The Curiosity Carnival rolled into town on 29 September for a festival of all things research. Over 30 researchers from across RDM took part in the largest public engagement event Oxford has ever staged.
The MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (MRC WIMM) invited Oxford East MP Anneliese Dodds to learn more about cutting edge research taking place in her constituency and learn more from researchers about the challenges they face. The visit took place on 30 August.
Researchers from the Radcliffe Department of Medicine have developed a new type of MRI scan to predict the risk of having a stroke, thanks to funding from the British Heart Foundation (BHF).
Congratulations to Jan Rehwinkel, Principal Investigator in the MRC Human Immunology Unit, who delivered his Lister Institute Research Fellowship Prize Lecture on 3 May.
Congratulations to Dr Danuta Gutowska-Owsiak, a post-doctoral researcher with Prof Graham Ogg in the MRC Human Immunology Unit, who has won a Young Investigator Award for her substantial contribution to dermatology research.
Congratulations to all our prize winners at this year\u2019s WIMM Day. We were delighted to award Mike Barnkob, a DPhil student with Prof Vincenzo Cerundolo in the MRC Human Immunology Unit, the Ita Askonas Medal and Prize for his work on T cells in the tumour microenvironment.
Congratulations to Professor Jan Rehwinkel, a group leader in the MRC Human Immunology Unit, who was named last week as one of 25 new EMBO Young Investigators. He joins a network of 74 current and 382 past Young Investigators who represent some of the best young group leaders in the life sciences in Europe and beyond.
This month, Dr Iztok Urban\u010di\u010d joined Christian Eggeling's lab in the MRC Human Immunology Unit, supported by a prestigious Marie Sk\u0142odowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowship.
The only project of its kind anywhere that studies all acute vascular events, such as strokes and heart attacks, to develop better treatments has recruited its 10,000th Oxfordshire participant. AVIC conducts brain imaging for this study.
Congratulations to Prof Rehwinkel, who has been awarded a \u00a3200,000 Lister Institute Research Prize Fellowship to study \u201cZ-RNA and Z-DNA: Novel Inducers of Antiviral Immunity\u201d.
Oxford, UK: 23 May, 2018: Orbit Discovery Ltd, an Oxford, UK-based biotech company developing an industry-leading peptide identification and optimisation platform, today announced the closing of a \u00a36.9M Series A Financing. The round was led by Oxford Sciences Innovation who were joined by new investors RT Ventures, Borealis Ventures, Perivoli Innovations, along with further investment from all existing investors and Oxford University. Additionally, Borealis Managing Partner Phil Ferneau and Oxford Investment Consultants\u2019 Partner James Mallinson join Orbit\u2019s Board of Directors.
Dr Luca Biasiolli at the university has been backed by the British Heart Foundation to study whether a new MRI scanning technique could be used to spot the potentially dangerous plaques that cause stroke.
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