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New Head for Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences: Professor Kevin Talbot
Awards and Appointments General
5 August 2019
Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences welcomes new Head of Department, Professor Kevin Talbot.
Better Research for Better Health: University of Oxford and Fiocruz partner to improve health research and capacity development globally
General Innovation Research
5 August 2019
A new strategic partnership between Fiocruz and The Global Health Network will amplify the impact of Fiocruz’s health research and capacity development initiatives by promoting research capacity building across Portuguese-speaking countries, and enabling research findings from the Zika outbreak to benefit public health worldwide.
Smartphone test predicts how symptoms develop in Parkinson’s
General Research
1 August 2019
Researchers in Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences have found that a simple test carried out on a smartphone can help to predict future change in people in the early stages of Parkinson’s.
Excellence payments to hospitals improve hip fracture care
General Research
1 August 2019
A scheme that pays hospitals to deliver high quality care has been shown to improve the outcomes for patients with broken hips in England.
Six new Fellowships funded by Celgene as part of a commitment to translational medicine at Oxford
Awards and Appointments Innovation Research
29 July 2019
Six new Oxford-Celgene Fellowships will support postdoctoral researchers and clinicians across six departments within the Medical Sciences Division, providing an opportunity for them to gain exposure to the field of commercial drug discovery and development. The new Fellowships represent an additional investment of £3M into the University.
Launch of comprehensive public health facility inventory for sub-Saharan Africa
General Research
25 July 2019
KWTRP has launched a dataset of comprehensive public health facilities from 50 countries in sub- Saharan Africa. This new dataset locates health facilities in relation to the communities they are intended to serve, to help ensure that services are accessible to the right populations and that no one is geographically marginalized from essential services. This is critical for attainment of Sustainable Development Goal 3 on good health and wellbeing.
Understanding the role of little known gene in regulating metabolism
General Research
24 July 2019
Thousands of genes are involved in the regulation of our day-to-day metabolism and relatively little is understood about their function. One key protein, an ABC Transporter called ABCC5, has recently been predicted to be a susceptibility gene for Type 2 diabetes. In a new study selected as Editor's Choice in Obesity, Associate Professor Heidi de Wet has confirmed ABCC5's role in energy metabolism and identified the mechanism behind its metabolic impact for the first time.
Rapidly spreading multidrug-resistant parasites render frontline malaria drug ineffective in southeast Asia
General Research
23 July 2019
A rapidly evolving multi-drug resistant lineage of P. falciparum malaria parasites continues to spread in South East Asia, leading to alarmingly high treatment failure rates in Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam for DHA-piperaquine, one of the world’s most important anti-malaria drugs.
Novel cellular oxygen sensor discovered
General Research
22 July 2019
A Ludwig Cancer Research study has discovered a previously overlooked oxygen sensor in animal cells that functions very much like one used by plants. The discovery could open new approaches to treating cancer and many other diseases.
New study shows faster way to cure vivax malaria
Clinical Trials General Research
22 July 2019
A large clinical trial in Africa and Asia has shown that a 7 day course of high dose primaquine, a drug used to treat P. vivax malaria, is well tolerated and just as effective as the current standard 14 day regimen, according to a study published this week in The Lancet. These findings have important implications for the treatment and elimination of vivax malaria in the Asia Pacific.
Link between diabetes and heart failure stronger in women than men
General Research
22 July 2019
A global study of 12 million people has found diabetes increases the risk of heart failure and this increase is greater for women than men.
From bugs to drugs
General Research
16 July 2019
Decoding the pharmacological goldmine in tick saliva.
Critical role demonstrated for the auditory cortex in adapting to hearing loss
General Research
15 July 2019
A new study from researchers in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG) enhances understanding of how our brains learn to adapt to abnormal sensory changes such as hearing loss.