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The Dunn School’s Ulrike Gruneberg helped inspire school children to consider university study and career options in science, when she delivered a workshop at the Museum of Natural History in Oxford on 3 December 2015. The ‘Cells in the Spotlight’ workshop was well received by more than 200 ‘A’ level biology students from schools...

Hayley Lavender from the Tang group has won first prize in the poster competition at the Meningitis Research Foundation’s tenth international conference at The Royal Society in London on 5 November. Hayley’s poster “Competition between host molecules influences susceptibility to meningococcal disease” was selected by the judging panel because of its high scientific...

Edward Hutchinson from the Fodor group has been granted an MRC Career Development Award in the October 2015 funding round. The award will support research into applying proteomics to the molecular biology of influenza viruses. Ed’s proposal, developed in collaboration with Oxford’s Central Proteomics Facility, will investigate how variations in influenza...

Applications are now open for the prestigious Wellcome Trust funded 4 year PhD programme in Infection, Immunology and Translational Medicine. The application closing deadline is 8 january 2016, with interviews being held 27 – 29 January at the Dunn School or via Skype / teleconference for international applicants.  For further information...

A new €23 (million  £17 million) initiative to accelerate the search for an effective HIV vaccine has begun and includes research funding for Professor Quentin Sattentau at The Dunn School.  Financed by the European Commission, the European AIDS Vaccine Initiative(EAVI2020) brings together leading HIV researchers from public organisations and biotech companies fr...

A video is now available of the seminar ‘Infectious disease: are we in control?’ given by Visiting Professor Jeffrey Almond at the Oxford Martin School on 27 October 2015. Jeffrey’s lecture takes a thought provoking look at current global challenges posed to the control of infectious disease by: the HIV pandemic; the alarming...

The Dunn School of Pathology has been granted the Athena SWAN Silver award in the September 2015 awards round. The award is in recognition of the department’s ongoing commitment and progress in advancing the careers of women researchers in the department.   Matthew Freeman, Head of Department said:  “this scheme helps ensure the...

Asif Iabal a postdoc in the Greaves Lab has won a BINKS Trust award in the young investigator category at the British Atherosclerosis Society (BAS) Autumn meeting, 10 – 11 September in Cambridge. The work Asif presented was based around Apolipoprotein A1 and its role in modulating macrophage and monocyte responsiveness to multiple...

Hiroshi Kimura a former member of Peter Cook’s group has been awarded the prestigious Robert Feulgen Prize by the Society for Histochemisty.  This annual award to mid-career scientists is in recognition of outstanding achievement in the field of histochemisty.  Hiroshi joins two other alumni from the Cook group who have previously won the...

The Dunn School’s Stephen Goss and Simon Hunt have received Lifetime Achievement awards in the 2015 Teaching Excellence Awards ran by The Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford.  David Paterson, Chair of the awards’ panel, said: “This new Divisional tribute formally acknowledges the high quality and sustained commitment to education demonstrated by Stephen ...

Year 12 students from low-income backgrounds received expert guidance on applying to Oxbridge to study medicine following a workshop session led by the Dunn School’s Chris Norbury at the Pimlico Academy in London on Monday 24 August. The Social Mobility Foundation, a charity, organized the workshop providing students with a general overview of...

A medal in recognition of bravery and dedication in tackling the Ebola crisis in West Africa has been awarded to former Dunn School visiting researcher Marian Killip following her five-week deployment to the region from 16 December 2014 to 21 January 2015. Marian’s deployment over the Christmas and New Year period saw her...

The Dunn School is delighted to announce that we had five winners in the 2015 Medical Sciences Teaching Excellence Awards. These prestigious Oxford awards recognise outstanding contributions to undergraduate teaching. The winners were Professors Quentin Sattentau and Chris Norbury and Associate Professor Paul Fairchild, as well as senior postdocs Rachel Exley and Ed Hutc...

Nicholas Proudfoot has been awarded an Investigator Award in the latest Wellcome Trust grant-funding round for a project that hopes to better understand how transcription units are defined across the human genome. The project titled: ‘Molecular mechanism and regulatory function of protein coding gene transcriptional termination in mammalian genomes’ is aimed at ...

Jack Sunter from the Gull lab has been developing the practical research skills of students in Ghana after presenting at an infectious diseases workshop there from 6 – 17 July. The workshop on molecular biology, pathogenesis and diagnostics of neglected diseases was ran for masters students in the department of biochemistry...