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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...

Members of the Dunn School and their family and friends celebrated the summer at a party in the University Parks on the afternoon of Sunday 19 July. Around 290 people enjoyed delicious catering, refreshments, music and sports day games in the field adjacent to the cricket pavilion. Head of Department, Matthew...

A major grant award from the British Heart Foundation starting in January 2016 is to support crucial ongoing research into heart disease by David Greaves’ group.   The five-year grant is to fund a project titled: ‘Recruitment, proliferation and differentiation of monocyte/ macrophages in cardiovascular inflammation and repair’. Find out more...

Susan Lea, Chair of Microbiology, has been elected as a new member of EMBO, the organisation to promote excellence in the life sciences, announced yesterday. She is one of 18 women and 40 men viewed as outstanding researchers elected for membership this year joining a body of over 1700 life scientists. ...

Once in a while Dunn School researchers get the opportunity to get out the lab and into the community to bring science to the masses – explaining the importance of their research and inspiring the next generation of young scientists. Many youngsters are wowed by what they see and hear...

Members of the Freeman Group are celebrating following grant awards in March. Adam Grieve and Kyo Ikeda both were awarded Marie-Curie Fellowships and Sonia Muliyil was successful in her grant application to the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP).  ‘Discovering the signalling pathways and physiology of active rhomboid proteases in the brain’ is...

Carolin Müller from the Nieduszynski group won the prize for best talk at the British Yeast Group meeting in Manchester on 25th to 27th March. Carolin’s winning talk was titled ‘Comparative genomics of chromosome replication’.

The Dunn School’s Dr Fumiko Esashi has been awarded the title of Associate Professor in this year’s University of Oxford Recognition of Distinction exercise. The decision by the divisional panel recognises Fumiko’s distinction in her field and her contributions to research, teaching and administration at the Dunn School.