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Congratulations to Professor de Bruijn, who has been awarded funding from the UKRI Medical Research Council to investigate how the first blood stem cells formed in the embryo acquire their exceptional...

No one builds a scientific career alone.In this video researchers...

Congratulations to Professor Patel, who has received the Buchanan Medal, which recognises distinguished contributions to the biomedical sciences.

Congratulations to Professor Psaila, who has received the 2026 Janet Rowley Award from the International Society for Experimental Hematology, in recognition of her outstanding contributions in the field of experimental haematology.

During embryonic development, the specification of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) and progenitor cells (HPCs) critically depends on the transcription factor Runx1. Anselmi et al. describe a Runx1 enh...

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Science has the greatest impact when it reaches beyond the laborato...

The Joan Mott Prize Lecture celebrates women in physiology whose work has demonstrated impact.

Researchers, students and imaging specialists from across the UK and Europe recently completed a new training programme in hyperpolarised MRI at Oxford. This course builds expertise in a rapidly developing imaging technology with applications across healthcare and biomedical research.

Five Radcliffe Department of Medicine research teams have secured pump-priming funding to support new collaborations and early-stage research aligned with RDM’s cross-cutting research themes.

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Professor Rajesh Thakker has been named the 2026 recipient of the William F. Neuman Award from the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR), recognising his outstanding scientific contri...

Dr Sumana Sharma is one of the founding partners of a major new pan-European initiative that aims to transform how scientists identify and target cancer's weaknesses, moving beyond simply mapping canc...

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Congratulations to the Institute's Green Impact team, who achieved Gold in the University of Oxford's 2026 Green Impact awards.

A new form of CAR T cell therapy has been designed to find and destroy the cancer-driving cells responsible for a group of blood cancers known as myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs), while leaving hea...

IT can redesign your home, blitz your life admin and plan your holidays. And one day, AI could save your life. More than half a million NHS staff already employ artificial intelligence and it is es…

A research project led by Professor Jan Rehwinkel is one of three innovative Oxford-led projects aimed at transforming how we protect against respiratory viruses, which have secured funding through th...

Researchers at the University of Oxford have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that may help doctors better understand how high blood pressure damages different organs in different people...

Platelets are produced via a canonical pathway emanating from multi-lineage hematopoietic stem cells (ML-HSCs), and a faster, direct pathway used by platelet-biased (P-)HSCs where the latter circumven...

Researchers have discovered that some human blood stem cells retain a lasting “memory” of inflammation, a finding that could help explain links between ageing, chronic disease, and blood cancers

Two research groups at the University of Oxford have been awarded funding through the prestigious International Cardiovascular Research Partnership Awards, to support high-quality international research collaborations that have the potential to accelerate progress towards improved understanding, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease.

A large international study led by researchers at the University of Oxford and the University of Virginia (USA) has identified a new model for predicting outcomes for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM)...

Researchers from the University of Oxford, the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Helmholtz Munich, and the Technical University of Munich have developed a new artificial intelligence framework t...

RDM is delighted to announce that the title of Associate Professor has been conferred on four of our researchers. Each of our new Associate Professors has been awarded the title in recognition of thei...

Leading mid-career scientists from the UK, France, Germany, and the Netherlands have received almost €6 million from a pioneering partnership between the British Heart Foundation (BHF), the Dutch Hea...

Welcome to the Oxford Heart Survey Narrowing the scope: comprehensive analysis of sex differences in heart attack symptoms. Ethics Approval Reference: R93889/RE001 Thank you for taking the time to par...

Researchers from the University of Oxford's Radcliffe Department of Medicine and the University of Surrey have discovered that a key immune enzyme controls inflammation in a way that does not depend o...

Study finds monitoring and adjustment of medication where needed can help protect mothers’ heart health

Congratulations to Dr Kevin Rue-Albrecht, who has been selected as one of BioFAIR’s inaugural Pathfinder Projects.

Now in its 11th year, Springboard supports researchers at a critical point in their careers, when many are establishing laboratories for the first time and need the freedom to explore ambitious questi...

Programme uses data from routine CT scans to help doctors identify high-risk patients earlier than ever before

Congratulations to Dr Onima Chowdhury, who has been awarded a clinical trial grant by Cancer Research UK to improve treatment of Myelodysplastic Syndromes.

Following RDM’s annual call for researchers to apply for Principal Investigator (PI) status, we are delighted to announce the designation of a new PIs for 2026.

Congratulations to Dr Verena Korber, who has been awarded a Career Development Fellowship from Cancer Research UK.

Researchers from the University of Oxford, the German Cancer Research Center, and Hospital Saint-Louis have uncovered a surprising new way that blood stem cells are lost over time, offering fresh insi...

A study of more than 5,700 adults suggests that higher alcohol consumption is associated with increased levels of visceral fat - the type of fat stored deep inside the abdomen and linked to poorer hea...