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\n \n\n \n21 January 2020
\n \n \n \nThe first awardees for the University of Oxford\u2019s Enriching Engagement funding scheme have now been announced, including five projects from across the Medical Sciences Division
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\n \n\n \n20 January 2020
\n \n \n \nResearchers in Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences (NDCN) have begun a clinical trial to assess whether the drug sildenafil could improve blood flow to the brain.
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\n \n\n \n17 January 2020
\n \n \n \nA new review by researchers in the Department of Psychiatry of previous studies into suicide worldwide has highlighted the effects of individual and environmental risk factors over a lifetime.
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\n \n\n \n15 January 2020
\n \n \n \nTwo Medical Sciences Division scientists have been recognised in The Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists, the largest unrestricted cash prizes available to scientists under the age of 42.
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\n \n\n \n15 January 2020
\n \n \n \nThe severity of Zika virus-related deformations in babies has been shown to be affected by environmental factors such as maternal nutrition.
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\n \n\n \n14 January 2020
\n \n \n \nThere was a 29% reduction in the total amount of sugar sold in soft drinks in the UK between 2015 and 2018, despite an increase in sales of soft drinks by volume of 7%, according to new research from Nuffield Department of Population Health.
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\n \n\n \n14 January 2020
\n \n \n \nUp to 30,000 lives could be saved over the next decade thanks to a proposed pioneering government collaboration with pharmaceutical company Novartis to tackle heart disease \u2013 a leading cause of death in the UK.
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\n \n\n \n14 January 2020
\n \n \n \nResearchers in the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, together with colleagues from across Oxford, have successfully obtained a structure of the surface layer from Gram-negative bacteria, bound to the cell membrane via long sugars called lipopolysaccharide or endotoxin, by applying novel electron tomography techniques.
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\n \n\n \n9 January 2020
\n \n \n \nFor many years, we have been using beta-blockers to neutralise a specific stress hormone and prevent dangerous heart rhythms following a heart attack. However, a new study led Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics (DPAG) and published in the European Heart Journal has uncovered evidence for an additional stress hormone acting as a key trigger for dangerous heart rhythms that is not currently targeted by these drugs.
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\n \n\n \n9 January 2020
\n \n \n \nRemoving the clock gene BMAL1 makes bacteria-engulfing defence cells in the body more effective, a new study from the Radcliffe Department of Medicine has found.
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\n \n\n \n9 January 2020
\n \n \n \nOxford's Medical School are one of the first faculties to implement Practicum Script in the undergraduate level. The multi-centre study (also including Imperial College London) aims to investigate the effectiveness of Practicum Script as a standardised educational resource integrated into the medical school curriculum to enhance clinical reasoning and problem-solving skills among students in clinical rotations. The experiment will consist of the simulation of 20 real clinical Internal Medicine cases during the academic year and the participation includes a handful of other medical schools in the UK. It\u2019s envisaged more than 2000 senior medical students from 25 top medical schools will benefit from this programme.
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\n \n\n \n8 January 2020
\n \n \n \nUCLA researchers in collaboration with Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics researchers have identified a biomarker for increased risk of early mortality in patients with heart failure. Associate Professor Neil Herring is senior author.
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\n \n\n \n8 January 2020
\n \n \n \nIt is with profound sadness that we learnt of the death of Professor Vincenzo Cerundolo FRS.
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\n \n\n \n8 January 2020
\n \n \n \nWork will shortly be underway on the new IMS-Tetsuya Nakamura Building, home to the new Institute of Developmental and Regenerative Medicine at Old Road Campus.\r\n\r\nThe formal ground-breaking ceremony, which took place towards the end of last year, was organised by the Medical Sciences Development team in collaboration with the Department of Paediatrics.
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\n \n\n \n13 March 2019
\n \n \n \nResearchers have developed a vaccine that blocks the effects of the main cause of pain in osteoarthritis (OA) - nerve growth factor (NGF) \u2013 in mice.
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\n \n\n \n8 February 2019
\n \n \n \nThe International Severe Acute Respiratory and emerging Infections Consortium (ISARIC) has been awarded \u00a34.5 million to accelerate clinical research to prevent illness and deaths from epidemic infectious diseases.
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\n \n\n \n8 February 2019
\n \n \n \nOxford University Radcliffe Department of Medicine researchers have developed a new method that uses a protein originally found in marine corals to visualise the flow of calcium that makes the heart beat.
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\n \n\n \n7 February 2019
\n \n \n \nGenesisCare and the University of Oxford establish innovative 10-year research partnership to improve diagnosis and care for people with cancer.
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\n \n\n \n6 February 2019
\n \n \n \nThe ten-year outcomes of the Arterial Revascularisation Trial (ART), conducted by the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS), have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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\n \n\n \n5 February 2019
\n \n \n \nA study of over 96,000 UK men and women, of average age 64.5 years, has found that those with chronic conditions are spending considerably less time on physical activity than their healthy peers, so are missing out on its health management benefits.
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