Three projects from the Medical Sciences Division were amongst 10 from across the University to receive funding from the second round of the Public Engagement with Research Seed Fund, For the full story on University of Oxford website
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is helping to pilot an intelligent home-based system to help people monitor long-term conditions in their own homes. For the full story on Oxford University Hospitals website
Women from low socioeconomic backgrounds are 25 per cent more likely to suffer a heart attack than disadvantaged men, a major new study has found. For the full story on Nuffield department of obstetrics and gynaecology
A robot has been used to inject a drug into the back of the eye in a world first for the next phase of a landmark clinical trial at Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital. Prof Robert MacLaren used the remotely controlled robot to administer a tiny volume of blood dissolving agent tPA under the retina to […]
A psychiatrist at Oxford Health has led a study which might be able to predict who will go on to self-harm again and again. The research, led by Dr Matthew Broome, a psychiatrist at Oxford Health and a researcher at Oxford University’s Department of Psychiatry, analysed the results from 15 previous studies of the relationship between different psychological […]
Emeritus Professor of Clinical Neurology, Professor Christopher Kennard joins the Medical Sciences Division as its new interim Head of Division today, replacing Professor Alastair Buchan, who will be taking a new role as the University’s Head of Brexit Strategy. For the full story on University of Oxford website
A consortium directed by Dr. Kalyanam Shivkumar at UCLA has received a three-year, $8.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The consortium hopes to map the heart’s nervous system, ultimately developing new treatments for cardiovascular disease. For the full story on department of physiology, anatomy and genetics website
A study led by Dr Belinda Lennox, a consultant psychiatrist at Oxford Health, has found that specific antibodies (proteins usually produced by the body in response to a foreign threat) are associated with the start of schizophrenia. The study, published in the journal Lancet Psychiatry, is the first to identify this association. Full story on Oxford […]
A major University of Oxford genetics research centre that supports Oxford BRC research is to share £118m of new funding. Full story on NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre website
Oxford University’s Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics (WTCHG) and the leading genome analytics company Genomics plc has announced the first sequencing and analysis of multiple human genomes using nanopore technology. The announcement, made on Thursday, December 1, at the Oxford Nanopore Community Meeting in New York City, marks a major breakthrough in sequencing technology. […]