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\n \n\n \n \n \nDr Fadi Issa has given an interview on BBC Radio Oxford as part of National Burn Awareness Day.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nMr Prasanna Sooriakumaran has been honoured by the Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) with a 2015 Young Investigator Award during the 22nd Annual Scientific Retreat in Washington, held 8-10 October.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nOn 14 October a careers event was held for sixth form students from across the Oxfordshire area who are considering a career in science, nursing or medicine.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nResearchers at Oxford\u2019s Nuffield Departments of Surgical Sciences (NDS) and Clinical Neurosciences (NDCN) have discovered that deep brain stimulation (DBS) of one particular brain location improves performance in a complex eye movement task that is known to require high level cognitive input.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences\u2019 Research Away Day was held on Thursday 1 October in St Catherine\u2019s College in Oxford. The event aimed to showcase the current research activities in the department.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nProfessor Kathryn Wood has been awarded a visiting professorship from the National University Centre for Organ Transplantation (NUCOT) at the National University Hospital in Singapore. The appointment will officially commence in October for a term of five years.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nDr Trevor Yeung was awarded the prize for the Best Higher Surgical Trainee Presentation at the recent Inaugural Oxford Surgical Symposium.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences has welcomed Professor David Neal who joined the department at the beginning of August as professor of surgical oncology.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nOxford scientists are celebrating after being given a \u00a32m boost for medical research.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nCongratulations to Dr Fadi Issa who was awarded the prize for the best presentation in the academic session at the recently held Inaugural Oxford Surgical Symposium.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nPatients with rare diseases and cancers are being signed up to a massive genetic study that could improve the treatment of their conditions.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nTRIG member Dr Fadi Issa is investigating ways to help patients with extensive burns that need skin grafts.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe TRIAD project has been featured on the HORIZON 2020 website in an article entitled 'Taking targeted autoimmune therapies to the next level.'
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA research consortium, in which the Oxford Consortium for Islet Transplantation is a member, has been awarded major new EU funding to develop novel treatment options for reversing diabetes.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nLiz Wallin, a DPhil student in the Transplantation Research Immunology Group (TRIG), is leading an exciting new three-year study on transplant failure. The study centres around 60 kidney transplant patients from Central and South West England and could be the first step towards extending the lifespan of kidney transplants.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nOxford University's work on precision cancer medicine has received a significant boost after Cancer Research UK announced that it would give the existing Cancer Research UK Oxford Centre Major Centre status and increase funding for research in the city.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nOn 29 April and 1 May 2015, thirty-eight surgical trainees from the Oxford and Severn Deaneries attended the first Bristol Oxford Surgical Trials Course (BOSTiC) - a joint initiative between the Oxford Surgical Intervention Trials Unit (SITU) at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences and the Bristol Surgical Trials Centre (BSTC).
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe BRC have released a video summarising the six-hour event that was part of the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre\u2019s (BRC) Open Weeks series of events. The event featured talks and exhibitions about BRC-supported research such as trials of a \u201cbionic eye\u201d microchip implanted underneath the retina to partially restore vision for those who have lost their sight.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThree members of the Patient Safety Academy team will be presenting posters at the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors annual conference in Daventry (13-16 April 2015).
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\n \n\n \n \n \nMany congratulations to Dr Sushma Shankar who was awarded the Medawar Medal for best scientific presentation at the recent Joint British Transplantation Society and Nederlandse Transplantatie Vereniging Congress which was held in Bournemouth on 11 \u2013 13 March 2015.\r\n\r\nDr Shankar won this prestigious award for her presentation of \u201cB cells from a tolerant environment can control a T cell allograft response in an antigen specific, IL-10 dependent mechanism\u201d by Jessica Stolp, Masaaki Zaitsu, Sushma Shankar and Kathryn Wood.
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