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« Back to NewsNew funding for early diagnosis research using platelets
30 March 2021
Department General MRC MHU MRC WIMM NDCLS OCH Publication Research
Dr Bethan Psaila and her team will investigate the potential of circulating blood platelets for early detection of a range of cancer types.
Dr Noemi Roy awarded Medical Sciences Division public engagement seed funding
3 February 2021
Dr Noemi Roy has received funding in the 2020-21 round of the Public Engagement with Research Seed Fund as one of seven projects for innovative work to engage the public with medical research.
MRC HIU appoints new Director
6 January 2021
Department General MRC HIU MRC WIMM
We are pleased to announce that Professor Alison Simmons has been appointed as the new Director of the MRC Human Immunology Unit.
2020 RDM graduate prize winners
5 November 2020
CVM Department General MRC WIMM
Many congratulations to Alba Rodriguez Meira and Ioannis Akoumianakis for winning this year's RDM graduate prize.
Congratulations to our new Professors
30 October 2020
Role-playing computer game helps players understand how vaccines work on a global scale
8 October 2020
COVID-19 research IMD MRC HIU MRC WIMM
A free game launched today allows players to role-play the deployment of a virtual vaccine to help to halt the global spread of a viral pandemic.
Researchers target previously unknown ‘genetic vulnerability’ in breast cancer cells
10 September 2020
Department General MRC HIU MRC WIMM Publication Research
New Nature paper reports on a genetic vulnerability in nearly 10% of breast cancer tumours, which could be targeted to selectively kill cancer cells.
Persistent immune memory of COVID-19 found in recovered patient T cells
4 September 2020
COVID-19 research IMD MRC HIU MRC WIMM
New Nature Immunology paper finds strong T cell responses in recovered COVID-19 patients
New RDM Associate Professors and University Research Lecturers
10 July 2020
CVM Department General MRC MHU MRC WIMM NDCLS
Many congratulations to our researchers.
Oxford-Sri Lanka study to compare COVID-19 immune response
9 June 2020
COVID-19 research IMD MRC HIU MRC WIMM
Study co-led by MRC HIU/MRC WIMM's Professor Graham Ogg.
New Nature paper from incoming MRC WIMM Director
9 March 2020
Department General MRC MHU MRC WIMM Publication Research
Study co-led by Professor KJ Patel uncovers new mechanism for DNA repair that may help protect DNA from cancer-causing rearrangements
MRC WIMM appoints new Director
4 March 2020
Department General MRC MHU MRC WIMM
We are delighted to announce that Professor KJ Patel has been appointed as the new Director of the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine and the MRC Molecular Haematology Unit at the University of Oxford.