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\n \n\n \n20 October 2022
\n \n \n \nDr Lennard Lee, academic clinical lecturer at the Department of Oncology was recognised as part of the InterAcademy Partnership Young Physician Leaders Programme 2022
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\n \n \n \nThe UNIQ+ Postgraduate Research Internships programme is seeking project requests from research staff who are willing to supervise interns working in their department during the 2023 summer vacation.
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\n \n\n \n17 October 2022
\n \n \n \nCOVID-19 has caused a protracted shock to life expectancy levels, leading to global mortality changes unprecedented in the last 70 years, according to research published in Nature Human Behaviour from Oxford\u2019s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.
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\n \n\n \n14 October 2022
\n \n \n \nA new online Postgraduate Diploma in Global Health Research, the first of its kind at Oxford, will offer researchers and clinicians in low-income countries the opportunity to access Oxford\u2019s world-leading teaching, removing the barrier of travel to drive equity in where health research happens.
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\n \n\n \n14 October 2022
\n \n \n \nHealth and care research in Oxford is to receive \u00a3122 million in government funding over the next five years to improve diagnosis, treatment and care for NHS patients.
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\n \n\n \n13 October 2022
\n \n \n \nResearchers from the University of Oxford have today reported new findings from a study exploring how certain genes can help generate a strong immune response following vaccination with two commonly used COVID-19 vaccines \u2013 identifying a particular gene associated with a high antibody response.
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\n \n\n \n13 October 2022
\n \n \n \nMonkeypox virus can be shed into the surrounding environment by people who are infected, particularly in shed skin particles and in debris from monkeypox skin lesions and scabs. The virus is relatively hardy and under appropriate conditions can remain infectious on surfaces for weeks, creating a potential infection risk to others.
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\n \n\n \n12 October 2022
\n \n \n \nA University of Oxford team has been awarded a grant to study one of the major unsolved questions about asthma \u2013 why women are more likely to have it than men and why they are twice as likely to die from it.
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\n \n\n \n12 October 2022
\n \n \n \nCancer Research UK has today announced the appointment of Professor Ketan (KJ) Patel FRS FMedSci (Radcliffe Department of Medicine) as its new Chief Scientist.
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\n \n\n \n12 October 2022
\n \n \n \nResearchers from the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG) engaged hundreds of visitors at Wesley Memorial Church on Saturday 8 October 2022 as part of The Oxford Science and Ideas Festival\u2019s Explorazone.
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\n \n\n \n12 October 2022
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\n \n\n \n10 October 2022
\n \n \n \nResearchers from the University of Oxford have today reported findings from a large-scale study that examined the impact of the UK\u2019s MenACWY vaccination programme on the carriage of meningitis bacteria in the throats of UK teenagers. They have demonstrated the impact of the vaccine in generating herd protection, also called herd immunity, that protects all age groups.
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\n \n\n \n10 October 2022
\n \n \n \nLast month the Oxford Innovation Society (OIS) hosted an event at Pembroke College which celebrated some of the pioneering translational research and innovation coming out of the University\u2019s Medical Sciences Division.
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\n \n\n \n5 October 2022
\n \n \n \nA new study led by Oxford researchers found that prior COVID-19 infection was associated with more uneven inflation of the lungs during normal breathing, smaller lung volumes, and greater respiratory dead space.
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\n \n\n \n3 October 2022
\n \n \n \nOptellum, a University of Oxford spinout that provides a breakthrough AI platform to diagnose and treat early-stage lung cancer, has raised $14 million in a Series A funding round.
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\n \n\n \n3 October 2022
\n \n \n \nSeptember was Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, and researchers in Department of Paediatrics took action to help raise awareness for this cause.
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\n \n\n \n30 September 2022
\n \n \n \nIn the most comprehensive study of its kind, researchers at the University of Oxford and Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust found a substantially higher rate of fractures in people with intellectual disability compared with people of the same age and gender without an intellectual disability.
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