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The Sir William Dunn School of Pathology has had a long history of research successes since the building’s opening in 1927. On the 29thof May in 2018, a piece of that history was recognised with the installation and unveiling of a Blue Plaque, which are commemorative signs installed at places of historical significance, serving as...

The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), one of the seven UK research councils part of UK Research and Innovation, has awarded three separate research grants in the May 2018 round to the Freeman, Murphy and Carvalho labs of the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology. The BBSRC responsive mode research grants are committed to funding curiosity-led research and aim at helpin...

Dunn School group leader Ivan Ahel has successfully renewed his Wellcome Senior Research Fellowship in Basic Biomedical Science. The fellowship will provide around £2 million over 5 years, starting from 1 Oct 2018, to sponsor his research into serine ADP-ribosylation in genome stability and human disease.

Dunn School group leader Professor Jordan Raff is one of 48 newly elected members to join the prestigious Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences, it was announced on 10th May.

A student workshop focussed on stem cell biology, jointly organised by the Dunn School of Pathology and Science Oxford, was held at the Medical Sciences Teaching Centre in Oxford University on the 22nd of March 2018.

Professor Shona Murphy has secured a Wellcome Investigator Award to expand her lab’s work on the regulation of RNA polymerase II-transcribed genes.  

To commemorate Norman Heatley’s key contributions to the discovery of penicillin, the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology organises an annual high-profile lecture featuring a world-renowned biomedical scientist. The 26th edition of the Norman Heatley lecture was celebrated on 23rd April 2018 at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. On this occasion, over 150...

A collaborative Welcome Trust grant has been awarded to two Dunn School labs, namely the Lea and Raff groups, to investigate the biology of centrosome formation during cell division.  

A group of 50 high-achieving 16-18-year-old students from secondary schools in and around Utrecht (Holland) visited the Dunn School of Pathology on Tuesday 17th April 2018 as part of a U-Talent programme trip to the United Kingdom. The visit comprised several talks and a tour around the Dunn School building. The main talk,...

Laura Hankins, a DPhil student in the Raff lab, was runner-up in the British Society for Developmental Biology  (BSDB) Writing Competition at the 70th Annual Spring Meeting of the BSDB in Warwick announced on the 17th of April 2018.

Following the initial success of a new series at the Dunn School, the Get to Know Your Dunn School PIs series continued Thursday, March 29th with Professor Monika Gullerova.

Ervin Fodor has received the 2019 AstraZeneca award following a recent meeting of the awarding body, The Biochemical Society, in Spring 2018.

The British Society for Cell Biology (BSCB) runs an annual imaging competition that aims at showcasing the best images taken by members of the society, whose research focuses on studying aspects of cell biology. In its 2018 edition, Dr Sonia Muliyil, a postdoc in Matthew Freeman’s lab, has been awarded 3rd prize for her image...

The Dynamic Cell series of conferences organised jointly by the British Society of Cell Biology (BSCB) and the Biochemical Society showcases latest research utilising dynamic methods to explore cell biology.  At the most recent of its series – ‘The Dynamic Cell III’ – held in Manchester during 19th-21st March 2018, two Raff lab members were...

Each year, postdoctoral researchers at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology organise a one-day symposium to feature their latest research progress. The 2018 edition of the Postdoc Symposium took place on Thursday 15th of March, where 28 postdocs from different groups within the department shared their research through presentations and posters. The...