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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...

As part of a celebration of 70 years of the NHS and medical advancements, BBC Radio Oxford’s David Prever interviewed the Head of the Dunn School of Pathology Professor Matthew Freeman about the impact of penicillin on defining an era of modern medicine. The interview took place at the John Radcliffe Hospital and aired live on BBC Radio Oxford’s breakfast show on Thursday, July 5th, the 70th b...

Most of the graduate students undertaking their DPhil degrees at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology presented their research at the Graduate Student Symposium, which was held on 29th June 2018 at the Medical Sciences Teaching Centre. For this year’s edition, 12 first-year and 22 second-year students presented their work through posters, while 12...

“Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.” – Albert Einstein A Science and Art competition was held for the first time on 21st June 2018 for...

Dunn School group leader David Greaves and Oxford University medical student Max Brodermann are joint runners-up in the Innovative teaching & learning with technology category of the 2018 OxTALENT annual awards for their entry “Innovative eLearning Resources for Medical Student Studies in Biochemistry and Pathology”. The winners were announced on 13 June 2018. ...

A group of volunteers from the Dunn School of Pathology completed their 2017-2018 outreach series at Pegasus Primary School in Oxford with a 3rd event that took place on the 13th of June. The session, aimed at inspiring potential young scientists of the future, was entitled “DNA – the code of life” and covered the...