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COVID-19 News

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

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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

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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

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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

Oxford COVID-19 vaccine programme opens for clinical trial recruitment

27 March 2020 · Listed under COVID-19, Life-saving Vaccines

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University of Oxford researchers, working in an unprecedented vaccine development effort to prevent COVID-19, have started screening healthy volunteers ahead of a vaccine trial. The NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) provided essential funding to get the trial up and running. The ... READ MORE

Article addresses remote assessment of COVID-19 in primary care

25 March 2020 · Listed under COVID-19, Partnerships for Health, Wealth and Innovation

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An article by a leading Oxford researcher has outlined the guiding principles on how general practitioners should conduct remote consultations with patients who are suspected of having COVID-19. The article, published in the BMJ, is by Prof Trish Greenhalgh (pictured), the Oxford BRC Theme Lead ... READ MORE

Oxford researchers to play key role in fight-back against COVID-19

20 March 2020 · Listed under COVID-19, Inflammation across Tissues, Life-saving Vaccines, Modernising Medical Microbiology and Big Infection Diagnostics, Partnerships for Health, Wealth and Innovation, Respiratory Medicine, Translational Data Science

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Researchers supported by the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre will play a crucial role in tackling the current COVID-19 pandemic, ranging from the development of a new vaccine to developing the most effective drug treatments for people who have contracted the virus. A team from the ... READ MORE

Oxford BRC statement on activities during the current COVID-19 situation

19 March 2020 · Listed under COVID-19, Other News

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Many of the researchers we support are also clinicians, providing direct care to patients and the public, alongside their academic work. Given the scale of the national and global challenge of COVID-19 (coronavirus), BRC-funded clinical and research professionals who are working on topics ... READ MORE

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