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Winners of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Awards University of Oxford
Awards and Appointments General
8 November 2018
The annual Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) Awards mark the highest level of achievement within the field of psychiatry.
2018 Undergraduate Oxford iGEM team win Gold Medal Award
Awards and Appointments General
8 November 2018
Lowering the blood platelet transfusion threshold can prevent major bleeding in premature babies
Research
8 November 2018
Meat tax: why taxing sausages and bacon could save hundreds of thousands of lives every year
General
8 November 2018
Dorothy Hodgkin: Britain’s only female Nobel scientist deserves to be on the new £50 note
General
8 November 2018
Oxford retains top spot for medicine for eighth consecutive year
Awards and Appointments General
8 November 2018
Oxford secures £17.5 million to lead national AI healthcare programmes
General Innovation
6 November 2018
Innovate UK and industry are to invest more than £17.5 million in the University of Oxford to develop artificial intelligence (AI) healthcare applications to benefit patients.
Five ways to encourage people to reduce their meat intake – without them even realising
Research
6 November 2018
'Know thyself': an immunologist’s reflection on the legacy of the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology
General
6 November 2018
By Melissa Bedard, MRC Human Immunology Unit, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine
Medical Sciences Division announces new Industry Expert in Residence
Innovation
2 November 2018
Dr Andy Pearce, Director of Discovery Partnerships with Academia at GSK joins the scheme as a Drug Discovery and Development Expert
More action needed to prevent maternal deaths across the UK
Research
2 November 2018
There has been an increase in the number of women dying during pregnancy or in the six weeks after the end of pregnancy in the UK, according to a new report produced by researchers from the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit at the University of Oxford.
Group therapy most effective treatment for anxiety in young people
Research
2 November 2018
Group-based talking therapies shown to be most effective treatment for young people with anxiety disorders.
Oxford - Axol collaboration secure funding to grow brains in the lab
Innovation
2 November 2018
Researchers at the University of Oxford, in a new industry partnership with Axol Bioscience of Cambridge, have secured funding from the BBSRC to collaborate in creating human models of the cerebellum with induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) for studies of neurological disorders.
Treatment for moderately high blood pressure may be best saved for those at high risk
Research
30 October 2018
The largest study of people with mild hypertension shows that medical treatment may not be worthwhile in those who are at low risk of heart attack and stroke.
Successful renewals of Athena SWAN Silver Awards announced
Athena Swan Awards and Appointments General
29 October 2018
My Mind Our Humanity
General
26 October 2018
The University of Oxford, Department of Psychiatry is working with partners to develop and lead The Young People’s Campaign for the Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health and Sustainable Development
Provide basic health services in villages to eliminate malaria, say researchers in Myanmar
Research
26 October 2018
The incidence of malaria cases continued to drop dramatically in rural and remote Myanmar villages after community workers trained only to detect and treat malaria began providing basic health care as well as malaria services, say University of Oxford affiliated researchers. Adding the health services to malaria control benefitted the villagers access to health and improved malaria services – paving the way for malaria elimination.
Brexit diet could lead to 5,600 deaths a year as fresh fruit and veg prices shoot up
Research
26 October 2018
Computer modelling used to discover and design new mental health drugs
Innovation
26 October 2018
Whole-brain computer modelling reveals the effects of LSD on the human brain
Professor Bafadhel receives prestigious Royal College of Physicians award
Awards and Appointments General
23 October 2018
Mona Bafadhel, Associate Professor Respiratory Medicine and NIHR postdoctoral fellow, in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, was awarded the Royal College of Physicians Graham Bull Prize in the Clinical Sciences last week.