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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.
Local school students engaged in exciting new careers mentoring programme
Athena Swan General
2 April 2020
Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics (DPAG) Postdoctoral Research Scientist Dr Sophia Malandraki-Miller took part in a pilot careers mentoring session at Oxford High School. This exciting new engagement programme is a collaboration between Medical Sciences Division researchers and Oxford Biomedical Research Centre and aims to increase awareness of the variety of careers in biomedicine.
Success for the Oxford Academic Health Partners
Awards and Appointments General
2 April 2020
The Oxford Academic Health Partners (OAHP) is delighted to have been designated as an NIHR/NHSE/I Academic Health Science Centre following the recent competitive designation process. The designation comes into effect from 1 April 2020 and is for an initial period of five years.
Public appeal raises £50,000 (and counting) for Oxford’s COVID-19 research
Coronavirus COVID-19 General
2 April 2020
An online fundraising appeal for coronavirus (COVID-19) research at Oxford has raised more than £50,000 from over 200 individuals after launching just two weeks ago. The donations will be deployed immediately, boosting projects ranging from vaccine development to the delivery of new drugs to treat the virus.
Coronavirus: If we are in a war against COVID-19 then we need to know where the enemy is
Coronavirus COVID-19 General
2 April 2020
Using wearable technology to monitor COVID-19 patients
Coronavirus COVID-19 General Innovation Research
1 April 2020
System being used in John Warin isolation ward at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital
NDCN welcomes the MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit
General Research
1 April 2020
We are pleased to announce that today the University of Oxford MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit joins the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences (NDCN) as a sixth division.
Controlling coronavirus transmission using a mobile app to trace close proximity contacts
Coronavirus COVID-19 General Research
31 March 2020
A team of medical researchers and bioethicists at Oxford University has published results today in Science that further our understanding of coronavirus transmission.
Coronavirus vaccine: here are the steps it will need to go through during development
Coronavirus COVID-19 General
31 March 2020
COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator awards $20 million in initial grants to fund clinical trials
Awards and Appointments Coronavirus COVID-19 General
30 March 2020
Researchers at Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU) and two institutions in the US (University of Washington and La Jolla Institute for Immunology) receive grants from the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator, a large-scale initiative launched by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome and Mastercard to speed the development of and access to therapies for COVID-19.