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Oxford CL wins ONS Research Excellence Award

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Dr Gurdeep Mannu, one of OUCAGS' NIHR Clinical Lecturers in General Surgery has recently won the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Research Excellence Award for his research on:

Invasive breast cancer and breast cancer mortality after ductal carcinoma in situ in women attending for breast screening in England, 1988 to 2014.

You can read more about the award and why the research is important on the ONS website.

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NIHR Best Green Shoots Research award for OUCAGS ACF alumnus

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Former OUCAGS ACF, Dr Robert Hallifax, received a Best Green Shoots Research award at the Thames Valley Health Research Awards ceremony on 26th September, in Oxford.

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The 7th NIHR Infrastructure Doctoral Research Training Camp, in July, saw Dr Gurdeep Mannu, a former OUCAGS ACF in General Surgery, lead the group who won the prize for best overall research-programme grant application.

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Dr Kamal Mahtani, GP Clinical Lecturer at the University of Oxford, is the winner of this year’s Yvonne Carter Award for outstanding new researcher. The award scheme is run by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) to support the international work of promising primary-care researchers.

Ignobel prize for OUCAGS alumna’s appendicitis test

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OUCAGS alumna Dr Helen Ashdown and colleagues were awarded the 2015 Ignobel prize for diagnostic medicine. The award was for establishing that asking patients about pain while going over speed bumps can help diagnose appendicitis.