14 Sep, 2017
\n \n \n \nThe 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.
\n \n\n \n \n13 Sep, 2017
\n \n \n \nProfessor 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.
\n \n\n \n \n13 Sep, 2017
\n \n \n \nA 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.
\n \n\n \n \n8 Sep, 2017
\n \n \n \nThe WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN) has been shortlisted for a 2017 Times Higher Education Award in the International Collaboration of the Year category.
\n \n\n \n \n6 Sep, 2017
\n \n \n \nOxford University has claimed the top spot in Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2018, which judge the performance of 980 universities across 79 countries.
\n \n\n \n \n4 Sep, 2017
\n \n \n \nThe 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.
\n \n\n \n \n1 Sep, 2017
\n \n \n \nIn 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.
\n \n\n \n \n22 Aug, 2017
\n \n \n \nChanging home designs and materials to make homes cooler and harder for mosquitoes to enter could reduce malaria transmission in sub-Saharan Africa.
\n \n\n \n \n11 Aug, 2017
\n \n \n \nThe 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.
\n \n\n \n \n1 Aug, 2017
\n \n \n \nhe 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.
\n \n\n \n \n28 Jul, 2017
\n \n \n \nOxford researchers, Professors Tim Peto and Sarah Walker, in a recent publication in the BMJ are among a group of infectious disease experts to argue that the advice that completing a course of antibiotics is necessary to avoid antibiotic resistance is not supported by evidence and should be dropped.
\n \n\n \n \n28 Jul, 2017
\n \n \n \nThe aim of World Hepatitis Day is to increase awareness, promote discussion, celebrate successes and make steps towards better diagnosis, treatment and prevention of viral hepatitis infections.
\n \n\n \n \n27 Jul, 2017
\n \n \n \nThe KEMRI-Wellcome Trust anounces that the call for abstracts towards the 5th Medical and Veterinary Virus Research Symposium, October 26th \u2013 27th, 2017, is open. This year\u2019s theme is One Health \u2013 Accelerating Virus Research in East Africa.
\n \n\n \n \n25 Jul, 2017
\n \n \n \nOur bodies are composed of trillions of cells, each with its own job. To be able to perform these specific jobs, every cell needs a different set of tools, which are formed by the collection of proteins that a cell produces.
\n \n\n \n \n20 Jul, 2017
\n \n \n \nAn existing malaria rapid diagnostic test (RDT) can be adapted to predict the delayed anaemia that can complicate severe malaria in patients treated with artemisinin-based antimalarial drugs, say researchers in a study published in Science Translational Medicine Journal.
\n \n\n \n \n14 Jul, 2017
\n \n \n \nDeaths from measles have risen to new heights in Europe in the past year. The rapid spread of the measles virus has led to more than 3,300 cases and 35 deaths in Romania, Italy, Germany and Portugal.
\n \n\n \n \n26 Jun, 2017
\n \n \n \nCancer tumours manipulate a natural cell process to promote their survival suggesting that controlling this mechanism could stop progress of the disease, according to new research led by the University of Oxford.
\n \n\n \n \n21 Jun, 2017
\n \n \n \nOn Tuesday 6th June, researchers vaccinated volunteers and began Mahidol University\u2019s study of the malaria vaccine RTS,S/AS01.
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