Gastroenterology And Hepatology College Of Oxford Medical Sciences Division

There are internationally renowned groups working in the space of intestinal and liver inflammation, genetic analysis of early onset paediatric IBD, mobile and molecular foundation of innate and adaptive immunity, host pathogen interactions and most cancers cell biology. Translational research embody immune monitoring in genetically and clinically outlined illness cohorts, vaccines and novel anti-inflammatory medicine. Research groups are housed in the Translational Gastroenterology Unit in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, the Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research and the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics. Basic and medical researchers meet often through the monthly Translational Gastroenterology Unit seminar series. Oxford has an excellent record in educational gastroenterology from the early medical studies of Sidney Truelove to pioneering genetic analyses by Derek Jewell.