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« Back to NewsPrehistoric teeth used to create historic map of infectious diseases
29 July 2025
A research project led jointly by researchers from the University of Oxford, the University of Copenhagen and University of Cambridge shows that large-scale mapping of prehistoric teeth and bones provides new knowledge of present-day infectious diseases. This may, among other things, have an impact on the development of vaccines.
Oxford University Chancellor Lord Hague visits Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences
28 July 2025
Lord Hague, Chancellor of Oxford University, visited the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences (NDPCHS) to explore how its research and teaching are addressing urgent health challenges in the UK and globally.
AMR surveillance project in Nigeria delivers life-saving impacts
28 July 2025
A research project led by the Ineos Oxford Institute for antimicrobial research (IOI) to study the cause and impact of antimicrobial-resistant sepsis in Nigeria has resulted in reduced new-born deaths, improved awareness about neonatal infection prevention amongst parents, and strengthened capacity and training for local doctors. The findings have been published in Nature Communications.
Identifying research priorities for severe paranoia
25 July 2025
We talk to lead author David Sher about his paper, which aimed to establish potential research priorities for understanding and treating severe paranoia for the first time.
HRH The Duke of Gloucester Visits University of Oxford’s Cutting-Edge Vaccine Facilities
24 July 2025
His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester visited the University of Oxford on Thursday to tour two of its leading medical research centres: the Clinical BioManufacturing Facility and the laboratories of the Oxford Vaccine Group (OVG) and Pandemic Sciences Institute (PSI), located on the University’s Old Road Campus.
'I always say that inclusion without influence is tokenism' - Chris Frederick at the Race and Psychiatry Journal Club
22 July 2025
DPhil student Maya Ogonah, co-founder of the Race and Psychiatry journal Club in the Department of Psychiatry, interviews Chris Frederick, a mental health lived experience advisor and suicide attempt survivor.
New Global Health Building reaches its highest point
22 July 2025
A topping-out ceremony has taken place at the Old Road Campus to mark the completion of the main structure of the University’s new Global Health Building
Babies made using three people's DNA are born free of hereditary disease
21 July 2025
Eight babies born free of hereditary disease using DNA from three people.
Scientists reveal how cells repair toxic DNA damage linked to cancer and premature ageing
21 July 2025
Researchers at the University of Oxford and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore have uncovered the mechanism by which cells identify and repair a highly toxic form of DNA damage that causes cancer, neurodegeneration, and premature ageing.
New research finds that ivermectin could help control malaria transmission
21 July 2025
A collaborative new study involving KEMRI-Wellcome Trust researchers has highlighted a new way to control malaria transmission. The study found that ivermectin, a drug normally used for neglected tropical diseases, led to a 26% reduction in new malaria infections among children aged 5-15.
Immune cells show promise in treating hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
21 July 2025
A new study from scientists at the Radcliffe Department of Medicine and Harvard Medical School, and funded by the British Heart Foundation, has uncovered a potential new treatment for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).
Why do we need sleep? Oxford researchers find the answer may lie in mitochondria
18 July 2025
New study uncovers how a metabolic “overload” in specialised brain cells triggers the need to sleep.
From practice to progress: Oxford’s NMAHPPs celebrate research that makes a difference
18 July 2025
More than 225 of Oxford’s health and care professionals came together on 2nd July to share and celebrate research led and delivered by the area’s nurses, midwives, allied health professionals, healthcare scientists, pharmacists and clinical psychologists (NMAHPPs).
Certain chronic health conditions associated with increased risk of dementia – new study
17 July 2025
Developing cardiovascular, mental health and neurological-related illnesses before the age of 70 is associated with a greater risk of dementia later in life, with the more of these conditions accumulated the greater the risk, according to a new study by the University of Oxford.
New £50m MRC Centre launched to study how environmental exposures cause chronic inflammatory diseases
16 July 2025
A new Medical Research Council Centre of Research Excellence (MRC CoRE) will investigate how the environment interacts with our immune system to trigger chronic inflammatory diseases, such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
Study reveals how HIV-1 breaches the cell’s most guarded barrier
11 July 2025
In a new study from NDM’s Division of Structural Biology, researchers have found out how HIV-1 breaches the cell’s most guarded barrier, revealing the determinants that control the nuclear import of HIV-1.
What Elio can help teach us about eye patching, stigma and the developing brain
11 July 2025
Disney Pixar’s latest film, Elio, follows a familiar-sounding character, a lovable and imaginative young hero who dreams of finding a place where he truly belongs. But amid the colour and chaos of the film’s outer space setting, one subtle detail stands out: Elio wears an eye patch.
Oxford’s OrganOx wins the MacRobert Award 2025
9 July 2025
The Royal Academy of Engineering has announced that OrganOx has won the £50,000 MacRobert Award, the longest running and most prestigious prize for UK engineering innovation, for its life-saving technology that is supporting more organ transplants and helping to cut waiting lists.
Ethnic disparities persist in COVID-19 and cardiovascular disease
7 July 2025
A new study has found that people from non-White ethnic backgrounds in England and Wales continued to be disproportionately impacted by severe outcomes after COVID-19 such as cardiovascular disease.
Helen Byrne wins Naylor Prize and Lectureship in Applied Mathematics
4 July 2025
Professor Helen Byrne has won the 2025 Naylor Prize and Lectureship in Applied Mathematics from the London Mathematical Society.