Oxford Events, the new replacement for OxTalks, will launch on 16th March. From now until the launch of Oxford Events, new events cannot be published or edited on OxTalks while all existing records are migrated to the new platform. The existing OxTalks site will remain available to view during this period.
From 16th, Oxford Events will launch on a new website: events.ox.ac.uk, and event submissions will resume. You will need a Halo login to submit events. Full details are available on the Staff Gateway.
Kenneth S. Kosik is a physician scientist who completed an M.A. in English literature, an M.D., and residency in neurology. He achieved full professor in 1996 at Harvard Medical School. In 2004, Kosik became the Co-Director of the Neuroscience Research Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His was one of several groups that discovered Tau protein in the Alzheimer neurofibrillary tangle. Over three decades, Kosik has researched familial Alzheimer’s disease in Colombia. He received a Whitaker Health Sciences Award from MIT, a Milton Foundation Award from Harvard Medical School, the Moore Award, American Association of Neuropathologists, the Metropolitan Life Foundation Medical Award, the Derek Denny-Brown Neurological Scholar Award, the Zenith Award and Temple Award from the Alzheimer’s Association, the Ranwell Caputo Medal from the Argentine Society of Neurochemistry, the NASA Group Achievement Award to Neurolab Science Team, the Premio Aventis from Academia Nacional de Medicina, Colombia, the Potamkin Prize, and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.