The Lasker Foundation today announced the five winners of its 10th annual Lasker Essay Contest. The winning submissions were selected from hundreds of essays penned by biomedical graduate students and health professions trainees from 25 countries. The winning essayists explored unanticipated ethical issues encountered during their training and strategies used to address them.
A DPhil Symposium hosted at the the Jenner Institute last month brought together over 80 DPhil Students, Research Assistants, Technicians and Apprentices across the Nuffield Department of Medicine to network and share their research and career aspirations.
The Nuffield Department of Medicine\u2019s Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics (WHG) has received a Silver Engage Watermark from the National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE) for its public engagement efforts.
A delegation from the Ministry of Education (MoE) of the People's Republic of China visited the University of Oxford and was hosted at the Nuffield Department of Medicine (NDM) by Professor Tao Dong, Ita Askonas Professor of Translational Immunology and Director of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Oxford Institute (COI).
In order to support the Nuffield Department of Medicine in seeking out new opportunities for innovation and delivering impact across its 24 units, Prof Richard Cornall, the Head of Department, has appointed Prof Bountra in a new role within NDM Strategic.
We are delighted to announce that six researchers have been awarded the Associate Professor title, in recognition of their research achievements, contribution to teaching, and contribution to the general work of the Nuffield Department of Medicine.
The RECOVERY trial was announced as the winner in the \u2018Best Public Sector Innovation\u2019 category in the 2023 Prix Galien UK Awards. The award ceremony took place at the Natural History Museum, London last week.
The multi-partner COVID Moonshot consortium was a runner-up in the Innovation Enabled by Partnership category, which recognises and celebrates scientific innovation that has been enabled as a direct result of collaborative partnerships.
Eric and Wendy Schmidt have announced the members of the 2023 cohort of Schmidt Science Fellows, including T. Bertie Ansell, a researcher at NDM's Division of Structural Biology. The 32 exceptional early career scientists will receive support to develop research projects and the leadership skills necessary to harness interdisciplinary science to tackle some of the world\u2019s most intractable problems.
Professor Ellie Tzima is a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow and Professor of Cardiovascular Science at Nuffield Department of Medicine\u2019s Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics. The award will be presented to her in 2024.
The Pandemic Sciences Institute and the UK's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) have agreed to jointly study the dangerous pathogens that could cause future pandemics.
DPhil student at the Jenner Institute, Romain Guyon is among the researchers who received the 2022 Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grants, announced by Michelson Medical Research Foundation and Human Immunome Project.
Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert, the Sa\u00efd Chair of Vaccinology in the Nuffield Department of Medicine has been selected to receive King Faisal Prize for Medicine for 2023, along with Professor Dan Barouch of Harvard Medical School.
We are delighted to announce that three researchers have been awarded the Associate Professor title, in recognition of their research achievements, contribution to teaching, and contribution to the general work of the Nuffield Department of Medicine.
The inaugural MRC Impact Prize recognises teams who have made outstanding impacts in health and medical research. The winners will be announced at a ceremony in the spring.
The inauguration of a new joint Shoklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU) and Borderland Health Foundation (BHF) Building took place in Mae Ramat, Thailand, this week.
The Nuffield Department of Medicine and the University of Navarra have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding for collaboration on research and to apply new immunotherapy techniques to cancer patients.
Established in 1998, the Academy of Medical Sciences is one of the four UK National Academies, coordinating scholarly research activities and standards in the UK.
The UK\u2019s efforts to tackle the monkeypox outbreak will receive a huge boost with the creation of a new research consortium working together to develop better diagnostic tests, identify potential therapies and study vaccine effectiveness.
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