29 January 2015
\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
\n \n\n \n \n12 January 2015
\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
\n \n\n \n \n4 November 2014
\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
\n \n\n \n \n27 October 2014
\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.
\n \n\n \n \n1 October 2014
\n \n \n \nKen had been Director of the Tissue Typing Laboratories as a Principal Scientist for some 10 years
\n \n\n \n \n1 October 2014
\n \n \n \nThis was a joint meeting of the TTS, AST and ASTS with some 7,000 attendees.
\n \n\n \n \n1 October 2014
\n \n \n \nOther inductees included the late Sir Macfarlane Burnett (Nobel Laureate), Sir Gustav Nossal, Professor Emeritus Ian Mackay, Professor Emeritus Priscilla Kincaid-Smith and the late Professors Maurice Ewing and Richard Lovell. Unfortunately Peter Morris was not able to get there but it was a grand occasion from all accounts, with a sell-out audience at the celebratory dinner.
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\n \n \n \n\n \n \n28 July 2014
\n \n \n \nPeter McCulloch and Helen Higham co-directors, launch the PSA which aims to improve patient safety with a collaborative approach working with expertise and experience currently available in the region.
\n \n\n \n \n13 March 2014
\n \n \n \nThe Scholarship is available to UK/EU students only. To work with a named Principal Investigator in NDS in the field of Neurosurgery. Open to new students who begin their programme of study in October 2014
\n \n\n \n \n27 February 2014
\n \n \n \nPrasanna Sooriakumaran, Senior Fellow in Robotic Surgery & Urology with the Surgical Intervention Trials Unit spoke about his research on local radio on Thursday evening and Friday morning (27th and 28th February) in an attempt to raise public awareness of prostate cancer and it's treatment.\r\n\r\nHis paper on \"Surgery v Radiotherapy in Prostate Cancer\" is published in the BMJ.
\n \n\n \n \n26 February 2014
\n \n \n \nThe Lecture was founded in 1646 by Mr. Edward Arris, and under the will of Mr. John Gale in 1655, to provide lectures in anatomy for the members of the Company of Barbers & Surgeons. It was transferred to the Company of Surgeons in 1745. It continues to be a highly regarded and prestigious award within the field of surgery, awarded annually in stiff competition
\n \n\n \n \n2 December 2013
\n \n \n \nProfessor Kathryn Wood from the University of Oxford will be swapping a lab coat for legislation, when she visits Ms Nicola Blackwood, MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, at the House of Commons for a \u201cWeek in Westminster\u201d commencing Monday 2 December as part of a unique \u2018pairing\u2019 scheme run by the Royal Society \u2013 the UK\u2019s national academy of science.
\n \n\n \n \n29 October 2013
\n \n \n \nWe are delighted to highlight the excellence of Vikram Sharma who has been awarded three prestigious awards over the past four months .Vikram, whose speciality is in craniofacial surgery, has presented his findings in front of large audiences and world renowned academics; which were received with great interest resulting in the rewarding of multiple prizes and a RCS fellowship.
\n \n\n \n \n10 July 2013
\n \n \n \nThe funding of a full scholarship for one surgeon to complete the MSc in Surgical Science and Practice has been made possible by Nuffield Health, The Manor Hospital Oxford.
\n \n\n \n \n11 February 2013
\n \n \n \nOxford University's Trust features in ITV\u2019s 'From the Heart' campaign
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