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NIHR Advance Fellowship awarded

19 April 2021 · Listed under NIHR-BHF

Dr. Chris Miller, University of Manchester, was awarded an NIHR Advanced fellowship for £1.3m. This is an important milestone towards creation of the UK HFpEF registry, which will become the key platform for collaborative UK clinical and translational HFpEF research.

Human challenge trial launches to study immune response to COVID-19

19 April 2021 · Listed under Antimicrobial Resistance and Modernising Microbiology, COVID-19, Vaccines for Emerging and Endemic Diseases

Researchers at the University of Oxford have launched a human challenge trial to look at what kind of immune response can stop people from becoming re-infected. The team, led by the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre Director Professor Helen McShane (pictured right), also want to find out how the immune system reacts to a second … Read more

What Matters Most: A workshop methodology to hear patients’ priorities

16 April 2021 · Listed under Oxford Blood Group

Getting Involved with the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre

15 April 2021 · Listed under Other News, Partnerships for Health, Wealth and Innovation

The NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) has been working with a group which includes teenagers, young adults, carers and people from black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.   The project is part of the development of a new strategy and had a particular focus on making health research accessible. Group members had a range … Read more

BRC’s European-funded citizen science metabolism project under way

13 April 2021 · Listed under Diabetes and Metabolism

A three-year European Commission project to fund five citizen science projects, including one run by the NIHR Oxford BRC to research metabolism, has got under way. The €2.2m STEP CHANGE project is funding citizen science projects seven European countries and one in Africa. Funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme and coordinated by the … Read more

New clinical prediction tools for myeloma developed

9 April 2021 · Listed under Clinical Informatics and Big Data, Multi-Modal Cancer Therapies

University of Oxford researchers have developed new clinical prediction models for use in primary care with the aim of accelerating the diagnosis of myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow. Myeloma caused 117,077 deaths worldwide in 2020. Earlier diagnosis improves the rate of survival but unfortunately, delays in myeloma diagnosis are common and result in … Read more

National study looks at long-term lung damage from COVID-19

7 April 2021 · Listed under COVID-19, Respiratory

A new national study involving researchers from Oxford will investigate the long-term effects of lung inflammation and scarring from COVID-19. The study, launched with £2 million of funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), aims to develop treatment strategies and prevent disability. Many people recovering from COVID-19 suffer from long-term symptoms of lung damage, including breathlessness, … Read more

Oxford BRC again achieves ISO 9001 audit success

6 April 2021 · Listed under Other News

Following an external audit, the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) has again been successfully certified to the internationally recognised ISO 9001:2015 standard. The audit of the BRC’s funding Management System was carried out by the UKAS-accredited British Assessment Bureau. Achieving the ISO 9001:2015 standard means that an organisation has excellent quality management systems in place; it also confirms a strong customer focus … Read more

Risk of severe COVID-19 from asthma and other respiratory diseases may be only modestly increased, new analysis suggests

1 April 2021 · Listed under Clinical Informatics and Big Data, COVID-19, Obesity, Diet and Lifestyle, Respiratory

An analysis of 8.3 million health care records in England shows that people with asthma have only a small increased risk of developing severe Covid-19. The study, led by University of Oxford researchers, examined routine patient data collected between January and April 2020 to generate risk assessments for severe COVID-19 in people with chronic respiratory … Read more

Study analyses gender parity in Oxford BRC authorship

30 March 2021 · Listed under Other News

A study conducted by NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) researchers has shown that while there are positive trends in terms of the number of women authoring the BRC’s scientific papers, the proportion of female authors is significantly lower than male ones across all categories of authorship. Nonetheless, the paper, published on the open-access online … Read more

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  • NIHR Advance Fellowship awarded 19 April 2021
  • Human challenge trial launches to study immune response to COVID-19 19 April 2021
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