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Taking a break from immune-suppressing medicines doubles the antibody response to COVID-19 booster vaccination
Clinical Trials Coronavirus COVID-19 General Research
29 June 2022
The Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit at Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology & Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS) played a key role in the Vaccine Response On Off Methotrexate (VROOM) study which found that pausing immune-suppressing medicines such as methotrexate can increase the response to COVID-19 booster jabs.
PhD Student of the Year 2022 Winner!
Awards and Appointments General
28 June 2022
Congratulations to Nuffield Department of Women's & Reproductive Health DPhil student Josephine Agyeman-Duah on being named winner of PhD Student of the Year at the Postgrad Awards 2022.
Ethics at Westminster: A Workshop on Public Values and the Pandemic
General
27 June 2022
At an event organised by the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator at the House of Commons on 18 May 2022, parliamentarians, policy makers and academics joined together to discuss how to bring ethical thinking and debate into public policy on pandemic recovery and preparedness, and how to involve the public.
Student Prizes for Biomedical Sciences and Medicine 2021-2022
Awards and Appointments General Staff and student stories
27 June 2022
Congratulations to all our Biomedical Sciences students and Medicine students who have been awarded prizes during the 2021-2022 academic year.
New study finds that politicians typically enjoy longer lives than general populations
General Research
24 June 2022
New data show politicians have a considerable survival advantage over general populations, based on information from 11 countries and over 57,500 politicians. In some countries this survival advantage is at the highest level for 150 years, and life expectancy at age 45 was found to be around seven years higher for politicians compared to general populations in certain countries.
Five ways the pandemic has affected routine medical care
Coronavirus COVID-19 General Research
24 June 2022
Since the beginning of the pandemic, COVID has infected at least a third of the UK population and is estimated to have factored in the deaths of almost 200,000 people in the UK. But critically, COVID has also had a devastating impact on our healthcare systems. While this was expected, new evidence is beginning to reveal the scope of the issue – in particular the effects for people living with long-term health conditions.
Introducing the Mechanical Workshop
21 June 2022
This month we speak to John Prentice, manager of the Mechanical Workshop in the Department of Oncology. The workshop supports a wide range of research projects within the Medical Sciences Division and is also available to groups within the wider University community.
Clinical trials for a malaria vaccine start in Mali and Indonesia
General Research
21 June 2022
Sanaria Inc. announced that two new Phase 2 trials of its pioneering malaria vaccines have started. The first is in 6- to 10-year-old children living in Bancoumana, Mali, a malarious region of West Africa. The second is in Indonesian soldiers based in Sumatra, Indonesia. The soldiers will be deploying for six to nine months this coming August to an intensely malarious district in eastern Indonesia.
Researchers discover novel form of adaptation in the auditory system
General Research
21 June 2022
Researchers in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG) have found that the auditory system adapts to the changing acoustics of reverberant environments by temporally shifting the inhibitory tuning of cortical neurons to remove reverberation.
20 minutes of daily exercise can keep teens' doctors away
General Research
20 June 2022
Teenagers should exercise vigorously for at least 20 minutes per day to reap increased cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF), according to a cross-sectional study from the UK led by University of Oxford researchers.
Mechanism of expanding bacteria revealed
General Research
20 June 2022
A new study published in Nature has identified a potential Achilles heel in the protective layers surrounding Gram-negative bacteria that could aid in the development of next-generation antibiotics.
Oxford to receive £7 million to turn bright ideas into global opportunities
Awards and Appointments General Innovation
15 June 2022
The University of Oxford has been awarded more than £7 million, the highest amount of funding given to organisations across the UK, in the latest round of UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) funding - aimed at fueling the best, brightest and most disruptive ideas from UK research institutions.
Discovery of gene involved in chronic pain creates new treatment target
General Research
15 June 2022
Oxford researchers have discovered a gene that regulates pain sensitisation by amplifying pain signals within the spinal cord, helping them to understand an important mechanism underlying chronic pain in humans and providing a new treatment target.
Oxford's largest ever study into Varicose veins shows need for surgery is linked to genetics
General Research
14 June 2022
A new international study by Oxford researchers published in Nature Communications establishes for the first time, a critical genetic risk score to predict the likelihood of patients suffering with Varicose veins to require surgery, as well as pointing the way towards potential new therapies.
Biological processes of ageing is key to improving later life health
General Research
9 June 2022
Improvements in health care, sanitation, and diet over last 100 years have significantly increased life expectancy. However, this increase in how long we can expect to live has not been accompanied by a similar increase in healthy life expectancy, defined as the time spent free of major illness or disease.
Multiple heart-related conditions linked to triple dementia risk regardless of genetics
General Research
9 June 2022
Having multiple conditions that affect the heart are linked to a greater risk of dementia than having high genetic risk, according to a largescale new study co-led by the University of Oxford.
Higher rate of COVID-19 death before vaccination linked to certain common inflammatory immune conditions
Coronavirus COVID-19 General Research
9 June 2022
People with certain inflammatory immune conditions affecting the joints, bowel and skin, such as rheumatoid arthritis, may have been more at risk of dying or needing hospital care if they got COVID-19 before vaccination compared with the general population, according to a new study published in The Lancet Rheumatology with the involvement of researchers from the University of Oxford.
Queen’s Birthday Honours recognise service from Vice-Chancellor and Oxford colleagues
Awards and Appointments General
7 June 2022
Members of the University have been recognised in the 2022 Queen's Birthday Honours List, including scientists from across the Medical Sciences Division.
Collaborative team driven by DPAG and Chemistry awarded RSC Horizon Prize
Awards and Appointments General Research
7 June 2022
The Molecular Flow Sensor Team, with collaborating members principally from DPAG’s Robbins and Talbot groups and the Department of Chemistry, has been named the winner of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s (RSC) Analytical Division Horizon Prize for the development of a new technology for measuring lung function.