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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hundreds of visitors found themselves getting hands-on at the third research open day at the Churchill Hospital on 14th March.  As part of the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre’s ongoing commitment to involve and engage the public in the research carried out in Oxford hospitals, the open day was ... READ MORE

In early February more than 100 delegates filled the reception rooms at Headington Hill Hall to hear Professor Mary Boulton talk about her recent research into the experiences of research nurses employed by the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (OxBRC). The research was funded by Thames Valley HIEC ... READ MORE

On March 8th, Oxford Centre for Diabetes Endocrinology & Metabolism (OCDEM) and the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford hosted a visit for sixth form students from King Alfred School, Wantage. The students met some of the OCDEM researchers including Professor Keith Frayn, who explored the ... READ MORE

£3.7 million, over five years, has been awarded to Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust for facilities that will carry out research in areas such as communication impairments in children, social anxiety disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, depression, schizophrenia, and stroke. The bid for ... READ MORE

Professor Lionel Tarassenko, of the Department of Engineering Science and St John’s College, and director of the Institute for Biomedical Engineering, was made a CBE for services to engineering. He holds the Chair of Electrical Engineering. His research is focused on the development of signal ... READ MORE

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the top Trusts leading the way in providing opportunities for patients to take part in clinical research studies. Highlighted in a league table1 published for the first time by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Research ... READ MORE

Four Hospitals, One Trust, One Vision Sir Jonathan Michael, Chief Executive of the newly created Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust marked the merger between the former Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trusts with a tour around the four hospital sites on ... READ MORE

A new test developed by Oxford scientists could tell couples within 24 hours if they will ever be able to have a baby through IVF and improve success rates. Dr Dagan Wells from Oxford University, who led the research, said: “I think it offers the possibility of enhancing success rates of IVF, ... READ MORE

Mark Sheehan is James Martin Fellow in the Institute for Science and Ethics and Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) Ethics Fellow at the Ethox Centre. In this interview he outlines some of the collaborative projects in which he has been involved since joining the Oxford Martin School. The ... READ MORE

Rury Holman, Professor of Diabetic Medicine and director of the Diabetes Trials Unit, at the Churchill Hospital, and member of the NIHR funded Diabetes Research Theme, has received the Harold Rifkin Award 'for Distinguished International Service in the Cause of Diabetes' from the American Diabetes ... READ MORE