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Scientists take research on new cancer therapy to local community

Cancer immunotherapy was the focus of this year’s participation in the MRC Festival of Medical Research, which took researchers from the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine to shopping centres in Didcot, Reading and Oxford. Researchers from the MRC WIMM (Radcliffe Department of Medicine) visited The Orchard Shopping Centre in Didcot, The Oracle in Reading […]

Oxford AHSN’s commercialisation workshops programme

This programme is now underway with a follow up of 3-day market discovery workshop on in both July and September FINAL Commercialsation Flyer Places on this Oxford AHSN course are available book  here  Market Discovery Pre-Accelerator Cedars Hotel and Conference Centre, Whiteknights Campus, University of Reading Explore the commercial viability of your idea with the BioCity coaches, […]

NHS Parliamentary Awards

Two pioneering Oxfordshire teams have made it to the finals of the prestigious NHS Parliamentary Awards. Oxfordshire Mental Health Partnership has been named regional winner and is now shortlisted for the national Excellence in Mental Health Care Award category. Meanwhile, a pioneering project developing a Digital Care Assistant (DCA), which enables staff to gather observations […]

Oxford Brookes climbs!

Oxford Brookes University has climbed 8 places in the latest Guardian University Guide. This is the third consecutive year Oxford Brookes has improved in the rankings and sees the University now ranked 33rd out of 121 UK institutions. Achieving 10 courses in the upper quartile of the guide – including the best result in Journalism, […]

VentureFest 2019

Following its successful event at Oxford Brookes University last year, Venturefest is returning with an extended and attractive new programme in the hope of welcoming old and new friends to join us on Wednesday 11 September. Professor Linda King, Pro Vice Chancellor for Research and Global Partnerships at Oxford Brookes University says “We are delighted […]

Understanding Type 2 Diabetes

Research from Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics sheds light on a vicious cycle that causes specialised pancreatic cells to fail in their function to maintain healthy bloody sugar levels. The pancreas produces the hormone insulin which is secreted from specialised cells called Beta cells (β-cells) into the bloodstream in response to a rise in circulating […]

The 2019 Lister Prize

Congratulations to Dr Ross Chapman who has been awarded a 2019 Lister Prize! Image courtesy of Shutterstock These highly competitive prizes help support future leader in biomedicine and are awarded as a lump sum of £250,000 over five years, to fund developing a research programme which will aim to further our understanding of the fundamental DNA […]

Bioescalator opened

Baroness Nicola Blackwood of North Oxford, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Innovation, has officially opened the Oxford BioEscalator. The BioEscalator is a new innovation centre for high-potential, early-stage medical science companies co-located alongside Oxford University’s world-class medical research at the Old Road Campus, Headington. It is one of four innovation centres in Oxfordshire supported […]

Oxford AHSC submits its 2018/2019 Annual Report

The report for the last year – 2018/2019 has been submitted to the DH via NIHR. In addition, a detailed summary of the last five years since designation was also submitted – this provides an excellent overview of the work of the AHSC and its partners. The documents are available here and (5 year report) […]

Calling all ‘exciting’ companies

TheHill is delighted to announce that we will be hosting the Innovation Showcase at this year’s VentureFest at Oxford Brookes University. TheHill is Oxford’s digital health hub. We are an innovation cluster, network and support programme working in Oxford with NHS Trusts, universities, digital developers, innovators and investors to catalyse commercial and impactful technological solutions […]