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\n \n\n \n \n \nNDS professor Tipu Aziz appeared on BBC National news to speak about the pioneering surgery he delivered to a British woman who has had electrodes placed deep inside her brain in an experimental operation to help cure her of anorexia.\r\nWires carrying electricity were connected to parts of her brain that register her feeling of reward when she eats.\r\nProfessor Aziz said: \u201cAnorexics have a 40 times higher mortality rate compared to the normal population and people forget that. Otherwise healthy people, mostly girls, die of this disease.\u201d\r\n\r\nSee him interviewed on BBC News.
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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 \nOn the 24 March 2015, the Patient Safety Academy (PSA) hosted a workshop to share knowledge and experiences on patient safety from the UK and USA.
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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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\n \n\n \n \n \nProf 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.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe 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.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe 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!\r\n\r\nIn 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
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe 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.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nPeter McCulloch, Director of the Patient Safety Academy has been invited onto Health Education England's Learning to be Safer Expert Group.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe 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.\r\n\r\n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe Consortium for Organ Preservation in Europe (COPE) \u2013 an EU funded surgical research project on organ preservation \u2013 is running three clinical trials in five European countries. As of December 2014, all COPE trials are now live. \r\n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nFadi 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\".
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\n \n\n \n \n \nWednesday, 29th April to Friday 1st May 2015, 9.30am to 5.00pm, Botnar Research Centre, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Old Road, Headington - Hosted by SITU
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe 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.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nSarah, Postdoctoral Research Scientist with the Islet Transplant Research Group was awarded a travel bursary of \u00a3500 for her two photographic entries entitled \"Type 1 diabetes research in action\"
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThis was a universally acclaimed award.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nKen had been Director of the Tissue Typing Laboratories as a Principal Scientist for some 10 years
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