31 October 2022
\n \n \n \nDr Anna Furmanski has recently been appointed as Course Director for the MSc in Integrated Immunology programme ahead of Professor Jon Austyn\u2019s retirement after 19 years in the role. Dr Furmanski is an experienced educator, course leader, academic supervisor, and research immunologist.
\n \n\n \n \n17 October 2022
\n \n \n \nAfter many years, Professor Jon Austyn is stepping down as Director of Graduate Studies (DGS) for the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS), prior to his retirement at the end of this academic year. We are delighted to welcome Professor Claire Edwards as his successor.
\n \n\n \n \n14 October 2022
\n \n \n \nHealth and care research in Oxford is to receive \u00a3122 million in government funding over the next five years to improve diagnosis, treatment and care for NHS patients.
\n \n\n \n \n11 October 2022
\n \n \n \nThe Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS) is pleased to announce its success at the 29th International Congress of The Transplantation Society (TTS 2022) in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 10 to 14 September. Hisashi Hashimoto and Professor Fadi Issa received a Mentee-Mentor Award and Marie Sion won a Young Investigator Award.
\n \n\n \n \n23 September 2022
\n \n \n \nCongratulations to Miss Catherine Lovegrove from the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences on winning the Best Poster Prize at the 2022 British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) Endourology Section Annual Meeting.
\n \n\n \n \n21 September 2022
\n \n \n \nThe Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences is thrilled to announce that Professor Peter Friend has been recognised for his outstanding achievements in clinical transplantation by the British Transplantation Society (BTS).
\n \n\n \n \n5 September 2022
\n \n \n \nCongratulations to Miss Katie Hurst and Mr Michael Silva who were elected in the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd) 2022 Council and Trainee Elections.
\n \n\n \n \n19 August 2022
\n \n \n \nWe are delighted to announce that Alex Green has had the title of Professor of Neurosurgery conferred upon him by the University of Oxford.
\n \n\n \n \n22 July 2022
\n \n \n \nMiss Catherine Lovegrove and Dr Alexander Sagar from the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS) have been awarded highly competitive Clinical Research Training Fellowships by the Medical Research Council (MRC).
\n \n\n \n \n21 July 2022
\n \n \n \nWe are delighted to announce that Tom Cosker has been awarded the title of Associate Professor in the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS).
\n \n\n \n \n8 July 2022
\n \n \n \nA new project titled Mapping the Evidence for the World Health Organization (WHO) Classification of Tumours: A Living Evidence Gap Map by Tumour Type (WCT EVI MAP), led by researchers of the WHO Classification of Tumours programme at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), has received a grant of \u20ac3.5 million from the European Commission. This four-year project, which will be undertaken in collaboration with six other international institutions, including Oxford University's Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS), was launched on 1 July 2022.
\n \n\n \n \n27 June 2022
\n \n \n \nOn 16 June, the winners of the 2022 NDS Staff Awards were announced at a departmental summer BBQ at the Cherwell Boathouse in Oxford.
\n \n\n \n \n11 May 2022
\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.
\n \n\n \n \n10 May 2022
\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.
\n \n\n \n \n21 April 2022
\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.
\n \n\n \n \n23 March 2022
\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.
\n \n\n \n \n10 March 2022
\n \n \n \nCongratulations to Magdalena Chmura, fifth year medical student and Oxford University Global Surgery Group Student Rep, who has received the WinS Equality & Diversity Prize at the 2022 Association of Surgeons in Training (ASiT) Annual Conference.
\n \n\n \n \n23 February 2022
\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.
\n \n\n \n \n16 February 2022
\n \n \n \nFormer Oxford Global Insight Fellow Mihir Sheth has been announced as one of this year\u2019s Innovate UK Young Innovators.
\n \n\n \n \n7 February 2022
\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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