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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).
John Harris recognised for 50 years of service to the Department of Pharmacology
Awards and Appointments General
12 March 2020
John Harris has just been awarded an honorary MA in recognition of 50 years of service to the Department of Pharmacology and reflects on highlights over the past five decades
Upcoming 3Rs events in Oxford – registration now open
11 March 2020
What is the ‘right’ age to have a child?
General Research
11 March 2020
An article on what is a safe child bearing age by Principal Investigator Dr Suzannah Williams and DPhil student Charlotte Walker from the Nuffield Department of Women's & Reproduction Health, was among the most-read pieces of 2018-19 from Oxford academics in the academic journal The Conversation. It had almost a quarter of a million reads shared between the original and its French and Spanish translations.
AI finds “smell” genes might have a role beyond the nose
General Research
9 March 2020
Research from the Department of Engineering Science finds that the genes that help you smell could also be assisting the spread of colon cancer.
Bacteria use liquid crystalline armour to shield against antibiotics
General Research
9 March 2020
Researchers in the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology have identified a mechanism by which the rod-shaped bacterium, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, can evade antibiotics by surrounding its cells with a self-made protective casing.
Individual response to COVID-19 ‘as important’ as government action
Coronavirus COVID-19 General
9 March 2020
How individuals respond to government advice on preventing the spread of COVID-19 will be at least as important, if not more important, than government action, according to a new commentary from researchers at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London in the UK, and Utrecht University and the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment in the Netherlands.
March 2020 Volunteer Opportunities
9 March 2020
New stroke research centre opens in Oxford
General
6 March 2020
Research into strokes and vascular dementia has taken a major step forward following the official opening of the Wolfson Centre for the Prevention of Stroke and Dementia (CPSD) in Oxford, based at the new Wolfson Building at the John Radcliffe Hospital.