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New national study into the long-term health impacts of COVID-19

8 July 2020 · Listed under COVID-19, Imaging, Other News, Respiratory Medicine

A major UK research study - PHOSP-COVID, will investigate the long-term health impacts of COVID-19 on hospitalised patients. The new study has been awarded £8.4 million jointly by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). The PHOSP-COVID study is ... READ MORE

Varying risk of COVID-19 to health workers revealed

30 June 2020 · Listed under COVID-19, Modernising Medical Microbiology and Big Infection Diagnostics, Translational Data Science

A study at Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) NHS Foundation Trust has revealed the different levels of risk faced by healthcare workers dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. In a major collaboration with the University of Oxford, almost 10,000 staff were tested both for presence of the virus ... READ MORE

Oxford leads development of risk prediction model for smarter COVID-19 shielding advice

23 June 2020 · Listed under COVID-19, Digital Health from Hospital to Home, Multimorbidity and Long-Term Conditions

People at highest risk of serious illness from SARS-CoV-2 infection may soon have access to better shielding advice based on a new data-driven risk prediction model being developed by an Oxford University-led team. The Principal Investigator, Professor Julia Hippisley-Cox of the ... READ MORE

Breakthrough in RECOVERY COVID-19 drug treatment trial

17 June 2020 · Listed under COVID-19, Translational Data Science

A cheap and widely available steroid has been found to save lives of patients hospitalised with COVID-19 in a national trial being led by University of Oxford researchers. Dexamethasone was one of the drugs being tested as part of the RECOVERY trial, the world's biggest trial looking at whether ... READ MORE

Serum iron may be useful biomarker to identify COVID-19 disease severity

15 June 2020 · Listed under COVID-19, Gene and Cell Therapy

A new study led by University of Oxford researchers has found that patients with severe COVID-19 respiratory failure have very low levels of iron, compared to those with less severe disease.  Changes in iron levels have been associated with worsening disease for other viral infections such ... READ MORE

Study explores effects of COVID-19 on sleep

15 June 2020 · Listed under COVID-19, Preventive Neurology

Oxford researchers have launched a study investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sleep and daily rhythms in adults. The UK arm of the International COVID-19 Sleep Study (ICOSS) is led by Professor Colin Espie from the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University ... READ MORE

Oxford leads part of major COVID-19 drugs trial

10 June 2020 · Listed under COVID-19, Musculoskeletal

As part of a new UK trial researchers at the University of Oxford will investigate whether administering the anti-inflammatory drug infliximab to patients with COVID-19 can prevent progression to respiratory failure or death. The multi-arm, multi-stage CATALYST Trial, is being led by the ... READ MORE

First patient recruited for key drug treatment trial

4 June 2020 · Listed under COVID-19, Respiratory Medicine

A clinical trial to test whether Azithromycin, a commonly used antibiotic, can treat the symptoms of COVID-19 in outpatients has recruited its first patient. The ATOMIC2 trial, which is being led from Oxford, will enrol 800 people who are being assessed at hospital with COVID-19 but felt well ... READ MORE

Drug trial could lead to enhanced respiratory care for COVID-19 patients

29 May 2020 · Listed under COVID-19, Respiratory Medicine

Researchers at the University of Oxford are working with clinical collaborators from NHS hospitals, including Oxford University Hospitals, to test a drug that could raise oxygen levels in the blood in COVID-19 patients in order to improve their chances of recovery. Raising oxygen levels is ... READ MORE

Oxford COVID-19 vaccine to begin phase II/III human trials

22 May 2020 · Listed under COVID-19, Life-saving Vaccines

University of Oxford researchers have begun recruiting for the next phase in human trials of a COVID-19 vaccine in human volunteers. The phase I trial in healthy adult volunteers began in April. More than 1,000 immunisations have been completed and follow-up is currently ongoing. The next ... READ MORE

BRC theme lead to study ‘remote-by-default’ care in COVID-19 pandemic

12 May 2020 · Listed under COVID-19, Partnerships for Health, Wealth and Innovation

A senior Oxford BRC investigator has received major government funding for a new study to support general practitioners to deliver effective remote care to their patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. Professor Trisha Greenhalgh (pictured right), of the University of Oxford’s Nuffield ... READ MORE

Managing clinical trials in a pandemic: interview with Prof Duncan Richards

5 May 2020 · Listed under COVID-19

Duncan Richards

Professor Duncan Richards, who is Director of the Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit (OCTRU) as well as the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre’s Musculoskeletal Co-theme Lead, is at the forefront of Oxford’s strategy on clinical trials for COVID-19. In this interview with the Nuffield ... READ MORE

Oxford COVID-19 vaccine begins human trial stage

23 April 2020 · Listed under COVID-19, Life-saving Vaccines

University of Oxford researchers have begun testing a COVID-19 vaccine in human volunteers in Oxford. Around 1,110 people will take part in the trial, half receiving the vaccine and the other half (the control group) receiving a widely available meningitis vaccine. Of the first two ... READ MORE

Large-scale COVID-19 infection and antibody test study launched

23 April 2020 · Listed under COVID-19, Modernising Medical Microbiology and Big Infection Diagnostics, Translational Data Science

Some 20,000 households across England are being contacted to take part in the first wave of a major new government study to track the COVID-19 coronavirus in the general population. The study will help improve understanding around the current rate of infection and how many people are likely to ... READ MORE

BRC funds three further COVID-19 studies

21 April 2020 · Listed under COVID-19, Gene and Cell Therapy, Inflammation across Tissues, Life-saving Vaccines

Three more studies are being funded by the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) to look at the way the body interacts with COVID19; these include assessing the safety of a new vaccine; the role that antibodies might play in plasma therapy; and blood biomarkers that determine adverse ... READ MORE

Common antibody test can be adapted for COVID-19, study finds

20 April 2020 · Listed under COVID-19, Inflammation across Tissues, Modernising Medical Microbiology and Big Infection Diagnostics

Research led from Oxford has found that an immunological assay commonly used to measure antibodies, antigens and proteins in biological samples can be specifically adapted to detect and quantifying COVID-19 antibodies. The investigations by the National COVID Testing Scientific Advisory ... READ MORE

Oxford-led research describes the safety profile and potential harms of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin

16 April 2020 · Listed under COVID-19, Translational Data Science

Over 300 researchers from the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) international community studied data from almost 1 million patients who have previously taken hydroxychloroquine. They declared hydroxychloroquine safe for short-term use, but urge caution in using it in ... READ MORE

BRC funds new COVID-19 research projects

6 April 2020 · Listed under COVID-19, Digital Health from Hospital to Home, Imaging, Multimorbidity and Long-Term Conditions, Respiratory Medicine

The NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) has allocated funding to three COVID-19 research projects in an attempt to improve treatment, understand how the virus interacts with chronic diseases, and the longer-term effects of infection on organs. The funding, originally earmarked for BRC ... READ MORE

New wearable technology used to monitor COVID-19 patients

1 April 2020 · Listed under COVID-19, Digital Health from Hospital to Home

Wearable technology that monitors patients’ vital signs is being used with COVID-19 patients on the isolation ward at the John Radcliffe Hospital. The technology has been developed by biomedical engineers and medical researchers supported by the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre ... READ MORE

GP practices urged to join COVID-19 research

30 March 2020 · Listed under COVID-19, Multimorbidity and Long-Term Conditions, Translational Data Science

Oxford researchers have launched a study to track the spread of COVID-19 in the population and develop a deeper understanding of the virus in general practice. The University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences (NDPCHS) and the Royal College of General Practitioners ... READ MORE

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