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4 June 2026
Dr Ruxandra Dafinca awarded an Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Research Leader Fellowship
4 June 2026
Ruxandra Dafinca is one of 17 early career researchers awarded a fellowship in the 2025/2026 call for her project focused on frontotemporal dementia.
New study shows the brain uses brief, slow rhythms to organise how memories are formed, stored, and later recalled
1 June 2026
A new study from the University of Oxford and CNRS has shown that the brain uses rhythms for brain cell impulses to coordinate activity across memory-related regions in the brain during learning and help reactivate those experiences afterwards, strengthening what we remember.
Professor Masud Husain elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
27 May 2026
Professor Husain was one of twelve renowned Oxford researchers to be elected Fellows of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences, in recognition of their exceptional contributions to advancing scientific knowledge.