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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

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

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

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

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

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