Colleagues who worked with Dr Ling Flece, who died in a crash at The Plain, have paid a heartfelt tribute to the scientist.
The cyclist, 35, suffered serious injuries and died at the scene following a collision with a tipper lorry at the junction of St Clement’s Street and The Plain on Tuesday afternoon.
Professor Tao Dong and colleagues from the Nuffield and Radcliffe Departments of Medicine at the University of Oxford called her an “incredibly kind and delightful colleague”.
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They said: “Dr Ling Felce joined our team in September 2020 as postdoctoral scientist, and immediately made significant contributions to several of our research projects studying the immune responses to the SARS-CoV-2 virus infection. Due to the pandemic, most of Ling’s interactions during her first year with us were via Zoom, but she made such an effort to get to know all of her new colleagues, and quickly became a beloved member of our lab family.
“Ling provided invaluable help and advice on several scientific projects, and her contributions will be greatly missed. She was always willing to help and support her colleagues and especially the students within the group, and she laid the foundations for our Bioinformatic research platform (soon to become a dedicated Bioinformatics centre within the newly established CAMS-Oxford Institute at Oxford University).
“Ling was an incredibly kind and delightful colleague: we will miss her smiling face in group meetings.
“Ling was a very bright young scientist, excited about the future and everything it may bring for her and her young family. We are devastated by this tragedy that has taken her at such a promising point in her life. Our thoughts are with her family and friends at this difficult time.”
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On Friday, Dr Felce’s family paid tribute to her.
Her husband of eight years, James, called her the “light of our family” and said the whole family is “devastated” to lose her.
He said: “Ling’s husband James said: “Ling was the light of our family and we are devastated to lose her so young when she had so many dreams for herself and her children that she was beginning to realise.
“I am lost without her warm presence, but she will live on through the love that she has given to us and to so many others.
“Her whole family loved and loves her desperately, and we will always keep her in our hearts.”
She leaves behind two children, aged three and five.
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