The UK Government\u2019s Science and Engineering award recognises teams or individuals who have made a significant achievement in delivering major national flagship scientific or engineering initiatives.
We are delighted to announce that ten researchers have been awarded the title of Professor, in recognition of their research achievements, contribution to teaching, and contribution to the general work of the Nuffield Department of Medicine.
D\u00e9irdre Hollingsworth, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the University of Oxford, has been awarded a prestigious Simons Foundation Fellowship from the Isaac Newton Institute. This recognition supports her efforts in using mathematical modelling to improve global health outcomes. As part of this initiative, D\u00e9irdre is organizing a one-day event on August 13, 2024, focusing on pandemic preparedness. The event aims to address key policy questions through mathematical modelling, covering vaccine development, diagnostics and funding.
Professor Sassy Molyneux has received a prestigious five-year NIHR Global Health Research Professorship to study how to better protect frontline staff in international health research from moral distress. This is one of only five to seven such `flagship\u2019 professorships awarded by the NIHR each year to outstanding scientists.
The Oxford Respiratory Trials Unit (ORTU) at the Nuffield Department of Medicine has been awarded a \u00a32.8 million grant from the National Institute for Health and Care Research Health Technology Assessment (NIHR HTA) to conduct the MIST4 study.
The Royal Academy of Engineering celebrated the University of Oxford, AstraZeneca and partners as the runners-up for the 2024 MacRobert Award. Fourteen individuals who led the programme to develop an innovative new process for manufacturing the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine were named as the finalists, including Prof. Sandy Douglas and Dr Adam Ritchie from the Jenner Institute
120 scientists from across Europe and beyond have been elected to the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) membership, an honour that celebrates research excellence and outstanding achievements in the life sciences, including Dr Peijun Zhang from the Nuffield Department of Medicine.
Dr Lennard Lee, an associate professor at the Centre of Immuno-oncology at the Nuffield Department of Medicine, was awarded the 'SciTech Superhero' award for 2024 by Sarah Munby, the Permanent Secretary in the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology at a ceremony in London last week.
Prof Whiffin is an Associate Professor and Sir Henry Dale Fellow at the Big Data Institute and Centre for Human Genetics at NDM. She is also a Research Fellow at St Anne\u2019s College with the Centre for Personalised Medicine, and a visiting scientist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
The King's Birthday Honours 2024 Lists have been published, marking the achievements and service of extraordinary people across the UK, including two researchers from the Nuffield Department of Medicine who have both been appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to Children\u2019s Health in Cambodia and Thailand.
On June 7, 2024, the second annual Jenner Institute Early Researchers Symposium was held at St Anne's College, bringing together a vibrant community of over 80 DPhil Students, Research Assistants, Technicians and Apprentices from across the Nuffield Department of Medicine to network, share their research and discuss career aspirations.
We are delighted to announce that seven 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.
A global, interdisciplinary team of researchers, including the Centre for Medicines Discovery\u2019s Professor Frank von Delft, has been selected to receive a Cancer Grand Challenges award of up to $25m over five years to tackle the solid tumours in children challenge. The Cancer Grand Challenges PROTECT team is led by Professor Stefan Pfister of the Hopp Children's Cancer Center in Heidelberg.
Oxford University Clinical Research Unit\u2019s host and partner in Ho Chi Minh City, the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, was recently honoured with the Vietnam 2023 Medical Achievement Award at an event hosted by Voice of Ho Chi Minh City (VoH).
The AI-driven Structure-enabled Antiviral Platform (ASAP) has won an Exemplary Achievement Award from the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The prize recognises data practices in biological and biomedical research labs during the active phase of research.
Researchers from a wide range of disciplines have been appointed to be the next cohort of NIHR Oxford Senior Research Fellows - seven mid-career researchers identified as having the potential to become future translational research leaders. The cohort includes Dr Matthias Friedrich from the Translational Gastroenterology Unit in NDM\u2019s Experimental Medicine Division.
Dr Azim Ansari, Sir Henry Dale Fellow and Group Leader at NDM\u2019s Experimental Medicine Division, is among the three outstanding hepatitis researchers who have been announced as winners of the Medical Research Foundation\u2019s Emerging Leaders Prize.
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