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Demis Hassabis Visited Kavli INsD for the Kavli Award Lecture 2022
Awards and Appointments General
12 December 2022
In his talk, Demis mentioned how they were able to solve the protein folding problem with AlphaFold. For 50 years, people have been working on protein folding, a problem first articulated by Nobel Prize winner Christian Anfinsen.
Research confirms important differences in colorectal cancer patients with a history of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
General Research
12 December 2022
IBD-associated colorectal cancers were found to occur in younger patients and have worse outcomes. Researchers call for urgent improvement of early detection methods to provide more risk-based and personalised care.
Research at the Outbreak of a Pandemic – thanking our donors
Coronavirus COVID-19 General
12 December 2022
A 35-page full-colour report was sent out to hundreds of donors as a thank you for their important contributions, and to show them the difference they helped to make during the pandemic.
EAVI2020: The Quest for an HIV Vaccine
General Research
2 December 2022
In this long read published to coincide with International AIDS Day, we explore how an international collaboration – of which the University of Oxford is a key partner – has boosted HIV vaccine research. We thank our partners at Imperial College London for allowing us to reproduce and abridge this article.
New SMRU building opened in Thailand to provide health care to marginalized populations
General
1 December 2022
The inauguration of a new joint Shoklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU) and Borderland Health Foundation (BHF) Building took place in Mae Ramat, Thailand, this week.
Smoking increases the risks of 56 diseases in Chinese adults
General Research
1 December 2022
Smoking increases the risks of 56 diseases and kills more than one million adults in China each year from 22 different causes, according to new research published in The Lancet Public Health.
Success for Oxford researchers in The Genetics Society 2023 Awards
Awards and Appointments General Staff and student stories
30 November 2022
Researchers from Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, Radcliffe Department of Medicine and Nuffield Department of Population Health have been recgonised in The Genetics Society 2023 awards.
New Studentship honours Enzo Cerundolo
General Staff and student stories
28 November 2022
A new Studentship has been announced in memory of the late MRC HIU Director and MRC WIMM Group Leader.
Treating mental illness with electricity marries old ideas with modern tech and understanding of the brain – podcast
General Research
25 November 2022
Young lives under pressure as global crises hits mental health and well-being – report
General Research
25 November 2022
The well-being and mental health of young people in low - and middle - income countries have been dramatically affected by the series of crises hitting the world. As the international community continues to struggle with the impact of COVID-19, conflict and climate change, the latest report from the Young Lives project shows a long-running upward trend in young people’s well-being has been sharply reversed alongside widespread anxiety and depression. Young people are less confident about their futures for the first time in the 20-year study.
Bacterial infections linked to one in eight global deaths, according to GRAM study
General Research
23 November 2022
Data showing 7.7 million deaths from 33 bacterial infections can guide measures to strengthen health systems, particularly in low-income settings
New tool aims to make bowel cancer treatments more effective
Awards and Appointments General
23 November 2022
The Leedham Lab in Nuffield Department of Medicine (NDM) has been awarded over £2M from Cancer Research UK to develop a new tool that could help guide how bowel cancer patients are treated in the future.
Doug Higgs awarded the 2023 Genetics Society Medal
Awards and Appointments General
23 November 2022
The award recognises Radcliffe Department of Medicine's Professor Higgs major contribution to our understanding of how mammalian genes are switched on and off, and using haematopoiesis as a model to understand how genes function.
First evidence drug resistant bacteria can travel from gut to lung, increasing infection risks
General Research
22 November 2022
A new Oxford University study released during World Antimicrobial Awareness Week has significant findings on how antimicrobial resistance (AMR) arises and persists. The results, published today in Nature Communications, provide the first direct evidence of AMR bacteria migrating from a patient’s gut microbiome to the lungs, increasing the risk of deadly infections.
The risk of seizures and epilepsy is higher after COVID than after the flu – new research
General Research
22 November 2022
Many adolescents game a lot without negative effects on their wellbeing
General Research
21 November 2022
A new study published by University of Oxford researchers in an open-access journal, JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting, shows that although many school-age adolescents are spending considerable time gaming, it is not having a negative impact on the wellbeing.
Oxford’s Ebola vaccine recommended for deployment against Uganda outbreak
Clinical Trials General Research
18 November 2022
A vaccine developed by the Oxford Vaccine Group’s Prof Teresa Lambe and supported in clinical trials and manufacture scale-up by researchers from the Jenner Institute (Nuffield Department of Medicine) has been recommended for inclusion in a ring vaccination trial to combat a Sudan ebolavirus outbreak in Uganda.
E-cigarettes are more effective than nicotine-replacement therapy in helping smokers quit
General Research
17 November 2022
The latest Cochrane Review finds high certainty evidence that nicotine e-cigarettes are more effective than traditional nicotine-replacement therapy (NRT) in helping people quit smoking.
Researchers make miniature ‘bone marrows in a dish’ to improve anti-cancer treatments
General Research
16 November 2022
Scientists from Oxford University and the University of Birmingham have made the first bone marrow ‘organoids’ that include all the key components of human marrow. This technology allows for the screening of multiple anti-cancer drugs at the same time, as well as testing personalised treatments for individual cancer patients.
Key cause of type 2 diabetes uncovered
General Research
14 November 2022
Oxford research reveals high blood glucose reprograms the metabolism of pancreatic beta-cells in diabetes.