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AI tool could help thousands avoid fatal heart attacks
General Research
14 November 2023
An 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’s Scientific Sessions in Philadelphia.
Heart attack risk decreased in new mothers by self-monitoring blood pressure at home
General Research
13 November 2023
Self-monitoring blood pressure after giving birth could help to cut new mothers’ risk of future heart disease and strokes, according to new research by Oxford researchers.
Single cell spatial analysis provides new insight into immune-pathology in Covid-19 lungs
Coronavirus COVID-19 General Research
9 November 2023
A Nature Communications study led by Professor Ling-Pei Ho’s 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.
New discovery furthers our understanding of how critical immune cells are controlled during an infection
General Research
9 November 2023
A recent publication from Research from the Gerard Lab in Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology looks at how a specific protein, called IFNγ, can coordinate CD8+ T cell responses during a flu infection.
Partnership with Danaher paves way for precision medicine test for sepsis
General Research
8 November 2023
The 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.
MSD Teaching Excellence Awards 2023
Awards and Appointments General
7 November 2023
The 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.
Prof Anna Schuh launches first private specialised haematology clinic and laboratory in sub-Saharan Africa
General Innovation Research
6 November 2023
SerenOx 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.
CEPI and University of Oxford advance vaccine work against potentially deadly Arenaviruses
General Research
6 November 2023
CEPI will provide up to $25 million to the University of Oxford to complete early development of prototype vaccines against the Junín virus, while also looking to improve manufacturing speed and scale-up of ChAdOx technology. Learnings 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. First project to be initiated under CEPI and University of Oxford’s strategic partnership to accelerate global pandemic preparedness efforts.
Celebrating 5 Years of the BioEscalator
General Innovation
1 November 2023
The BioEscalator recently marked its 5th anniversary with a celebration that showcased the impressive journeys of some of its current and graduated biotech companies.
RECOVERY trial expands to investigate treatments for influenza
Coronavirus COVID-19 General Research
31 October 2023
The RECOVERY trial, which discovered four effective treatments for COVID-19, has expanded to investigate treatments for influenza (flu).
Oxford launches new vaccine trial to enhance design of flu & COVID-19 vaccines
Clinical Trials Coronavirus COVID-19 General
26 October 2023
This 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
First digital atlas of human fetal brain development published
General Research
25 October 2023
The 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.
Estimating hospital-acquired SARS-CoV-2 infections in England
General Research
23 October 2023
An estimated 95,000–167,000 inpatients at English National Health Service (NHS) hospitals caught SARS-CoV-2 while in hospital during England’s ‘second wave’ of COVID-19, between June 2020 and March 2021, reports a study in Nature. The findings reveal the scale of hospital transmissions and highlight contributing factors, such as a limited number of single rooms.
New AI tool could help predict viral outbreaks
General Innovation Research
19 October 2023
As the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated, viruses can quickly evolve new ways of evading our immune systems, undermining our efforts to control outbreaks. But a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool developed by researchers at the University of Oxford and Harvard Medical School could help predict new viral variants before they emerge. The findings have been published in the journal Nature.
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.