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« Back to News2025 RDM Graduate Prize winner
15 January 2026
Congratulations to Lauren Murphy, who has been awarded the 2025 Graduate Prize from the Radcliffe Department of Medicine.
Sarah Gooding named NIHR Oxford Senior Research Fellow
14 January 2026
Congratulations to Dr Sarah Gooding, who is one of eight mid-career researchers appointed as the next cohort of NIHR Oxford BRC Senior Research Fellows.
MRC WIMM Sustainability Team recognised at LEAF Oxford Forum
12 January 2026
Congratulations to the Sustainability Committee and Working Group, who received an award for ‘Community and Culture’ at the LEAF Oxford Forum 2025.
Holly Russell receives Lee Placito Research Fellowship
9 December 2025
Congratulations to Holly Russell who has been awarded a fellowship from the Lee Placito Medical Fund.
Study reveals how drug resistance develops early in targeted AML therapy
17 November 2025
A new study led by researchers at the MRC Molecular Haematology Unit has shown that resistance to a targeted treatment for acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) can develop much earlier than expected.
Oxford scientists capture genome’s structure in unprecedented detail
5 November 2025
RDM scientists have achieved the most detailed view yet of how DNA folds and functions inside living cells, revealing the physical structures that control when and how genes are switched on.
Abdullah Khan receives Wellcome Career Development Award
4 November 2025
Congratulations are in order for Dr Abdullah (Abs) Khan, who has been awarded a Wellcome Career Development Award for his research on age-related immune dysfunction using human model systems.
MRC WIMM researchers receive full Professor title
1 October 2025
James Davies and Bethan Psaila have been awarded the title of Full Professor in the University’s 2025 Recognition of Distinction exercise.
Body-in-a-chip approach reveals how immune cells respond to heart injury
11 September 2025
Oxford scientists build a connected, ‘multi-organoid’ platform that recreates immune recruitment to the heart, opening new avenues to probe disease and test therapies.
New ‘off-the-shelf’ immunotherapy shows promise for treating high-risk childhood leukaemia
3 September 2025
Scientists at the University of Oxford, together with colleagues at Imperial College London and the University of Glasgow, have developed a new type of immunotherapy that could improve outcomes for infants and children with high-risk leukaemia.
The Kaiya Foundation to fund leukaemia research at University of Oxford
1 September 2025
The foundation has awarded one of its first major research grants to Dr Emily Neil and Professor Anindita Roy from the Childhood Leukaemia Research Group in the MRC Molecular Haematology Unit.
‘Targeted Therapies’ at Big Bang Fair 2025
20 August 2025
Earlier this year, a group of researchers from the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine attended the Big Bang Fair in Birmingham, showcasing medical research through a series of hands-on activities.
Platelets shown to store DNA in study that could transform cancer screening
15 August 2025
Study led by Psaila Group uncovers previously unknown function of platelets as DNA ‘vacuum cleaners’ in the blood, with profound implications for cancer diagnosis and prenatal screening.
Wellcome Discovery Award for Claus Nerlov
31 July 2025
Claus Nerlov, Professor of Stem Cell Biology, has been awarded funding from Wellcome to map the gene regulatory networks in blood cell production and seek new therapeutic targets.