Mobile Malaria Project team complete their journey across sub-Saharan Africa
23 August 2019
The Mobile Malaria Project team crossed four countries in a specially converted version of a Land Rover Discovery SUV. They successfully tested the latest portable genetic sequencing technology in remote off-grid locations for the first time – even generating data for their partners while driving.
MRI scans improve prostrate cancer detection
23 August 2019
Using MRI scans to target biopsies is more effective at detecting prostate cancers that are likely to need treatment than standard ultrasound guided biopsies alone, according to research published in JAMA Network Open.
Three Oxford students shortlisted for the 2019 Max Perutz Science Writing Award
20 August 2019
Awards and Appointments General
Twelve outstanding articles have been shortlisted for this year’s Max Perutz Science Writing Award, including articles from three Medical Sciences DPhil students.
MRI assisted biopsies more effective at identifying prostate cancer that needs treatment than standard biopsies
15 August 2019
Using MRI scans to target biopsies is more effective at detecting prostate cancers that are likely to need treatment than standard ultrasound guided biopsies alone, according to research published on 7 August in JAMA Network Open. The research, led by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and Universities of Bristol, Ottawa, Exeter and Oxford, combined the results from seven studies covering 2,582 patients.
RDM image is supporters favourite in BHF image competition
15 August 2019
Awards and Appointments General
An image from Radcliffe Department of Medicine researchers has been voted the supporters favourite in the annual British Heart Foundation 'Reflection of Research' image competition.
AIMday in Healthy Ageing - registration for academics now open
12 August 2019
Are you an academic interested in finding out how your knowledge can be used to solve industry challenges? Would you like to widen your network? Meet potential collaborators / future employees? Gain insights into relevant funding schemes? If you answer YES to any of the above, now is the time to register for the AIMday in Healthy Ageing.
Oxford University, Sensyne Health, Evotec and OSI create new partnership called LAB10x to accelerate data-driven drug discovery powered by AI
12 August 2019
LAB10x aims to accelerate the commercialisation of the next generation of digital therapeutics and data-driven drug discovery from clinical artificial intelligence research and digital health innovations at Oxford University.
Shedding light on the brain: the dawn of optogenetics
12 August 2019
A new Medium article from the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics chronicles Gero Miesenböck's seminal research into optogenetics, starting at his eureka moment some 20 years ago.
Oxford spinout company launched to diagnose Alzheimer’s Disease from MRI scans
12 August 2019
Oxford Brain Diagnostics, a spinout from Oxford University, has been launched to deliver a new method for diagnosing Alzheimer’s Disease from MRI scans.
Clinical researchers at Oxford University announce new collaboration with Janssen to detect blood cancers sooner
12 August 2019
The new 7-year research collaboration with Janssen Research & Development, LLC (Janssen) will study patients at higher risk of developing certain types of blood cancers that arise from the immune system, such as chronic lymphocytic leukaemia and multiple myeloma, to identify markers that could be used to predict who will go on to develop symptomatic disease.
New Head for Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences: Professor Kevin Talbot
5 August 2019
Awards and Appointments General
Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences welcomes new Head of Department, Professor Kevin Talbot.
Better Research for Better Health: University of Oxford and Fiocruz partner to improve health research and capacity development globally
5 August 2019
A new strategic partnership between Fiocruz and The Global Health Network will amplify the impact of Fiocruz’s health research and capacity development initiatives by promoting research capacity building across Portuguese-speaking countries, and enabling research findings from the Zika outbreak to benefit public health worldwide.
Smartphone test predicts how symptoms develop in Parkinson’s
1 August 2019
Researchers in Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences have found that a simple test carried out on a smartphone can help to predict future change in people in the early stages of Parkinson’s.
Excellence payments to hospitals improve hip fracture care
1 August 2019
A scheme that pays hospitals to deliver high quality care has been shown to improve the outcomes for patients with broken hips in England.
Six new Fellowships funded by Celgene as part of a commitment to translational medicine at Oxford
29 July 2019
Awards and Appointments Innovation Research
Six new Oxford-Celgene Fellowships will support postdoctoral researchers and clinicians across six departments within the Medical Sciences Division, providing an opportunity for them to gain exposure to the field of commercial drug discovery and development. The new Fellowships represent an additional investment of £3M into the University.
Launch of comprehensive public health facility inventory for sub-Saharan Africa
25 July 2019
KWTRP has launched a dataset of comprehensive public health facilities from 50 countries in sub- Saharan Africa. This new dataset locates health facilities in relation to the communities they are intended to serve, to help ensure that services are accessible to the right populations and that no one is geographically marginalized from essential services. This is critical for attainment of Sustainable Development Goal 3 on good health and wellbeing.
Understanding the role of little known gene in regulating metabolism
24 July 2019
Thousands of genes are involved in the regulation of our day-to-day metabolism and relatively little is understood about their function. One key protein, an ABC Transporter called ABCC5, has recently been predicted to be a susceptibility gene for Type 2 diabetes. In a new study selected as Editor's Choice in Obesity, Associate Professor Heidi de Wet has confirmed ABCC5's role in energy metabolism and identified the mechanism behind its metabolic impact for the first time.
Rapidly spreading multidrug-resistant parasites render frontline malaria drug ineffective in southeast Asia
23 July 2019
A rapidly evolving multi-drug resistant lineage of P. falciparum malaria parasites continues to spread in South East Asia, leading to alarmingly high treatment failure rates in Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam for DHA-piperaquine, one of the world’s most important anti-malaria drugs.
Novel cellular oxygen sensor discovered
22 July 2019
A Ludwig Cancer Research study has discovered a previously overlooked oxygen sensor in animal cells that functions very much like one used by plants. The discovery could open new approaches to treating cancer and many other diseases.