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Oxford Statistics at the forefront of AI-driven drug discovery
Professor Charlotte Deane from the Department of Statistics has been announced as a senior principal investigator on a £8 million government-backed consortium that will create the world's largest dataset for AI-driven drug discovery.
PoseBusters: AI-based docking methods fail to generate physically valid poses or generalise to novel sequences
Predicting how small molecules (or “ligands”) bind to proteins and other macromolecules like DNA and RNA is an important part of computer-aided drug discovery. Oxford Protein Informatics Group DPhil Student, Martin Buttenschoen, Professor Charlotte Deane and Professor Garrett M. Morris recently examined how well deep learning-based methods can dock a ligand into a protein pocket.
Oxford-led cross-divisional collaboration wins the prestigious Cozzarelli Prize
Professor Charlotte Deane Elected as ISCB Fellow
Professor Charlotte Deane has been elected as a fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) as part of the 2025 Class of Fellows.
England’s health inequity revealed by patterns of COVID-19 testing
Analysis shows stark differences in test use and reporting between different groups, including those based on age, ethnic group, and deprivation.
Oxford-Led Research Highlights AI’s Role in Enhancing Pandemic Preparedness
Oxford-Led Research Highlights AI’s Role in Enhancing Pandemic Preparedness
New Research Shows Genetic Discoveries Apply Across Human Populations
A new study published in Nature Genetics and involving researchers from the Universities of Oxford, Bristol, UCL and Regeneron has revealed that genetic mutations have remarkably consistent effects across populations. The work shows that most biological factors operate similarly in all of us.
New DPhil in Statistics Studentship
Social optimisation of public-facing digital tools for health protection and trial frameworks for non-pharmaceutical interventions.
Professor Christl Donnelly Awarded Visiting Miller Professorship at UC Berkeley
The Department of Statistics is delighted to announce that Head of Department, Professor Christl Donnelly, has been awarded a Visiting Miller Professorship at the University of California, Berkeley for spring 2026.