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Blog: End of life care in Vietnam
8 October 2024
Luu Phuoc An, a PhD student at NDM’s Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU), is dedicated to improving end of life care in Vietnam. Her research explores the complex cultural, emotional, and medical aspects of death and dying in hospital settings.
Blog: Insights into a pioneering tuberculosis vaccine trial
24 March 2024
In this blog, Aye Myat Pwint Thu, one of the Clinical Research Fellows at NDM’s Jenner Institute sheds light on a tuberculosis vaccine trial led by Professor Helen McShane, Professor of Vaccinology at the Jenner Institute.
Blog: Advancing tuberculosis research and elimination strategies
22 March 2024
In this blog, Dr Marco Polo Peralta, a senior scientist at NDM’s Jenner Institute provides insight into his research work on tuberculosis and shares how he thinks the 2030 TB elimination goal can be achieved.
Blog: Fitness compensation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
29 February 2024
Viktoria Brunner, a PhD student at NDM, takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Compensatory mutations are associated with increased in vitro growth in resistant clinical samples of Mycobacterium tuberculosis' published in Microbial Genomics.
Blog: World Malaria Day 2019
27 April 2019
The 25 of April is World Malaria Day - a good time to take stock of progress towards dealing with one of the great historical global scourges.
Blog: Using management thinking to fight the superbug crisis
15 May 2018
Science blog by Dr Marco Haenssgen who discusses the application of management thinking to solving the growing global problem of antimicrobial resistance.
Blog: Could aspirin be used to treat tuberculous meningitis?
5 March 2018
Science Blog. Professor Guy Thwaites, Director of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Vietnam, explains the discovery of yet another use for one of the most ubiquitous and ancient of drugs – aspirin.