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 Tuesday, 1 November. He talked about the Trust’s aspirations and … Read more
Richard Gillies wins top Moynihan Prize
Dr Richard Gillies is an SpR in Upper GI surgery. He recently won the top Moynihan prize for 2011 for his work in: TUMOUR EXPRESSION OF THE DNA REPAIR PROTEIN, XPF, PREDICTS PATHOLOGICAL RESPONSE TO NEOADJUVANT OXALIPLATIN CHEMOTHERAPY IN OESOPHAGEAL CANCER R. S. Gillies*1, D. Delaney1, B. Warren1, R. A. Sharma2, M. R. Middleton This is the … Read more
Man treated in Oxford for blindness with gene therapy
Researchers in Oxford have treated a man with an advanced gene therapy technique to prevent him from losing his sight. It is the first time that anyone has tried to correct a genetic defect in the light-sensing cells that line the back of the eye. The president of the Academy of Medical Sciences said the widespread … Read more
Embryo ‘health check’ could improve IVF chances
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, allowing couples to get … Read more
Collaboration and positive change
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 benefits of interdisciplinary collaboration are key to the thinking … Read more
Rury Holman receives award
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 Association. Professors Rury Holman and Stephen Gough established the Translational Research Group … Read more
The amazing story of my father’s brain
The Thomas Willis Oxford Brain collection features in a Sunday Telegraph article by local journalist Vikki Owen. She talks movingly about donating her father’s brain to research and his struggle with MS. The Thomas Willis Oxford Brain Collection is a collaborating centre for the Brains for Dementia Research Initiative (BDR), which is a recently developed nationwide network of centres … Read more
Hamamatsu high throughput digital slide scanner and PathXL image analysis software available for research
A Hamamatsu high throughput digital slide scanner along with a sophisticated image analysis package from iPath is now available to researchers. The Hamamatsu NanoZoomer 2.0-HT slide scanner enables researchers to digitise their glass slides allowing the images to be interpreted on a screen with image manipulation capabilities similar to that of a standard microscope. The PathXL™ Visiopharm image … Read more
Doctoral student commended
Congratulations to Sean Elias, a doctoral student at the Jenner Institute. He is pictured receiving a ‘highly commended’ prize for his oral presentation at the NIHR Training Camp this summer from Professor Dame Sally Davies, the Chief Medical Officer and Head of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). The Training Camp, “Developing Your Post-doctoral Career: Attracting Health … Read more
Patients to benefit from more than £95m in research funding
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 (OxBRC) is based at the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust and run in … Read more
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