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\n \n 11 May 2022\n \n
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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 \nDuring the first nine months of the COVID-19 pandemic, paediatric cancer patients from lower- and middle-income countries (LMICs) faced a higher risk of all-cause mortality than those in high-income countries, according to an international study led by the University of Oxford.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe new Oxford-developed artificial intelligence tool PathProfiler automates the quality control of large retrospective pathology image datasets to increase their usability in downstream research.
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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 \nInterrogating metabolic cross-talk in the tumour-bone microenvironment, new research from the Edwards Group shows how the pentose phosphate pathway contributes to prostate cancer bone metastasis.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nRead about the University\u2019s response to the invasion of Ukraine, including advice and support available for staff and students impacted, and suggestions on ways to help.
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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 \nResearchers at Oxford University have implanted a novel closed-loop research platform for investigating the role of the pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN) \u2013 a brainstem nucleus \u2013 in Parkinson\u2019s-like Multiple Systems Atrophy (MSA).
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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 \nFirst therapeutic device developed within the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IBME) and the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS) completes regulatory approval on both sides of the Atlantic.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe University of Oxford\u2019s vaccine manufacturing research team has today published a pre-print paper demonstrating the feasibility of a step change in the speed and volume of production of adenovirus-vectored vaccines against new virus variants or other future pandemics.
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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 \nJournal of the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (JNDS) has published a new special issue, featuring highlights from the 2021 NDS Virtual Research Away Day.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS) were thrilled to take part in this year's IF Oxford Science + Ideas Festival.
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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).
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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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