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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
Bodleian Update - April 2020
17 April 2020
Mental health and brain research must be a higher priority in global response to tackle COVID-19 pandemic
Coronavirus COVID-19 General Research
17 April 2020
A new paper published in The Lancet Psychiatry highlights an urgent need to tackle the harmful impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health and potentially the brain and calls for research on these areas to be central to the global response to the pandemic.
Videoconferencing: Teams or Zoom?
17 April 2020
Advice from MSD IT Services on videoconferencing options
Oxford-led research describes the safety profile and potential harms of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin
Coronavirus COVID-19 General Research
16 April 2020
Over 300 international researchers from the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) community studied data from almost 1 million patients. They declared hydroxychloroquine safe for short-term use, but urge caution in using it in combination with azithromycin.
Digital contact tracing can slow or even stop coronavirus transmission and ease us out of lockdown
Coronavirus COVID-19 General Research
16 April 2020
Consultation on UKRI’s open access policy
16 April 2020
Fundraising for COVID-19 research
16 April 2020
Internal research funding update
16 April 2020
To the heroes of the pandemic
Coronavirus COVID-19 General
16 April 2020
4th year Oxford Medical School student Alex Grassam-Rowe’s writes on his admiration and respect for colleagues and others pulling together in the fight against COVID-19
Regulatory navigation tool for "new" medical devices
16 April 2020
Reproducible Research Oxford (RROx): Online study groups
14 April 2020
The economic impact of COVID-19
Coronavirus COVID-19 General
8 April 2020
In this Centre for Tropical Medicine & Global Health (Nuffield Department of Medicine) blog, Rima Shretta (Honorary Visiting Research Fellow) outlines the direct and indirect costs of the COVID-19 pandemic which may impact the global economy.
BRC funds new COVID-19 research projects
Awards and Appointments Coronavirus COVID-19 General Research
7 April 2020
The NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) has allocated funding to three COVID-19 research projects in an attempt to improve treatment, understand how the virus interacts with chronic diseases, and the longer-term effects of infection on organs.
NHS staff across England get free access to wellbeing apps
Coronavirus COVID-19 General
6 April 2020
NHS England has announced a programme to provide NHS staff with evidence-based digital programmes to protect their mental health during the COVID-19 response. The apps are designed to help maintain healthy sleep, and reduce anxiety.
RECOVERY trial rolled out across the UK
Coronavirus COVID-19 General
6 April 2020
The world’s largest randomised clinical trial of potential coronavirus treatments is well underway in the UK as part of the race to find a treatment.