NDORMS, University of Oxford

🎉 Congratulations to Xiaoyi Min and Eloise Nee who have both successfully defended their DPhil theses!

They’re off! Prof Dominic Furniss, his son Jasper, and a team of researchers set off on their cycle from Oxford to Barcelona yesterday! They’re raising money for Sarcoma UK. https://www.justgiving.com/team/o2b

Did you see the brilliant Professor Dom Furniss on ITV Meridian? He shared his experience of diagnosing his son, Jasper, with a rare form of sarcoma.

The two of them are cycling from Oxford to Barcelona to raise money for Sarcoma UK.

Surgeon describes worst nightmare - diagnosing son's cancer | ITV News When Dominc Furniss' son showed him an egg-sized lump on his thigh, he instantly knew it was cancer. | ITV News Meridian

🎉 Congratulations to former Head of Department Professor Andrew Carr, who’s been elected to Council at the Royal College of Surgeons!

DPhil students Maria from the Botnar and Julia from the Kennedy have been represented NDORMS at Oxplore in Cornwall! They’ve been sharing their research on ageing, living with arthritis, and keyhole surgery with young people.

🎉 Congratulations to Jinsen Lu who has successfully defended his DPhil thesis!

🎉 Congratulations to the Kennedy and the Botnar who have both won Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework awards for their research labs!

🎉 Congratulations to Lachlan Arthur and Rakhshan Kamran, who have both successfully defended their DPhil theses!

Welcome to the Botnar’s new PI, Nicole Stoffel!

Her work will look at human iron metabolism, kinetics and physiology with a specific focus on the role iron plays in the immune response, and the impact of iron deficiency on vaccine effectiveness. https://www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/news/new-pi-will-study-human-iron-metabolism-kinetics-and-physiology-in-health-and-inflammatory-disease

🎉 Congratulations to Kennedy DPhil student Maryam Nina Hardy, who’s been elected as President of the Oxford University Africa Society! https://www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/news/maryam-nina-hardy-elected-as-president-of-the-oxford-university-africa-society

🎉🥈 Congratulations to the Botnar Institute who has been awarded the LEAF Silver certificate! LEAF (the Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework) recognises efforts to make labs as environmentally friendly as possible.

🎉 At BISS a couple of weeks ago, we were delighted to be able to celebrate our brilliant Botnar Director of Graduate Studies, Afsie Sabokbar! This year marks 30 years since she joined NDORMS, and she provides endless support, guidance, and hugs to our students! Here’s to another 30 years! Thank you Afsie!

Thank you to all the organisers, speakers, and to everyone that joined the Botnar Institute Student Symposium 2024, and especially thank you to our wonderful students! It was a wonderful day of sharing research and ideas, and building our brilliant Botnar community.

The Kennedy Histology Team have been collaborating with Domenika, an artist from the Ruskin School, to create a BioArt installation! 🧫🎨

The sculpture shows a healthy and osteoarthritic knee joint. It’s displayed in the Kennedy Atrium. Be sure to go and see it!

🎉 Congratulations to Calliope Dendrou and Siim Pauklin who have both been awarded the title of Associate Professor by the University of Oxford! https://www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/news/ndorms-researchers-awarded-associate-professor-title-1

🎉 Congratulations to the NDORMS winners at the Vice-Chancellor’s Awards last week!

Dr Anjali Shah won the Research Culture Award, and the Histology team from the Kennedy Institute won the Community Partnership Award! https://www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/news/success-for-ndorms-at-the-vice-chancellor2019s-awards

🎉 Congratulations to Dr Ashwin Jainarayanan (who completed his DPhil at the Kennedy) who has been selected to become a 2024 Schmidt Science Fellow!

🎉 Congratulations to Jianqing Zheng who has successfully defended his DPhil thesis!

Prof Matt Costa has just returned from the Philippines, where he launched the new HIPCARE trial with co-lead investigator Prof Irewin Tabu!

Eight hospitals in the Phlippines will start recruiting patients with fragility fractures of the hip for the study. https://www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/news/hipcare-trial-launches-in-the-philippines

🎉 Congratulations to NDORMS alumnus Justin Wormald, who has been appointed as Deputy Director at SITU, as well as being awarded an NIHR Academic Clinical Lectureship and a Development and Skills Enhancement Award! https://www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/news/justin-wormald-wins-nihr-awards-and-takes-up-position-as-situ-deputy-director

Ida, Rhiannon and Oyindamola from the Kennedy Histology team have been involved in the Science Together Legacy project with AFiUK (African Families in the UK). This year they’re collaborating with the Maths and Physics departments and joined a star gazing event in January!

🎉 The team have been shortlisted for the Vice-Chancellor's Award in the category "Community Partnership Award" for "Supporting young people from African families in accessing science capital". Congratulations!

Did you see this? We have renewed our Athena Swan Silver Award for the third time in a row! The award recognises NDORMS’ commitment to gender equality. https://www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/news/ndorms2019-athena-swan-silver-award-renewed

🎉 Congratulations to Libby Jennings for successfully defending her DPhil thesis!

🎉 Congratulations to Anjali Shah, who has been short-listed for the Vice-Chancellor’s Research Culture Award, and Sara Khalid, who has been short-listed for the EDI Award!

We did it! 🎇

Our Athena Swan Silver Award has been renewed for the next five years!

Thank you to everyone who works to make NDORMS an inclusive and equal place.

We’re excited to start implementing our Action Plan to make our department even better.

Last Saturday the Alsaleh group were at the Museum of Natural History for Super Science Saturday, sharing their research into how ageing is different in space and their work with the International Space Station! 🚀🔭🛰

Happy International Women’s Day!👩🏿‍🔬👩🏾‍🔬👩🏽‍🔬👩🏼‍🔬

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Inspiring Inclusion Cafe! Staff and students shared experiences and ideas about how we can make NDORMS a more inclusive workplace.

Last week saw the official opening of the Oxford-ZEISS Centre of Excellence.

The partnership will bring ground-breaking microscopy imaging equipment and analysis tools to advance the study of global health and disease. https://www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-zeiss-centre-of-excellence-officially-opened

Happy Friday from the Kennedy!