News for Metabolic Experimental Medicine

Eight BRC projects get RCF funding

7 September 2020 · Listed under Cancer, Cardiovascular Medicine, Digital Health from Hospital to Home, Gene and Cell Therapy, Genomic Medicine, Imaging, Inflammation across Tissues, Metabolic Experimental Medicine, Molecular Diagnostics, Multimorbidity and Long-Term Conditions, Preventive Neurology, Surgical Innovation, Technology and Evaluation, Translational Data Science

Eight Oxford BRC proposals, many covering a number of themes, have been awarded NIHR Research Capability Funding (RCF) funding to take forward key areas of research. The selected projects that will be supported include: Developing a research centre devoted to urgent and acute careThe ... READ MORE

BRC gets European funding for citizen science metabolism project

7 August 2020 · Listed under Metabolic Experimental Medicine

The NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) has received more than €270,000 from the European Commission as a part of a multi-nation research project to promote citizen science. Oxford’s involvement will entail the BRC and the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism (OCDEM) ... READ MORE

Short or long sleep associated with pulmonary fibrosis

20 January 2020 · Listed under Metabolic Experimental Medicine

Scientists have discovered that people who regularly sleep for very long (11 hours or more) or very short (four hours or less) periods of time are two to three times more likely to have the incurable disease pulmonary fibrosis, compared to those that sleep for seven hours in a day. The ... READ MORE

Achieving Type 2 diabetes treatment targets would improve health and reduce healthcare costs

8 August 2019 · Listed under Metabolic Experimental Medicine, Other News, Translational Data Science

Improvements in health and reductions in healthcare costs could be achieved if blood glucose, blood pressure and cholesterol treatment targets were met. Researchers from the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, assessed the long-term impact of achieving treatment ... READ MORE

International students learn about Oxford’s neuroscience and diabetes research

2 August 2019 · Listed under Metabolic Experimental Medicine, Other News, Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement, Preventive Neurology

Around 50 international students interested in a career in medicine or science have visited Oxford BRC-funded research facilities. Half the students, who are taking part in the London International Youth Science Forum (LIYSF), visited the John Radcliffe Hospital’s Neuroscience department, while ... READ MORE

Event showcases BRC work tackling chronic diseases

27 March 2019 · Listed under Cardiovascular Medicine, Metabolic Experimental Medicine, Multimorbidity and Long-Term Conditions, Obesity, Diet and Lifestyle, Preventive Neurology

Around 170 people attended a BRC event on Tuesday (26 March) that provided an opportunity to network and to hear about the breadth of research taking place in Oxford to combat chronic diseases such as diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease and dementia. The Chronic Disease Cluster, ... READ MORE

Schoolchildren and researchers gather to mark World Diabetes Day

15 November 2018 · Listed under Metabolic Experimental Medicine

Local schoolchildren joined University of Oxford researchers and diabetes patients to mark World Diabetes Day on Wednesday, but forming a blue circle around the famous Triton statue in the Radcliffe Observatory quarter. The awareness-raising event was organised by the NIHR Oxford Biomedical ... READ MORE

Gestational diabetes app officially launched

16 October 2018 · Listed under Digital Health from Hospital to Home, Metabolic Experimental Medicine

A smartphone application for women with gestational diabetes, developed with support from NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, has been launched commercially. GDm-Health has now completed its development following a two-year clinical evaluation in the NHS by over 1,000 women, and is currently ... READ MORE

Students go in2science to get invaluable lab experience

2 August 2018 · Listed under Metabolic Experimental Medicine, Partnerships for Health, Wealth and Innovation, Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement

Six A-level students have been getting first-hand experience of working in a top research laboratory during their summer holidays. The students, from different schools across Oxfordshire, have been getting valuable work experience at the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism ... READ MORE

Gestational diabetes app study show positive results

26 March 2018 · Listed under Digital Health from Hospital to Home, Metabolic Experimental Medicine, Obesity, Diet and Lifestyle

A 21-month study into the safety and effectiveness of a smartphone application for women with gestational diabetes, developed with support from NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, has shown positive results. The randomised controlled trial (RCT) of the GDm-Health app, a digital therapeutic ... READ MORE

Oxford medical researchers win prestigious national awards

23 February 2018 · Listed under Gene and Cell Therapy, Inflammation across Tissues, Life-saving Vaccines, Metabolic Experimental Medicine, Modernising Medical Microbiology and Big Infection Diagnostics, Obesity, Diet and Lifestyle, Partnerships for Health, Wealth and Innovation, Preventive Neurology, Surgical Innovation, Technology and Evaluation

Leading health researchers in Oxford have been recognised in a prestigious national competition. Eight professors have been named National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Senior Investigators in recognition of their “outstanding contribution to clinical and applied health and social care ... READ MORE

Tower turns blue for diabetes awareness

29 November 2016 · Listed under Metabolic Experimental Medicine

Churchill Hospital staff lit Oxford’s Magdalen Tower blue and hosted a research open day to spread awareness about diabetes. Staff from The Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism (OCDEM) arranged for the iconic landmark to be lit to mark World Diabetes Day on November 14, a ... READ MORE

Magdalen Tower set to turn blue for World Diabetes Day

9 November 2016 · Listed under Metabolic Experimental Medicine

Clinicians and researchers are preparing to light Oxford’s Magdalen Tower blue to mark World Diabetes Day – and have invited patients and visitors to then learn more at an open day about the condition at the Churchill Hospital. The tower at Magdalen College in High Street will follow in the ... READ MORE

Genetics of type 2 diabetes revealed in unprecedented detail

11 July 2016 · Listed under Metabolic Experimental Medicine, Other News

The largest study of its kind into type 2 diabetes has produced the most detailed picture to date of the genetics underlying the condition. More than 300 scientists from 22 countries collaborated on the study, which analysed the genomes of more than 120,000 people with ancestral origins in ... READ MORE

Blood pressure linked to diabetes in major new study

29 September 2015 · Listed under Cardiovascular Medicine, Metabolic Experimental Medicine

High blood pressure sufferers have an almost 60 per cent greater chance of developing diabetes, according to a major global study. Study author Professor Kazem Rahimi said that in face of earlier conflicting and inconclusive reports, this study now reliably shows the connection between high blood ... READ MORE

Volunteers sought for testosterone diabetes study

22 April 2015 · Listed under Metabolic Experimental Medicine

Men with Type 2 diabetes are needed for a study looking at a new treatment to correct low testosterone levels. Volunteers aged 18-60 would receive injections of a hormone which researchers from the Churchill Hospital in Oxford have found can boost the body’s production of ... READ MORE

National award for project providing better care for women with diabetes during pregnancy

14 November 2014 · Listed under Metabolic Experimental Medicine

A project which has harnessed technology to improve care for women who develop diabetes during pregnancy has won a national prize. The team behind GDm-health – the gestational diabetes smartphone app received the Best Digital Initiative trophy at the Quality in Care Diabetes ... READ MORE

Diabetes screening could happen at home

16 January 2013 · Listed under Metabolic Experimental Medicine

Research led by the University of Oxford has found that people may be able to test themselves for diabetes in the comfort of their own home, using a novel electronic screening device. The device was trialled in both healthy volunteers and people with diabetes, both in the home and in the ... READ MORE

Video encourages patients to participate in diabetes trial

14 November 2012 · Listed under Metabolic Experimental Medicine

A new video from the Diabetes Trials Unit (DTU) at the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism (OCDEM) is being launched today, on World Diabetes Day. Produced with local film company Nice Tree Films and funding from the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre in Oxford, the video ... READ MORE

Genetic cause of insulin sensitivity offers diabetes clues

19 September 2012 · Listed under Metabolic Experimental Medicine

The first single gene cause of increased sensitivity to the hormone insulin has been discovered by a team of Oxford University researchers. The opposite condition – insulin resistance – is a common feature of type 2 diabetes, so finding this cause of insulin sensitivity could offer new ... READ MORE

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