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New translational unit launched to further critical research into multiple myeloma
General
19 October 2023
The Oxford Translational Myeloma Centre (OTMC) will be a collective force of research, outreach and patient care that will transform treatment opportunities for multiple myeloma cancer patients.
Radcliffe Science Library Reopened!
General
17 October 2023
Back in February 2020 the Radcliffe Science Library (RSL) team packed up our boxes, moved our books to the VHL and closed the doors on the RSL. This was to allow a thorough refurbishment of the building. Now more than three years later the RSL has reopened to the staff and the students of the University of Oxford.
Professor Eileen Parkes appointed to lead Oxford’s Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre
Awards and Appointments General
17 October 2023
Eileen Parkes, Associate Professor in Innate Tumour Immunology in the Department of Oncology, will lead the expansion of the Oxford’s Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC) programmes in early drug development and biomarker research.
Scholarship programme for the innovators of the future launched
Funding Opportunities General
13 October 2023
The Ellison Scholars programme, announced by the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), will find and fund students and train them to become leaders with the skills to invent, improve, and manage the next generation of technology, to help solve some of humanity’s most challenging and enduring problems.
Tackling persistent inequities underlying maternal mortality
General
12 October 2023
The Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk through Audits and Confidential Enquiries across the UK (MBRRACE-UK) collaboration, co-led by Nuffield Department of Population Health’s National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, has published the full Saving Lives, Improving Mothers’ Care report on women who died during, or up to a year after, pregnancy between 2019 and 2021.
Palestinian medical students visit Oxford for MedEd summer school
General Staff and student stories
11 October 2023
In July and August, twenty medical students from the Arab American University of Palestine (AAUP), based in Jenin, visited Oxford for two weeks to learn clinical skills and observe OUH clinicians.
Tackling mental illness by supporting industry to develop new drugs
General Innovation Research
11 October 2023
An academic/industry partnership, based at the NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre, is helping companies use experimental medicine approaches to speed up development of new drugs to treat psychiatric disorders.
The Big Shot. Oxford, Africa and the R21 malaria vaccine
General Research
11 October 2023
What we desperately need are new tools to improve malaria control, and this is the first vaccine that can be deployed at scale, that will be affordable, and can be used widely in Africa on a scale of hundreds of millions of doses each year.
Oxford to lead global collaboration to research and develop next-generation COVID-19 and flu vaccines
Coronavirus COVID-19 General Research
11 October 2023
Project headed by Oxford University’s Professor Teresa Lambe OBE (Calleva Head of Vaccinology and Immunology, Department of Paediatrics) and co-developer of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine and Paul Klenerman (Sidney Truelove Professor, Nuffield Department of Medicine)
‘We could eradicate malaria by 2040’ says expert after revolutionary vaccine is approved by WHO
General
11 October 2023
The World Health Organization has approved a new vaccine that scientists argue will be a game-changer in the fight against malaria, which kills half a million people in Africa every year. Trials have shown that the R21/Matrix vaccine, developed by Oxford University together with the Serum Institute of India, reduces malaria by up to 75%. It can be manufactured cheaply and on a mass scale. The Conversation Weekly spoke to chief investigator Adrian Hill, who is also director of the Jenner Institute at the University of Oxford, about this revolutionary vaccine. Below are edited excerpts from the podcast.
Wearable sensors provide early detection of progression in Parkinson’s Disease
General Innovation Research
11 October 2023
A team of researchers from the University of Oxford has shown for the first time that it is possible to track the progression of Parkinson’s Disease accurately using specially trained machine learning algorithms to analyse data derived from sensor devices worn by patients.
Professor Alan Bernstein appointed as new University of Oxford Director of Global Health
General Research
10 October 2023
Professor Alan Bernstein has been appointed as the new head of Oxford Global Health, which will bring together and showcase the breadth of global health research across the University of Oxford.
New research finds that reducing antibiotic usage in animal feed is not enough to combat antibiotic resistance
General Research
6 October 2023
A new study led by the University of Oxford has found that natural evolution of antibiotic resistance genes has maintained resistance in bacteria despite a reduction in the use of antibiotics. The findings demonstrate the importance of understanding the regulatory evolution of resistance genes to strategically combat AMR. The study has been published in the Journal of the International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME).
Gene therapy opens new possibilities for treating chronic pain
General Research
6 October 2023
Researchers from the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Oxford, along with colleagues at Cambridge University and Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, have shown the potential of a new gene therapy approach to silence human sensory neurons (nerve cells) as a means of treating persistent pain. Many current drugs for chronic pain are highly addictive, which makes it important to discover new alternatives.
Oxford researchers develop 3D printing method that shows promise for repairing brain injuries
General Innovation Research
5 October 2023
A breakthrough technique developed by University of Oxford researchers could one day provide tailored repairs for those who suffer brain injuries. The researchers demonstrated for the first time that neural cells can be 3D printed to mimic the architecture of the cerebral cortex. These results have been published today in the journal Nature Communications.
The long road to a new malaria vaccine, told by the scientists behind the breakthrough – podcast
General Research
4 October 2023
Long COVID patients are much more likely to have multiple organ abnormalities
General
4 October 2023
Oxford-Harrington Rare Disease Centre launches pioneering Therapeutics Accelerator to advance inovative treatments for rare diseases
General Innovation Research
3 October 2023
The University of Oxford and Harrington Discovery Institute at University Hospitals in Cleveland, Ohio announced the launch of the Oxford-Harrington Rare Disease Centre Therapeutics Accelerator with an official signing event at the University of Oxford. The event was hosted by the Oxford-Harrington Rare Disease Centre (OHC), a partnership established in 2019 between the University of Oxford and Harrington Discovery Institute. Attendance at the signing included leaders from OHC, the University of Oxford, the Harrington family, University Hospitals, and Oxford Science Enterprises.
New research endoscopy service launches today
General Research
2 October 2023
The launch of a new endoscopy service at the Oxford Experimental Medicine Clinical Research Facility (EMCRF) will enhance the collection of data for research projects at the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology & Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS) and across the University of Oxford.