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 […]
Yvonne Christley has been appointed as the Chief Nursing Officer of Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) and will take up her post on 1 May 2024. Yvonne is currently Chief Nursing Officer at Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, having previously been Deputy Chief Nurse at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Professor […]
Researchers at the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine’s Laboratory of Gene Regulation, led by Professor Doug Higgs and Dr Mira Kassouf have published a study in the journal Cell, in which they reveal another piece of the puzzle of how the code in our DNA is read. In this study, the authors introduce the […]
The Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk through Audits and Confidential Enquiries across UK (MBRRACE) collaboration, which is co-led by The Infant Mortality and Morbidity Studies (TIMMS) group at the University of Leicester and the Nuffield Department of Population Health’s Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU), has today published the results of a confidential enquiry into the care […]
More focused research on medication for serious mental illness is needed in the UK according to a leading Oxford Professor. Oxford University Professor Husseini Manji, global leader in the development of new medications for patients with serious mental illness discussed recently what needs to be done to make a real difference in their treatment. Professor […]
A new video by colleagues across the health and social care system shows how people can access urgent care at home – with the aim of preventing unnecessary admissions to hospitals and Emergency Departments, and providing care in community settings. The video features colleagues from Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH), Oxford Health NHS […]
Oxford Brookes University-based spinout company, MetaGuideX, has secured £100,000 funding to further develop the company’s cancer detection technology. MetaGuideX will use the Innovate UK Industry Impact grant to access specialist microscopes at the Central Laser Facility at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) on the Harwell Campus. The company is led by Dr Ryan Pink, Reader in […]
The University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, in partnership with Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, has been awarded £3 million by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) to establish a new HealthTech Research Centre (HRC). The five-year award will support the development and evaluation of innovative health technologies […]
The project is headed by Oxford University’s Professor Teresa Lambe OBE (Calleva Head of Vaccinology and Immunology, Department of Paediatrics) and co-developer of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine and Paul Klenerman (Sidney Truelove Professor, Nuffield Department of Medicine) £8 million funding from UKRI will catalyse global cooperation to improve understanding of existing COVID-19 vaccines and enhance […]
As the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated, viruses can quickly evolve new ways of evading our immune systems, undermining our efforts to control outbreaks. But a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool developed by researchers at the University of Oxford and Harvard Medical School could help predict new viral variants before they emerge. The findings have been published […]