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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...

Nobel Laureate Professor Sir Martin Evans is to deliver the 2013 Sir Richard Gardner Lecture, at the Medical Sciences Teaching Centre on Friday 1 November at 4pm.  In his lecture entitled ‘Stem cells then and now‘ Sir Martin will provide a historical perspective on stem cell biology underpinning current advances in the field.  ...

Ivan Ahel has been awarded a 2013 Future Leaders in Cancer Research Prize by Cancer Research UK.  The award is in recognition of his research into DNA damage, and for the quality of his biochemical work and publication record. Cancer Research UK said: ‘Dr Ahel has demonstrated a remarkable ability as a...

Dragana Ahel has been awarded a Cancer Research UK Career Development Fellowship. This fellowship provides up to six years’ support for promising postdoctoral scientists who wish to achieve independence in their research for the first time. It will fund Dragana’s research on SNF2 ATPases and their role in genome stability and cancer.

Herman Waldmann and his group are celebrating the approval of their new drug to treat multiple sclerosis. The highly effective treatment for the disease, developed in collaboration with Cambridge University, was approved by the European Medicines Agency on 17 September 2013.  Herman said: ‘It is the first drug for multiple sclerosis that only needs...