8 August 2018
\n \n \n \nA 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.
\n \n\n \n \n7 June 2018
\n \n \n \nNeurosurgeons 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'.
\n \n\n \n \n21 December 2017
\n \n \n \nNDS is pleased to announce the launch of a Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert) in Patient Safety. It brings together experts in human factors, quality improvement, leadership and education to deliver an exciting series of modules to support the current safety challenges in our healthcare settings.
\n \n\n \n \n22 November 2017
\n \n \n \nA symposium to discuss topics around talking about dying was recently held at St Catherine's College in Oxford.
\n \n\n \n \n4 August 2017
\n \n \n \nDr Clare Verrill and Dr Lisa Browning have been filmed demonstrating how to sample fresh tumours from prostate and renal cases for whole genome sequencing and the 100,000 Genomes Project.
\n \n\n \n \n22 June 2017
\n \n \n \nThis week, NDS is hosting the International Pancreas and Islet Transplantation Association (IPITA) 16th International Congress in Oxford. This is the first time that this biennial meeting has been held in the UK.
\n \n\n \n \n27 March 2017
\n \n \n \nTwo members of the Centre for Evidence in Transplantation (CET) at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences have been elected to the committees of the British Transplantation Society (BTS).
\n \n\n \n \n23 November 2016
\n \n \n \nA new online training tool being developed by the Genomics Education Programme for scientists processing tumour samples for whole genome sequencing will feature Dr Clare Verrill, a Senior Clinical Lecturer in Pathology at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences.
\n \n\n \n \n3 November 2016
\n \n \n \nProfessor Paul Johnson visited Mexico City last month (25-27 October) to be part of the official launch of the TRANSDIA project \u2013 a UK-Mexico collaboration to tackle type 1 diabetes.
\n \n\n \n \n13 July 2016
\n \n \n \nDr Tinashe Chandauka, a University of Cape Town alumnus who will be pursuing a DPhil in Surgical Sciences at Oxford University, has been named in the 200 Young South Africans 2016 list by the online newspaper Mail & Guardian.
\n \n\n \n \n12 May 2016
\n \n \n \nDr Lauren Morgan, a lecturer in the Patient Safety Academy, talks to the Oxford Science Blog about what human factors research can teach medics about improving healthcare.
\n \n\n \n \n11 May 2016
\n \n \n \nThe Biobank team at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences have taken part in a series of short educational films about sample processing for whole genome sequencing for the 100,000 Genomes Project.
\n \n\n \n \n11 May 2016
\n \n \n \nSaturday 7 May saw the inaugural OxAAA Aneurysm Awareness Day, held at the Tingewick Hall in the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.
\n \n\n \n \n29 March 2016
\n \n \n \nThe Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences is delighted to announce that the COPE Consortium has completed its trial recruitment in its European liver study.
\n \n\n \n \n26 February 2016
\n \n \n \nA giant touchscreen computer for junior doctors and medical students to study tumours in fine detail is the latest weapon in the battle against cancer at Oxford\u2019s John Radcliffe Hospital.
\n \n\n \n \n9 February 2016
\n \n \n \nFor the Neuromodulation Team at Oxford University Hospitals, 2016 has had an electrifying start. The team have been performing dorsal root ganglion (DRG) stimulation since 2013 and were one of the first UK centres to perform the procedure.
\n \n\n \n \n3 February 2016
\n \n \n \nDr Lauren Morgan has been interviewed by the National Health Executive magazine about the small but growing impact of her profession, human factors, on the NHS.
\n \n\n \n \n27 January 2016
\n \n \n \nAn article on The ONE Study, an EU funded project in which the Transplantation Research Immunology Group are consortium members, has been featured on the European Commission's Horizon 2020 website.
\n \n\n \n \n5 January 2016
\n \n \n \nSurgery is getting safer thanks to NIHR-funded research by an Oxford University team that has brought together two previously competing theories about how best to protect patients.
\n \n\n \n \n2 November 2015
\n \n \n \nMr Prasanna Sooriakumaran has been honoured by the Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) with a 2015 Young Investigator Award during the 22nd Annual Scientific Retreat in Washington, held 8-10 October.
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