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Oxford scientists are set to benefit from one of the biggest funding grants ever awarded by Cancer Research UK.
Maria Kyriazi wins Young Star Award at the Greek International Women Awards
1 December 2025
NDORMS DPhil student Maria Kyriazi has won the prestigious Young Star Award at the fourth Greek International Women Awards in Athens.
Double success for NDORMS at Society awards
28 October 2025
Professors Cyrus Cooper and Kassim Javaid have been recognised at this year’s American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR) Annual Meeting, held in Seattle, receiving two major awards that highlight both mentorship and scientific debate excellence.
Teaching Excellence Awards for NDORMS
24 October 2025
Three Botnar teaching supervisors have been recognised in this year’s Medical Sciences Teaching Excellence Awards.
Loren Kell wins prestigious award at the British Society for Research on Ageing annual scientific meeting
2 October 2025
NDORMS postdoc Loren Kell recently attended the British Society for Research on Ageing (BSRA) annual scientific meeting, where she won the prestigious Korenchevsky Prize for her presentation.
NDORMS student Grace Frost recognised as top student at European Space Agency summer school
24 September 2025
Grace Frost, a student in the Alsaleh Group, attended the prestigious summer school led by the European Space Agency (ESA) where she was awarded second place for her research proposal.
Dr Chrissy Bolton wins Best Abstract Award at EULAR 2025 Congress
25 June 2025
Kennedy DPhil student Chrissy Bolton has been awarded Best Abstract in Basic and Translational Science at the European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology 2025 (EULAR) conference.
Professor Andrew Carr recognised in King’s Birthday Honours
14 June 2025
Professor Andrew Carr was honoured in the 2025 King’s Birthday Honours List being awarded an MBE for services to Orthopaedic Research and Training.
Professor Michael Dustin named AAI Distinguished Fellow
20 January 2025
The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) has recognised the outstanding work of the Kennedy Institute’s Professor of Molecular Immunology Michael Dustin by naming him a Distinguished Fellow of AAI.
Laura Coates becomes the first rheumatologist to receive prestigious NIHR professorship
9 January 2025
The first ever rheumatologist to be awarded an NIHR Research Professorship, Laura will use the funding to further her research into psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis aiming to transform patient care and treatment personalisation.
James Fullerton awarded a British Pharmacological Society Fellowship
17 December 2024
Associate Professor James Fullerton has been awarded Fellowship of the British Pharmacological Society (BPS) following a recommendation by their Honors and Fellows Panel, recognising his sustained contribution to the discipline of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics.
Kennedy scientists honoured with Royal Society Medal
16 September 2024
Professor Sir Ravinder Maini and Professor Sir Marc Feldmann have jointly received The Royal Society’s Royal Medal (Applied) for inventing anti-TNF therapy to treat rheumatoid arthritis (RA), bringing it from bench to bedside in one of the biggest success stories of modern medicine.
NDORMS researchers honoured in the Recognition of Distinction Scheme 2024
4 September 2024
Tal Arnon, Stephanie Dakin and Catherine Swales have each been awarded title of ‘Full Professor’ in the University of Oxford's 2024 Recognition of Distinction exercise.
Maryam Nina Hardy elected as President of the Oxford University Africa Society
24 June 2024
Kennedy DPhil student Maryam Nina Hardy has been elected as President of the Oxford University Africa Society.
Success for NDORMS at the Vice Chancellor’s Awards
10 May 2024
Dr Anjali Shah from the Botnar Institute won the Research Culture Award, and the Kennedy Histology Team won the Community Partnership Award.
Justin Wormald wins NIHR awards and takes up position as SITU Deputy Director
17 April 2024
NDORMS alumnus Justin Wormald has been awarded an NIHR Academic Clinical Lectureship and an NIHR Development and Skills Enhancement (DSE) Award, as well as being appointed as Deputy Director of the Surgical Trials Intervention Unit (SITU-NDORMS).
NDORMS’ Athena Swan Silver award renewed
20 March 2024
NDORMS has been awarded the Athena Swan Silver award for the third consecutive time, recognising the department’s commitment to gender equality.
Professor Gary Collins awarded prestigious NIHR Senior Investigator award
15 March 2024
NDORMS Professor of Medical Statistics and Director of the Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Gary Collins has been appointed National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Senior Investigator.
Caroline Morrell awarded an MRC Fellowship
9 January 2024
A DPhil candidate at NDORMS, Caroline received the MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowship that has enabled her to further her research into head and neck cancer.
NDORMS researchers awarded funding to spark new avenues of research
8 December 2023
Four researchers at NDORMS have been awarded a Research Ignition Award, as part of an initiative by the Kennedy Trust for Rheumatology to stimulate new and ambitious avenues of research.
Professor Chris Lavy awarded honorary fellowship from the College of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa
7 December 2023
Professor Chris Lavy has been awarded an honorary fellowship by the College of Surgeons of East Central and Southern Africa (COSECSA).
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Led by researchers at NDORMS as part of the Data Analysis and Real World Interrogation Network (DARWIN EU®) initiative, a new European study has shown that carefully designed observational studies can produce robust and reliable vaccine effectiveness estimates. These results highlight that high-quality real-world evidence can play a key role in complementing the findings from randomised clinical trials.