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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.
DRIVE- Horizon 2020 Award
25 February 2015
Prof Paul Johnson and his Islet Transplant Research Group have been awarded Horizon 2020 Funding as part of the DRIVE Consortium to evaluate and develop novel biomaterials and macroencapsulation strategies for transplanting islets without immunosuppression. This new award adds to their current FP7 European Funding, in which the Group has been evaluating and optimising islet function and survival within the MAILPAN (Deymed) device, with 'first in man' implantation planned in Oxford for 2016.
The PART Study has recently recruited its first two patients!
25 February 2015
The PART study, which is a feasibility study comparing partial ablation (PA) using HIFU and standard treatment, radical prostatectomy (RP), recruited its first two patients in the first week of February.
BRC Open day invitation – 11th March
17 February 2015
The BRC brings together the research expertise of the University of Oxford, the clinical skills of staff of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust and the experiences of patients to improve healthcare. Come and join us for 2 weeks of talks, tours and exhibitions and learn about our projects! In particular, NDS is involved in the Open Day on Wednesday 11th March, where we will showcase the latest technology developments in healthcare. Two talks will be given by members of our department
COPE project profiled by European Commission as project success story
5 February 2015
The COPE team is very pleased and proud to announce that COPE was chosen as a project success story by the European Commission DG Research & Innovation.
Patient Safety Academy
4 February 2015
Peter McCulloch, Director of the Patient Safety Academy has been invited onto Health Education England's Learning to be Safer Expert Group.
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.
Fadi Issa granted Medical Research Fund award
8 December 2014
Fadi from Professor Kathryn Wood's Transplantation Research Immunology Group has been awarded an MRF grant for his project entitled 'Assessment of patient immunophenotype after vascularised composite allotransplantation".
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.
Sarah Cross wins 2nd and 3rd prize in JDRF competition
27 October 2014
Sarah, Postdoctoral Research Scientist with the Islet Transplant Research Group was awarded a travel bursary of £500 for her two photographic entries entitled "Type 1 diabetes research in action"
Professor Kathryn Wood awarded the inaugural Woman inTransplantation award
1 October 2014
This was a universally acclaimed award.
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.
NDS features prominently in the World Transplant Congress
1 October 2014
Two ex-NDS members received TTS recognition awards, namely Medina Pestana from Brazil and Richard Allen from Sydney, Australia.
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.
ECMINT Residential Training Course Announced!
29 September 2014
In partnership with our Oxford Neurovascular and Neuroradiology Research Unit (ONNRU) the European Society in Minimally Invasive Neurological Therapy with be organising a series of residential training courses starting in December 2014 in collaboration with Prof James Byrne.
SITU has a new trial!
11 September 2014
We are pleased to announce that Professor Freddie Hamdy’s PART trial has been funded by the NIHR HTA. PART is a feasibility, randomised controlled trial which will compare partial ablation (PA) with radical prostatectomy (RP) in men with intermediate risk unilateral prostate cancer.