Two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine are effective against severe disease for people who are underweight, overweight, or who have obesity, new research by University of Oxford researchers has found. Obesity was flagged as a risk factor for severe COVID-19 early in the global pandemic. The UK’s ... READ MORE
Lymph nodes reveal more about mechanisms of autoimmunity
Two recent papers by Oxford researchers have shown that studying lymph nodes reveals details of the mechanisms of autoimmunity. Autoimmunity affects up to 10 per cent of people and includes conditions such as types of diabetes and thyroid diseases. More recently, a group of conditions has been ... READ MORE
Conference aims to forge collaborations to tackle dementia
Representatives of academia, the NHS, the non-profit sector and the healthcare industry have attended a conference in Oxford to explore how to tackle the current challenges in dementia research through improved collaboration. The aim of the 21st Century Translation Dementia Research conference, ... READ MORE
Lung function device wins top chemistry Prize
A team who developed a novel device to measure lung function were among several Oxford researchers to receive prestigious prizes from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). The Molecular Flow Sensor Team - a multidisciplinary collaboration between chemists, physiologists, computer modellers and ... READ MORE
Professor Fiona Powrie recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours
Professor Fiona Powrie, who leads the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre’s Gastroenterology and Mucosal Immunity Theme, has been honoured in the 2022 Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Prof Powrie, Director of the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, was appointed Dame Commander of the Most Excellent ... READ MORE
BRC study outlines researchers training needs and barriers
A study by NIHR Oxford BRC researchers has revealed that a lack of time, work and clinical commitments, and family and childcare responsibilities are common barriers to training and development for doctors, dentists and nurses. “Continuing professional development of researchers is vital for ... READ MORE
Three new Blood and Transplant Research Units created in Oxford
The NIHR has awarded three new Blood and Transplant Research Units (BTRUs) to the University of Oxford. The £20m programme, co-funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) and NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), are aimed at providing new technologies, techniques or ... READ MORE
Oxford’s medical, health and life sciences research excellence recognised
Oxford’s reputation as a thriving powerhouse for medical, health and life sciences research has been highlighted today with the publication of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021, a UK-wide assessment of university research. The results of the REF 2021 exercise demonstrate that the ... READ MORE
Louise Strickland – profile of OUH’s first clinical academic nurse researcher
Dr Louise Strickland is a clinical academic nurse researcher at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and at the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS), University of Oxford. She is the first nurse to hold this exciting post in ... READ MORE
OUH agrees long COVID research collaboration with Polarean
Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) and the medical imaging technology company, Polarean Imaging plc, have entered into a research collaboration to study the long-term effects of COVID-19 in patients who are still experiencing breathlessness months after infection. Polarean produce an ... READ MORE
Paediatric IBD BioResource opens to support vital research
A new National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) BioResource aimed at investigating inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in children has opened, with the NIHR Oxford BRC playing a key role. The new Paediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease (PIBD) BioResource will drive research into Crohn’s ... READ MORE
Unique Oxford study of vascular disease reaches 20th anniversary
The only project of its kind anywhere that studies patients with all types of acute vascular events - including strokes, heart attacks, aneurysms - in order to develop better diagnostic tests and treatments celebrates its 20th anniversary this month. The Oxford Vascular Study (OxVasc) ... READ MORE
New drug no more effective than current treatments for post-operative knee pain
A new study has found that a drug recently licensed in the UK has no effect on post-operative knee replacement recovery or pain, compared to the current treatment when administered at the site of surgery. Knee replacement surgery is highly successful for treating severe arthritis; 100,000 ... READ MORE
Expansion of the Oxford Joint Research Office
Oxford’s Joint Research Office (JRO) has expanded to include teams from Oxford Health (OH) NHS Foundation Trust and Oxford Brookes University (OBU), joining the clinical research support teams from the University of Oxford (OU) and Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) NHS Foundation Trust. The ... READ MORE
Study finds no increased risk of rare neurological events after COVID vaccination
A study of more than eight million people has found no increased risk of rare neurological events after COVID -19 vaccination. However, the researchers did find a higher risk of Bell’s palsy (facial weakness), encephalomyelitis (inflammation of the brain and spinal cord) and Guillain-Barré ... READ MORE
BRC researchers lead new project to help people into remission from type 2 diabetes
NIHR Oxford BRC academics are to lead a new £2.2 million project aimed at giving more people newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes the chance of going into remission. Professors Susan Jebb and Paul Aveyard, from the BRC’s Obesity, Diet and Lifestyle Theme, will be joining forces with Diabetes UK ... READ MORE
First UK pilot study of newborn screening for spinal muscular atrophy launched
University of Oxford researchers have launched a pilot study to conduct routine testing of newborn babies for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) for the first time. Every five days a baby is born in the UK with SMA. If treatments are delivered at birth, these newborns have the best chance of living ... READ MORE
Blog: Developing a process to monitor populations at increased risk from coronavirus
Emma Pritchard is a Medical Statistician in the Modernising Medical Microbiology team at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. She works in the Oxford BRC’s Antimicrobial Resistance and Modernising Microbiology Theme. In this blog, Emma explains how she used the ongoing Office for National ... READ MORE
BRC launches first senior leadership training programme
The NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) launched its first dedicated senior leadership training programme on 28 February. Fourteen senior leaders affiliated to the BRC attended the first workshop on the topic Senior Leadership Practices. Those attending came from a diverse range of ... READ MORE
Brain regions related to smell show decline after mild COVID-19
University of Oxford researchers have found tissue damage and greater shrinkage in brain areas related to smell in people following mild SARS-CoV-2 infection. The researchers, who were supported by the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) used data from UK Biobank participants to look ... READ MORE
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