Researchers from the University of Oxford and their partners have reported that a malaria vaccine they are developing has proved to be 77% effective in early trials. The findings of the Phase IIb randomised, controlled, double-blind trial, posted on SSRN/Preprints with The Lancet, show the ... READ MORE
National survey reveals big reductions in COVID-19 infections with single dose of Oxford-AZ and Pfizer vaccines
Data from the national COVID-19 Infection Survey, which is led by senior NIHR Oxford BRC researcher Professor Sarah Walker, has revealed the impact of vaccination on antibody responses and new infections in a large group of adults from the general population. This major community surveillance ... READ MORE
NIHR Advance Fellowship awarded
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. ... READ MORE
Human challenge trial launches to study immune response to COVID-19
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 ... READ MORE
Getting Involved with the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre
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 ... READ MORE
BRC’s European-funded citizen science metabolism project under way
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 ... READ MORE
New clinical prediction tools for myeloma developed
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 ... READ MORE
National study looks at long-term lung damage from COVID-19
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 ... READ MORE
Oxford BRC again achieves ISO 9001 audit success
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 ... READ MORE
Risk of severe COVID-19 from asthma and other respiratory diseases may be only modestly increased, new analysis suggests
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 ... READ MORE
Study analyses gender parity in Oxford BRC authorship
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 ... READ MORE
Oxford researchers release cheap, quick COVID-19 antibody test
An international research team led by Oxford University scientists has developed a portable test for antibodies that fight the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The test, which spots the presence of virus-fighting antibodies rather than a coronavirus infection, can be adapted to work on ... READ MORE
BRC training course prepares future healthcare research leaders
Twenty-five early and mid-career researchers and health professionals have embarked on a six-month course to give them the skills to become effective leaders in the future. The Next Generation Leaders Programme is commissioned and designed by the NIHR Oxford BRC Training and Education team to ... READ MORE
New study finds strong immune response following COVID-19 vaccination
A new study has found that 99% of people generate a robust immune response against COVID-19 after just one dose of the Pfizer vaccine, and that after two doses levels of protection were even stronger. The PITCH (Protective Immunity from T cells to COVID-19 in Health workers) study, led by ... READ MORE
Seven in ten patients hospitalised with COVID-19 not fully recovered five months after discharge
A majority of survivors who left hospital following COVID-19 had not fully recovered five months after discharge and continued to experience negative impacts on their physical and mental health, as well as their ability to work, according to results released by a major national study into the ... READ MORE
Physio gets NIHR Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship
A physiotherapist who works with patients in the Adult Intensive Care Unit at the John Radcliffe Hospital has become the first physio working clinically at Oxford University Hospitals to receive funding from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to study for a PhD. Owen Gustafson ... READ MORE
Two doses of vaccine offer same protection from COVID as prior infection, study finds
Two doses of either the Pfizer or Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine offer similar protection against symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection to that coming from natural immunity after infection, an ongoing study of healthcare workers has found. None of the 1,456 healthcare workers at Oxford University ... READ MORE
Oxford academics named NIHR Senior Investigators
Four academics supported by the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre have been awarded a prestigious national award. The University of Oxford professors have been named National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Senior Investigators in recognition of being “among the most prominent and ... READ MORE
New centre aims to help companies conduct more efficient trials
A new clinical therapeutics centre has been set up by the University of Oxford to help life sciences companies identify interventions that have the greatest potential to deliver patient benefit, and so bring down the cost of early phase clinical trials. The Oxford Centre for Clinical ... READ MORE
Oxford study reveals public attitudes to vaccine roll-out programmes
An international study led by University of Oxford health economists and political scientists has found that there is much greater consistency in public attitudes across a number of countries about who should be prioritised for COVID-19 vaccination than there is in national policies. The study, ... READ MORE
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