25 April 2023
\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.
\n \n\n \n \n20 April 2023
\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.
\n \n\n \n \n17 April 2023
\n \n \n \nA new Future Vaccines Manufacturing Hub aims to make the UK the global centre for discovering and manufacturing next-generation vaccines.
\n \n\n \n \n13 April 2023
\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.
\n \n\n \n \n5 April 2023
\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.
\n \n\n \n \n3 April 2023
\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.
\n \n\n \n \n30 March 2023
\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.
\n \n\n \n \n27 March 2023
\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.
\n \n\n \n \n21 March 2023
\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.
\n \n\n \n \n20 March 2023
\n \n \n \nThe Medical Research Council Prize Committee has awarded the RECOVERY trial team the MRC Impact Prize 2022 for Outstanding Team Impact.
\n \n\n \n \n17 March 2023
\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.
\n \n\n \n \n10 March 2023
\n \n \n \nRare diseases are a global health challenge. To address this, organisations around the world, including the Nuffield Department of Medicine (NDM), are working together to find solutions for patients.
\n \n\n \n \n21 February 2023
\n \n \n \nThe Coronavirus Vaccines Research and Development Roadmap is a comprehensive plan to galvanize a global effort to protect the world from this large and dangerous family of viruses.
\n \n\n \n \n15 February 2023
\n \n \n \nThe Lithuanian Ambassador to the United Kingdom, His Excellency Mr Eitvydas Bajar\u016bnas, paid a visit to Professor Skirmantas Kriau\u010dionis of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at the Nuffield Department of Medicine.
\n \n\n \n \n7 February 2023
\n \n \n \nDART (Dengue Advanced Readiness Tools), is a new project supported by Wellcome to use climate data to better predict and prepare for infectious diseases outbreaks.
\n \n\n \n \n1 February 2023
\n \n \n \nThe Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU) has begun a Phase II trial to demonstrate that R21/matrix M is well-tolerated and immunogenic when administered with the antimalarial drug combination.
\n \n\n \n \n25 January 2023
\n \n \n \nDPhil student at the Jenner Institute, Romain Guyon is among the researchers who received the 2022 Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grants, announced by Michelson Medical Research Foundation and Human Immunome Project.
\n \n\n \n \n20 January 2023
\n \n \n \nSince the start of the pandemic, the CAMS-Oxford Institute (COI) has carried out 11 projects to better understand COVID-19, resulting in 21 published research articles.
\n \n\n \n \n12 January 2023
\n \n \n \nA new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to facilitate collaboration in the field of pandemic preparedness and to promote further cooperation between the University of Oxford and Diamond Light Source, the UK\u2019s national synchrotron has been agreed upon.
\n \n\n \n \n10 January 2023
\n \n \n \nProfessor Dame Sarah Gilbert, the Sa\u00efd Chair of Vaccinology in the Nuffield Department of Medicine has been selected to receive King Faisal Prize for Medicine for 2023, along with Professor Dan Barouch of Harvard Medical School.
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