8 September 2021
\n \n \n \nFive of the new Fellows are from MPLS Division. The Fellowships have been created by UKRI to help develop the next wave of world-class research and innovation leaders in academia and business.
\n \n\n \n \n18 August 2021
\n \n \n \nProfessor Jonathan Doye from the Department of Chemistry writes about his research.
\n \n\n \n \n10 August 2021
\n \n \n \nInformation about the most effective antibiotics to use in low and middle income countries (LMICs) for neonatal sepsis has been discovered uniquely combining epidemiological, genomic and pharmacodynamic data.
\n \n\n \n \n23 June 2021
\n \n \n \nA collaboration of biologists, chemists and physicists from the Universities of Oxford (UK) and Oldenburg (Germany) have been accumulating evidence that the magnetic sense in night migratory birds, such as the European robin, is based on a specific light\u2010sensitive protein in the eye.
\n \n\n \n \n18 May 2021
\n \n \n \nThis is a new post, which will work in support of the priorities in the University Strategic Plan 2018-2023 and the Knowledge Exchange Strategy, around innovation and entrepreneurship.
\n \n\n \n \n14 May 2021
\n \n \n \nThe University of Oxford joins a major new collaboration with academia and industry to use sustainable chemical technologies to accelerate the UK\u2019s transition to net zero carbon emissions.
\n \n\n \n \n19 January 2021
\n \n \n \nIneos, one of the world\u2019s largest manufacturing companies, and the University of Oxford are launching a new world-leading institute to combat the growing global issue of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which currently causes an estimated 1.5 million excess deaths each year.
\n \n\n \n \n9 December 2020
\n \n \n \nEuropean Research Council grants worth more than \u20ac16.3 million have been awarded to University of Oxford researchers for a range of cutting-edge projects.
\n \n\n \n \n7 December 2020
\n \n \n \nA new institute for nanoscience research is to open in Oxford thanks to a $10 million gift from The Kavli Foundation.
\n \n\n \n \n30 October 2020
\n \n \n \nThree MPLS academics and researchers have been awarded 2020 IOP Medals for their contributions to Physics - two in the Department of Physics and one in the Department of Chemistry.
\n \n\n \n \n20 October 2020
\n \n \n \nLeading lights at Oxford University paved the way towards Oxford\u2019s goal of global, rapid and equitable access to a safe, effective COVID-19 vaccine by facilitating an innovative public-private agreement for the manufacture and distribution of Oxford\u2019s vaccine, ChAdOx1 nCoV-19.
\n \n\n \n \n16 October 2020
\n \n \n \nThe Harrington Discovery Institute (HDI) in the US has announced five winners of its inaugural UK Rare Disease Scholar Award competition.
\n \n\n \n \n13 October 2020
\n \n \n \nCurrently, most of the 4.9 billion tonnes of plastics ever produced will end up in landfills or the natural environment, and this number is expected to increase to around 12 billion tonnes by 2050.
\n \n\n \n \n28 September 2020
\n \n \n \nScientists from the Nuffield Department of Medicine have evaluated LamPORE, a novel diagnostic platform for detecting SARS-CoV-2 RNA. LamPORE was developed by Oxford Nanopore Technologies, a spin-out company from the Department of Chemistry, and has the potential to analyse thousands of samples per day on a single instrument.
\n \n\n \n \n24 September 2020
\n \n \n \nA team of scientists at the Rosalind Franklin Institute and Oxford University, led by Professor Ben Davis and Professor Veronique Gouverneur, have created a light-activated system that allows new side-chains to be grafted on to proteins, paving the way for a host of applications in areas such as drug development or vaccines.
\n \n\n \n \n8 September 2020
\n \n \n \nFive researchers from MPLS Division have been awarded major European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants\u202fto fund cutting-edge projects.
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\n \n \n \n\n \n \n4 August 2020
\n \n \n \nProfessor Bryan Birch (Mathematical Institute), Professor Ben Davis (Department of Chemistry) and Professor George Smith (Department of Materials) have all received Royal Society 2020 medals or prizes.
\n \n\n \n \n28 July 2020
\n \n \n \nThe Vice-Chancellor Innovation Awards celebrate research-led innovation that is having societal or economic impact.
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