Dr Bart Loeys, Dr Alex Pitcher and Dr Hal Dietz (left to right) Patients, their families, clinicians and scientists came to the John Radcliffe Hospital from around the world for the first meeting of its kind in Europe on a rare cardiovascular disease. More than 160 people attended the Saturday, ... READ MORE
Visitors learn about brain research
Visitors to Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital learned how blood flows to and around the brain during a tour of medical facilities. The Friday, September 11 tours were part of the Oxford Open Doors programme of events, where city institutions opened to the public. Friday’s two free tours – which ... READ MORE
Blog: 100,000 Genomes Project will help people for generations to come
By Dr Angela Hamblin, Molecular Diagnostic Research Fellow at the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre The wait is over! The Oxford NHS Genomic Medicine Centre is now the first centre in the country open to recruit patients with cancer into Genomics England’s 100,000 Genomes Project. This ... READ MORE
Recruitment begins on major genetics project
A project to unravel the genetic changes underlying rare disease and cancers of more than 1,200 patients and their families who are looked after by Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust (OUHT) has started. The project will aid research, improve diagnosis and ultimately clinical outcomes so NHS ... READ MORE
JR facilities to open for public tours
Residents can tour two John Radcliffe Hospital facilities to learn about the history and treatment of conditions such as stroke and heart attack next month. The facilities will open on Friday September 11 as part of the Open Doors programme of events on September 12 and 13, when famous city ... READ MORE
First trial for childhood illness vaccine
Oxford University researchers supported by the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre have successfully completed the first human trial of a vaccine for a common virus that is particularly dangerous to infants. After fifty years of failed attempts around the world, a vaccine for respiratory ... READ MORE
Students learn about Oxford research
International students learned about cutting edge research taking place in Oxford during a visit to facilities at the Churchill Hospital. Youngsters on a two-week residential visit through the London International Youth Science Forum (LIYSF) heard how vaccine research is changing ... READ MORE
Heart failure patients applaud support app
Heart failure patients have praised an NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre-supported project that allows them to monitor their condition and communicate with researchers through tablet computers. A survey of users reported they found the system – through which they monitored their blood ... READ MORE
Oxford Ebola vaccine study moves to next phase
Oxford University doctors and scientists are performing the second phase of clinical studies of an experimental Ebola vaccine regimen, with part of the study supported by the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre. The study is part of the EBOVAC2 project, a collaborative programme involving the ... READ MORE
Best ever performance for speed of clinical trials
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust (OUH) has for the first time met in full a key measure for how quickly clinical trials start. All trials analysed by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) recruited the first patient within 70 days for the 12 months to this March. This marks a ... READ MORE
New hope to tackle third biggest killer disease
A POTENTIAL new way to treat one of the world’s most common lung diseases is to be investigated after a study found a link between sufferers’ iron levels and worse health outcomes. Researchers are to give iron to people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) – commonly caused by ... READ MORE
Sleep deprivation could reduce intrusive memories of trauma
A good night’s sleep has long been recommended to those who have experienced a traumatic event but an Oxford University-led study provides preliminary experimental work suggesting it could actually be the wrong thing to do. Sleep deprivation might prevent people from consolidating memories of ... READ MORE
New TB test to get sufferers on right drugs sooner
Tuberculosis sufferers will be able get drug treatment sooner thanks to a new whole genome sequencing technique to determine for the first time which drugs to give sufferers, researchers in Oxford have reported. University of Oxford researchers at the John Radcliffe Hospital have developed a ... READ MORE
BRC supports Oxford Ebola summit
The NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre is among organisations supporting a conference in the city next month about the global response to Ebola. Researchers, Government leaders and industry professionals who led the worldwide fight against Ebola are to come together in Oxford for the first ... READ MORE
Immune system talk draws crowds
More than 100 people attended the latest BRC talk about the human immune system and how it can help and attack the body. The University of Oxford’s Professor Paul Bowness spoke on “Autoimmunity – when our immune system turns on our bodies” at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Headington, on ... READ MORE
BRC supports herpes virus cancer trial
THE NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre has supported research that found a genetically engineered herpes virus can halt the progression of skin cancer. Patients from Oxford’s Churchill Hospital took part in the landmark clinical trial, which comprised 64 worldwide centres. It found the ... READ MORE
Nomination for BRC-backed blood project
A project supported by the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre has been nominated for a leading patient safety award. The Real-Time Blood Transfusion Data and Decision Support project has been nominated in the Technology and IT to Improve Patient Safety category for the Patient Safety Awards ... READ MORE
NIHR training lead honoured
The University of Oxford's Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences department lead for NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow training, Dr Daniel Lasserson, was honoured as 'Outstanding Supervisor in Medical Sciences' at the Oxford University Student's Union Teaching Awards at the Weston ... READ MORE
I’ll have a Pint of Science!
Pubgoers learned about the latest scientific developments at a Pint of Science event sponsored by the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC). The BRC supported the Pint of Science event at Oxford’s Wig and Pen on Tuesday May 19. Pint of Science brings together scientists to discuss their ... READ MORE
Event tells shoppers about research
SHOPPERS learned about medical research with an event at Templars Square Shopping Centre, Cowley, Oxford to mark International Clinical Trials Day. They spoke to patients, their relatives and NHS staff about how they can get involved in ground-breaking research for conditions like dementia and ... READ MORE
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