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Local school children have been wowed by the wonders of DNA during workshops led by a Dunn School researcher as part of British Science Week (13 – 22 March). Dr Sue Mei Tan-Wong from the Proudfoot group delivered two workshops at St Nicholas Primary School in Old Marston in Oxford on...

Dunn School group leader Monika Gullerova has been awarded a Hugh Price Fellowship at Jesus College following a successful application and interview earlier this month. The award, tenable for three years in the first instance, recognises Monika as a successful early-mid career researcher of clear academic distinction. Monika’s group aims to...

The Dunn School’s Metta Pratt has been actively involved in public engagement this week, helping deliver a workshop at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History on Tuesday 10th and Wednesday 11th March. The DNA workshop for ‘A’ level Biology students entitled ‘A question of taste’ enabled students to analyse and compare their version of...

The 2014 Dunn School Art prize has been jointly awarded to Emma Papworth and Julia Sklar at an unveiling of their winning pieces at the Dunn School on Friday 6 March 2015.  A sculptural deconstructed canvas created by Emma Papworth (The Queen’s College) a final year student at the Ruskin School...

Oxford scientists Dr. Ulrike Gruneberg (Dunn School of Pathology), Professors Bela Novak and Francis Barr (Department of Biochemistry) together with Dr. Helfried Hochegger at the University of Sussex and Dr. Chris Bakal at the ICR, London, have been awarded a £3m prestigious BBSRC strategic LoLa grant to investigate fundamental questions about mammalian cell cycle controls....

Sixth form students are being invited to think about global health challenges in an essay writing competition launched by Oxford Global Health Group (OGHG) and the Dunn School. The students must pen 1,250 words in answer to the question: “What lessons have we learnt from the past century that should shape the solutions...

Professor Shona Murphy has received a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award in the latest funding round.  The award will support her project: ‘The point of no return: a novel poly(A)-associated elongation checkpoint controlling gene expression.’ The award acknowledges Shona as an exceptional, world-class researcher who is a leader in her field.

Members of the department have been busy fundraising for local charities during the festive season, whilst getting into the Christmas spirit. The Lea Lab raised £1,464 for the Silver Star Society by running a raffle at this year’s Christmas party on Tuesday 16 December.   The raffle’s success was largely due...

The Dunn School were winners at the prestigious British Pharmacological Society awards at a reception at the House of Commons last night. The award, presented to Professors Susan Lea and Chris Tang by Andrew Miller MP, was in recognition of the School’s contribution to the discovery and development of medicines. ...

Postdoc Sonia Muliyil from the Freeman Group has been awarded an EMBO Long-Term Fellowship in the latest funding round. The award is to support her research into ER associated degradation and iRhoms in the nervous system.

Narin Hengrung, a postdoc in Ervin Fodor’s group, has been awarded a Goodger Scholarship to work on the influenza virus RNA polymerase. Goodger Scholarships are awarded by the University of Oxford to assist research into the causes and prevention of disease in its early stages.

The James Martin Stem Cell Facility (JMSCF) has received a substantial injection of funds through the MRC Dementias Platform UK. The capital equipment award made to Sally Cowley and DPAG’s Richard Wade-Martins includes funds to support the work of the JMSCF, a dedicated facility for human stem cell research located in OMPI, within...

Tim Davies, from the Fairchild lab, has won this year’s Dunn School photography competition for his photograph ‘How cells see us’. The judging panel felt Tim’s image stood out from the 49 entries for its interesting camera angle and perfect fit with this year’s theme ‘The Dunn School at work’.
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Sonia Muliyil in the Freeman Group has been awarded the  ‘Zeeshan Khan Memorlal award for excellence in Light microscopy’ for the best paper published in India using light microscopy during the past year. The award, in recognition of the most creative use of microscopy as a tool for addressing questions in both clinical...

News outlets across the globe have picked up the story that dry roasting peanuts may increase the risk of developing peanut allergies, due to chemical changes caused by intense heat during the roasting process. The finding based on research on mice by the Sattentau group featured in local and national press here and...