Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla representatives visit Jenner Institute
News
21 March 2023
Academic representatives from Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), one of the leading universities in Mexico, paid a visit to NDM’s Jenner Institute.
RECOVERY trial team wins the MRC Impact Prize
Awards News
20 March 2023
The Medical Research Council Prize Committee has awarded the RECOVERY trial team the MRC Impact Prize 2022 for Outstanding Team Impact.
Continued support to CPM helps it explore personalised medicine
News
17 March 2023
The Dr Stanley Ho Medical Development Foundation will continue its funding support for The Centre for Personalised Medicine (CPM) for further seven years.
Shifting the needle: finding solutions for rare diseases
News
10 March 2023
Rare 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.
Coronavirus Vaccines Research and Development Roadmap launched
News
21 February 2023
The 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.
Lithuanian Ambassador visits the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
News
15 February 2023
The Lithuanian Ambassador to the United Kingdom, His Excellency Mr Eitvydas Bajarūnas, paid a visit to Professor Skirmantas Kriaučionis of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at the Nuffield Department of Medicine.
Multidisciplinary dengue forecasting project launches in Vietnam
News
7 February 2023
DART (Dengue Advanced Readiness Tools), is a new project supported by Wellcome to use climate data to better predict and prepare for infectious diseases outbreaks.
Phase II Malaria vaccine trial begins in Thailand
News
1 February 2023
The 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.
NDM student Romain Guyon awarded the 2022 Michelson Prize
Awards News
25 January 2023
DPhil 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.
Essential research by COI improves understanding of COVID
News Publications & research news
20 January 2023
Since 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.
The University of Oxford signs MoU with Diamond Light Source
News
12 January 2023
A 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’s national synchrotron has been agreed upon.
Sarah Gilbert awarded 2023 King Faisal Prize
Awards News
10 January 2023
Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert, the Saïd 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.
Three NDM researchers awarded Associate Professorships
Department News
5 January 2023
We are delighted to announce that three 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.
Oxford Ebola vaccine manufactured and shipped in record time
News
16 December 2022
More than 40,000 doses of Oxford’s Ebola vaccine have been manufactured by Serum Institute of India (SII) in just 60 days and doses shipped to Uganda.
Oxford’s RECOVERY trial team amongst MRC‘s Outstanding Team Impact prize finalists
Department News
8 December 2022
The inaugural MRC Impact Prize recognises teams who have made outstanding impacts in health and medical research. The winners will be announced at a ceremony in the spring.
Constant genetic surveillance needed to counter multidrug-resistant malaria strains
News Publications & research news
5 December 2022
Continual monitoring of genetic changes in parasite populations is a powerful tool for analysing malaria outbreaks and identifying emerging multidrug-resistant malaria strains, say researchers from NDM’s Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU).
Lancet study informs WHO guidelines for the treatment of malaria in pregnancy
News Publications & research news
2 December 2022
The study from the Worldwide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN) provides compelling evidence that artemether-lumefantrine should now replace quinine as the treatment of choice in the first trimester.
Leedham Lab receives funding to improve bowel cancer treatments
News
25 November 2022
The Leedham Lab at the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics in the Nuffield Department of Medicine (NDM) has been awarded over £2m from Cancer Research UK to develop a new tool that could help guide how bowel cancer patients are treated in the future.
Oxford’s Ebola vaccine recommended for deployment against Uganda outbreak
News
17 November 2022
A vaccine developed by the Oxford Vaccine Group’s Prof Teresa Lambe and supported in clinical trials and manufacture scale-up by researchers from Nuffield Department of Medicine's Jenner Institute has been recommended for inclusion in a ring vaccination trial to combat a Sudan ebolavirus outbreak in Uganda.
New study provides important insights into TB correlates of protection
News Publications & research news
8 November 2022
Researchers from the Nuffield Department of Medicine’s Jenner Institute have today reported the findings from a study investigating whether previously identified correlates of protection associated with the risk of tuberculosis (TB) disease could also be associated with the risk of infection from the bacteria that causes TB.