A recent study led by the Centre for Human Genetics at the Nuffield Department of Medicine has revealed that areas of the human genome that are routinely overlooked in clinical tests may be the cause of some rare diseases. Assessing 122 patients with genetic conditions including rare forms of heart arrhythmia, brain inflammation, inflammatory bowel […]
The Oxford Experimental Medicine Clinical Research Facility (EMCRF) at Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS) has received its first volunteers as part of the LEGACY03 trial to improve vaccine design for different age groups. Vaccines are the most effective way to prevent infectious diseases (NHS, 2023) however, people respond to them in […]
Plans for Warneford Park took a step forward as partners in the project signed a Conditional Option Agreement (COA) and Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), agreeing how they will work together going forward. If plans are approved, Warneford Park will provide a new mental health hospital alongside a major brain health research and innovation campus and […]
Two physiotherapists based at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre have been successful in obtaining an NIHR Doctoral Clinical and Practitioner Academic Fellowship (DCAF). Lucy Dove and Simon Wood will begin their fellowships in 2024. The DCAF scheme constitutes the doctoral tier of the Health Education England (HEE) and National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Integrated Clinical […]
Using data from 7 million people notified by the NHS COVID-19 contact tracing app, this is the first large-scale study to reveal how duration and proximity of contact with an infected person affects how COVID-19 is spread. A study published today in Nature shows that the NHS COVID-19 contact tracing app successfully predicted people’s risk of catching the […]
Birmingham Health Partners (BHP) members, the University of Birmingham, Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust and Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, alongside Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre (OH BRC) and other partners are part of the Government’s new Mental Health Mission – designed to develop radical new treatments for mental health […]
For more information on this new initiative please see here.
The Shelford Group, which includes OUH, has published new best practice guidance to help improve clinical trial set-up processes in the UK, with the aim of reducing timelines and increasing patients’ access to research. The new guidance covers: establishing a study’s feasibility; confirming a site’s capability and capacity; escalating blockers to study set-up and delivery; […]
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Oxford Brookes University is set to host flagship television programme BBC Question Time on 11 January 2024. The topical debate programme, first broadcast in 1979, will be returning to Oxford Brookes after the University successfully hosted the programme in January 2020. Chaired by presenter Fiona Bruce, filming will take place in the Sir Kenneth Wheare […]