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Annual GP Tutors Conference 2025: Coming together in connected practice
12 December 2025
GP tutors from across the region gathered at St Hilda’s College for the 2025 Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences GP Tutors Conference, exploring how connected practice can support flourishing and innovation in primary care education.
Special Film Event: ‘Breaking the Mould’ – Saturday 31 January 2026
12 December 2025
MSD Alumni Comms and Engagement Meeting
11 December 2025
Oxford cancer researchers welcome UK AI for Science Strategy, highlighting the opportunity for national AI-ready cancer data
11 December 2025
Oxford researchers have welcomed the UK government’s new AI for Science Strategy, which sets out an ambitious plan to harness artificial intelligence, sovereign supercomputing and high-quality scientific data to accelerate discovery in the life sciences.
Cognitive impairment after a stroke calls for tailored recovery treatment shows new study
11 December 2025
A major new study recently published in Imaging Neuroscience shows that the brain location of the stroke does not always determine the symptoms.
Simple steps for REF open access
10 December 2025
REF Unpaused
10 December 2025
New research collaboration to tackle ethnic inequalities in perinatal severe mental illness
10 December 2025
A ground-breaking new study aims to transform postpartum mental health care for mothers from ethnic minority backgrounds or those living in deprived areas who experience severe mental illness.
Oxford researchers develop first live-cell assay linking cancer tumour metabolism to drug effectiveness
10 December 2025
Scientists at the Centre for Medicines Discovery, part of Oxford University’s Nuffield Department of Medicine, have developed a biosensor that, for the first time, allows researchers to directly measure how experimental cancer drugs engage their target inside living cells dependent on co-factors and metabolites.
World-leading researchers unite for ‘pivotal’ study to help children and adults with arthritis to live drug free
10 December 2025
The prospect of long-lasting drug-free remission for children and adults living with inflammatory arthritis is a step closer to becoming a reality, thanks to a new collaboration which includes world-leading researchers from the Kennedy Institute.
Expert Comment: The world’s most important antibiotic has become our greatest challenge
10 December 2025
Today, on the 80-year anniversary of the Nobel Prize being awarded for the discovery and development of penicillin, Dr Alistair Farley, Scientific Lead at the Ineos Oxford Institute for antimicrobial research (IOI), urges that the collaboration behind this achievement is channelled again today to address one of the greatest global medical challenges of our time.
Blood test predicts risk of death in acutely ill children in lower-income countries
9 December 2025
An international study has identified a blood-based indicator of intestinal damage and inflammation that strongly predicts mortality in sick children. The new biomarker could help to identify those children at greatest risk of dying after hospitalisation in parts of the world with limited resources.
Addressing antimicrobial resistance through advanced UTI models
9 December 2025
A collaborative study, which includes contributions from the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS) researchers Aaron Crowther and supervisor Dario Carugo, explores new ways to model bladder biology and infection, allowing evaluation of antimicrobial therapies under physiologically relevant conditions.
World's first Phase II Nipah virus vaccine trial launch
9 December 2025
The University of Oxford has launched the world’s first Phase II clinical trial of a Nipah virus vaccine candidate.
European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grants awarded to eleven Oxford academics
9 December 2025
Eleven academics from the University of Oxford are to lead new research projects supported by European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grants. These grants support highly promising mid-career scientists of any nationality and any field with building a research team at an eligible host organisation.
Oxford contributes to UK–China health reform discussions at Chevening forum
8 December 2025
Dr Stuart Faulkner represented the Chevening Health Reform Fellowship at the inaugural Chevening Health Research Forum (CHERF) in China, an event jointly hosted by the UK government, the University of Oxford, and the British Chamber of Commerce in China. The forum brought together leading academics and policy specialists to strengthen UK–China collaboration on health reform and showcase research supported by the Fellowship Programme.
First volunteer receives Lassa Fever vaccine in cutting-edge Oxford trial
8 December 2025
The first volunteer has received a dose in a first-in-human trial of Oxford’s Lassa vaccine, marking a major milestone in the fight against the deadly virus.
