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Members of NDCN in the lecture theatre at Thomas Willis Day 2026

Celebrating NDCN at Thomas Willis Day 2026

24 June 2026

Our annual event where we join together to celebrate our people and the work of our NDCN over the last year. Nearly 250 staff and students came together for this year's event on Tuesday 16 June at the Mathematical Institute.

Kate Watkins and Bernhard Staresina awarded major European Research Council Advanced Grants

23 June 2026

Kate and Bernhard were two of fourteen researchers at the University of Oxford to be awarded Advanced Grants from the European Research Council (ERC), each worth up to €2.5 million over a period of five years.

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New Lancet review calls for urgent action to tackle the growing global threat of encephalitis

19 June 2026

The review highlights encephalitis as an urgent global health challenge and calling for faster diagnosis, improved treatments, and strengthened prevention strategies to reduce death and disability worldwide.

Appointment of the new Margaret Ogilvie Professor of Ophthamology

18 June 2026

We are delighted to announce that Professor Denize Atan has joined NDCN as Margaret Ogilvie Professor of Ophthamology and a Consultant in Neuro-ophthalmology at the Oxford Eye Hospital.

An artist’s impression which shows the proposed new Warneford Park research building on the right and the new hospital on the left, with a link building in between.

Warneford Park: Mental health and medical research campus development gets green light from Oxford City Council

17 June 2026

Plans to create a £750m mental health and medical research campus in Oxford have been given the go-ahead by Oxford City Council.

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New Oxford Centre for Women’s Mental Health established

17 June 2026

The University of Oxford is set to launch a new research centre dedicated to women’s mental health, bringing together expertise from medical and biological sciences with humanities for the first time.

Members of the Oxford Martin School Programme: From right: Dr Mona Barkat, Prof Zoltán Molnár, Professor Francis Szele, Dr Linna Zhou, Professor Hagan Bayley, Ms Ellina Mikhailova and Dr Vanessa Schild.

3D printing for brain repair: Oxford Martin School Programme creates new opportunities for DPAG–Ellison Institute collaboration

12 June 2026

Oxford joins major new Educational Neuroscience centre to shape government policy

8 June 2026

Professor Gaia Scerif from the Department of Experimental Psychology is a key partner in a newly announced research centre that will help shape education policy across England.

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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.

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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.

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Clinical Trial of Ketogenic Therapy for Early Psychosis funded by Baszucki Group

26 May 2026

The University Oxford has received £1.17m of funding from Baszucki Group to assess the feasibility, safety, and efficacy of a ketogenic diet for patients at clinical high risk of psychosis (CHR-P).

A profile of Professor Roderick MacKinnon, ahead of his Burdon Sanderson Prize Lecture

20 May 2026

Dozens of participants seated and standing at the event in the Seminar Room at the Department of Psychiatry to mark 50 years of the Oxford Self-harm Monitoring System. Emeritus Professor Keith Hawton is pictured third from right on the front row.

The 50th Anniversary of the Oxford Self-harm Monitoring System

18 May 2026

Influential and impactful Oxford Self-harm Monitoring System had been in place, and continuously funded, for 50 years.

ASAP project leads Andy Sharott and Laura Parkkinen

Two researchers from NDCN join global network to unravel the complexity of Parkinson’s disease

13 May 2026

Two scientists from NDCN, Professor Andrew Sharott (Team leader) and Professor Laura Parkkinen (Co-Investigator) have been selected for multi-year grants to join the Collaborative Research Network (CRN) an international, multidisciplinary, multi-institutional network working to address high-priority research questions about Parkinson's disease.

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Study shows that non-invasive ultrasound shows promise for treating Parkinson’s disease

1 May 2026

Oxford researchers have shown for the first time that ultrasound could have similar effects on brain activity in Parkinson’s sufferers as implanted deep brain stimulation (DBS) electrodes. This opens the door to new treatment approaches that could avoid surgery.

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