Many congratulations to Unit members Dr. Yuhang Song, Dr. Shenghong He, and Associate Professor Melanie Fleming who each won prizes at this year’s Thomas Willis Day.

Thomas Willis Day (named after Thomas Willis (1621-1675), an Oxford-based pioneer in the field of brain research and neurology) is an annual event where staff and students from across the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences come together to celebrate the work of the Department.

Yuhang won the Early Career Researcher Prize in recognition of his paper “Inferring neural activity before plasticity as a foundation for learning beyond backpropagation”, published in Nature Neuroscience.

Shenghong won the Intermediate Career Researcher Prize in recognition of his paper “Beta-triggered adaptive deep brain stimulation during reaching movement in Parkinson's disease”, published in the journal Brain.

Melanie, who is the Unit’s Patient and Public Involvement Lead, won the Public Engagement Prize in recognition of her sustained excellence in promoting and delivering impactful public engagement/involvement activities across the Unit and wider Department.