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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,...

The highly prestigious 2016 Royal Medal has been awarded to Dunn School Professor Elizabeth Robertson, The Royal Society announced on 19 July.

Building scientific research capacity skills in Ghana continues to progress with the visit of Dunn School Group Leader Professor Keith Gull and Postdoc Jack Sunter in July 2016.  Keith is addressing government ministers and university heads, and Jack is running a workshop during their 10-day visit, building on previous visits to develop scientific research...

The battle between the body’s ‘bad’ and ‘good’ bacteria is coming under the lens in a two-year Meningitis Now funded research project headed by Christoph Tang and Rachel Exley, with support from Errin Johnson, launched in June 2016. In the project titled: ‘Understanding the biology of Neisseria cinerea for the prevention of meningococcal disease’...

Deciphering the processes regulating cell fate and genomic stability is the challenge the Dunn School’s Ivan Ahel, in collaboration with Professor Goran Landberg from Gothenburg University, will be focusing on in a major six year project funded by Cancer Research UK starting in September 2016. The project “Understanding the function of MACROD1 and...

The Dunn School’s environmental credentials have been recognised with the award of Bronze accreditation in the Green Impact category at the Sustainability Showcase 2016 at the Blatvatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, on 15 June. Facilities Manager Jonathan Hawkins, and Head of Workshops Peter Stroud accepted the award on behalf of the department....

The success of an interactive on-line learning platform developed by Dunn School researchers was recognised at the 2016 OxTALENT Competition awards ceremony at the Oxford Martin School on 14 June.  Professor William James and Dr Kenny Moore (James group) and Dr Aartjan te Velthuis (Fodor group), with the support of Jon Mason from the...