The largest ever genetic study of mosquitoes reveals the movement of insecticide resistance between different regions of Africa and finds several rapidly evolving insecticide resistance genes.
Professor Arjen Dondorp and colleagues are inching their way across the fringes of five Southeast Asian countries to test a triple combination therapy of antimalarial drugs.
Kevin Marsh, Director of the Africa Oxford Initiative, Professor of Tropical Medicine at the University of Oxford, and Senior Advisor at the African Academy of Sciences has been selected to receive a Drexel Prize for scientific excellence.
A collaboration between the University of Oxford and Thailand\u2019s Mahidol University has been shortlisted for the prestigious 2017 Newton Prize for its project aiming to understand the early stages of scrub typhus in Thailand.
Scientists in Oxford and Dundee, including Professor Martin Bachmann of the Jenner Institute, were able to take the protein coat of cucumber mosaic virus and incorporate a tetanus vaccine-derived protein structure known to stimulate the immune system in order to create vaccines to treat multiple chronic diseases.
Science Oxford's Young Scientists of the Year celebration, run in partnership with the Nuffield Department of Medicine and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, honours some of the county\u2019s brightest and hard-working A-level students.
A multi-disciplinary research team from the Universities of Oxford, MRC LMB, Liverpool, Cancer Research UK and pharma (Forma Therapeutics) has performed structural studies of USP7 inhibitor-enzyme interactions, demonstrating that ubiquitin-specific proteases (USPs) are tractable drug targets for cancer and also other diseases.
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.
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