A 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.
The 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.
The 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.
A 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.
In 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.
The 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.
A 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.
The 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.
Professor 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.
A 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.
The WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN) has been shortlisted for a 2017 Times Higher Education Award in the International Collaboration of the Year category.
Oxford University has claimed the top spot in Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2018, which judge the performance of 980 universities across 79 countries.
The winner of the 2017 NIHR Let\u2019s Get Digital competition online community category is BashTheBug, an initiative funded by the NIHR Oxford BRC and led by Dr Philip Fowler, Senior Researcher at the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre.
In research published in the journal Virus Evolution, scientists from Oxford University\u2019s Department of Zoology have revealed that Next-Generation Sequencing and its associated online DNA databases could be used in the field of viral discovery.
The amount of influenza-specific antibodies present in an individual\u2019s blood can indicate not only if they experienced the flu, but potentially when - a finding that could improve disease monitoring in the tropics where flu season is unending, in the largest international study of its kind led by researchers from OUCRU.
he research groups of Dr Zamin Iqbal and Professor Derrick Crook, working in collaboration with teams at the OUCRU and the Foundation for Medical Research, Mumbai, aim to develop a rapid handheld TB test using the Oxford Nanopore MinION device.
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