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The Dunn School hosted its annual summer party in the University Parks on 21 July 2019. Held exactly a year after the fabulous 2018 party, the 2019 party was equally successful with around 300 people from across the Dunn School community attending. Students, postdocs, support and admin staff, members of the cleaning team,...

Two Dunn School postdocs, Dr Katharina Braunger and Dr João Monteiro, were awarded the EMBO Long Term Fellowship for early career researchers in June 2019. Both Dr Braunger and Dr Monteiro joined the Dunn School earlier this year, and will now enjoy generous funding for 2 years of research.

The importance of vaccine research at the Dunn School was highlighted when Dr Cyrus Poonawalla, Founder and Chairman of the Serum Institute of India, visited the department on 27 June. The Serum Institute, the world’s largest manufacturer of life-saving vaccines, is helping support Professor Christoph Tang’s research to develop a serogroup B meningococcal vaccine. The collaboration exploit...

Summer is in full swing, but as always, the graduate students in the Dunn School earned their sunny days this year by presenting their research in the annual Graduate Student Symposium, which was held on 28thJune at the Medical Science Teaching Centre. This year’s programme was especially packed, with 15 oral presentations delivered by 3rdyear students, and 28 posters evenly divided between 1sta...

The Dunn School is well known for its friendly and supportive atmosphere. Now, it is taking further steps to secure that atmosphere, and assure that bullying is out of the picture. The active Anti-Bullying and Harassment work group makes sure that all Dunn Schoolers are aware of what bullying behaviours are, and that the anti-bullying advisers are always willing to share their advice if needed.

A symposium honouring the work of the Dunn School’s Professor Keith Gull was held in the Medical Sciences Teaching Centre on 22nd March 2019 to mark the occasion of his retirement. The event, which hosted a stellar line-up of speakers, aimed to highlight his contribution to science, both in terms of his academic achievements and...

Researchers from the Dunn School joined forces with local primary schools to engage in the British Science Week in a series of lessons, activities and fairs. The British Science Week is a national celebration of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) and it is held every March by the British Science Association. The...

Ashish Dhir, a postdoc from the Proudfoot lab, has been awarded the Chancellor’s Fellowship to take up a group leader position at the MRC Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine (IGMM) at the University of Edinburgh in March 2019.

For the second consecutive year, researchers at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology have organised a series of outreach events to ignite an interest in science in Year 5 pupils at Pegasus Primary School, in Blackbird Leys, Oxford. The second outreach session of this year, entitled ‘Microscopes – peering into the invisible world’, took place on the 27th February 2019 at Pegasus School.

The Postdoc Association (PDA) at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology brings together over 120 postdoctoral scientists working in the department, by providing a platform for discussion and exchange of ideas, and by giving a voice to the postdoc community while also reaching out to the rest of the department. Recently, it was announced that the current chair and co-chair of the Postdoc Associat...

Tanmay Bharat, a Group Leader at the Dunn School and a Royal Society and Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Dale Fellow, has been awarded the 2019 EMBL John Kendrew Young Scientist Award. This competition recognises individuals who have worked at the EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany) at some point of their careers and have...

The 27th Norman Heatley Lecture was delivered by Nobel laureate Sir Gregory P. Winter on 11th February 2019 at the Oxford Natural History Museum. Sir Greg Winter discussed his research on the production of antibodies suitable for therapeutic use, a new class of pharmaceutical drugs. This body of work resulted in the award of a...

The Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) has bestowed one of their highest honours, the SLAS Innovation Award 2019, on Cristian Soitu who is a DPhil student at the University of Oxford (Harris Manchester College). This internationally-renowned award, which comes with a personal $10,000 cash prize, was open to scientists from both academia and...

The Sir William Dunn School of Pathology is launching the 2019 Summer Studentship Program. This program is aimed at undergraduate students excited about research in life sciences and looking for a hands-on experience.

The winners of the Dunn School Bioimaging Facility Awards 2018 were announced at the department’s annual Symposium on the 7th of January 2019. This yearly imaging competition hosted by the Dunn School Bioimaging Facility managers, Dr. Errin Johnson (Electron Microscopy) and Dr. Alan Wainman (Light Microscopy), allows researchers to showcase their most beautiful, interesting and...