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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe Surgical Intervention Trials Unit in the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (SITU NDS) has had another successful year, now running ten randomised controlled trials across surgical specialties and securing a total of \u00a332 million in current peer-reviewed grants.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nTwo research projects at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS) have been awarded pump-prime funding from this year\u2019s CRUK Oxford Centre Development Fund.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThis year\u2019s winner of the prestigious Giovanni Maria Lancisi Award is Dr Pierfrancesco Lapolla Losasso, DPhil candidate at Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS), presenting the research project 'Combined physiological and biochemical approach for the prediction of abdominal aortic aneurysm growth in humans' conducted through the OxAAA study.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nWe're delighted to announce that we have been successful in the renewal of our Athena Swan Silver Award, recognising our work in advancing gender equality.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe UKCRC Tissue Directory and Coordination Centre awarded QUOD (Quality in Organ Donation) at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences first place in the UK Biobank of the Year.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nFormer Oxford Global Insight Fellow Mihir Sheth has been announced as one of this year\u2019s Innovate UK Young Innovators.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nCongratulations to Dr Lisa Browning who has been announced as this year\u2019s winner of the Golden Microscope Award by the Pathological Society.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nCongratulations to Dr Matthew Bottomley, who has been announced as the joint winner of the Stewart Cameron Science Award by the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM).
\n \n\n\n \n 26 November 2021\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS) is delighted to announce that Professor Michael Douek has been elected Vice President of the British Association of Surgical Oncology (BASO) and will take on the role of President in two years\u2019 time.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThirty-three University of Oxford researchers have been named Turing Fellows for the 2021/22 academic year, including Associate Professor Clare Verrill from the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS).
\n \n\n\n \n 30 September 2021\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nResearchers at Oxford University have received a prestigious Wellcome Innovator Grant for investigating the role of the pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN) \u2013 a brainstem nucleus \u2013 in human consciousness.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nProfessor Jonathan L. Meakins, who was Head of the Nuffield Department of Surgery from 2002 to 2008, has been selected for induction into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA number of staff from the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS) have been honoured at an annual awards ceremony.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe University of Oxford has announced the promotion to Associate Professor of two senior academics at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nDr Regent Lee of the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences is one of eight Oxford University academics who have been awarded significant financial funding from the UK Research and Innovation\u2019s (UKRI) Future Leaders Fellowships Scheme.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nIn recognition of his significant contribution to the field of transplantation, Professor Peter Friend of the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences has been awarded Honorary Membership of the European Society of Organ Transplantation (ESOT).
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\n \n\n \n \n \nCongratulations to Elisha Ngetich and Oluwasegun (Segun) Afolaranmi from Oxford University's Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS) who have been awarded first and second place respectively in this year\u2019s Top 10 Rare Rising Stars.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nSegun Afolaranmi of the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS) is one of five graduate students currently studying at Oxford who has been awarded a \u00a31,000 grant from the Vice Chancellor\u2019s COVID-19 African Innovation Seed Fund for an entrepreneurial project aimed at addressing global challenges stemming from the pandemic.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nCongratulations to Dr Regent Lee at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS) who has been awarded a grant of \u00a3246,226 from Heart Research UK for his research project \u2018Using artificial intelligence (AI) for safer CT imaging of blood vessels\u2019.
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