By Sophie Petit-Zeman, What does medical research mean to you? Scientists in lab coats wielding test tubes, a whirring scanner, or perhaps the chance to join a clinical trial assessing whether a new drug is effective? You might reasonably reply “all of the above”, and feel you lack the ... READ MORE
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Patients to help shape spinal cord injury research
A new project to help those affected by spinal cord injuries shape the research agenda has launched its website. Supported by the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, The James Lind Alliance 'Spinal Cord Injury Priority Setting Partnership' will work with people with Spinal Cord Injury, Cauda ... READ MORE
First IVF baby with new embryo screening technique
A baby boy has been born to a couple in the USA by IVF involving the use of a new embryo screening approach. The method uses the latest DNA sequencing techniques and aims to increase IVF success rates while being more affordable for more couples. The work was a collaborative effort. It ... READ MORE
Research on the rise
Clinical research at Oxford University Hospitals increased last year making it one of the highest recruiting Trusts in England. According to a new league table of research supported by National Institute for Health Research Clinical Research Network, OUH recruited 16,368 patients in 321 studies ... READ MORE
WATCH: Research open day highlights
Hundreds visited last month's research open day, but if you missed out you can now catch up on the highlights here. Interactive exhibitions showcased the breadth and importance of the centre’s research and the public had the chance to tour would-class research facilities including the £13m ... READ MORE
Research proves a hit as hundreds visit open day
OLYMPIC gold medallist Andrew Triggs Hodge was among hundreds of visitors to our research open day at the John Radcliffe Hospital yesterday. Teams from the National Institute for Health (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research Centre demonstrated pioneering science and its impact on healthcare to ... READ MORE
Gold standard set for open day
Double Olympic gold medallist Andrew Triggs Hodge has lent his support to our annual open day. Teams from the National Institute for Health (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research Centre will be demonstrating world-class research tackling conditions including stroke, dementia, diabetes and heart disease ... READ MORE
Centre expansion strengthens musculoskeletal research
NEW state-of-the-art research facilities in Oxford will enhance the treatment of musculoskeletal injuries, strengthen the fight against bone cancer and improve arthritis care. Research teams have now moved into the £6m “phase 2” of the Botnar Research Centre, based at the Nuffield Orthopaedic ... READ MORE
WATCH: New approaches to heart disease
In the latest Oxford Biomedical Research Centre public talk, consultant cardiologist Prof Robin Choudhury describes the research undertaken in Oxford and how it might influence future care. Treatment of heart disease has improved markedly over the past decades. It has become clear that ... READ MORE
Patient involvement support for the research community
Find out about some of our patient partnerships at the NIHR's involvement4access website. Involvement4Access is a resource for the research community and contains guidance and examples of best practice on how to engage and empower patients. The "research community" includes everyone involved ... READ MORE
Gene sequencing test for cancer patients on the NHS
The first multi-gene DNA sequencing test that can help predict cancer patients’ responses to treatment has been launched in the National Health Service (NHS), thanks to a partnership between scientists at the University of Oxford and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust. The test uses the latest ... READ MORE
Discover the future at our 2013 open day
On Wednesday May 15 we will be showcasing the pioneering research improving healthcare across Oxfordshire’s hospitals and across the NHS…and we hope you will join us. The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research Centre is a £100m collaboration between Oxford ... READ MORE
Chief Medical Officer opens new research facility for dementia, mental health and neuroscience in Oxford
Professor Dame Sally C. Davies, Chief Medical Officer and Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department of Health, today (21 March 2013) opened a new research facility in Oxford which will speed the development of effective treatments for dementia, mental health and neurological conditions. The ... READ MORE
WATCH: Public talk on the latest research tackling blood diseases like leukaemia
In this Oxford Biomedical Research Centre public talk, Senior Research Fellow Dr Adam Mead outlines the pioneering research within Oxford Biomedical Research Centre’s Blood theme and how it’s helping to tackle diseases including leukaemia. Research also covers lymphoma and other red blood cell ... READ MORE
Volunteers needed to investigate how exercise may improve the ageing brain
Research studies in Oxford are investigating how physical and mental exercise could prevent brain decline in older people. The Cognitive Health in Ageing project (CHA) is recruiting healthy volunteers aged 60 or over to provide valuable insights into how the brain can adapt and change during ... READ MORE
Unique imaging centre opens for research in emergency care
A new £13m research centre aims to improve the early treatment of heart attack and strokes by understanding more about what is happening in the patient’s heart or brain tissue at the time of the attack. The University of Oxford Acute Vascular Imaging Centre (AVIC) at the John Radcliffe Hospital ... READ MORE
New appointment to the National Research Ethics Advisors Panel for NRES (National Research Ethics Service)
Dr Mark Sheehan has been appointed to the National Research Ethics Advisors Panel. The National Research Ethics Service (NRES) was originally asked by the four UK Health Departments, through the United Kingdom Ethics Committee Authority (UKECA) to establish a central advisory panel. The objective of ... READ MORE
NHS set to benefit from UK-led technologies
Video games, pioneering gene therapies and new medical devices are set to transform treatments on the NHS, with support from the Department of Health and the Wellcome Trust. The experimental technologies are being developed through the Health Innovation Challenge Fund, which was set up in 2009 to ... READ MORE
Oxford researchers elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences
Two medical researchers from the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust and the University of Oxford have been elected as Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences. Professors Tipu Aziz and Rury Holman are among the 46 new Fellows announced by the Academy for their outstanding contributions to ... READ MORE
Professor Russell Foster wins Social Innovator award
Russell Foster (left), Professor of Circadian Neuroscience and Head of the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Oxford, has been awarded the Social Innovator prize, by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), for his work to revolutionise our understanding of ... READ MORE
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