The Minister of Health and Family Welfare of Bangladesh, the Honourable Dr Samanta Lal Sen, and the Bangladesh High Commissioner to the UK, Her Excellency Ms Saida Muna Tasneem, paid a visit to the Centre for Medicines Discovery at NDM last week.
Researchers from the Pandemic Sciences Institute at NDM are launching a new computer simulations project to model vaccine clinical trial designs and strengthen global response to pandemic threats.
Professor Yang Shi from the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at NDM has been elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States.
For Skin Cancer Awareness Month, the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research looks at recent research into melanoma from Professors Richard White, Professor of Genetics, and Colin Goding, Professor of Oncology.
A randomised controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of treatments for bubonic plague has enrolled over 220 patients in Madagascar, marking a critical milestone in evidence generation for plague treatments.
Researchers from the Jenner Institute at NDM will present new exciting data on the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine during the 8th Pan-African Malaria Conference, in collaboration with the Rwandan Ministry of Health and the Rwanda Biomedical Centre.
The Chinese Ambassador to the United Kingdom, His Excellency Zheng Zeguang, visited the University of Oxford last week, where he promoted deeper educational exchanges between China and the UK. During the visit, Zheng met with Irene Tracey, Vice-Chancellor of the university, and had an in-depth discussion on the university\u2019s collaboration with Chinese counterparts.
Dr Francesco Boccellato, Leadership Fellow at the Oxford Branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research has recently been awarded the Lee Placito Research Fellowship in Gastrointestinal Cancer.
Researchers from Oxford Vaccine Group and the Pandemic Sciences Institute welcomed a delegation of vaccine researchers from Belgium to further UK-Belgian collaboration on vaccine development and manufacture.
In the first week of April each year, the global community comes together to celebrate health workers, the backbone of the health industry and society.
Researchers at the Nuffield Department of Medicine, the Francis Crick Institute and University College London have been granted \u00a31.7 million of funding from Cancer Research UK and the CRIS Cancer Foundation to develop a lung cancer vaccine. The group includes Professor Tim Elliott, Kidani Professor of Immuno-oncology at NDM.
The Centre for Medicines Discovery (CMD) at NDM, has recently partnered with Ono Pharmaceutical Co (Ono) to validate and develop novel targets in a bid to discover innovative medicines.
The Pandemic Sciences Institute at NDM, in collaboration with the global coalition of health research funders GloPID-R and UKCDR, has launched a new research programme including an interactive platform to track and analyse over $7 billion in global pandemic research funding.
The Oxford Experimental Medicine Clinical Research Facility hosted by the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences has expanded its capability to undertake research bronchoscopies. The facility welcomed its first volunteers as part of the Oxford Airways Study to help understand the causes of asthma.
Researchers from the Oxford BRC and other collaborating organisations have received funding to set up a UK registry for children and adults who are at risk of type 1 diabetes and have tested positive for diabetes autoantibodies.
Dr Suwarti (Atie) began her journey with OUCRU Indonesia in 2018 as an awardee of the OUCRU Young Scientist Fellowship programme, when she embarked on a research journey into leptospirosis, a neglected tropical disease. Her curiosity and commitment to improving health outcomes have seen her research interests expand to the molecular diagnostic of Tuberculosis, Covid-19, and HIV.
A global, interdisciplinary team of researchers, including the Centre for Medicines Discovery\u2019s Professor Frank von Delft, has been selected to receive a Cancer Grand Challenges award of up to $25m over five years to tackle the solid tumours in children challenge. The Cancer Grand Challenges PROTECT team is led by Professor Stefan Pfister of the Hopp Children's Cancer Center in Heidelberg.
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