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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe RECOVERY trial was announced as the winner in the \u2018Best Public Sector Innovation\u2019 category in the 2023 Prix Galien UK Awards. The award ceremony took place at the Natural History Museum, London last week.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe multi-partner COVID Moonshot consortium was a runner-up in the Innovation Enabled by Partnership category, which recognises and celebrates scientific innovation that has been enabled as a direct result of collaborative partnerships.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA team including NDM researchers aims to co-create equitable and sustainable solutions to manage antimicrobial resistance, using a conceptual framework developed by the International Labour Organisation to guide climate action.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nEight academics from the University of Oxford have been selected to join the Royal Society as Fellows, including Prof Gilbert from the Pandemic Sciences Institute. The fellows have been selected for their substantial contribution to the advancement of science.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nProfessor James H Naismith will be the new Head of Oxford\u2019s Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division, taking over from Prof Sam Howison in October 2023.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nEric and Wendy Schmidt have announced the members of the 2023 cohort of Schmidt Science Fellows, including T. Bertie Ansell, a researcher at NDM's Division of Structural Biology. The 32 exceptional early career scientists will receive support to develop research projects and the leadership skills necessary to harness interdisciplinary science to tackle some of the world\u2019s most intractable problems.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA study by Nuffield Department of Medicine\u2019s Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, and collaborating researchers have uncovered the genetic signals that cause ankylosing spondylitis, a type of spinal arthritis.
\n \n\n\n \n 25 April 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nOn World Malaria Day 2023, the global fight against malaria has hit a critical point in Africa. Recent studies have confirmed that malaria parasites resistant to artemisinin have emerged in Rwanda, Uganda and the Horn of Africa.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nResearchers from NDM\u2019s Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics and the Queen Mary University have found evidence of how the normally protective response of the immune system to infection can go wrong in sepsis, offering exciting possibilities for the development of more targeted therapies for this deadly condition.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nProfessor Ellie Tzima is a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow and Professor of Cardiovascular Science at Nuffield Department of Medicine\u2019s Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics. The award will be presented to her in 2024.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA new Future Vaccines Manufacturing Hub aims to make the UK the global centre for discovering and manufacturing next-generation vaccines.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe vaccine, developed by the Jenner Institute and manufactured by the Serum Institute of India leveraging Novavax\u2019s adjuvant technology, has been granted full approval for use in Ghana by the country\u2019s Food and Drugs Authority.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nResearchers from the Nuffield Department of Medicine\u2019s KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme and the University of Oxford have recently reported promising results from a phase 1 clinical trial of their ChAdOx1 RVF vaccine against Rift Valley fever in humans.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nFlorence I. 'Cuppy' Otedola, an international DJ and music producer and Oxford alumna, has announced a gift of \u00a3100,000 to the Africa Oxford Initiative (AfOx) to support African graduate students at the University of Oxford.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nProfessor Dame Sarah Gilbert from the Pandemic Sciences Institute was awarded the prestigious 2023 King Faisal Prize in recognition of her work to co-create a COVID-19 vaccine that has saved an estimated six million lives.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nFour UK centres will conduct the \u2018Stratification of Clinically Vulnerable People for COVID-19 Risk using Antibody Testing (STRAVINSKY)\u2019 study over the next two years, to identify the patient groups most vulnerable to COVID-19.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe Pandemic Sciences Institute and the UK's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) have agreed to jointly study the dangerous pathogens that could cause future pandemics.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nAcademic representatives from Benem\u00e9rita Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de Puebla (BUAP), one of the leading universities in Mexico, paid a visit to NDM\u2019s Jenner Institute.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe Medical Research Council Prize Committee has awarded the RECOVERY trial team the MRC Impact Prize 2022 for Outstanding Team Impact.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe Dr Stanley Ho Medical Development Foundation will continue its funding support for The Centre for Personalised Medicine (CPM) for further seven years.
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