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« Back to NewsPrestigious Professor Heimburger Award for Dr Jeries Abu-Hanna
4 March 2025
Congratulations to Dr Jeries Abu-Hanna who has been selected as one of the five winning recipients for the Professor Heimburger Award 2025 in the field of inherited haemophilia.
Clinical trials begin for a first-in-class, inhaled gene therapy for people with cystic fibrosis
25 February 2025
An inhalable medicine with the potential to improve lung disease in people with cystic fibrosis, irrespective of their mutation type, is being tested in human trials in the UK and Europe.
Researchers provide a perspective on mapping the bone marrow using new spatial transcriptomic technologies
13 December 2024
RDM researchers have outlined the potential benefits and limitations of new spatial transcriptomic technologies for mapping the bone marrow in patients with blood cancer.
Transformative treatments for children with fatal genetic lung diseases
15 November 2024
AlveoGene, a company co-founded by two of our scientists, today moves closer to approval of its novel inhaled gene therapy for a rare deficiency which causes fatal respiratory distress syndrome in newborns.
Grant awarded to develop artificial intelligence tools to understand the bone marrow landscape
14 August 2024
Our researchers have received $200,000 to develop artificial intelligence tools to better diagnose what goes wrong in the bone marrow of myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN) patients.
Experts outline priority areas which should be addressed to advance treatment for inherited lung diseases
29 July 2024
An expert group including Deborah Gill, Professor of Gene Medicine in RDM’s Nuffield Division of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, has published a new position paper which addresses the gaps in research and treatment development for familial pulmonary fibrosis (FPF) – a collection of individually rare and severe genetically inherited lung diseases.
New Oxford–BMS Translational Fellowships announced
13 September 2023
Two new Oxford–Bristol Myers Squibb Fellowships will support postdoctoral researchers and clinicians in the Radcliffe Department of Medicine.
Doug Higgs awarded the 2023 Genetics Society Medal
22 November 2022
The award recognises Professor Higgs' major contribution to our understanding of how mammalian genes are switched on and off, and using haematopoiesis as a model to understand how genes function.
The Gene Therapists Headline at Glastonbury 2022
26 September 2022
Rosie Munday writes about her experience taking science to the masses at the Glastonbury Festival.
Six RDM research groups secure LEAF Sustainability Awards
22 July 2022
The Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework (LEAF) aims to support research groups to embed sustainability into their work.
James Davies named as Lister Research Prize Fellow
23 June 2022
James Davies has been named as one of eight researchers selected for the 2022 Fellowship scheme.
Six new Associate Professor titles at RDM
14 June 2022
Graham Collins, Betty Raman, Susie Shapiro, Christopher Toepfer, Stephen Twigg, and Adam Wilkinson have all been awarded Associate Professor titles
Building on the pandemic experience
24 May 2022
Dr Susie Shapiro on her experience of working through the pandemic, and how she is building on it.
Two NHSBT research units launch at RDM
18 May 2022
The NIHR has awarded three new Blood and Transplant Research Units (BTRUs) to the University of Oxford, with two of them led by RDM researchers.