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Students and staff members of the Dunn School celebrated the festive season with the annual Christmas Party, which took place on Friday 8th December 2017. Over 250 workers and relatives enjoyed an evening of fun, in a party organised by the James, Sattentau and Norbury labs that included activities for all ages. The Dunn School...

Bernadeta Dadonaite, a DPhil student in the Fodor group, has been awarded the best oral presentation award by a young scientist, at the European Scientific Working group on Influenza (ESWI) Conference in Riga, 10 -13 September 2017.

An outreach event organised by Dunn School of Pathology members at Pegasus Primary School on 22nd of November was described as a fantastic and successful program that left school children ‘buzzing’ about science.

A Dunn School third-year graduate student, Nivedita Natarajan, recently won second prize for her poster while at an EMBO Proteostasis Workshop in Ericeira, Portugal.

Ground breaking cancer research at the Dunn School is being strengthened with the award of a six-year grant to junior group leader Dr Monika Gullerova starting in January 2018. Monika is the sole awardee of a Senior Research Fellowship in Cancer Research UK’s latest funding round in October 2017. Commenting on the award Head of...

A major MRC Programme grant has been awarded to the Fodor lab for their work that could potentially shed light on the basic principles that make viral infections, like bird flu so deadly in humans.  One of the long term aims of this project involves working with industrial partners to help design improved flu vaccines that can afford the highest level of protection.   

It is the second year that the Dunn School has actively enacted anti-bullying week (13 – 17 November 2017), a national campaign from the Anti-Bullying Alliance. The theme of this year’s campaign being “All Different, All Equal” which includes Odd Socks Day, an opportunity for individuals to express themselves and appreciate uniqueness. This year, the...

The Future of Science Symposium, hosted by Dunn School Graduate Student Association (GSA), took place on 28th September 2017. It coincided with the 90th anniversary of the Dunn School and the goal was to discuss what will most likely dominate the next decade of science. Nearly 200 people packed the Medical Sciences Teaching Centre for...

Learning about how university education is delivered at Oxford, improving English language skills and getting a feel for the research environment were the successful outcomes of a visit to Oxford and the Dunn School by students from Ewha Womans University in Korea in August 2017. As part of the visit, aimed at catalysing...

A Dunn School research project led by Eva Gluenz to better understand the life threatening tropical disease, leishmaniasis, has secured a three-year MRC research grant from October 2017. Leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease associated with extreme poverty and conflict. Up to one million new infections occur every year, causing death in 20,000 –...

Omer Dushek has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship to fund his innovative research into signalling models the Trust announced in July 2017. Omer’s ambition is to assist researchers to comprehensively define the “laws of signalling pathways” for the first time, leading to improved and new therapies in the context of...

The department came together to celebrate the summer with a family party in the University Parks on Sunday 16 July 2017. The annual event featuring a BBQ, bouncy castle, games and music was enjoyed by over 200 guests. This year had a particularly sporty flavour with the addition of a five-a-side football tournament...

The excellent progress being made by Dunn School engineering apprentice Marcus Bottomley has been recognised at an awards ceremony in Bicester on 22 June 2017. The sixteen-year-old was awarded runner up in the most improved apprentice category at the High Sherriff of Oxfordshire Young Engineer Awards held at the Bicester headquarters of EP...

Even the organiser’s mum understood, this was the successful outcome of a public engagement event presented by the Dunn School’s Professor Paul Fairchild in Marlow on 3 July 2017. Paul presented and a led a discussion on “stem cells and the promise of regenerative medicine” to members of the public and sixth form...

The PALB2 gene safeguards active genes when they experience stress during DNA replication. This is the conclusion of a new research paper from the Esashi lab in collaboration with an international group of researchers, published in PNAS online on 3 July 2017. The paper “MRG15-mediated tethering of PALB2 to unperturbed chromatin protects active genes...