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Botnar Research Centre

The Botnar Research Centre plays host to the University of Oxford's Institute of Musculoskeletal Sciences, which enables and encourages research and education into the causes of musculoskeletal disease and their treatment.

Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology

The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology is an international centre of excellence focusing on understanding the causes of chronic inflammatory conditions to develop new treatments that change lives.

The NDORMS response to COVID-19

A number of members of the department are actively helping with the response to the COVID pandemic. Playing a key role in research, literature reviews, clinical trials and engineering projects, all have a shared commitment to collaborate globally to tackle the pandemic.

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.

Cognitive–behavioural therapy consistently improves quality of life

A meta-review of the available research into cognitive behavioural therapy reveals it consistently improves health-related quality of life across different medical conditions and demographic populations.