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\n \n\n \n13 January 2020
\n \n \n \nCongratulations to Prof Jacobsen, who was elected member of the Academy's Class for Medical Sciences.
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\n \n\n \n7 January 2020
\n \n \n \nIt is with profound sadness that we learnt of the death of Professor Vincenzo Cerundolo FRS.
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\n \n\n \n11 November 2019
\n \n \n \nMany congratulations to Dr Mira Kassouf, a researcher in the Higgs group, recognised for her efforts to break silos in life sciences with entrepreneurship.
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\n \n\n \n7 November 2019
\n \n \n \nMany congratulations to Prof Ahmed Ahmed and Prof Enzo Cerundolo, winners of the Ovarian Cancer Action International Grand Challenge Award.
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\n \n\n \n23 October 2019
\n \n \n \nA therapy that targets the immune system showed promise for treating atopic dermatitis \u2013 the most common form of eczema \u2013 in a small proof-of-concept trial, led by scientists from the MRC HIU.
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\n \n\n \n22 October 2019
\n \n \n \nMany congratulations to Dr. Tudor Fulga, who will be joining Vertex Pharmaceuticals as Vice President/Head of Gene Editing and Discovery Biology.
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\n \n\n \n11 October 2019
\n \n \n \nNew Oxford start-up is established to develop novel therapeutics based on the expertise of the Davis and Cornall groups at MRC HIU.
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\n \n\n \n10 October 2019
\n \n \n \nNew research by the Drakesmith group and collaborators shows that BMP inhibitors are able to reverse the main untreatable symptom of the disease.
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\n \n\n \n4 October 2019
\n \n \n \nThe Eggeling group used super-resolution microscopy to show that HIV-1 creates its own specialized lipid membrane environment for virus assembly.
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\n \n\n \n18 September 2019
\n \n \n \nStudy finds that shape of immune cells plays key role in responses to invaders.
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\n \n\n \n12 September 2019
\n \n \n \nMany congratulations to Dr Simona Valletta, a postdoctoral research in MRC MHU, who was awarded an Intermediate Research Fellowship from the Kay Kendall Leukaemia Fund.
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\n \n\n \n27 August 2019
\n \n \n \nMany congratulations to Dr Beth Psaila, Dr Supat Thongjuea and Prof Andi Roy who were awarded fellowships to develop their independent research.
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\n \n\n \n19 August 2019
\n \n \n \nThe title of Professor has been awarded to Hal Drakesmith (now Professor of Iron Biology) and Jim Hughes (Professor of Gene Regulation). Many congratulations to both!
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\n \n\n \n8 August 2019
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\n \n\n \n6 August 2019
\n \n \n \nDr James Davies from our MRC Molecular Haematology Unit writes in The Conversation about genome editing, its power for good... and the ethical issues that we are already facing.
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\n \n\n \n23 July 2019
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\n \n\n \n11 July 2019
\n \n \n \nResearchers at the MRC MHU have discovered the specific gene mutations that are required for the development of leukaemia in children with Down\u2019s syndrome.
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\n \n\n \n2 July 2019
\n \n \n \nMRC MHU collaborated with dancers, teachers and artists to support a new dance performance on DNA and immunology aimed at young people and their families
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\n \n\n \n2 July 2019
\n \n \n \nMedical Sciences Division is delighted to welcome Dr Anjan Thakurta to Oxford, having now taken up his position of Visiting Professor of Cancer, Biology and Translational Science within the Radcliffe Department of Medicine.
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\n \n\n \n25 June 2019
\n \n \n \nCancer immunotherapy was the focus of this year's participation in the MRC Festival of Medical Research, which took our researchers to shopping centres in Didcot, Reading and Oxford.
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