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Litchfield Lectureships announced
Awards and Appointments General
4 April 2018
Three distinguished scientists have been appointed to deliver a Litchfield Lecture in Oxford.
Oxford spinout Brainomix secures £7m investment to tackle strokes with AI
Innovation
3 April 2018
Brainomix, a medical imaging company using artificial intelligence (AI) for the fast diagnosis and treatment of stroke victims, has attracted £7m ($9.8m) of investment to bring its software to the global healthcare market. The company was spun out from Oxford University research.
Oxford Vaccine Group leads meningitis vaccine trial for teenagers
Clinical Trials Research
28 March 2018
Researchers are working with schools around the county to find 24,000 volunteers aged 16 to 18 years to take part in the Be on the TEAM (Teenagers Against Meningitis) trial, led by the Oxford Vaccine Group at the Oxford University's Paediatrics Department with funding and support from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).
Psychiatry researcher awarded prestigious public engagement funding
General
28 March 2018
Dr Elizabeth Tunbridge (Department of Psychiatry) has received an award from the Royal Society's new Public Engagement Fund for her project 'Genetics and the Self.'
Oxford win major MRC Mental Health Pathfinder Award
Awards and Appointments General
28 March 2018
Oxford is one of nine universities to receive a multimillion pound grant from the MRC to harness the power of data science for mental health research.
Podcast: How do you mend a broken heart?
Research
28 March 2018
New Oxford Sparks podcast with DPAG researcher Nicola Smart offers new insights into cardiology
Medical Sciences celebrates Brain Awareness Week
General
21 March 2018
Divisional researchers take part in Brain Discovery Festival to highlight Brain Awareness Week (BAW).
Premature hearts less able to cope with exercise
Research
20 March 2018
Changes in the structure and function of the hearts of people born prematurely may make them less able to cope with the pressures of exercise in adulthood, and could lead to increased risk of heart failure later in life.
Medical Sciences heads to the Big Bang Fair
General Public Engagement with Research
19 March 2018
Researchers from NDORMS, the Department of Oncology and Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics attend the Big Bang Fair 2018 to inspire the next generation of scientists.
Concerns raised over rising deaths in England and Wales
Research
15 March 2018
Health chiefs are failing to investigate a clear pattern of rising death rates and worsening health outcomes in England and Wales, argue experts in The BMJ, as the latest figures show more than 10,000 extra deaths in first weeks of 2018 compared with previous years.
Number of known stroke risk genes tripled
Research
15 March 2018
An international team of researchers part-funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) has identified 22 new genetic risk factors for stroke, tripling the number of genetic mutations known to increase stroke risk.
International 3Rs prize goes to human-based computer models which could replace animal testing
Awards and Appointments Research
15 March 2018
The National Centre for the 3Rs (NC3Rs) – an organisation dedicated to replacing, refining and reducing the use of animals in research and testing – has awarded its top prize for a research paper by a team from the Department of Computer of Science.
Treating depression in cancer hugely increases quality of life, but probably not length of life
Research
14 March 2018
Professor Michael Sharpe (Department of Psychiatry) and colleagues identify that treating depression doesn’t make cancer patients live longer, but it does make lives immeasurably better
Smoking linked with higher risk of type 2 diabetes
Research
14 March 2018
Smoking is associated with significantly higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to new research in China published in The Lancet Public Health.
Computer simulations move step closer to reducing animal use in drug testing
Innovation Research
13 March 2018
The march towards replacing animals in drug testing with computer simulations has made another significant step forward, with the development of new software which can predict the possible cardiac side effects of taking a new drug.
Clinical research network for epidemics launched in sub-Saharan Africa
Research
12 March 2018
A new clinical research and response network for epidemic infections has been launched in sub-Saharan Africa with the support of a €10 million grant from the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP).
Oxford 3D bio-printer company OxSyBio secures £10m Series A led by Woodford
Innovation
12 March 2018
Woodford Investment Management leads round into OxSyBio, the second Oxford University spinout from Oxford Nanopore founder Hagan Bayley
Pioneering Oxford researchers honoured at Blavatnik science awards
Awards and Appointments General
12 March 2018
Four Oxford scientists, including Professor Timothy Behrens of the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, were honoured at the UK's inaugural Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists ceremony, held at London's Victoria and Albert Museum.