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Continued funding for lymphoma research at Oxford
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Researchers at the University's Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences
have received a grant for over £1 million from the Leukaemia Research
Fund (LRF) to continue and develop the work of their Immunodiagnostics Unit,
located within the Department.
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Recurrent HEFCE grant for 2000–1 announced
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The recurrent grant for 2000–1 to Oxford University from the Higher
Education Funding Council was announced last week.
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Oxford research promises an end to coeliac disease
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New treatments for coeliac disease came a step closer this month, when
university researchers from the Institute of Molecular Medicine and the
Nuffield Department of Gastroenterology published the results of a study into
the `toxic fraction' of gluten, which triggers coeliac disease, in Nature
Medicine.
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UK could become wine-producing hotspot
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The south of England could overtake France as a wine-growing region due to
the effects of global warming, and southern coastal Scotland could also be
producing wine within fifty years, following a predicted temperature rise of
up to 2 degrees centigrade, according to research carried out by scientists
at the University's Environmental Change Institute.
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Scholars view Monckton papers
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The archive of Walter Monckton, first Viscount of Brenchley, attracted
unprecedented attention when ten boxes of his papers were released for
research.
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New Chair of Management Studies
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Professor Paul Willman, D.Phil., Professor of Organisational Behaviour and
Industrial Relations at the London Business School, has been appointed to the
Ernest Butten Professorship of Management Studies at the Saïd Business
School.
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Oxford Law triumph
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Students from the University scooped half the six winning entries in this
year's Times Law Awards announced this month.
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