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Expert comment: landmark plans to accelerate rare disease treatments in the UK are a welcome development

Matthew Wood, Professor of Neuroscience in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Oxford and Director & Chief Scientific Officer of the Oxford-Harrington Rare Disease Centre, comments on new government plans to bring treatments for rare diseases a step closer.

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Academy of Medical Sciences elects five Oxford researchers as new Fellows

The Academy of Medical Sciences has elected five University of Oxford biomedical and health scientists to its fellowship in 2026.

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Expert Comment: the hidden mental health impacts of heatwaves

Ahead of the forecast high temperatures over the UK’s Spring Bank Holiday weekend, Dr Laurence Wainwright, Senior Departmental Lecturer at the Smith School of Enterprise & Environment and Senior Researcher in the Department of Psychiatry, outlines the unexpected risks.

Ebola virus

Statement on vaccine efforts relating to the Bundibugyo Ebolavirus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

In response to the current Bundibugyo Ebolavirus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Oxford Vaccine Group (OVG) is working urgently with Oxford’s own Clinical BioManufacturing Facility and the Serum Institute of India Pvt. Ltd. (SIIPL), to rapidly produce and scale doses of our ChAdOx-based monovalent Bundibugyo Ebolavirus candidate vaccine, ChAdOx1 BDBV.

Left: Shown is a three-dimensional image of a kidney biopsy. Right: Important anatomical landmarks such as tubule, which is shown in gray and a glomerulus, which is a tiny network of blood vessels that is responsible for filtering the blood.

3DxN - Better understanding of disease through multi-modal imaging

Engineers and healthcare scientists from the University of Oxford and the University of Cape Town, South Africa, have come together to improve technologies for diagnosing disease and furthering our understanding of fundamental processes of disease. By advancing three-dimensional imaging of tissue at the microscopic scale, tissue-based analysis of changes in gene expression, and artificial intelligence methodologies, the team aims to generate new insights from tissue samples into health and disease.

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