Medical Sciences Division

The Division comprises over 2200 academics and staff, 800 graduate students and 900 undergraduates; about 350 NHS Clinicians and GPs contribute to our teaching activities. In total over 2500 individuals are involved in research. Medical sciences research at Oxford has maintained its pre-eminent standing, as demonstrated by the results of the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). Analysis of the preliminary results published in December 2008 places Oxford medical sciences research as being of the highest quality in the UK in four separate medical science disciplines.

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Title	Description	People	Date
Varieties of Language Impairment in Children	Professor Dorothy Bishop gives a talk on the different types of language impairment in children.	Dorothy Bishop	23 July, 2012
Specific Language Impairment and Developmental Dyslexia: Syndromes, Memes and Illusions	Professor Dorothy Bishop gives the keynote presentation at the 2012 British Psychological Society Annual Conference.	Dorothy Bishop	23 July, 2012
Research into Stuttering using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)	Dr Kate Watkins, University Lecturer, discusses her research into stuttering, which makes use of MRI scans.	Kate Watkins	20 June, 2012
Fluorescence Imaging and Research into Cardiac Contraction	Dr Pawel Swietach, University Lecturer, talks about his use of fluorescence imaging in his research into the role of calcium in cardiac contraction.	Pawel Swietach	20 June, 2012
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and its role in research	Dr Daniel Bulte, Research Lecturer, explains how Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) works and introduces his research at the Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain (FMRIB).	Daniel Bulte	20 June, 2012
Developments in Malaria	Nicholas White, Professor of Tropical Medicine, gives the 2012 Weatherall lecture on developments in treating malaria.	Nicholas White	11 June, 2012
Improving, Expediting and Tracking Informed Consent: University of Michigan and US National Initiatives	Professor Nicholas Steneck, University of Michigan and Office of Research Integrity, gives a talk for the Research Integrity seminar series.	Nick Steneck	5 July, 2011
preDICT: Cardiac Electrophysiology Modeling	preDiCT is a major EU-funded project. It's purpose is to make computer models of cardiac electrophysiology, to help predict drug safety.	Arthur Thomas, Denis Noble, Gary Mirams, Lucía Romero, Blanca Rodriguez, David Gavaghan, Geoff Williams, Jean-Jacques Descombes	6 June, 2011
Know4Go - EBM lecture	Dr Janet Martin, Director of Health Technology Assessment, London Health Services Centre gives a special lecture for EBM entitled; Know4Go: An Instrument for decision-making when resources are limited and demands are relentless.	Janet Martin	24 February, 2011
The Information Revolution	Sir Muir Gray, Chief Knowledge Office, NHS, gives a special guest lecture for the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine.	Sir Muir Gray	24 February, 2011
The Future of Evidence Based Medicine	Professor Paul Glasziou, Director of the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, gives a special lecture on the future of EBM.	Paul Glasziou	24 February, 2011
Interpreting Results - Stats in Small Doses	Dr Amanda Burls delivers a talk for the Centre for Evidenced Based Medicine.	Amanda Burls	24 February, 2011
Diagnostic Tests	Dr Carl Heneghan delivers a talk for the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine.	Carl Heneghan	24 February, 2011
Appraisal of Clinical Trials	Dr Rafael Perera delivers a talk for the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine.	Rafael Perera	24 February, 2011
Introduction to Evidence Based Medicine	Professor Paul Glasziou gives an introduction to evidence-based medicine and healthcare.	Paul Glasziou	24 February, 2011
Research integrity and publication ethics [2010 lecture]	Dr Sabine Kleinert Senior Executive Editor, The Lancet and Vice-Chair of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), gives the fourth 2010 Research Integrity Seminar.	Sabine Kleinert	15 December, 2010
Good practice in research collections and biobanking	Dr Jane Kaye, Director of HeLEX-Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies, University of Oxford, gives the third 2010 Research Integrity Seminar.	Jane Kaye	15 December, 2010
International research collaborations: much to be gained, many ways to get into trouble	Melissa Anderson, professor of higher Education and Affiliate Faculty, Centre of Bioethics, University of Minnesota, gives the second 2010 Research Integrity seminar.	Melissa Anderson	22 November, 2010
EQUATOR Network: promoting transparent and accurate reporting of research studies	Professor Douglas Altman of the centre for Statistics in Medicine (Oxford) gives the first in the 2010 Research Integrity seminar series, looking at the ways in which transparent and accurate rporting in medical research can be accomplished.	Douglas Altman	22 November, 2010
Dr. Brian Angus on Tropical Medicine	Writer and medical historian Conrad Keating talks to Dr. Brian Angus, Director of the Wellcome Trust UK Centre for Clinical Tropical Medicine in Oxford, about his interest in science and how this inspired him to work with infectious diseases in Africa.	Brain Angus, Conrad Keating	14 September, 2010
Sarah Rowland-Jones on HIV/AIDS	Conrad Keating interviews Sarah Rowland-Jones, Professor of Immunology and Consultant Physician. The theme of her work is anti-viral immunity with a particular focus on how immune responses modify the outcome of HIV and other viral infections.	Sarah Rowland-Jones, Conrad Keating	16 August, 2010
Talking Law and Ethics - Feeding Results Back to Participants	Nadja Kanellopoulou gives a talk for the Helex Centre where she talks about the issues involved in giving results of medical research back to participants.	Nadja Kanellopoulou	21 June, 2010
Medicine without Frontiers: An Oxford physician-scientist working in Kenya.	On one of Kevin Marsh's regular visits to Oxford, the historian Conrad Keating caught up with the world-renowned malariologist and asked him what initially drew him to tropical medicine...	Kevin Marsh, Conrad Keating	4 June, 2010
Introduction to Ethics: Judgment, Motivation, Action	Paula Boddington gives a talk introducing the concept of ethics in business as part of the Said Business School's Seminar - The ethics of reputation and the reputation of ethics: oxymoron or research subject?	Paula Boddington	27 May, 2010
In Defense of Business Ethics - Said Business School Centre for Corporate Reputation	Roger Crisp gives a talk on business ethics as part of the Said Business School's Seminar - The ethics of reputation and the reputation of ethics: oxymoron or research subject?	Roger Crisp	27 May, 2010
The Science of Ethics: What Counts as Good Research?	Mark Sheehan gives a talk on research ethics and asks what counts as good research. Part of the Oxford Bioethics Network series on Issues in Research Ethics.	Mark Sheehan	27 May, 2010
Procardis Study; Genome wide associations with Disease	Paula Boddington gives a talk on the Procardis study as part of the Oxford Bioethics Network series on Issues in Research Ethics.	Paula Boddington	27 May, 2010
Dealing in Pieces of Silver: Financial Inducements in Research	Mark Sheehan gives a talk on the ethics of offering money or financial incentives to research participants as part of the Oxford Bioethics Network series on Issues in Research Ethics.	Mark Sheehan	27 May, 2010
Good Practice for Research Collection and Biobanks	Jane Kaye, Director of the HeLEX centre in Oxford, gives a talk on good practice in collecting research data and biobanks as part of the Oxford Bioethics Network series on Issues in Research Ethics.	Jane Kaye	27 May, 2010
Genomics Research: Individuals and Families	Paula Boddington gives a talk on the ethics of individuals and families as part of the Oxford Bioethics Network series on Issues in Research Ethics.	Paula Boddington	27 May, 2010
Altruism and Reciprocity in the Governance of Human Genetic Databases	Nadja Kanellopoulou gives a talk as part of the Oxford Bioethics Network series on Issues in research Ethics.	Nadja Kanellopoulou	27 May, 2010
Research involving adults lacking the capacity to consent: The Mental Capacity Act 2005	Michael Dunn gives a talk on the legal and ethical issues surrounding research involving adults who lack the capacity to give consent. Part of the Oxford Bioethics Network series on Issues in Research Ethics.	Michael Dunn	27 May, 2010
Ethics and Genomic Research	Paula Boddington gives a talk on ethical issues within genomics research as part of the Oxford Bioethics Network series on Issues in Research Ethics.	Paula Boddington	27 May, 2010
Translating genomic research into clinical applications HeLEX	Naomi Hawkins gives a talk as part of the Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies (HeLEX) at Oxford series on Talking Law and Ethics.	Naomi Hawkins	27 May, 2010
What researchers should know about confidentiality and privacy HeLEX	Liam Curren gives a talk on the legal issues surrounding privacy in medical research as part of the Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies (HeLEX) at Oxford series.	Liam Curren	27 May, 2010
Who owns your research samples and information? HeLEX	Jane Kaye gives a talk as part of the HeLEX: Talking Law and Ethics series from the Bioethics network series on Talking Law and Ethics (TLE).	Jane Kaye	27 May, 2010
Forging a New Frontier in Oxford Medicine	The historian Conrad Keating continues his history of Oxford's groundbreaking contribution to health in the tropics by asking David Warrell what motivated him to work in Africa...	David Warrell, Conrad Keating	12 May, 2010
Sir David Weatherall on Malaria	Conrad Keating, the medical historian, opens his series with an interview with Sir David Weatherall to mark World Malaria Day on April 25th 2010.	Sir David Weatherall, Conrad Keating	23 April, 2010
An international perspective on promoting the responsible conduct of research	Paul Taylor gives a talk as part of the Research Integrity Seminar Series held at the John Radcliffe hospital.	Paul Taylor	4 March, 2010
Questionable research practices and how to respond to them	Seminar looking at questionable research practices, particularly within medical research and why we as scientists, we need to pay more attention to questionable research practices.	Nick Steneck	30 November, 2009
Who Cares About Research Integrity?	Seminar looking at the importance of integrity within medical research. Part of the Research Integrity Seminar Series organised by Research Services, in collaboration with the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre.	Mark Sheehan	30 November, 2009
Research integrity and publication ethics	Part one of a series of lectures looking at different aspects of research integrity and their application in biomedical research.	Harvey Marcovitch	25 November, 2009
Developing an improved TB vaccine	Dr McShane talks about the University's work in creating an improved vaccine against tuberculosis and she also talks about the urgency of this research.	Helen McShane	10 November, 2009
HIV: Will there ever be a vaccine?	A talk about the University's work in China and Africa and its attempts to identify the key determinants of protective immunology against HIV infection that should guide future vaccine design.	Sarah Rowland-Jones	10 November, 2009
Fighting to end Tuberculosis	Helen McShane and Dr Helen Fletcher talk about a new TB vaccine currently being developed at Oxford's Wellcome Trust Centre that could become a more effective vaccine against Tuberculosis.	Helen McShane, Helen Fletcher	10 November, 2009
Understanding human pain, suffering and relief through brain imaging	Professor Irene Tracey talks about her research into pain through using brain imaging technology to see exactly how the brain is affected by pain while discussing its implications to how we understand pain in society.	Irene Tracey	9 November, 2009
Language disorders in children: What can they tell us about genes and brains?	Recent studies have shown that genes are strongly implicated in determining if children will develop language disorders. In this talk, Professor Bishop examines the role genetics play in language development and language disorders.	Dorothy Bishop	28 October, 2009
David Smith on Dementia	Professor Smith talks about his research at OPTIMA (Oxford Project To Investigate Memory and Ageing) on dementia, particularly Alzheimer's and the relation between diet and blood pressure in younger life and dementia in older life.	David Smith, Oliver Lewis	17 August, 2009
Kim Nasmyth on Biochemistry	Head of the Department of Biochemistry Professor Kim Nasmyth talks about the department and what it means to be a biochemist at Oxford.	Kim Nasmyth	7 July, 2009
Genetics with Kay Davies	Kay Davies discusses her research of genetic diseases such as Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, problems which limit the development of therapy and the need for effective treatment and screening processes.	Kay Davies, Oliver Lewis	9 February, 2009
Gero Miesenboeck on Fruit Flies and Neuroscience	In this podcast, Professor Gero Miesenboeck begins with a discussion of DNA and neuroscience, and then talks about his experiments on the brain of the fruit fly.	Gero Miesenboeck, Oliver Lewis	13 September, 2008
Jennifer Lau on Anxiety and Depression in Children	Dr Jennifer Lau discusses her research into the development of anxiety and depression in childhood and adolescence.	Jennifer Lau, Oliver Lewis	13 September, 2008
Craig Venter on Genomics	In the second of the Distinguished Public Lecture Series run by the James Martin 21st Century School, Dr Craig Venter discusses his work at the J. Craig Venter Institute and its implications for the future of our culture, society and science.	J Craig Venter	12 September, 2008
Irene Tracey on FMRI and Pain	Professor Irene Tracey, director of the Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain, explains how MRI works and then talks about her research into people's perception of pain.	Irene Tracey, Oliver Lewis	12 September, 2008
Thomas Helleday on Cancer	Professor Helleday explains what cancer is, the problems of treating it, and the success of his own research in developing new treatments.	Thomas Helleday	11 September, 2008
Andrew Pollard on Childhood Disease	Professor Andrew Pollard, Professor of Paediatric Infection and Immunity, and Director of the Oxford Vaccine Centre, discusses childhood diseases, his research into vaccinations, and the problems facing childhood immunisation in the UK and abroad.	Andrew Pollard, Oliver Lewis	10 September, 2008

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