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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.

Horizontal portrait of Professor Michael Dustin

Professor Michael Dustin elected to the National Academy of Sciences

Recognised for his outstanding contributions to the field of immunology, Michael becomes the fourth Kennedy professor to be elected to the Academy.

Images from 2D TIRF-SIM-TFM and aTFM microscopic methodologies.

Small mechanical forces in immune cells measured at unprecedented sensitivity

Oxford researchers have used advanced microscopy techniques to measure previously unseen forces generated by cells during an immune response; a breakthrough for mechanobiology and future advances in health and disease.