Treatment of tumours with sound: New high-intensity focused ultrasound machine installed
2 February 2026
A new state-of-the-art high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) machine has been installed at the Churchill Hospital, giving Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) cancer patients access to the latest in this innovative technology.
Pump-priming grants available as 2026 Innovation Competition open for entries
11 December 2025
The Quality in Organ Donation (QUOD) programme at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences is excited to announce that applications are open for the 2026 Innovation Competition, a partnership between the charity Live Life Give Life, QUOD and the British Transplantation Society (BTS).
Terumo completes acquisition of University of Oxford spinout OrganOx for a record $1.5bn
31 October 2025
OrganOx, a pioneering Oxford University spinout transforming kidney and liver transplantation, has been fully acquired by Terumo Corporation, a global medical technology company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, for US$1.5 billion, marking the largest exit in Oxford University’s spinout portfolio to date and the first in excess of £1bn.
Oxford University spinout OrganOx to be acquired by Terumo for a record $1.5bn
25 August 2025
An agreement has been reached for the acquisition of OrganOx, a pioneering University of Oxford spinout transforming kidney and liver transplantation, by Terumo Corporation, a global medical technology company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, for US$1.5 billion. The transaction, which is subject to regulatory and other approvals, would be the largest acquisition of an Oxford University spinout to date, and one of the most significant venture capital exits in UK university spinout history.
Oxford’s OrganOx wins the MacRobert Award 2025
9 July 2025
The Royal Academy of Engineering has announced that OrganOx has won the £50,000 MacRobert Award, the longest running and most prestigious prize for UK engineering innovation, for its life-saving technology that is supporting more organ transplants and helping to cut waiting lists.
Oxford’s OrganOx is shortlisted for the MacRobert Award 2025
16 June 2025
The Royal Academy of Engineering has announced the finalists for the 2025 MacRobert Award, the longest running and most prestigious prize for UK engineering innovation.
QUOD Innovation Competition 2025
28 February 2025
The Quality in Organ Donation (QUOD) initiative at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences is excited to announce the launch of the first QUOD Innovation Competition, which is open to research scientists, clinicians, nurses, and allied health professionals wishing to make use of QUOD biobank samples.
Professor Tipu Aziz receives inaugural lifetime achievement award
13 June 2024
We are pleased to announce that Professor Tipu Aziz has been awarded the lifetime achievement award by the British Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (BSSFN) in May 2024.
NDS surgeon scientist leads an international transdisciplinary consortium towards delivering NetZero healthcare
12 December 2023
The European Union Horizon Europe (with joint funding from UK Research Innovation) has awarded NetZeroAICT Consortium major funding to develop a novel technology with great potentials to promote climate neutral and sustainable healthcare.
Mihir Sheth named Young Engineer of the Year by Royal Academy of Engineering
28 July 2023
Mihir Sheth from the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences has been recognised by the Royal Academy of Engineering with a Young Engineer of the Year award.
Oxford entrepreneur wins Young Innovators Award to develop non-invasive medical device to wean patients off ventilators quicker
16 February 2022
Former Oxford Global Insight Fellow Mihir Sheth has been announced as one of this year’s Innovate UK Young Innovators.
Researchers awarded Wellcome Innovator Grant to investigate role of brainstem nucleus in human consciousness
30 September 2021
Researchers at Oxford University have received a prestigious Wellcome Innovator Grant for investigating the role of the pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN) – a brainstem nucleus – in human consciousness.
Using artificial intelligence (AI) for safer CT imaging of blood vessels
19 July 2021
Congratulations to Dr Regent Lee at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS) who has been awarded a grant of £246,226 from Heart Research UK for his research project ‘Using artificial intelligence (AI) for safer CT imaging of blood vessels’.
EU assessment of high-risk medical devices faces in-depth review
16 April 2021
The methods for evaluating high-risk medical devices are set to be reviewed in the EU-funded Coordinating Research and Evidence for Medical Devices (CORE-MD) project, which holds its kick-off meeting today.
New reporting guidelines to bridge the gap from development to implementation in clinical artificial intelligence
4 February 2021
In a correspondence to Nature Medicine, a team of Oxford-led academics describe upcoming new guidelines to improve the reporting of early clinical stage (or first-with-human) evaluation of decision support systems driven by artificial intelligence.
Innovations get £3M boost to prove the potential of health data to transform lives
31 January 2019
Ten innovative data solutions to healthcare challenges, including a project led by the Head of the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS), Professor Freddie Hamdy, are set to receive a share of £3 million Government funding following a UK-wide competition. The initiatives will see NHS, universities and companies combining expertise and using health data responsibly to drive innovation and improve health outcomes for people across the UK.
Two countries, seven teaching centres, 550 miles: Miss Katherine Hurst gears up for first ever RCSEd cycling symposium across Britain
9 August 2018
A dozen surgeons and surgeons-in-training, including NDS DPhil student Miss Katherine Hurst, will soon take to the road for the first ever Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd) Travelling Surgical Symposium.
Oxford and Philips team up to deploy innovative digital pathology network
8 August 2018
A team of pathologists in Oxford, including Professor Clare Verrill from the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS), is working with healthtech company Philips to create a digital pathology network to help drive faster and more efficient diagnoses for patients.
Focussed ultrasound and nanomedicine offer new hope for improving effects of cancer drugs
10 July 2018
Researchers have made a breakthrough in more precisely targeting drugs to cancers. Using ultrasound and lipid drug carriers (liposomes), a multi-disciplinary team of biomedical engineers, oncologists, radiologists and anaesthetists at the University of Oxford have developed a new way to improve the targeting of cancer drugs to tumours.
NDS neurosurgeons to feature in BBC documentary celebrating 70 years of the NHS
7 June 2018
Neurosurgeons from the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences are set to feature in a BBC documentary called 'How the NHS Changed our World: The John Radcliffe'.