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Study highlights ongoing COVID-19 risk in some cancer patients despite vaccination

24 May 2022 · Listed under COVID-19, Multi-Modal Cancer Therapies

A study has found that while COVID-19 vaccination is effective in most cancer patients, the level of protection against COVID-19 infection, hospitalisation and death offered by the vaccine is less than in the general population and vaccine effectiveness wanes more quickly. The study, published in Lancet Oncology by the UK Coronavirus Cancer Evaluation Project, was co-led … Read more

BRC study outlines researchers training needs and barriers

20 May 2022 · Listed under Other News

A study by NIHR Oxford BRC researchers has revealed that a lack of time, work and clinical commitments, and family and childcare responsibilities are common barriers to training and development for doctors, dentists and nurses. “Continuing professional development of researchers is vital for research and innovation in healthcare and ultimately improving patient care. We wanted … Read more

Three new Blood and Transplant Research Units created in Oxford

18 May 2022 · Listed under Clinical Informatics and Big Data, Genomic Medicine, Haematology and Stem Cells

The NIHR has awarded three new Blood and Transplant Research Units (BTRUs) to the University of Oxford. The £20m programme, co-funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) and NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), are aimed at providing new technologies, techniques or insights that will benefit donation, transfusion, and transplantation, and that … Read more

Oxford’s medical, health and life sciences research excellence recognised

12 May 2022 · Listed under Other News

Oxford’s reputation as a thriving powerhouse for medical, health and life sciences research has been highlighted today with the publication of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021, a UK-wide assessment of university research. The results of the REF 2021 exercise demonstrate that the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University continue to deliver research that … Read more

Louise Strickland – profile of OUH’s first clinical academic nurse researcher

12 May 2022 · Listed under Musculoskeletal, Other News

Dr Louise Strickland is a clinical academic nurse researcher at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and at the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS), University of Oxford. She is the first nurse to hold this exciting post in Oxford. Louise is used to being a trailblazer, having been the first nurse … Read more

OUH agrees long COVID research collaboration with Polarean

11 May 2022 · Listed under COVID-19, Imaging, Respiratory

Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) and the medical imaging technology company, Polarean Imaging plc, have entered into a research collaboration to study the long-term effects of COVID-19 in patients who are still experiencing breathlessness months after infection.  Polarean produce an investigational drug‑device combination product using hyperpolarised xenon gas to enhance magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in pulmonary medicine. … Read more

Paediatric IBD BioResource opens to support vital research

28 April 2022 · Listed under Gastroenterology and Mucosal Immunity

A new National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) BioResource aimed at investigating inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in children has opened, with the NIHR Oxford BRC playing a key role. The new Paediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease (PIBD) BioResource will drive research into Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis in children. It aims to recruit paediatric … Read more

Unique Oxford study of vascular disease reaches 20th anniversary

13 April 2022 · Listed under Stroke and Vascular Dementia

The only project of its kind anywhere that studies patients with all types of acute vascular events – including strokes, heart attacks, aneurysms – in order to develop better diagnostic tests and treatments celebrates its 20th anniversary this month.   The Oxford Vascular Study (OxVasc) began in 2002 and involves University of Oxford staff at … Read more

New drug no more effective than current treatments for post-operative knee pain

8 April 2022 · Listed under Musculoskeletal

A new study has found that a drug recently licensed in the UK has no effect on post-operative knee replacement recovery or pain, compared to the current treatment when administered at the site of surgery. Knee replacement surgery is highly successful for treating severe arthritis; 100,000 people undergo the procedure every year in the UK, … Read more

Expansion of the Oxford Joint Research Office

8 April 2022 · Listed under Other News

Oxford’s Joint Research Office (JRO) has expanded to include teams from Oxford Health (OH) NHS Foundation Trust and Oxford Brookes University (OBU), joining the clinical research support teams from the University of Oxford (OU) and Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) NHS Foundation Trust. The Oxford JRO now includes both of Oxford’s NHS Foundation Trusts and both … Read more

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