General News

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

Leading medical researchers in Oxford have been recognised for their outstanding contribution to healthcare research by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) today by being awarded £95m, an increase of 50%, to support translational research. The NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford ... READ MORE

On Sunday 31st July weighing in at 35 tonnes, the new 7 Tesla magnet scanner was lowered into place by a crane through the ceiling of the Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain (FMRIB) where it will be used for clinical trials into to help researchers further understand brain disorders, such ... READ MORE

To mark the 75th anniversary of the death of Henry Wellcome and the founding of the Wellcome Trust, they are publishing a series of 14 features on people who have been significant in the Trust’s history. In this final piece, science writer Anjana Ahuja looks at Peter Ratcliffe, the Professor of ... READ MORE

The Radiology Department at the Churchill Hospital (part of the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust) has just been licensed to manufacture Hyperpolarised Xenon gas for patient use.  This is only the second site in the UK to be granted permission to use the gas for lung imaging. Clinical trials ... READ MORE

The University of Oxford and the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust have signalled their intention to cement and strengthen their collaboration in research, teaching and patient care by agreeing terms for a formal and legally-binding relationship. There has been a long history of joint working ... READ MORE

Once again the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (OxBRC) will be sponsoring Professor Russell Foster and his talk on The Rhythm of Life on Wednesday 8 June (2.30-3.30pm) at this year’s Times Cheltenham Science Festival. Cheltenham Town Hall and Imperial Gardens will be transformed between 7-12 ... READ MORE

Women with painful periods show increased sensitivity to pain throughout their cycles, even when there is no background period pain. The brain imaging study carried out at Oxford University shows that period pain is associated with differences in the way the brain processes pain, and that these ... READ MORE

The first babies have now been born in the UK using a new technique pioneered at Oxford University to select the best embryos for IVF. The advance could bring hope to many British couples struggling to have a child and going through many cycles of IVF treatment. The technique used called ... READ MORE

Secondary school students and their teachers were kept on the edge of their seats with a fun an interactive session at the John Radcliffe Hospital on Thursday 17th March. Researchers, scientists, nurses and engineers were on hand with props to try and get the students from schools across ... READ MORE