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\n \n \n \nNuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences' Associate Professor Peter Scanlon has been named as a winner at the prestigious Royal College of Physicians\u2019 (RCP) Excellence in Patient Care Awards.
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\n \n\n \n18 May 2021
\n \n \n \nThe Nuffield Department of Orthopaedic, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS) is delighted to announce that Professor Jonathan Rees has been appointed as the new Director of the Botnar Research Institute
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\n \n\n \n18 May 2021
\n \n \n \nA new study from Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics has addressed a long-standing gap in our understanding of systemic iron homeostasis. It provides the first formal demonstration that the hormone hepcidin controls iron reabsorption in the kidney, in a manner that impacts the body\u2019s iron levels, under normal physiological conditions. It also demonstrates for the first time how this mechanism becomes critically important in the development of iron disorders.
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\n \n\n \n18 May 2021
\n \n \n \nResearchers running the University of Oxford-led Com-COV study \u2013 launched earlier this year to investigate alternating doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and the Pfizer vaccine \u2013 report preliminary data revealing more frequent mild to moderate reactions in mixed schedules compared to standard schedules.
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\n \n\n \n18 May 2021
\n \n \n \nNew research shows that people who suffer from recurrent abdominal pain in childhood may be more likely to have disordered eating as teenagers.
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\n \n\n \n18 May 2021
\n \n \n \nThe partnership will enable global genomic sequencing and examination through a specialist platform developed on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to help mitigate the impact of potentially dangerous COVID-19 variants.
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\n \n\n \n17 May 2021
\n \n \n \nPeople with healthier heart structure and function appear to have better cognitive abilities, including increased capacity to solve logic problems and faster reaction times, according to a study involving University of Oxford and Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) researchers.
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\n \n\n \n12 May 2021
\n \n \n \nDr Eoghan Mulholland has received the prestigious Lee Placito Research Fellowship in Gastrointestinal Cancer. Eoghan will use this 3-year position to research cell interactions in colorectal cancers.
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\n \n\n \n12 May 2021
\n \n \n \nThe Academy of Medical Sciences has elected 11 University of Oxford biomedical and health scientists to its fellowship.
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\n \n \n \nInsufficient data, and misleading recommendations led to significant early heterogeneity in global COVID-19 patient management, according to recent BMJ study.
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\n \n\n \n10 May 2021
\n \n \n \nParents and carers reported that behavioural, emotional and attentional difficulties in their children changed considerably throughout the past year, increasing in times of national lockdown and decreasing as restrictions eased and schools reopened, according to the latest Co-SPACE (COVID-19 Supporting Parents, Adolescents, and Children in Epidemics) study, led by experts at the University of Oxford.
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\n \n\n \n10 May 2021
\n \n \n \nA new initiative by Oxford Medical Students and faculty is accelerating the learning of sustainable healthcare at Oxford.
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\n \n\n \n10 May 2021
\n \n \n \nUK academics are calling for targets for mental health research in order to meet the healthcare challenges of the next decade. Published today in Journal of Mental Health, researchers set out four overarching goals that will speed up implementation of mental health research and give a clear direction for researchers and funders to focus their efforts when it comes to better understanding the treatment of mental health.
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\n \n\n \n7 May 2021
\n \n \n \nFirst vaccinations have now begun in Mali in a phase III trial of a malaria vaccine developed at the University of Oxford. Known as R21/Matrix-M, it recently showed efficacy of 77% over 12 months in a phase IIb trial, and it is hoped that this phase III trial will help to lead to licensure of this malaria vaccine by 2023.
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\n \n\n \n7 May 2021
\n \n \n \nSix scientists from the University of Oxford, including Professor Adrian Hill and Professor Frances Platt from the Medical Sciences Division, have joined the Royal Society as Fellows.
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