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\n \n\n \n27 November 2023
\n \n \n \nIn the autumn statement on Wednesday 22 November, the government announced its support for the Rare Therapies Launch Pad, a new programme that will develop regulatory pathways for children with rare conditions to access individualised therapies.
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\n \n\n \n24 November 2023
\n \n \n \nUndaunted by its complexity, Professor Emma Slack is pioneering new methods of engineering the body\u2019s largest microbiome to improve health and protect against disease.
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\n \n\n \n21 November 2023
\n \n \n \nTo mark World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, researchers supported by the Oxford Martin Programme on Antimicrobial Resistance Testing at the University of Oxford have reported advances towards a novel and rapid antimicrobial susceptibility test that can return results within as little as 30 minutes - significantly faster than current gold-standard approaches.
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\n \n\n \n17 November 2023
\n \n \n \nMicrobes such as bacteria, viruses, parasites and fungi form part of our everyday lives \u2013 they live in us, on us and around us. We need them for healthy digestion, immune function, and the synthesis of essential nutrients, and we depend on them for farming and industrial processes. But microbes also cause disease in people, animals and plants.
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\n \n\n \n17 November 2023
\n \n \n \nNew research published in nature, led by Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG) scientists Dr Kristijan Jovanoski and Professor Scott Waddell at the Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, reveals dopamine systems can cause flies to seek reward despite negative consequences
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\n \n\n \n16 November 2023
\n \n \n \nThe Pandemic Sciences Institute (PSI) has joined forces with the Science for Africa Foundation and the Mastercard Foundation to launch a call for applications to establish innovative networks of research excellence in epidemic and pandemic sciences across Africa.
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\n \n\n \n15 November 2023
\n \n \n \nGlox Therapeutics, a company pioneering the development of precision antibiotics to combat antimicrobial resistance, has raised \u00a34.3M in early-stage funding to develop effective targeted therapeutics against antibiotic-resistant gram-negative bacteria.
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\n \n\n \n14 November 2023
\n \n \n \nAn Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool that can predict 10-year risk of deadly heart attacks, could transform treatment for patients who undergo CT scans to investigate chest pain, according to British Heart Foundation-funded research presented today at the American Heart Association\u2019s Scientific Sessions in Philadelphia.
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\n \n\n \n13 November 2023
\n \n \n \nSelf-monitoring blood pressure after giving birth could help to cut new mothers\u2019 risk of future heart disease and strokes, according to new research by Oxford researchers.
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\n \n\n \n9 November 2023
\n \n \n \nA Nature Communications study led by Professor Ling-Pei Ho\u2019s group in the MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit (TIDU) provides new insights into how immune cells interact in the lungs of patients with severe COVID-19.
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\n \n\n \n9 November 2023
\n \n \n \nA recent publication from Research from the Gerard Lab in Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology looks at how a specific protein, called IFN\u03b3, can coordinate CD8+ T cell responses during a flu infection.
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\n \n\n \n8 November 2023
\n \n \n \nThe University of Oxford today announced a partnership with Danaher Corporation to develop a new test to enable precision medicine care for sepsis, a pathological immune response to infection that accounts for one in five deaths globally each year.
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\n \n\n \n7 November 2023
\n \n \n \nThe 2023 MSD Teaching Excellence Awards have been celebrated in a ceremony at Oxford Town Hall, on Tuesday 31st October. The ceremony was hosted by the Head of Division, Professor Gavin Screaton, the Associate Head of Division (Education), Professor Helen Christian, and the Head of Education Policy and Planning, Jane Dale.
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\n \n\n \n6 November 2023
\n \n \n \nSerenOx Africa aims to address diagnostic gaps for common blood disorders through a testing facility for key underserved patient populations in Tanzania. This facility will also aim to provide early cancer detection for high-risk patients.
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\n \n\n \n6 November 2023
\n \n \n \nCEPI will provide up to $25 million to the University of Oxford to complete early development of prototype vaccines against the Jun\u00edn virus, while also looking to improve manufacturing speed and scale-up of ChAdOx technology.\r\nLearnings could be leveraged to inform vaccine design for related viruses from the Arenavirus family, giving the world a head start in rapidly responding to future outbreaks in as little as 100 days.\r\nFirst project to be initiated under CEPI and University of Oxford\u2019s strategic partnership to accelerate global pandemic preparedness efforts.
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\n \n\n \n1 November 2023
\n \n \n \nThe BioEscalator recently marked its 5th anniversary with a celebration that showcased the impressive journeys of some of its current and graduated biotech companies.
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\n \n\n \n31 October 2023
\n \n \n \nThe RECOVERY trial, which discovered four effective treatments for COVID-19, has expanded to investigate treatments for influenza (flu).
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\n \n\n \n26 October 2023
\n \n \n \nThis study will test the responses of cells in lymph nodes before and after immunisation with flu and COVID-19 vaccines and compare reactions in older and younger adults
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\n \n\n \n25 October 2023
\n \n \n \nThe first digital atlas showing how the human brain develops in the womb has been published by a global research team led by the University of Oxford.
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