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2016 Medical School Prizes Announced

9 December 2016

Awards and Appointments

Why ‘smart drugs’ can make you less clever

21 July 2016

It is an open secret: while athletes dope their bodies, regular office workers dope their brains. They buy prescription drugs such as Ritalin or Provigil on the internet’s flourishing black market to boost their cognitive performance.

Opportunity to showcase your research at Brain Diaries exhibition

8 February 2017

Smartphone solution for diabetes management wins 'best digital initiative'

20 October 2014

General Research

The smartphone-based system records blood glucose levels in real-time and transmits data directly to healthcare professionals to inform their next intervention.

Brain stimulation for your stammer

22 October 2014

Research

Stammering is a common condition in children that may last into adulthood and can affect people's self-esteem, education and employment prospects.

Giant £132m investment in cancer research at Oxford University

22 October 2014

Research

• £110m Precision Cancer Medicine Institute to be established, with £35m Hefce grant • New institute will include research on the use of proton beam therapy • £22m Centre for Molecular Medicine to focus on cancer genomics and molecular diagnostics, through a partnership with the Chan Soon-Shiong Institute

Oxford University Innovation’s Isis Enterprise to form as limited company Oxentia

8 February 2017

Innovation

Oxford University Innovation’s management consultancy division to restructure as separate entity to scale up interactions and business on the world stage.

Children could point the way to new HIV treatments

29 September 2016

Research

Children with HIV who can resist the disease progressing could point the way to new treatments for HIV infection that are more widely applicable to infected adults and children alike, an international team of researchers led by Oxford University has found.

Making patients safer in surgery

5 January 2016

Research

Surgery is getting safer thanks to research by an Oxford University team that has brought together two previously competing theories about how best to protect patients.

Touch in infancy is important for healthy brain development

23 March 2017

Research