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Children were wowed about flies being in space as Dunn School researchers introduced the science behind space-based fly experiments at a “Super Science Saturday” event at Oxford University Museum of Natural History on 26 November 2016. The theme of the event was “Science behind the Headlines” and Raff lab members Metta Pratt, Lisa Gartenmann and...

The Dunn School enacted “Power for Good” – the theme of this year’s anti bullying week – through a series of activities in the department from 14 – 18 November 2016. Part of a national campaign across England from the Anti-Bullying Alliance, the week built on existing polices and initiatives in the department to help...

Dr Arend (Aartjan) te Velthuis, a postdoc in Ervin Fodor's group has been appointed as a Research Group Leader at the Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge.  The news was announced on the Fodor group's website on 9 November 2016.

The winner of the 2016 Dunn School Art prize is Virginia Russolo for her installation “Penicillin” in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the first human trials of the antibiotic drug. The prize is ran in collaboration with The Ruskin School of Art, the University of Oxford’s art department where Virginia is a student. The...

An emergency medical supplies appeal to stock hospitals in war torn Syria has been boosted by donations from students and staff from the Dunn School and across the Medical Sciences Division with a final collection of stock from the Dunn school on Thursday 20 October.   Staff and students have given prescription medications, painkillers,...

The Dunn School’s Professor David Vaux has been appointed as Associate Head (Education) in the Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford it was announced in October 2016.

The Director of the Wellcome Trust Jeremy Farrar is to present a lecture as part of the 75th anniversary of “the greatest medical breakthrough of the 20th century” in Oxford on 1 November 2016 at the Weston Library.

The Dunn School’s graduate student association (GSA) is celebrating the success of a medical sciences careers day they organised in Oxford on Friday 23 September 2016.  Around 150 graduates and postdocs from almost 20 departments and institutes across the University of Oxford found out about post PhD career paths in a series of talks...

An innovative adoptive cell therapy that may treat cancer has garnered Johannes Breuning from Marion H Brown’s group a gold grant award in the EIT health Doctoral Transition Innovation Fellowship competition in London on 8 September 2016.

The Dunn School was honoured to host a delegation from the British Heart Foundation (BHF) on Friday 19 August 2016.

Lab coats and safety goggles beckon for Oxfordshire teenagers Jasmin Ullaskumar and Elizabeth Moulson, inspired to develop careers in science following work experience placements at the Dunn School in August 2016.

The Dunn is celebrating its part in securing the number one slot for top ranking medical school in the UK in The National Student Survey, 2016.  

The Dunn School’s Agnieszka Kabat will be jetting off to Australia to an immunology conference in August, courtesy of a $1,000 travel grant from science publisher eLIFE.

Jessica Hardy has been awarded third prize for her entry "Cancer: A disease of bad luck or bad lifestyle?" in the 2016 Biochemical Society Science Communication Competition.

A warm weather guarantee made by Head of Department, Matthew Freeman, held fast for the Dunn School’s third annual summer party in the University Parks on Sunday 17 July 2016. Food, music and fun games and activities were the order of the day, along with sunshine, enjoyed by members of the department,...