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Bvlgari and the University of Oxford’s Jenner Institute announce the next stage of their pledge to build a pandemic-free future by awarding the inaugural Bvlgari Scholarships.
Urgent action needed to understand links between air pollution and mental health
General Research
19 September 2024
Leading scientists are calling for urgent global action to better understand the links between air pollution and mental health.
Launch of new podcast series Trusting the Science
General Research
19 September 2024
The Oxford Vaccine Group is celebrating 30 years of life-saving vaccine development with the release of a new podcast series of conversations called Trusting the Science. This is the second series of The Oxford Colloquy - a series of discourses hosted by Professor Sir Andrew Pollard who has been Director of the group for over 20 years - and each episode delves into the crucial role that science plays in our understanding of health and immunity.
Researchers develop new tool to better predict AML outcomes in older patients
General Research
17 September 2024
In a study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, an international research team has used machine learning to improve risk stratification for patients over 60 diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia, an aggressive type of blood cancer.
Antibiotic resistance has claimed at least one million lives each year since 1990: GRAM
General Research
16 September 2024
Landmark GRAM Project study of global AMR burden over time forecasts a sharp rise in deaths, with 39 million lives lost between now and 2050
Study discovers new process for cells to repair DNA damage
General Research
16 September 2024
A team of international researchers at the University of Oxford (Oxford) and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), has discovered a new process for repairing damaged DNA that is particularly relevant for patients undergoing colorectal cancer treatments.
Study increases understanding of lung microbiome in severe asthma patients
General Research
12 September 2024
Respiratory researchers in Oxford have discovered a link between potentially pathogenic bacteria and airways inflammation in severe asthma.
Impact of social factors on suicide must be recognised
General Research
12 September 2024
The impact of social factors such as poverty and abuse on suicide need to be recognised and action taken to address them, according to a major series of papers published in the Lancet Public Health on World Suicide Prevention Day.
Oxford receives funding to develop a cancer prevention vaccine for Lynch syndrome
General Research
10 September 2024
Cancer Research UK funds University of Oxford scientists to develop ‘LynchVax’, the UK’s first vaccine aiming to prevent cancer in people with Lynch syndrome who have a much higher risk of developing several types of cancer.
Robust memory of a previous event shown to prevent new flexible memories from being formed
General Research
10 September 2024
Researchers at the Medical Research Council Brain (MRC) Network Dynamics Unit in Oxford's Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences have discovered a new neuronal mechanism in the hippocampus, that prevents new ‘flexible’ memories from being formed due to a past ‘robust’ memory.
New method developed to detect fake vaccines in supply chains
General Research
29 August 2024
Research published this week and led by University of Oxford researchers describes a first-of-its-kind method capable of distinguishing authentic and falsified vaccines by applying machine learning to mass spectral data. The method proved effective in differentiating between a range of authentic and ‘faked’ vaccines previously found to have entered supply chains.
First UK conference on Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviours to take place
General Research
20 August 2024
Oxford will host the first conference of its kind into body-focused repetitive behaviours (BFRBs) such as hair pulling and skin picking next month.
Oxford part of new international Pioneer Centre for medical data research
General Innovation Research
20 August 2024
The University of Oxford has joined forces with Aarhus University and the University of Copenhagen to create a new Pioneer Centre that will become a significant international partner for data-driven medical research. The Pioneer Centre is anchored at Aarhus University with hub sites at each of the three universities and with a total grant of DKK 250 million.
NDORMS joins the Human Functional Genomics Initiative
General Research
19 August 2024
£28.5m in funding has been announced to support functional genomics research across the UK, including a research cluster at Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS) that will deliver insights into musculoskeletal health and disease.
City birds found to be carriers of antimicrobial resistant bacteria
General Research
14 August 2024
Research led by scientists at the Ineos Oxford Institute for antimicrobial research at Oxford University has found that wild birds such as ducks and crows living close to humans, for example in cities, are likely to carry bacteria with antimicrobial resistance (AMR). This creates an urgent need for policy makers and health services to consider the different ways antibiotic resistant bacteria can spread outside hospital settings.
‘Origami-inspired’ folding electrodes could reduce surgery needed to treat brain conditions
General Research
13 August 2024
A research team led by the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge have created new ‘origami-inspired’ brain electrodes that can fold up to a fraction of their full size. This advance could significantly reduce the amount of surgery needed to treat conditions such as epilepsy, or to install brain-computer interfaces.
Expert Comment: How can we address the nexus of climate change, migration, and infectious diseases?
General Research
12 August 2024
The complex and intricate relationship between climate change, human migration, and infectious disease transmission presents an urgent global challenge, argues Dr Prathyush Sambaturu (Department of Biology, University of Oxford).
Serotonin changes how people learn and respond to negative information
General Research
9 August 2024
Increasing serotonin can change how people learn from negative information, as well as improving how they respond to it, according to a new study published in the leading journal Nature Communications.
Proteins carried in the blood offer new insights into ageing and age-related disease risk
General Research
8 August 2024
Researchers at Nuffield Department of Population Health have found that proteins carried in the blood offer new insights into ageing and how it influences our risk of developing age-related diseases such as dementia, heart disease, and liver disease later in life. The study is published in Nature Medicine.