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Malaria booster vaccine continues to meet WHO-specified 75% efficacy goal

Researchers from the University of Oxford and their partners have today reported new findings from their Phase 2b trial following the administration of a booster dose of the candidate malaria vaccine, R21/Matrix-M™ – which previously demonstrated high-level efficacy of 77% over the following 12 months in young west African children in 2021.

Why our brain wiring’s insulation matters

Alberto Lazari of the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences explains the importance of insulation in our brains' wiring.

Gero Miesenböck awarded Horwitz Prize for foundational work on Optogenetics

Congratulations to Professor Gero Miesenböck (Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics) who is to be awarded the 2022 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, together with Professors Karl Deisseroth and Peter Hegemann, for research that laid the foundation for the field of optogenetics.

Oxford’s clinical staff awarded OAHP funding for research skills training

£73,000 of professional development grants are being awarded to Oxford’s nurses, midwives, allied health professionals and research practitioners to develop skills that will support them to research new and improved ways of delivering healthcare to patients and service users.

Updates from the MSD Research Staff Forum

Study raises hope of pre-school type 1 diabetes screening programme

Researchers in Oxford have launched the first UK study in the general population to test for early markers of type 1 diabetes before children develop symptoms or need insulin.

Long COVID: why it’s so hard to tell how many people get it

Study develops radiotranscriptomic AI analysis to enable virtual heart biopsies

Researchers from Radcliffe Department of Medicine tested the method in COVID-19 patients, to find that the results predicted in-hospital mortality.

Professor Dame Sue Black joins DPAG as Visiting Professor of Forensic Anatomy

The Department welcomes Professor Dame Sue Black DBE OBE FRSE FBA FRAI FRSB ChFA, Baroness Black of Strome and one of the world’s leading forensic scientists, as our Visiting Professor of Forensic Anatomy.

New study shows muscle pain is not due to statins in over 90% of those taking the treatment

Statin therapies are not the cause of muscle pain in over 90% of those who experience symptoms, according to a new study led by researchers from Oxford Population Health. The results were published today in The Lancet and presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress.

Going straight to surgery found to be better than undergoing rehabilitation first for longstanding anterior cruciate ligament injury

New research, funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), shows initial surgery to be more successful and cost effective than undergoing treatment with rehabilitation first to treat longstanding anterior cruciate ligament injury.

Early childhood weight affected by mother's diet during pregnancy

A new study, led by researchers at the University of Oxford, UK, in collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley, USA, published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology identifies, as early as the 5th month of pregnancy, patterns of fetal abdominal growth associated with maternal lipid metabolites that track newborn growth, adiposity and development into childhood.

Clinical medical student to join the Healthcare Leadership Academy Scholars programme

Clinical medical student, Yusuf Ben-Tarifite, has been selected to join the Healthcare Leadership Academy (HLA) Scholars programme - a prestigious scholarship set up to develop and nurture healthcare leaders of the future. After completing a rigorous selection process, Yusuf will be joining the academy’s cohort for the 2022/23 academic year.

Oxford scientists honoured with eight Royal Society Awards

Each year, the Royal Society recognises exceptional research achievements through a series of prestigious medals and prizes named after great scientists of the past. Eight of the 2021-22 awards, announced today, honour Oxford University researchers for their outstanding contributions to science and medicine.

Oxford University launch new clinical trial to test a treatment for monkeypox

The team behind the world-leading RECOVERY trial of COVID-19 treatments are leading a new study investigating a potential treatment for people who have been diagnosed with monkeypox. The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) has commissioned and funded the study. The first patients have now been recruited.

We studied how COVID affects mental health and brain disorders up to two years after infection – here’s what we found

Higher risk of blood clots in COVID-19 outpatients, largely reduced after vaccination

Researchers have studied the association between ambulatory COVID-19 and short-term risk of venal thrombosis and the clinical and genetic risk factors predisposing them to developing post–COVID-19 thrombosis.

Increased risk of some neurological and psychiatric disorders remains two years after COVID-19 infection

New diagnoses of disorders including psychosis, dementia, seizures and ‘brain fog’ remain commoner two years after COVID-19 than after other respiratory infections, whereas the increased risks of depression and anxiety after COVID-19 are short-lived and there is no overall excess of cases.

Sensory Supermarket event helps businesses make public-facing spaces more inclusive for autistic people

Researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Reading – in collaboration with awareness-raising organisation Sensory Spectacle – are hosting an innovative event called Sensory Supermarket as part of the Sensory Street research project.

Genetic mapping of tumours reveals how cancers grow

Researchers from the University of Oxford, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Science for Life Laboratory, and the Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden, have found that individual prostate tumours contain a previously unknown range of genetic variation.

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