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Luis Alberto Baena has been awarded a Cancer Research UK Career Development Fellowship to fund research into the subcellar regulation and non-apoptotic function of caspases during proliferation and differentiation of stem cells.  Please welcome Alberto when he joins the department in November 2014. 

Jordan Raff has received a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award to support his research into a molecular analysis of centriole, centrosome and cilium assembly and function. The award acknowledges Jordan as an exceptional, world-class researcher and leader in his field. For more information on the Raff Lab’s research see their group...

Keith Gull has received a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award to fund research into cell morphogenesis, development and pathogenicity in trypanosomes. The Trust view Keith as an exceptional researcher with an international track record of achievement. For more information on the Gull Lab’s research see:  http://users.path.ox.ac.uk/~kgull/index.html

An anti-inflammatory peptide discovered by David Greaves and his group in the Dunn School will be tested for its ability to treat psoriasis following a licensing deal between the University of Oxford’s ISIS Innovation and San Francisco start-up Rogne Biosciences. The company has raised over $1.5 million in seed financing to develop new, non-steroidal...

Shona Murphy has been awarded the title of Professor in Oxford’s 2014 Recognition of Distinction exercise.  She now has the title of Professor of Molecular Genetics.   Head of Department, Matthew Freeman, said: ‘‘this is really excellent news and greatly deserved. Professor Murphy’s research has been and continues to be be...

Natalia Gromak, Andrew Bassett and Monika Gullerova have received John Fell research grants in the latest round of awards from the fund. Natalia’s substantial award is for a project looking at molecular mechanisms of transcriptional gene silencing in Friedreich ataxia.                          ...

Dunn School graduate student Agnieszka Kabat has been announced as a runner up in the Medical Sciences Division’s Peter Beaconsfield Prize 2014.  The prize is in recognition of research that bridges the gap between basic and clinical research. Agnieszka’s award winning essay on inflammatory bowel disease sought to examine the...

David Vaux has been awarded a BBSRC grant to support his project ‘Dynamics and resolution of the nucleoplasmic reticulum’. The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council invests in world-class bioscience research and training on behalf of the UK public. Congratulations to David! You can find our more information about...

NICE approval of a multiple sclerosis drug therapy developed by Herman Waldmann and his group will see Lemtrada (alemtuzumab) rolled out in NHS hospitals from September.  Approval by the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) acknowledges Lemtrada as a clinically effective and cost effective treatment for the disease and is...

Chris Tang has been elected as a member of EMBO. Chris joins as one of the 106 outstanding researchers from Europe and around the world announced today as newly elected members of the organisation that stands for excellence in the life sciences. His membership coincides with EMBO’s 50th anniversary that has...

The Dunn School of Pathology has been awarded the Athena SWAN Bronze award in the November 2013 awards round.   Athena SWAN awards recognise and celebrate good practice in recruiting, retaining and promoting women’s careers in science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine (STEMM) in academia. An awards ceremony to confer the bronze, silver and.....

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...