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First patient recruited for key drug treatment trial

4 June 2020 · Listed under COVID-19, Respiratory Medicine

A clinical trial to test whether Azithromycin, a commonly used antibiotic, can treat the symptoms of COVID-19 in outpatients has recruited its first patient. The ATOMIC2 trial, which is being led from Oxford, will enrol 800 people who are being assessed at hospital with COVID-19 but felt well ... READ MORE

Drug trial could lead to enhanced respiratory care for COVID-19 patients

29 May 2020 · Listed under COVID-19, Respiratory Medicine

Researchers at the University of Oxford are working with clinical collaborators from NHS hospitals, including Oxford University Hospitals, to test a drug that could raise oxygen levels in the blood in COVID-19 patients in order to improve their chances of recovery. Raising oxygen levels is ... READ MORE

BRC funds new COVID-19 research projects

6 April 2020 · Listed under COVID-19, Digital Health from Hospital to Home, Imaging, Multimorbidity and Long-Term Conditions, Respiratory Medicine

The NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) has allocated funding to three COVID-19 research projects in an attempt to improve treatment, understand how the virus interacts with chronic diseases, and the longer-term effects of infection on organs. The funding, originally earmarked for BRC ... READ MORE

Oxford researchers to play key role in fight-back against COVID-19

20 March 2020 · Listed under COVID-19, Inflammation across Tissues, Life-saving Vaccines, Modernising Medical Microbiology and Big Infection Diagnostics, Partnerships for Health, Wealth and Innovation, Respiratory Medicine, Translational Data Science

Researchers supported by the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre will play a crucial role in tackling the current COVID-19 pandemic, ranging from the development of a new vaccine to developing the most effective drug treatments for people who have contracted the virus. A team from the ... READ MORE

NIHR Oxford BRC Senior Research Fellows named

14 May 2019 · Listed under Life-saving Vaccines, Modernising Medical Microbiology and Big Infection Diagnostics, Multimorbidity and Long-Term Conditions, Musculoskeletal, Other News, Preventive Neurology, Respiratory Medicine, Translational Data Science

The Oxford BRC is delighted to announce the appointment of seven new Senior Research Fellows. They were chosen from an extremely strong field of 47 applicants from across the scientific and clinical community because they demonstrated that their research was high impact and of high quality . ... READ MORE

Oxford medical researchers win prestigious national awards

14 March 2019 · Listed under Life-saving Vaccines, Modernising Medical Microbiology and Big Infection Diagnostics, Multimorbidity and Long-Term Conditions, Musculoskeletal, Preventive Neurology, Respiratory Medicine

Four leading healthcare academics in Oxford have received a prestigious national award. The University of Oxford professors have been named National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Senior Investigators in recognition of their “outstanding contribution to clinical and applied ... READ MORE

Study reveals trends in incidence of spontaneous pneumothorax

10 October 2018 · Listed under Respiratory Medicine, Translational Data Science

Oxford researchers supported by the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre have published research that show how the rates of incidence and recurrence of spontaneous pneumothorax have changed over time. The research, published on 9 October in the Journal of the American Medical Association, ... READ MORE

Oxford researcher gets additional prize for his research into immunology of asthma

15 August 2018 · Listed under Inflammation across Tissues, Respiratory Medicine

A University of Oxford researcher has been awarded a top scientific prize to add to a prestigious fellowship he was given in June. Dr Tim Hinks was awarded the £25,000 Wellcome-Beit Prize for his research into the immunology of lung diseases, including asthma. The prize is given to four ... READ MORE

Oxford researcher gets £1m boost to study immunology of asthma

14 June 2018 · Listed under Inflammation across Tissues, Respiratory Medicine

A University of Oxford researcher has received a £1m grant to expand his research into the immunology of lung diseases, including asthma. Dr Tim Hinks has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Career Development Fellowship. The funding that comes with the award will allow Dr Hinks, who ... READ MORE

Serious asthma attacks reduced by temporary quadrupling of steroid inhaler, study finds

9 March 2018 · Listed under Respiratory Medicine

Serious asthma attacks in adults can be reduced by a temporary but significant increase in the dose of inhaled steroids during asthma deteriorations, according to a new national study involving NIHR Oxford BRC. The Fourfold Asthma Study (FAST), published in the New England Journal of Medicine ... READ MORE

Respiratory theme showcased at Brookes Science Bazaar

1 March 2018 · Listed under Respiratory Medicine

Staff from the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre Respiratory Theme engaged with young members of the public at the Brookes Science Bazaar on Saturday 24 February. The event, aimed at primary school children, drew in around 2,000 people and was busy throughout the whole day. In one popular ... READ MORE

Respiratory experts urge rethink of ‘outdated’ asthma categorisation

12 September 2017 · Listed under Respiratory Medicine

A group of respiratory medicine experts have called for an overhaul in our thinking about how asthma and other airways diseases are categorised and treated, saying the current approach is outdated and does not reflect advances in treating these conditions. Outlining their views in a specially ... READ MORE

A breathless and magical experience for foreign students

4 August 2017 · Listed under Partnerships for Health, Wealth and Innovation, Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement, Preventive Neurology, Respiratory Medicine

The NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre has welcomed students attending the 58th London International Youth Science Forum, a two-week residential event that attracts more than 500 of the world’s leading young scientists from more than 75 countries. Twenty-five students attended the Nuffield ... READ MORE

New hope for shock patients in intensive care

10 August 2016 · Listed under Respiratory Medicine

Care for critically-ill patients with shock could be improved, it is hoped, after the first successful testing by University of Oxford scientists of a new machine to record oxygen consumption in real time. The new technology has arisen through a collaboration between Professor Peter Robbins in ... READ MORE

New hope to tackle third biggest killer disease

9 July 2015 · Listed under Respiratory Medicine

A POTENTIAL new way to treat one of the world’s most common lung diseases is to be investigated after a study found a link between sufferers’ iron levels and worse health outcomes. Researchers are to give iron to people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) – commonly caused by ... READ MORE

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