7 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.
\n \n\n \n \n1 October 2021
\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).
\n \n\n \n \n16 September 2021
\n \n \n \nThe University of Oxford has announced the promotion to Associate Professor of two senior academics at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences.
\n \n\n \n \n30 August 2021
\n \n \n \nResults from a major clinical trial demonstrate that both stenting and surgery are low-risk and similarly effective procedures for treating carotid artery disease.
\n \n\n \n \n15 July 2021
\n \n \n \nWith funding from Kidney Research UK, a team of researchers from the University of Oxford, the University of Nottingham and University College London will develop ways to assess donor kidneys and predict how well they will work after transplant.
\n \n\n \n \n1 July 2021
\n \n \n \nProfessors Valentine Macaulay and Ian Mills from the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS) are among the awardees of the 2021 round of the CRUK Oxford Centre Development Fund.
\n \n\n \n \n16 June 2021
\n \n \n \nA prostate cancer detection software system to help pathologists quickly identify suspicious areas of tissue, developed by Paige, will be investigated in a multicentre clinical study led by Oxford University as part of a successful NHSx Artificial Intelligence Health and Care Award application.
\n \n\n \n \n26 May 2021
\n \n \n \nA multidisciplinary team, comprising Andrea Chatrian, Dr Richard Colling, Professor Clare Verrill, Professor Jens Rittscher and colleagues, develops an algorithm for automated requesting of additional investigation in diagnostically uncertain prostate biopsies.
\n \n\n \n \n3 September 2020
\n \n \n \nOxford University Hospitals (OUH) is one of the NHS trusts that will benefit from a \u00a313.5m national funding boost to further enhance cellular pathology services and provide faster and more accurate diagnosis of deadly diseases such as cancer.
\n \n\n \n \n27 February 2020
\n \n \n \nOn Saturday 22 February, a team from the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS) enjoyed a day engaging with some of tomorrow's future scientists and surgeons at Swindon's first science festival.
\n \n\n \n \n10 February 2020
\n \n \n \nProfessor Clare Verrill from the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences at the University of Oxford has contributed to the publication of The Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes (PCAWG) project.
\n \n\n \n \n17 January 2020
\n \n \n \nAs society battles with an obesity epidemic, new research from the Edwards group shows how increased body fat contributes to cancer establishment and progression.
\n \n\n \n \n31 October 2019
\n \n \n \nDuring this year's IF Oxford Science + Ideas Festival, a NDS team of outreach volunteers spent a fun weekend stimulating young minds with a range of family-friendly activities.
\n \n\n \n \n11 October 2019
\n \n \n \nDr Sushma Shankar from the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS) has been awarded the second prize for the very first European Society of Organ Transplant (ESOT) Leonard da Vinci Transplant Research Innovation Award, the most prestigious award of the ESOT 2019 Congress in Copenhagen.
\n \n\n \n \n11 October 2019
\n \n \n \nNew research shows that BMP inhibitors are able to reverse the main untreatable symptom of multiple myeloma, a type of bone marrow cancer.
\n \n\n \n \n5 September 2019
\n \n \n \nThe Patient Safety Academy (PSA) at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences was honoured to host two high profile British doctors and an international research leader yesterday.
\n \n\n \n \n14 May 2019
\n \n \n \nCongratulations to Dr Lauren Morgan for being asked to give the prestigious Institute Lecture at the 70th anniversary meeting of the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (CIEHF).
\n \n\n \n \n26 April 2019
\n \n \n \nKokila Lakhoo, Associate Professor of Paediatric Surgery at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, has been awarded a Carnegie-Wits Alumni Diaspora Fellowship for 2019 and the title of Honorary Professor of Paediatric Surgery by the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.
\n \n\n \n \n2 April 2019
\n \n \n \nDuring British Science Week, members of the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences\u2019 Outreach Working Group ran a fun and educational science session in an Oxfordshire primary school.
\n \n\n \n \n21 January 2019
\n \n \n \nIn collaboration with the Oxford University Global Surgery Group, a research workshop was recently held at Chittagong Medical College (CMC) in Bangladesh to promote a research culture amongst young medical professionals.
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