9 November 2017
\n \n \n \nSimon Leedham has been one of this year's recepients of Cancer Research UK's \"Future Leaders\" prizes.
\n \n\n \n \n3 November 2017
\n \n \n \nA collaboration between the University of Oxford and Thailand\u2019s Mahidol University has been shortlisted for the prestigious 2017 Newton Prize for its project aiming to understand the early stages of scrub typhus in Thailand.
\n \n\n \n \n2 November 2017
\n \n \n \nA new report is being released today that unveils 50 female leaders in healthcare business in the UK, which includes Oxford's Professor Sumi Biswas.
\n \n\n \n \n25 October 2017
\n \n \n \nScientists in Oxford and Dundee, including Professor Martin Bachmann of the Jenner Institute, were able to take the protein coat of cucumber mosaic virus and incorporate a tetanus vaccine-derived protein structure known to stimulate the immune system in order to create vaccines to treat multiple chronic diseases.
\n \n\n \n \n23 October 2017
\n \n \n \nScience Oxford's Young Scientists of the Year celebration, run in partnership with the Nuffield Department of Medicine and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, honours some of the county\u2019s brightest and hard-working A-level students.
\n \n\n \n \n18 October 2017
\n \n \n \nA multi-disciplinary research team from the Universities of Oxford, MRC LMB, Liverpool, Cancer Research UK and pharma (Forma Therapeutics) has performed structural studies of USP7 inhibitor-enzyme interactions, demonstrating that ubiquitin-specific proteases (USPs) are tractable drug targets for cancer and also other diseases.
\n \n\n \n \n17 October 2017
\n \n \n \nCongratulations to Professor Sir Nicholas White who has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM).
\n \n\n \n \n16 October 2017
\n \n \n \nA new Oxford University collaboration between the BDI and the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health will support understanding and action around one of the world\u2019s biggest health threats, drug-resistant infections.
\n \n\n \n \n11 October 2017
\n \n \n \nDespite unprecedented decline since 2000, progress has stalled.
\n \n\n \n \n9 October 2017
\n \n \n \nThe world\u2019s number-one treatment for malaria is on the brink of failure because of a new strain of drug-resistant parasites\u200a - \u200aunless health policymakers take action.
\n \n\n \n \n4 October 2017
\n \n \n \nThe world\u2019s first widespread human testing of a flu vaccine which researchers hope will protect more over 65-year-olds against influenza has begun in the NHS.
\n \n\n \n \n4 October 2017
\n \n \n \nA new typhoid vaccine for both adults and children has been proven by Oxford researchers, including Prof Brian Angus, to be safe and effective in preventing the disease.
\n \n\n \n \n28 September 2017
\n \n \n \nIn recognition of the excellent leadership and promotion by Prof. Emily Ying Yang Chan, Director of CCOUC, in the teaching, learning and research of disaster and medical humanitarian response, the University Grants Committee (UGC) of Hong Kong has awarded her the 2017 UGC Teaching Award.
\n \n\n \n \n28 September 2017
\n \n \n \nThe Medical Research Foundation, the Charity of the MRC, is investing \u00a32.85m to create a PhD programme that will train new scientists to explore ways to tackle antimicrobial resistance, one of the greatest emerging threats to human health.
\n \n\n \n \n21 September 2017
\n \n \n \nA highly drug resistant malaria \"superbug\" from western Cambodia is now present in southern Vietnam, leading to alarming failure rates for dihydroartemisinin (DHA)-piperaquine - Vietnam\u2019s national first-line malaria treatment, leading malaria scientists warn.
\n \n\n \n \n19 September 2017
\n \n \n \nMalaria kills more than half a million and affects over 225 million people every year.
\n \n\n \n \n14 September 2017
\n \n \n \nThe Medical Sciences Divisional Panel has conferred the title of Professor on seven members of NDM's academic staff, Associate Professor on nine members of NDM's academic staff and awarded Dr Louise Thwaites the title of University Research Lecturer.
\n \n\n \n \n13 September 2017
\n \n \n \nProfessor Kevin Marsh has successfully applied to the Wellcome ISSF for a grant to establish the Africa Oxford Initiative (AfOx), a platform to encourage collaboration between the University of Oxford and African institutions.
\n \n\n \n \n13 September 2017
\n \n \n \nA group of respiratory medicine experts have called for an overhaul in our thinking about how asthma and other airways diseases are categorised and treated, in a specially commissioned article in The Lancet, co-chaired by Professor of Respiratory Medicine Ian Pavord, which says that progress in treating asthma has slowed in the past 10 years despite increased spending on treatments, and has not matched that enjoyed in other medical fields.
\n \n\n \n \n8 September 2017
\n \n \n \nThe WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN) has been shortlisted for a 2017 Times Higher Education Award in the International Collaboration of the Year category.
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