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The Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences is the academic department of surgery at the University of Oxford, and hosts a multidisciplinary team of senior clinical academic surgeons, senior scientists, junior clinicians and scientists in training.
First liver randomised in the WP2 Liver Trial
29 January 2015
The 16th January saw the first liver randomised in Barcelona in the WP2 Liver Trial! It was randomised to Normothermic Machine Perfusion arm and a member of the Consortium is currently in Barcelona with the team to take them out on this first machine procedure.
All COPE Trials now live
12 January 2015
The Consortium for Organ Preservation in Europe (COPE) – an EU funded surgical research project on organ preservation – is running three clinical trials in five European countries. As of December 2014, all COPE trials are now live.
Bristol Oxford Surgical Trials Course
4 November 2014
Wednesday, 29th April to Friday 1st May 2015, 9.30am to 5.00pm, Botnar Research Centre, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Old Road, Headington - Hosted by SITU
SITU hosts Arthritis Research UK Cake Sale and raises £211.14
27 October 2014
The SITU team were overwhelmed with the amount of cakes and baked goodies which were donated to their cake sale, held on Monday, 27th October in the Botnar Research Centre.
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Ken Welsh
1 October 2014
Ken had been Director of the Tissue Typing Laboratories as a Principal Scientist for some 10 years
World Transplant Congress held in San Francisco
1 October 2014
This was a joint meeting of the TTS, AST and ASTS with some 7,000 attendees.
Peter Morris inducted into the Inaugural Hall of Fame of Research of the Royal Melbourne Hospital Foundation
1 October 2014
Other inductees included the late Sir Macfarlane Burnett (Nobel Laureate), Sir Gustav Nossal, Professor Emeritus Ian Mackay, Professor Emeritus Priscilla Kincaid-Smith and the late Professors Maurice Ewing and Richard Lovell. Unfortunately Peter Morris was not able to get there but it was a grand occasion from all accounts, with a sell-out audience at the celebratory dinner.
Patient Safety Academy off to a flying start
28 July 2014
Peter McCulloch and Helen Higham co-directors, launch the PSA which aims to improve patient safety with a collaborative approach working with expertise and experience currently available in the region.
The Spalding Scholarship in Neurosurgery
13 March 2014
The Scholarship is available to UK/EU students only. To work with a named Principal Investigator in NDS in the field of Neurosurgery. Open to new students who begin their programme of study in October 2014
Campaign to raise public awareness of prostate cancer and it's treatment boosted as Prasanna Sooriakumaran talks on local radio
27 February 2014
Prasanna Sooriakumaran, Senior Fellow in Robotic Surgery & Urology with the Surgical Intervention Trials Unit spoke about his research on local radio on Thursday evening and Friday morning (27th and 28th February) in an attempt to raise public awareness of prostate cancer and it's treatment. His paper on "Surgery v Radiotherapy in Prostate Cancer" is published in the BMJ.
Mr. Jonathan Hyam FHEA DPhil FRCS(Neuro.Surg) has been awarded the Arris & Gale Lectureship in Physiology by the Royal College of Surgeons of England for 2014
26 February 2014
The Lecture was founded in 1646 by Mr. Edward Arris, and under the will of Mr. John Gale in 1655, to provide lectures in anatomy for the members of the Company of Barbers & Surgeons. It was transferred to the Company of Surgeons in 1745. It continues to be a highly regarded and prestigious award within the field of surgery, awarded annually in stiff competition
From Lab Bench to Backbench
2 December 2013
Professor Kathryn Wood from the University of Oxford will be swapping a lab coat for legislation, when she visits Ms Nicola Blackwood, MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, at the House of Commons for a “Week in Westminster” commencing Monday 2 December as part of a unique ‘pairing’ scheme run by the Royal Society – the UK’s national academy of science.
Craniofacial Research Fellow wins multiple prizes for surgical excellence and research
29 October 2013
We are delighted to highlight the excellence of Vikram Sharma who has been awarded three prestigious awards over the past four months .Vikram, whose speciality is in craniofacial surgery, has presented his findings in front of large audiences and world renowned academics; which were received with great interest resulting in the rewarding of multiple prizes and a RCS fellowship.
Creation of new surgical scholarship
10 July 2013
The funding of a full scholarship for one surgeon to complete the MSc in Surgical Science and Practice has been made possible by Nuffield Health, The Manor Hospital Oxford.
From the Heart
11 February 2013
Oxford University's Trust features in ITV’s 'From the Heart' campaign