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Large Lecture Theatre renamed to honour Sir Colin Blakemore FRS
General
10 August 2021
The Large Lecture Theatre in Oxford's Sherrington building is being renamed the Blakemore Lecture Theatre in tribute to the longest serving Waynflete Professor of Physiology Sir Colin Blakemore FRS following a prestigious Festschrift event held in Professor Blakemore's honour.
African trial of novel HIV vaccine candidate starts
Clinical Trials General Research
4 August 2021
The Globally Relevant AIDS Vaccine Europe-Africa Trials Partnership (GREAT) – of which the University of Oxford is a lead partner – announced today the start of vaccinations in a Phase I clinical trial of a novel HIV vaccine candidate.
Reducing fat in the diabetic heart could improve recovery from heart attack
General Research
3 August 2021
New research from the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics has shown that in type 2 diabetes an overload of lipids reduces the heart’s ability to generate energy during a heart attack, decreasing chances of recovery.
Brain cortex may regulate the need for sleep
General Research
3 August 2021
Why we sleep, and the processes behind sleep, are amongst the most interesting questions in modern neuroscience.
New data show rise in hospital admissions for unvaccinated pregnant women
Coronavirus COVID-19 General Research
3 August 2021
The Chief Midwifery Officer for England will urge expectant mums to have their COVID-19 vaccination as soon as possible. This follows a worrying rise in unvaccinated women being admitted to hospital with severe COVID-19, and evidence that the Delta variant poses a significantly greater risk than all previous strains.
Cooking with coal or wood associated with increased risk of major eye diseases
General Research
3 August 2021
A study involving nearly half a million people in China reveals a clear link between cooking with wood or coal, and an increased risk of major eye diseases that can lead to blindness, according to a report published today in PLOS Medicine.
The mental health impacts of being an Olympian
General
3 August 2021
Dr David M. Lyreskog, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Psychiatry explores the topic in detail.
Oxford's COVID African Innovation Seed Fund announced
Awards and Appointments Coronavirus COVID-19 General
3 August 2021
Five graduate students currently studying at Oxford, including two Medical Sciences students, have been awarded £1,000 grants from the Vice Chancellor’s COVID-19 African Innovation Seed Fund for entrepreneurial projects aimed at addressing global challenges stemming from the pandemic.
Oxford vaccine reaches one billion doses released
Coronavirus COVID-19 General Research
29 July 2021
The University of Oxford’s and our partners AstraZeneca have today announced that one billion doses of the ChAdOx1 nCov-19 coronavirus vaccine have been released, to more than 170 countries, marking a key milestone as part of the University and AstraZeneca’s joint vision to make the available to the world, on a not-for-profit basis for the world during the pandemic, and in perpetuity for low- and middle-income countries.
Research programme tackling COVID-19 variants of concern receives funding boost
Awards and Appointments Coronavirus COVID-19 General
27 July 2021
A gift from the Red Avenue Foundation will enable the expansion of a major research programme aimed at rapidly identifying and interrogating emerging COVID-19 variants.
Phase I trial begins of new vaccine against the Plague
Clinical Trials General Research
27 July 2021
Researchers at the University of Oxford today launched a Phase 1 trial to test a new vaccine against plague.
New therapeutic targets identified in the treatment of psoriatic arthritis
General Research
26 July 2021
Researchers identify two inflammatory-driving proteins, osteopontin and CCL2, highly expressed in psoriatic arthritis joints.
Treatment choice for rotator cuff disorders could create efficiency and savings for the NHS
General Research
26 July 2021
A trial that evaluated the clinical and cost effectiveness of physiotherapy treatments for rotator cuff disorders suggests cost savings can be made while maintaining positive patient outcomes.
Neutrophil molecular wiring revealed: transcriptional blueprint of short-lived cells
General Research
26 July 2021
Researchers publish the first blueprint of transcriptional factors that control neutrophil-driven inflammation in Nature Immunology.
Daily contact COVID-19 testing for students effective at controlling transmission in schools
Coronavirus COVID-19 General Research
26 July 2021
A study by the University of Oxford has found that daily testing of secondary school students who were in contact with someone with COVID-19 was just as effective in controlling school transmission as the current 10-day contact isolation policy.
COVID: media must rise above pitting scientists against each other – dealing with the pandemic requires nuance
Coronavirus COVID-19 General
26 July 2021
COVID: the reason cases are rising among the double vaccinated – it’s not because vaccines aren’t working
Coronavirus COVID-19 General Research
22 July 2021
Urgent need for COVID-19 vaccine equity: UN-Oxford research
Coronavirus COVID-19 General
22 July 2021
COVID-19 vaccine programmes are expected to cost poorer countries an additional 56.6% on health budgets, compared with just 0.8% on wealthy countries’ health expenditure, according to new data from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the University of Oxford.
Difficulty hearing speech could be a risk factor for dementia
General Research
22 July 2021
A new study led by University of Oxford researchers on over 82,000 participants has shown that difficulty hearing spoken conversations is associated with up to 91% increased risk of dementia.