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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...

The significance of the Dunn School’s place in history was once more reaffirmed when the development of antibiotics won the accolade of Britain’s Greatest Invention in a live TV broadcast on BBC2 on 15 June 2017. Television journalist and presenter Angela Rippon championed antibiotics as the country’s greatest invention stating they have saved...

Dr Arend (Aartjan) te Velthuis, a postdoc in Ervin Fodor's group, has been awarded a Sir Henry Dale Fellowship, the Wellcome Trust announced in June 2017.

Beautiful microscopy images, many from Dunn School scientists, are communicating the connection between art and science in a “Through the looking glass” microscopy exhibition in University Parks, Oxford from 12 June to 7 July 2017. The Dunn School’s EPA Cephalosporin Fund is sponsor to the initiative that includes not only the display of images...

Children from Wolvercote Primary School in Oxford used strawberries to learn about DNA during a workshop ran by Proudfoot group’s Sue Mei Tan-Wong on Tuesday 16 May.

Professor Susan Lea’s status as world leader in structural biology was recognised today with her election as a Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences on 8 May 2017. Fellowship is based on exceptional contributions to the medical sciences and the award celebrates Susan’s crucial research in the field of infection and immunity....