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Neurosurgeon awarded Hunterian Professorship
Clinical Neurology
21 February 2014
Mr Erlick Pereira, who works with the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neuroscience's Alex Green and Tipu Aziz, has been awarded a prestigious Hunterian Professorship by the Royal College of Surgeons of England for 2014 and 2015.
Landmark in stroke treatement
Anaesthetics Research
20 January 2014
Staff at the Nuffield Division of Anaesthetics have helped the Acute Vascular Imaging Centre to reach a major landmark that could boost care for stroke patients.
Promising first results in gene therapy trial for inherited blindness
Ophthalmology Research
16 January 2014
The first clinical trial of a gene therapy for an inherited cause of progressive blindness called choroideremia has shown very promising initial results, surpassing the expectations of the researchers involved.
Researcher’s company wins innovation award
Award Ophthalmology
20 December 2013
One of the senior researchers in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Professor Colin Espie, has received a prize for the digital sleep improvement programme that he co-founded with Peter Hames.
The Oxford Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Summer Schools
Event Ophthalmology
11 December 2013
The Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute will host a Circadian Neuroscience Summer School for the next five years. We will also be running a Sleep Medicine Summer School in parallel. The five-day Schools will consist of a common first day of introductory lectures for the two schools followed by separate, subject-specific workshops to give all attendees a practical understanding of their subject area.
Stroke research group wins Queen's Anniversary Prize
Award Clinical Neurology Stroke & Dementia
22 November 2013
The Stroke Prevention Research Unit has been awarded the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher Education, the highest form of national recognition that UK higher education institutions can achieve.
New treatments for migraine pain control
Clinical Neurology
15 November 2013
Zameel Cader of the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences will use MRC Technology’s commercialization services to advance new treatments for migraine pain control.
Stephen Hicks wins award for glasses for blind people
Award Clinical Neurology
11 November 2013
A researcher in the Division of Clinical Neurology has won a major award for his intelligent glasses that can help blind people to 'see'.
Colin Espie on the impact of poor sleep on health
Ophthalmology Research
28 October 2013
The Professor of Behavioural Sleep Medicine in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences talks on BBC Radio Scotland about the link between poor sleep and depression, diabetes and heart disease.
Researchers pinpoint degrees of consciousness during anaesthesia
Anaesthetics Research
24 October 2013
Researchers led by Professor Irene Tracey of the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences have discovered how to get the clearest picture yet of degrees of perceptual awareness in the brain during the period of anaesthesia.
Researchers pinpoint degrees of consciousness during anaesthesia
Integrative Neuroimaging
24 October 2013
Researchers led by Professor Irene Tracey of the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences have discovered how to get the clearest picture yet of degrees of perceptual awareness in the brain during the period of anaesthesia.
Oxford Headache Centre Launched
Clinical Neurology
23 October 2013
Dr Zameel Cader talks to the Oxford Mail about his research
How much can an extra hour's sleep change you?
Ophthalmology
10 October 2013
Senior Research Scientist Katharina Wulff explains what happens when we sleep.
TEDTalk by Oxford Professor
Ophthalmology
24 September 2013
Prof Russell Foster gives a TEDTalk on sleep.
Ruby wax tour of the brain
Integrative Neuroimaging
22 September 2013
Comedian Ruby Wax is guiding viewers on a tour inside the human brain organised by FMRIB scientists.
Professor MacLaren awarded prize
Award Ophthalmology
10 September 2013
Professor MacLaren awarded 2013 ARVO Vision Foundation Pfizer Ophthalmics Carl Camras Translational Research Award
Medical Sciences graduate student named UK's top black student
Research
23 July 2013
Melvin Mezue, a PhD student in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences, has been named UK's top black student at the annual Rare Rising Stars Award ceremony.
Athena Swan Award Ceremony
Award Clinical Neurology
10 June 2013
Liz Barnes-Moss, Departmental Administrator, was presented with NDCN's Athena Swan Bronze Award by Dame Julia Higgins at a ceremony held at the Royal Society in Edinburgh on June 6th.