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Radcliffe Department of Medicine @rdm.ox.ac.uk · 9d

Three RDM researchers have been awarded the title of Full Professor in the University's 2025 Recognition of Distinction exercise.

Congratulations to Beth Psaila, James Davies and Rajesh Kharbanda 🎉

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Radcliffe Department of Medicine @rdm.ox.ac.uk · 11d

Congratulations to Professor Ellie Tzima who has joined an international team of scientists awarded an $8.5 million grant from the Leducq Foundation 🎉

The team will study Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) and accelerate the development of new therapies.

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Professor Ellie Tzima receives Leducq Foundation funding to tackle Peripheral Artery Disease

Professor Ellie Tzima from the Radcliffe Department of Medicine has joined an international team of scientists awarded an $8.5 million grant from the Leducq Foundation to study Peripheral Artery Disea...

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Radcliffe Department of Medicine @rdm.ox.ac.uk · 14d

A £10 million gift from the Bukhman Foundation will support ground-breaking research into #Type1Diabetes (T1D) @ox.ac.uk

This generous funding will accelerate progress towards better treatments and ultimately a cure.

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Oxford University to accelerate type 1 diabetes research and care with £10 million gift

The University of Oxford has announced a gift of £10 million from the Bukhman Foundation to support ground-breaking research into type 1 diabetes (T1D). This generous funding will establish the Bukhma...

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 22d

📽️ Check out our latest video, where we speak with the @drakesmith-lab.bsky.social and their collaborators in @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social & @biology.ox.ac.uk to find out how they're tackling iron deficiency - the world's most common nutritional deficiency 🧪

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Tackling Iron Deficiency

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · 29d

NEW: Oxford researchers link mini organs to show how immune cells race to the rescue after heart injury 🧪

@abattacks.bsky.social & colleagues linked cardiac and bone marrow organoids with a 3D-printed device to model this complex immune response.

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Body-in-a-chip approach reveals how immune cells respond to heart injury

Oxford scientists build a connected, ‘multi-organoid’ platform that recreates immune recruitment to the heart, opening new avenues to probe disease and test therapies.

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Radcliffe Department of Medicine @rdm.ox.ac.uk · Sep 8

Congratulations to Dr Christos Kotanidis who has been awarded the 2025 ESC Young Investigator Award in Preventative Cardiology at the European Society of Cardiology Congress in Madrid.

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Christos Kotanidis wins ESC Young Investigator Award 2025 in Preventive Cardiology

Congratulations to Dr Christos Kotanidis, NIHR-funded Academic Clinical Lecturer in Cardiology, who has been awarded the 2025 ESC Young Investigator Award in Preventive Cardiology at the European Soci...

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Radcliffe Department of Medicine @rdm.ox.ac.uk · Sep 1

Weight loss alone doesn't ease atrial fibrillation symptoms in older adults, study finds.

Researchers say additional treatments are also needed.

The research was presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2025 in Madrid.

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Weight loss alone doesn’t ease atrial fibrillation symptoms in older adults, study finds

A clinical trial led by researchers in the University of Oxford’s Radcliffe Department of Medicine and Oxford Population Health, has found that while a structured weight-loss programme helped older ad...

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Radcliffe Department of Medicine @rdm.ox.ac.uk · Aug 29

RDM has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the National Defense Medical University and Tri-Service General Hospital in Taiwan which will provide funding for their students who have successfully enrolled on the DPhil in Medical Sciences.

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DPhil sponsorship agreement with medical university and hospital /medical centre in Taiwan

On 28 August, RDM signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the National Defense Medical University and Tri-Service General Hospital in Taiwan which will provide funding for their students who have su...

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Radcliffe Department of Medicine @rdm.ox.ac.uk · Aug 19

A team of scientists has used fluorescent versions of next-generation diabetes & obesity drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy to reveal, for the first time, exactly which cells they target in the pancreas and brain.

#diabetes #obesity #Ozempic #Wegovy

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Scientists reveal how new diabetes and obesity drugs work

A team led by scientists at the University of Oxford and the Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie in Berlin has used fluorescent versions of next-generation diabetes and obesity dru...

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · Aug 15

NEW @cancerresearchuk.org-funded study, led by @bethpsaila.bsky.social & @l-cmurphy.bsky.social, reveals an unexpected and powerful new function for platelets with profound implications for cancer diagnosis and prenatal screening 🧪

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Platelets Shown to Store DNA in Study that could Transform Cancer Screening

Study led by Psaila Group uncovers previously unknown function of platelets as DNA ‘vacuum cleaners’ in the blood, with profound implications for cancer diagnosis and prenatal screening.

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · Jul 31

🎉 Congratulations to Prof Claus Nerlov, who has been awarded funding from Wellcome to map the gene regulatory networks in blood cell production and seek new therapeutic targets 🩸

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Wellcome Discovery Award for Claus Nerlov

Claus Nerlov, Professor of Stem Cell Biology, has been awarded funding from Wellcome to map the gene regulatory networks in blood cell production and seek new therapeutic targets.

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Radcliffe Department of Medicine @rdm.ox.ac.uk · Aug 7

Congratulations and welcome to Nicholas Clarke - one of 28 exceptional young people awarded the 2025 Ramsey Postgraduate Scholarship 🎉

Nicholas will be studying how AI can be used to develop novel methods to detect cardiomyopathies on cardiac CT.

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · Jul 29

NEW: Latest study from Tao Dong's Group links cancer stage to strength of antitumoral immune response in HR+ breast cancer 🧪

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New Study Links Cancer Stage to Strength of Antitumoral Immune Response in HR+ Breast Cancer

The latest study from Tao Dong's Group in the MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit has been published in Cell Reports Medicine.

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NIHR Oxford BRC @oxfordbrc.bsky.social · Jul 28

Great to see our work on using AI with routine scans to predict heart attacks many years before they happen featured in this piece @rdm.ox.ac.uk @ouhospitals.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk
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Cardiovascular disease: new ways to detect risk and improve outcomes

NIHR Evidence webinar exploring new ways to identify people at risk of cardiovascular problems. Methods used data and AI to identify cardiovascular risk.

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Academy of Medical Sciences @acmedsci.bsky.social · Aug 1

🎥 Explore how mentoring can help you navigate your working life and support your career development

🔄 Share to help spread the value of mentoring

Want to dive deeper?

👉 Join our upcoming Mentoring Catalysis workshop on Tuesday 9 September: ow.ly/YLS950WysHb

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Radcliffe Department of Medicine @rdm.ox.ac.uk · Jul 21

A new study led by RDM researchers has found that immune cells may play a role in treating hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).

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Immune cells show promise in treating hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

A new study from scientists at the Radcliffe Department of Medicine and Harvard Medical School, and funded by the British Heart Foundation, has uncovered a potential new treatment for hypertrophic car...

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NIHR Oxford BRC @oxfordbrc.bsky.social · Jul 11

A new UK-wide clinical study aimed at transforming liver cancer surveillance in people with #cirrhosis has opened to recruitment oxfordbrc.nihr.ac.uk/recruitment-... #LiverCancer @ouhospitals.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk @rdm.ox.ac.uk @nihr.bsky.social

Recruitment opens for UK-wide liver cancer imaging study | NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · Jul 15

Have you ever considered using theatre to connect your research with the public?

Ali Kay (@genomics-ali.bsky.social) from the @gorielylab.bsky.social at the MRC WIMM has co-led a project that utilised theatre to explore a couple’s experience of a genetic diagnosis in their child.

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Making it Personal – Engaging the public through theatre

Innovative public engagement project explores the intersection of cutting-edge science and the raw honesty of the stage.

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Radcliffe Department of Medicine @rdm.ox.ac.uk · Jul 15

The Medical Research Council has awarded a team co-led by RDM's Dr James Grist, £1.3 million to advance the field of hyperpolarised MRI 🎉

The project will develop educational tools for the field and conduct a multi-centre brain study.

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Experimental Physiology @expphysiol.bsky.social · Jul 10

@kwrsmith.bsky.social, @kaitlyndennis.bsky.social and Leanne Hodson (@rdm.ox.ac.uk) review the effect of phenotype and diet on risk of intrahepatic triglyceride accumulation as part of our Dietary Manipulations special issue!

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · Jul 7

NEW: Research led by Professors Irene Roberts and Paresh Vyas reports the outcome of the first-ever prospective study of newborn babies with Down syndrome, exploring why these babies and young children have such a high incidence of acute myeloid leukaemia caused by mutations in the GATA1 gene. 🧪

Clinical significance of preleukemic somatic GATA1 mutations in children with Down syndrome

Key Points. Somatic preleukemic GATA1s mutations are acquired before birth in 25% of neonates with Down syndrome and are not acquired post-natallyRates of

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · Jul 3

NEW: Researchers at the MRC WIMM and @dkfz.bsky.social have developed a new method to analyse how our tissues evolve as we age, called SCIFER 🧬 🧪

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New tool allows researchers to track how mutations arise in tissues

Researchers at the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine and the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) have developed a new method to analyse how our tissues evolve as we age.

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MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine @imm.ox.ac.uk · Jul 1

WIMM Day 2025 brought our researchers together to share discoveries, swap ideas & celebrate success — from gene editing to immunotherapy to public engagement.

Catch the recap + award winners here:

Celebrating science, collaboration and excellence at WIMM Day 2025

The MRC WIMM community gathered for its flagship annual event, WIMM Day, on Tuesday 24th June. Held at the Saïd Business School, the day showcased the breadth and impact of research across the institu...

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Radcliffe Department of Medicine @rdm.ox.ac.uk · Jun 27

We are delighted to announce the designation of three new RDM Principal Investigators (PIs)🎉

Congratulations Agne Antanaviciute, Mira Kassouf and Sumana Sharma.

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Oxford Sparks @oxfordsparks.bsky.social · Jun 11

🎙️ How does Ozempic actually work?

You might have heard about it in the media, but what actually *is* #Ozempic? Marketed as a drug for #diabetes, it is now commonly associated with #weightloss. We chat to #hormone doctor Annie de Bray about how it works.

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