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\n \n\n \n30 March 2020
\n \n \n \nResearchers at Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU) and two institutions in the US (University of Washington and La Jolla Institute for Immunology) receive grants from the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator, a large-scale initiative launched by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome and Mastercard to speed the development of and access to therapies for COVID-19.
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\n \n\n \n30 March 2020
\n \n \n \nThe Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford and the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) have joined forces with clinical system supplier EMIS Health to urgently recruit as many GP practices as possible for COVID-19 research.
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\n \n\n \n30 March 2020
\n \n \n \nCOVID-19 has led to an elevated awareness of threat in the environment and has caused major disruptions to families\u2019 lives, through social distancing, school closures, and now effective lock-down. A new research survey, launched today from experts at the University of Oxford, will track children and young people\u2019s mental health throughout the COVID-19 crisis to identify what advice, support and help can actually protect their mental health.
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\n \n\n \n27 March 2020
\n \n \n \nUniversity of Oxford researchers working in an unprecedented vaccine development effort to prevent COVID-19 have started screening healthy volunteers (aged 18-55) today for their upcoming ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine trial in the Thames Valley Region. The vaccine based on an adenovirus vaccine vector and the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is already in production but won\u2019t be ready for some weeks still.
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\n \n\n \n27 March 2020
\n \n \n \nProfessor Kim Nasmyth (Department of Biochemistry) honoured with the prestigious Centenary Award 2021 from the Biochemical Society
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\n \n\n \n26 March 2020
\n \n \n \nUK National Cancer Imaging Translational Accelerator (NCITA) establishes infrastructure for validation and adoption of cancer imaging biomarkers as decision-making tools in clinical trials and NHS practice. Researchers and medical experts from nine world-leading medical imaging centres across the UK come together to form an integrated infrastructure for standardising and validating cancer imaging biomarkers for clinical use.
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\n \n\n \n24 March 2020
\n \n \n \nThe Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) international community will host a COVID-19 virtual study-a-thon this week (March 26-29) to inform healthcare decision-making in response to the current global pandemic.
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\n \n\n \n24 March 2020
\n \n \n \nThree Oxford-based COVID-19 projects are among the first to benefit from a share of \u00a320 million in government investment.
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\n \n\n \n23 March 2020
\n \n \n \nResearchers from Nuffield Department of Medicine and Nuffield Department of Population Health have launched a new clinical trial to test the effects of potential drug treatments for patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19. The first patients have now been recruited.
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\n \n\n \n23 March 2020
\n \n \n \nDeirdre Hollingsworth (Nuffield Department of Medicine) is featured on The Guardian Science Weekly Podcast, talking about what it means, how it might help to flatten the curve and what some of the big unknowns are when it comes to predicting how effective it might be. This item links direct to Science Weekly Podcast on The Guardian website.
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\n \n\n \n23 March 2020
\n \n \n \nTwenty-four final year medical students at Oxford University have volunteered to join the NHS effort to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.
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\n \n\n \n23 March 2020
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\n \n\n \n20 March 2020
\n \n \n \nAn interdisciplinary team of engineers and medics is addressing ways to increase the UK\u2019s capacity for ventilator manufacture.
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\n \n\n \n18 March 2020
\n \n \n \nA vaccine candidate for COVID-19 has been identified by researchers from the Oxford Vaccine Group and Oxford's Jenner Institute.
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\n \n\n \n17 March 2020
\n \n \n \nA team of medical research and bioethics experts at Oxford University are supporting several European governments to explore the feasibility of a coronavirus mobile app for instant contact tracing. If rapidly and widely deployed, the infectious disease experts believe such an app could significantly help to contain the spread of coronavirus.
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\n \n\n \n16 March 2020
\n \n \n \nThe public has relied on a number of key individuals to keep them informed of developments in the spread of the coronavirus, including doctors, epidemiologists, researchers and health officials. The Guardian have highlighted five of the main players who have helped to restore British faith in the value of experts, including Trudie Lang (Centre for Tropical Medicine & Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine).
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\n \n\n \n12 March 2020
\n \n \n \nIn 2013, self-harm cost hospitals in England an estimated \u00a3128.6m according to a new study led by the Nuffield Department of Population Health (NDPH) and the Centre for Suicide Research (Department of Psychiatry).
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\n \n\n \n12 March 2020
\n \n \n \nJohn Harris has just been awarded an honorary MA in recognition of 50 years of service to the Department of Pharmacology and reflects on highlights over the past five decades
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\n \n\n \n11 March 2020
\n \n \n \nAn article on what is a safe child bearing age by Principal Investigator Dr Suzannah Williams and DPhil student Charlotte Walker from the Nuffield Department of Women's & Reproduction Health, was among the most-read pieces of 2018-19 from Oxford academics in the academic journal The Conversation. It had almost a quarter of a million reads shared between the original and its French and Spanish translations.
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\n \n\n \n9 March 2020
\n \n \n \nResearch from the Department of Engineering Science finds that the genes that help you smell could also be assisting the spread of colon cancer.
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