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\n \n\n \n25 June 2015
\n \n \n \nShe received one of the five highly contested 2015 L\u2019Or\u00e9al-UNESCO UK & Ireland For Women In Science Fellowships.
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\n \n\n \n23 June 2015
\n \n \n \nAn Oxford University study has found that reducing the tendency of vitamin A to form toxic clumps could slow down a condition that leads to blindness in children and young adults.\r\n
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\n \n\n \n4 June 2015
\n \n \n \nThe University of Oxford is offering a new online course in sleep medicine, due to start in October 2016. Students will be able to work towards two potential qualifications: a Post-graduate Diploma (PgDip) or a Masters (MSc).
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\n \n\n \n7 May 2015
\n \n \n \nBiosense celebrates the University\u2019s leading science research by combining scientific stories with incredible images and previously unseen museum specimens.
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\n \n\n \n17 December 2014
\n \n \n \nOphthalmologist Miss Samantha de Silva has been named the RSM Wesleyan Trainee of the Year 2014 for her research into gene therapy to restore visual function in end-stage retinitis pigmentosa.
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\n \n\n \n11 June 2014
\n \n \n \nThe survey, developed by researchers at the University of Oxford and digital sleep improvement programme, Sleepio, is the largest of its kind and will provide a snapshot of the nation\u2019s sleep health.
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\n \n\n \n13 May 2014
\n \n \n \nSociety has become 'supremely arrogant' in ignoring the importance of sleep, Professor Russell Foster has told the BBC's Day of the Body Clock.
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\n \n\n \n7 May 2014
\n \n \n \n'Sleep disruption is so much more than the inconvenience of being able to sleep at the desired time - it is a global health disruption', said Russell Foster, Professor of Circadian Neuroscience at the University of Oxford, speaking at Wired Health in London on 6 May.
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\n \n\n \n19 March 2014
\n \n \n \nThe Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences is playing a major role in a new research project looking at how to develop solid-state lighting technology (SSL).
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\n \n\n \n16 January 2014
\n \n \n \nThe 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.
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\n \n\n \n20 December 2013
\n \n \n \nOne 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.
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\n \n\n \n11 December 2013
\n \n \n \nThe 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.
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\n \n\n \n28 October 2013
\n \n \n \nThe 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.
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\n \n\n \n10 October 2013
\n \n \n \nSenior Research Scientist Katharina Wulff explains what happens when we sleep.
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\n \n\n \n24 September 2013
\n \n \n \nProf Russell Foster gives a TEDTalk on sleep.
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\n \n\n \n10 September 2013
\n \n \n \nProfessor MacLaren awarded 2013 ARVO Vision Foundation Pfizer Ophthalmics Carl Camras Translational Research Award
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\n \n\n \n10 May 2013
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\n \n\n \n15 January 2013
\n \n \n \nBlind mice can see again, after Oxford University researchers transplanted developing cells into their eyes and found they could re-form the entire light-sensitive layer of the retina.
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\n \n\n \n29 June 2012
\n \n \n \nThe tenth Cheltenham Science Festival took place between 12th and 17th June. The festival, currently chaired by Oxford\u2019s Professor Russell Foster, brings together some of the World\u2019s most innovative scientists from all fields to engage the public on the science behind today\u2019s news stories, advances and issues.
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\n \n\n \n22 May 2012
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