finally bloomed into a colourful animation, which was...

Dr. Tanmay Bharat, a Royal Society / Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Dale Fellow and Group Leader at the Dunn School, was named a 2018 Vallee Scholar by the The Bert L and N Kuggie Vallee Foundation. Each of the five Vallee scholars of this year, including Tanmay have won a prize of $300,000 (around £228,000) to be spent over four years.

Dunn School group leader, Dr Monika Gullerova, received an award for her outstanding contribution to 25 years of UK diplomatic relations with Slovakia at a ceremony hosted by the British Embassy in Bratislava on 22 August 2018. Dr Monika Gullerova, an Associate Professor and Principal Investigator in the Sir William Dunn School of...

On Thursday 23rd August 2018, twenty Dunn School researchers sat down for a unique Masterclass in scientific news writing, held by experienced journalist and editor Roger Highfield. What they learnt: conclusions first, and details afterwards. Roger Highfield, visiting Professor of Public Engagement at the Dunn School of Pathology, said the aim of the...

On the 1st of August, 2018, the Nature Career Column published an essay by Dunn School graduate student Philipp Kruger, from the Dushek Lab.

The Postdoc Associations of the Departments of Biochemistry, Dunn School of Pathology and and Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics (DPAG) organised the first-ever joint postdoctoral researchers’ dinner for members of all three departments on 24th July 2018. The aim of the event was to promote the links between the postdoc communities from neighbouring departments, since postdoctoral...

Scarlett Harris, a DPhil student in the Sattentau Lab at the Dunn School and a member of Magdalen College, has been awarded the 2018 Peter Beaconsfield Prize in Physiological Sciences, which was announced at the beginning of June.

The annual summer party hosted at the University Parks for all Dunn School members and their families on the 22nd July 2018, turned out to be a magnificent seasonal-event. With the sun shining relentlessly, the Head of the Department, Prof Matthew Freeman’s weather predictions were spot on, yet again. The effort by the organising committee...