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\n \n\n \n15 July 2021
\n \n \n \nWith funding from Kidney Research UK, a team of researchers from the University of Oxford, the University of Nottingham and University College London will develop ways to assess donor kidneys and predict how well they will work after transplant.
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\n \n\n \n1 July 2021
\n \n \n \nProfessors Valentine Macaulay and Ian Mills from the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS) are among the awardees of the 2021 round of the CRUK Oxford Centre Development Fund.
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\n \n\n \n16 June 2021
\n \n \n \nA prostate cancer detection software system to help pathologists quickly identify suspicious areas of tissue, developed by Paige, will be investigated in a multicentre clinical study led by Oxford University as part of a successful NHSx Artificial Intelligence Health and Care Award application.
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\n \n\n \n9 June 2021
\n \n \n \nDr Omair Shariq, a DPhil student and clinical research fellow in the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS) and Oxford Centre for Diabetes Endocrinology and Metabolism (OCDEM), has received the 2021 Best Presentation for Clinical Research award during the 41st Annual Meeting of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons (AAES), which was held virtually on 25-27 April 2021.
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\n \n\n \n3 March 2021
\n \n \n \nWe are delighted to announce that Professor Peter McCulloch of the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences has been awarded the title of NIHR Senior Investigator.
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\n \n\n \n3 February 2021
\n \n \n \nSeven projects from the Medical Sciences Division, including a project from the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, have received funding in the 2020-21 round of the Public Engagement with Research Seed Fund for innovative projects to engage the public with medical research.
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\n \n\n \n11 December 2020
\n \n \n \nCochrane ENT at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences has been awarded funding by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to complete a suite of living systematic reviews investigating the effectiveness and safety of interventions to prevent and treat loss of smell after COVID-19 infection.
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\n \n\n \n24 November 2020
\n \n \n \nThe Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS) are pleased to confirm that one scholarship will be available for Home (UK) and Republic of Ireland (ROI) candidates for the DPhil in Surgical Sciences, starting in Michaelmas Term 2021.
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\n \n\n \n30 October 2020
\n \n \n \nDr Gurdeep Mannu from the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, has won the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Research Excellence Award for a study which highlighted early risk factors for breast cancer patients.
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\n \n\n \n27 October 2020
\n \n \n \nOxford University's Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS) has appointed Mr Simon Buczacki as its first Richard Blackwell Pharsalia Professor of Colorectal Surgery.
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\n \n\n \n3 September 2020
\n \n \n \nOxford University Hospitals (OUH) is one of the NHS trusts that will benefit from a \u00a313.5m national funding boost to further enhance cellular pathology services and provide faster and more accurate diagnosis of deadly diseases such as cancer.
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\n \n\n \n14 July 2020
\n \n \n \nWe are thrilled to announce that five researchers from the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS) have been successfully promoted in the 2019-20 academic promotion round.
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\n \n\n \n24 June 2020
\n \n \n \nWe are pleased to announce the election of Dr Elisha Ngetich, a DPhil candidate at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, as President of the University of Oxford Africa Society for the 2020/2021 academic year.
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\n \n\n \n27 May 2020
\n \n \n \nNHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) has awarded \u00a32.4 million to the Quality in Organ Donation (QUOD) programme, hosted by the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences at the University of Oxford on behalf of the national consortium of transplant centres, to extend the biobank infrastructure until 2025.
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\n \n\n \n13 May 2020
\n \n \n \nThe Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences is proud and delighted to announce that Peter Friend, Professor of Transplantation, has been elected to the prestigious Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
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\n \n\n \n13 February 2020
\n \n \n \nAround 150 staff and students from across the department gathered at Lady Margaret Hall in Oxford on Thursday 6 February for our sixth annual NDS Research Away Day.
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\n \n\n \n21 November 2019
\n \n \n \nOxford University has been ranked as the world's best institution for medical and health teaching and research for the ninth consecutive year in the latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
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\n \n\n \n28 October 2019
\n \n \n \nThe 2019 MSD Teaching Excellence Awards were celebrated in a ceremony at Merton College on Wednesday 23 October.
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\n \n\n \n11 October 2019
\n \n \n \nDr Sushma Shankar from the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS) has been awarded the second prize for the very first European Society of Organ Transplant (ESOT) Leonard da Vinci Transplant Research Innovation Award, the most prestigious award of the ESOT 2019 Congress in Copenhagen.
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\n \n\n \n30 September 2019
\n \n \n \nProfessor Ashok Handa has been announced as the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement prize at the 2019 Teaching Excellence Awards.
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