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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative awards funding to two Oxford teams to support inflammation research
Awards and Appointments General Research
30 April 2020
Two different teams from the Medical Sciences Division have received a share of $14 million in funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative as one of 29 projects that will explore emerging ideas regarding the role of inflammation in disease.
Music-making brings us together during the coronavirus pandemic
Coronavirus COVID-19 General Research
30 April 2020
Practice makes perfect
Coronavirus COVID-19 General Staff and student stories
30 April 2020
Using simulated scenarios to train front-line staff in the COVID-19 response
Results of remdesivir trial released
Coronavirus COVID-19 General Research
30 April 2020
The results of a placebo-controlled trial of remdesivir in COVID-19 patients have been published in the Lancet.
Landmark partnership announced for development of COVID-19 vaccine
Coronavirus COVID-19 General Innovation
30 April 2020
The University of Oxford has today announced an agreement with the UK-based global biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca for the further development, large-scale manufacture and potential distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine candidate currently being trialled by the University.
Oxford Professors honoured by the Royal Society
Awards and Appointments General
29 April 2020
Six Oxford University academics, including three from the Medical Sciences Division, have been elected to the prestigious Fellowship of the Royal Society.
Two Medical Sciences professors elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Awards and Appointments General
29 April 2020
Professor Kia Nobre (Department of Experimental Psychology) and Professor Fiona Powrie (Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology & Musculoskeletal Sciences) are two of 120 new members and 26 new international members newly elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Safeguarding the malaria endgame in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic
Coronavirus COVID-19 General Research
28 April 2020
Blog by Rima Shretta in the Centre for Tropical Medicine & Global Health (Nuffield Department of Medicine). As the COVID-19 pandemic continues its path to LMICs, its impact is likely to be even more devastating, potentially reversing recent gains made in the management of other communicable diseases. Of particular concern is the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on malaria. COVID-19 has been slow to arrive and spread across Africa; nevertheless, there are many reasons to be concerned about malaria within the current context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Radcliffe Department of Medicine researcher leads major COVID-19 convalescent plasma programme
Clinical Trials Coronavirus COVID-19 General
27 April 2020
Global study to assess the effects of Covid-19 in pregnancy launched
Coronavirus COVID-19 General
24 April 2020
Researchers at the Nuffield Department of Women’s & Reproductive Health (NDWRH) are today starting a large, international study to evaluate the effects of Covid-19 in pregnancy.
New technique could shed light on how blood transports oxygen in disorders such as COVID-19
Coronavirus COVID-19 General Research
23 April 2020
Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics (DPAG) scientists develop single-cell oxygen saturation imaging to study oxygen handling by red blood cells. New physiological techniques that measure the blood's oxygen saturation are particularly important in light of the current pandemic, as COVID-19 patients present an abnormally low concentration of oxygen in the blood.
Government collaboration to track Covid-19 in UK population launched
Coronavirus COVID-19 General Research
23 April 2020
Researchers from the University of Oxford are supporting a new government study to track coronavirus (COVID-19) in the general population.
BRC funds three further COVID-19 studies
Coronavirus COVID-19 General
23 April 2020
Three more studies are being funded by the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) to look at the way the body interacts with COVID19; these include assessing the safety of a new vaccine; the role that antibodies might play in plasma therapy; and blood biomarkers that determine adverse reactions in those that have been infected. These three new studies follow three others announced on 6 April.
Natural mood regulation low or even absent in people with depression
Coronavirus COVID-19 General Research
22 April 2020
Periods of lockdown during the COVID-19 situation likely to exacerbate problems with mood regulation, say experts at the University of Oxford
Latest on Oxford's fight against COVID-19
Coronavirus COVID-19 General
22 April 2020
Charvy Narain (Communications & Public Engagement Manager, Radcliffe Department of Medicine) follows up her February Oxford Science Blog with an update on the latest research taking place across the University of Oxford in the fight against COVID-19.
Defunding the WHO was a calculated decision, not an impromptu tweet
Coronavirus COVID-19 General
20 April 2020
Oxford project receives funding to assess novel coronavirus infection rates in children and teenagers across the UK
Coronavirus COVID-19 General
20 April 2020
A multi-site project, called ‘What’s the STORY?’ has received funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to assess novel coronavirus infection rates in children and teenagers across the UK. Given the importance of this study to the national Covid-19 response it has been deemed a priority study for the National Institute for Health Research’s (NIHR) Urgent Public Health Response.
National priority COVID-19 trial recruits first patients
Clinical Trials Coronavirus COVID-19 General
20 April 2020
Researchers from Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences are now enrolling participants into PRINCIPLE, the first clinical trial of potential COVID-19 treatments to take place in GP practices.
Five Oxford COVID-19 projects receive UKRI funding
Awards and Appointments Coronavirus COVID-19 General
17 April 2020
Five projects from the Medical Sciences Division are amongst twenty-one new studies into the novel coronavirus which have been funded by the UK government, announced today