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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...

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.                          ...