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Jordan Raff and Errin Johnson have been awarded a Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund (ISSF) grant to support the growth of the department’s Electron Microscopy Facility. The grant will fund the recruitment of a research assistant and the acquisition of a new electron tomography holder for our Transmission Electron Microscope. ...

Zsofia Novak a PhD student in the Raff Lab has won the prestigious Young Cell Biologist of the Year award from the British Society for Cell Biology (BSCB). Zsofia’s poster presentation on centriole duplication licensing was selected by a committee of eminent cell biologists as the best poster presentation during the society’s Spring...

Matthew Freeman, Head of Department, is to receive the Novartis Medal and Prize from the Biochemical Society in 2015. The award is in recognition of the transformative contributions of his research to the field of biochemistry (in particular regulated proteolysis), membrane trafficking, signal transduction and developmental cell biology. Matthew’s research is primarily focused...

Dr Simon Hunt, Emeritus Lecturer in Immunology, has been awarded a Diploma in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, with Distinction at a conferral ceremony on 25 February.  His diploma success was based on the outstanding quality of his 15000-word portfolio on: “Teaching critical appraisal of primary biomedical scientific literature”. He is now...

Richard Wheeler from Keith Gull’s group has been announced as winner of the Dunn School logo competition and bags a £100 Amazon voucher.  The winning design based on horizontal slats echoes modern elements of the site’s architecture.  Department head Matthew Freeman said: ”the design is modern and simple, has a clear (if...

The winner of the 2013 Dunn School Art prize is Lara Verena Bellenghi for a work reflecting the ebbs and flows of the bodily interior.  The Vienna-based artist is a graduate from the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art and is currently studying an MA at the Courtauld Institute of...

The prestigious Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator award identifies Chris Tang as a world-leading researcher with a compelling vision for research to explore the most important questions in his field of study around bacterial immune evasion.  Congratulations to Chris! Visit the Tang lab website for more information about Chris’ research.

Congratulations to Group Leader Monika Gullerova who has been conferred with the title of University Research Lecturer, following a meeting of the University Research Lectureship panel. The title becomes effective from 1 January. 

Congratulations to Liz Robertson who has had a renewal of her Prinicipal Research Fellowship with the Wellcome Trust. The grant is supporting her research into genetic control of cell fate decisions in the developing mouse embryo.  A Principal Research Fellowship is the most prestigious of the Wellcome Trust personal awards and provides long-term support...

Congratulations to Kevin Maloy for securing a Wellcome Trust New Investigator Award. The award recognises that Kevin is fast establishing a strong scientific track record and successfully forging an international reputation for excellence in his field. The grant will fund research into the regulation of intestinal immune homeostasis by NOD-like receptors.

Postdoc Mel McDowell from Susan Lea’s group has been awarded an EMBO long term fellowship. The award will support her research visit to Irmgard Sinning’s lab at Heidelberg University.  Sinning’s group focusses on molecular machines involved in protein targeting, insertion and membrane translocation. Congratulations Mel!

Congratulations to postdoctoral researcher Sarah Rollauer from Susan Lea’s group who has been awarded a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship. The fellowship will assist Sarah in developing her independent research career and support her move to Susan Buchanan’s lab at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, USA. Sarah’s fellowship is run in colla...

Chris Schiering and Richard Wheeler were both successful in obtaining four year Sir Henry Wellcome Post-Doctoral Fellowships. This is a tremendous achievement for these two young scientists who were both in the first cohort of the IITM programme.

Ulrike Kuenzel from the Freeman Lab has been awarded a prestigious Boehringer Ingelheim fellowship.  The Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds awards PhD fellowships to outstanding young scientists wishing to pursue an ambitious PhD project in basic biomedical research in an internationally leading laboratory. 

A new state-of-the-art electron microscope will soon be on its way to Oxford after the success of a joint BBSRC (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council) grant application from Oxford Brookes University and the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology. The new instrument will be a 3View field emission scanning electron microscope, which is capable...