Many congratulations to our close colleague, Prof Vincenzo Cerundolo, Director of the MRC Human Immunology Unit for this prestigious honour recognising his pioneering work on T cell immunology.
Pailin, a small settlement nestling in tropical rainforest near Cambodia\u2019s border with Thailand, lies at the heart of a region that has seen successive waves of resistance to malaria drugs arise in local people and then spread across the globe.
A recent publication in Nature Genetics, examined the effect of a gene called KLF14. The researchers, including Prof Mark McCarthy found that genetic variations that control KLF14 have little impact on overall weight but they have a marked impact on where in the body any excess fat is stored.
An interview with Professor Emily Ying Yang Chan, author of Building Bottom-up Health and Disaster Risk Reduction Programmes, talks about her experiences as a woman in STM and the importance of female empowerment in traditionally male-dominated fields.
ERGO is launching ALERRT, a multi-disciplinary consortium building a patient-centered clinical research network to respond to epidemics across sub-Saharan Africa.
Research led by the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, involving a new finger-prick blood test (C-reactive protein) to help nurses and doctors decide whether their patients need antibiotic treatment.
The Structural Genomics Consortium Oxford is leading a new open-access platform to generate novel high-quality reproducible and renewable antibodies for both established and novel ALS genes and variants.
Science Blog. Professor Guy Thwaites, Director of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Vietnam, explains the discovery of yet another use for one of the most ubiquitous and ancient of drugs \u2013 aspirin.
Researchers recently used DNA from the 10,000-year-old \u201cCheddar Man\u201d, one of Britain\u2019s oldest skeletons, to unveil what the first inhabitants of what now is Britain actually looked like.
Health Data Research UK is awarding \u00a330 million funding to six sites across the UK, including the University of Oxford, to address challenging healthcare issues through use of data science.
Dr Sean Elias, who is based at the Jenner Institute in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, was awarded funding for the Researcher Board Game Caf\u00e9.
Congratulations to NDM's Professor Chas Bountra, Professor of Translational Medicine at the Nuffield Department of Medicine, who has been appointed OBE for services to Translational Medical Research in the New Year's Honours List 2018.
Professor Chas Bountra, Co-Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Affordable Medicines and Chief Scientist at the Structural Genomics Consortium, explains why a new approach to drug discovery and development is needed to address the urgent need for new drugs.
The Vice-Premier of the People\u2019s Republic of China, Liu Yandong, has visited Oxford to witness the signing of several research agreements between Oxford University and Chinese partners.
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