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GP practices urged to join COVID-19 research
Coronavirus COVID-19 General
30 March 2020
The Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford and the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) have joined forces with clinical system supplier EMIS Health to urgently recruit as many GP practices as possible for COVID-19 research.
COVID-19's impact on youth mental health the focus of new research
Coronavirus COVID-19 General
30 March 2020
COVID-19 has led to an elevated awareness of threat in the environment and has caused major disruptions to families’ lives, through social distancing, school closures, and now effective lock-down. A new research survey, launched today from experts at the University of Oxford, will track children and young people’s mental health throughout the COVID-19 crisis to identify what advice, support and help can actually protect their mental health.
Oxford COVID-19 vaccine programme opens for clinical trial recruitment
Coronavirus COVID-19 General
27 March 2020
University of Oxford researchers working in an unprecedented vaccine development effort to prevent COVID-19 have started screening healthy volunteers (aged 18-55) today for their upcoming ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine trial in the Thames Valley Region. The vaccine based on an adenovirus vaccine vector and the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is already in production but won’t be ready for some weeks still.
Professor Kim Nasmyth honoured with Centenary Award
General Research
27 March 2020
Professor Kim Nasmyth (Department of Biochemistry) honoured with the prestigious Centenary Award 2021 from the Biochemical Society
Integrating Cancer Imaging Biomarker Clinical Research Across the UK
General Research
26 March 2020
UK National Cancer Imaging Translational Accelerator (NCITA) establishes infrastructure for validation and adoption of cancer imaging biomarkers as decision-making tools in clinical trials and NHS practice. Researchers and medical experts from nine world-leading medical imaging centres across the UK come together to form an integrated infrastructure for standardising and validating cancer imaging biomarkers for clinical use.
NDORMS researchers leading a virtual study-a-thon to tackle COVID-19
Coronavirus COVID-19 General
24 March 2020
The Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) international community will host a COVID-19 virtual study-a-thon this week (March 26-29) to inform healthcare decision-making in response to the current global pandemic.
Bodleian Update for MSD
24 March 2020
Our staff are still working hard in support of our students and colleagues across the MSD.
Oxford's COVID-19 research receives government funding
Awards and Appointments Coronavirus COVID-19 General
24 March 2020
Three Oxford-based COVID-19 projects are among the first to benefit from a share of £20 million in government investment.
First patients enrolled in new clinical trial of possible COVID-19 treatments
Clinical Trials Coronavirus COVID-19 General
23 March 2020
Researchers from Nuffield Department of Medicine and Nuffield Department of Population Health have launched a new clinical trial to test the effects of potential drug treatments for patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19. The first patients have now been recruited.
Covid-19: how effective is social distancing?
Coronavirus COVID-19 General
23 March 2020
Deirdre Hollingsworth (Nuffield Department of Medicine) is featured on The Guardian Science Weekly Podcast, talking about what it means, how it might help to flatten the curve and what some of the big unknowns are when it comes to predicting how effective it might be. This item links direct to Science Weekly Podcast on The Guardian website.
Oxford medical students step-up to support fight against Covid-19
Coronavirus COVID-19 General
23 March 2020
Twenty-four final year medical students at Oxford University have volunteered to join the NHS effort to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.
Support for our research response to COVID-19
23 March 2020
The University has received a number of offers to support our research efforts around COVID-19 as detailed below. Our researchers still need support, their requests will be added to this page.
Developing a prototype for rapidly deployable ventilator
Coronavirus COVID-19 General
20 March 2020
An interdisciplinary team of engineers and medics is addressing ways to increase the UK’s capacity for ventilator manufacture.
COVID-19 vaccine development
Coronavirus COVID-19 General
18 March 2020
A vaccine candidate for COVID-19 has been identified by researchers from the Oxford Vaccine Group and Oxford's Jenner Institute.
Supporting our NHS and government COVID-19 response
18 March 2020
The University is seeking to assist the NHS and the government in its preparations for dealing with an increase in COVID-19 cases. Requests for information will be listed below with links to forms to collect responses. The information gathered below will be shared to support resource planning but will not form a commitment at this stage.
Infectious disease experts provide evidence for a coronavirus mobile app for instant contact tracing
Coronavirus COVID-19 General
17 March 2020
A team of medical research and bioethics experts at Oxford University are supporting several European governments to explore the feasibility of a coronavirus mobile app for instant contact tracing. If rapidly and widely deployed, the infectious disease experts believe such an app could significantly help to contain the spread of coronavirus.
The experts who have guided the British public through coronavirus outbreak
Coronavirus COVID-19 General
16 March 2020
The public has relied on a number of key individuals to keep them informed of developments in the spread of the coronavirus, including doctors, epidemiologists, researchers and health officials. The Guardian have highlighted five of the main players who have helped to restore British faith in the value of experts, including Trudie Lang (Centre for Tropical Medicine & Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine).
COVID-19 'should not necessarily foreshadow an economic downturn'
Coronavirus COVID-19
16 March 2020
Market hysteria over coronavirus may have seen hundreds of points wiped off indexes around the world this week, but in this Oxford Science Blog, Oxford University experts maintain the COVID-19 crisis should not necessarily foreshadow an economic downturn.
The cost of self-harm to hospitals in England
General Research
12 March 2020
In 2013, self-harm cost hospitals in England an estimated £128.6m according to a new study led by the Nuffield Department of Population Health (NDPH) and the Centre for Suicide Research (Department of Psychiatry).