The Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences
University of OxfordAbout NDS
About the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences
The Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (formerly Nuffield Department of Surgery), NDS, is the Academic Department of Surgery of the University of Oxford, and hosts a multidisciplinary team of senior clinical academic surgeons, senior scientists, junior clinicians and scientists in training. It comprises major surgical specialties including gastro-intestinal, transplantation, vascular, paediatric, plastic, ENT, neurosurgery, and urology. Over 100 staff work in the Department with an annual budget of approximately £9 million.
Research in the Department includes a long-established immunology, tolerance and transplantation biology group (TRIG), research in colorectal cancer biology mainly hosted at the WIMM, and newly established platforms in urological oncology, based at the Ludwig Institute, the Gray Institute, the Botnar Institute and the DPAG at South Parks. There are well-established research programmes in islet-cell isolation and transplantation, cardiovascular, interventional radiology and functional neurosurgical Groups, as well as High Intensity Focused Ultrasound.
Research is sponsored by a broad range of charities and public and corporate bodies including UK government, NIHR, MRC, the Wellcome Trust and European Union programmes.
The Department has a comprehensive administrative team, and functions through 5 task groups chaired by senior academics, which constitute the Executive.
