On 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.
Professor 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.
The 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.
Florence 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.
Professor 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.
Four 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.
The 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.
Academic 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.
The Dr Stanley Ho Medical Development Foundation will continue its funding support for The Centre for Personalised Medicine (CPM) for further seven years.
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.
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.
The 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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\u2019s national synchrotron has been agreed upon.
Professor 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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