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\n \n\n \n4 August 2022
\n \n \n \nThe inflammatory diseases company\u2019s rapid ascent and exit underscores the importance of friendships, partnerships and networks in innovation.
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\n \n\n \n27 July 2022
\n \n \n \nResearchers from the University of Oxford have today reported new findings from a Phase 1 clinical trial studying the immune response and safety of their newly-developed single shot rabies vaccine, ChAdOx2 RabG.
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\n \n\n \n6 July 2022
\n \n \n \nAcademics from NDM's Jenner Institute and Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research have become the latest to join the 1,900 eminent life scientists in Europe and beyond that make up the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).
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\n \n\n \n5 July 2022
\n \n \n \nThe University of Oxford\u2019s Pandemic Sciences Institute (PSI) has been formally launched at a two-day event at the Blavatnik School of Government, at which the lead researchers set out its direction and strategy for the next five years.
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\n \n\n \n8 June 2022
\n \n \n \nWe are delighted to announce that 12 researchers have been awarded the Associate Professor title, in recognition of their research achievements, contribution to teaching, and contribution to the general work of the Nuffield Department of Medicine.
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\n \n\n \n29 April 2022
\n \n \n \nOxford University and the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) signed a cooperation agreement at a virtual unveiling ceremony of the CAMS Oxford Institute.
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\n \n\n \n16 March 2022
\n \n \n \nA new genetic study of the bacteria that cause pleurisy has shown most cases involve more than one type of bacterium, and revealed which bacterial combinations cause the most serious infections.
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\n \n\n \n3 March 2022
\n \n \n \nThe Randomised Evaluation of COVID-19 Therapy (RECOVERY) trial has demonstrated that baricitinib, an anti-inflammatory treatment normally used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, reduces the risk of death when given to hospitalised patients with severe COVID-19.
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\n \n\n \n23 February 2022
\n \n \n \nA team of geneticists and archaeologists have analysed the fine-scale genetic structure and ancestry of nearly 1200 people from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and found genetic traces of population mixing spanning thousands of years.
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\n \n\n \n4 February 2022
\n \n \n \nA new HIV variant with higher virulence and more damaging health impacts has been discovered in a study led by the University of Oxford.
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\n \n\n \n4 February 2022
\n \n \n \nAs part of World Cancer Day 2022 we are diving into one of the department's most impactful historical and modern contributions to the field of cancer science and treatment.
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\n \n\n \n16 December 2021
\n \n \n \nFollowing the recent Recoginition of Distinction Exercise, congratulations to the following have now been awarded Full Professor Titles.
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\n \n\n \n1 October 2021
\n \n \n \nThirty-three University of Oxford researchers have been named Turing Fellows for the 2021/22 academic year, including Dr Benjamin Schuster-B\u00f6ckler from the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research.
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\n \n\n \n28 September 2021
\n \n \n \nThe COVID Moonshot, a non-profit, open-science consortium of scientists from around the world dedicated to the discovery of globally affordable and easily-manufactured antiviral drugs against COVID-19 and future viral pandemics has received key funding of \u00a38 million from the Wellcome Trust, on behalf of the Covid-19 Therapeutics Accelerator.
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\n \n\n \n20 September 2021
\n \n \n \nThe fast spread of the highly infectious Delta variant underscores the need for faster identification of COVID-19 mutations. Uniting governments and medical communities in this challenge, the University of Oxford and Oracle\u2019s Global Pathogen Analysis System (GPAS) is now being used by organisations on nearly every continent.
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\n \n\n \n2 September 2021
\n \n \n \nA new Oxford University Study, published today, shows that the most recent common ancestor of coronavirus existed more than 21,000 years ago, nearly 30 times older than previous estimates.
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\n \n\n \n1 September 2021
\n \n \n \nFor the first time in more than two decades, a team from the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme and University of Oxford have quantified the risk of children suffering severe outcomes from malaria.
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\n \n\n \n25 August 2021
\n \n \n \nThe Royal Society Africa Prize 2021 is awarded to Professor George Warimwe for his work on zoonoses vaccine development, capacity building in Africa, and his innovative research proposal. This Prize recognises research scientists based in Africa who are making an innovative contribution to the sciences.
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\n \n\n \n24 August 2021
\n \n \n \nA national study has found that a significant proportion of clinically at-risk patients with certain immunocompromised or immunosuppressed conditions, mount a low, or undetectable, immune response after two doses of the same COVID-19 vaccine.
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\n \n\n \n4 August 2021
\n \n \n \nThe Globally Relevant AIDS Vaccine Europe-Africa Trials Partnership (GREAT) \u2013 of which the University of Oxford is a lead partner \u2013 announced today the start of vaccinations in a Phase I clinical trial of a novel HIV vaccine candidate.
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