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NDORMS recognised with Athena SWAN Silver Award
25 October 2018
NDORMS has renewed its Athena SWAN Silver Award status in recognition of our commitment to advancing equality and excellence in employment and education practices.
Professor Irina Udalova joins Wellcome Trust Expert Review Panel
22 October 2018
Kennedy research Professor Irina Udalova has joined the Wellcome Trust’s Immune System in Health and Disease Expert Review Group from 1 October 2018.
Muscle weakness costs the UK £2.5 billion
16 October 2018
UK health and social care costs due to muscle weakness amount to around £2.5 billion according to a new study carried out at the University of Oxford and the University of Southampton.
ERC Starting Grant for Dr Anjali Kusumbe
5 October 2018
Congratulations to Kennedy Institute Group Leader Dr Anjali Kusumbe who has been awarded prestigious funding from the European Research Council to investigate the link between blood vessels and tumour metastasis in bone.
EQUATOR Network awarded for reducing waste in research
26 September 2018
The EQUATOR Network Education and Training Manager, Caroline Struthers received the Cochrane-REWARD Prize from the hands of Sir Iain Chalmers during the gala dinner of the Cochrane Colloquium in Edinburgh, this Monday 17 September.
Kennedy Trust Senior Fellowship programme successful in launching research careers
26 September 2018
Three Kennedy Trust for Rheumatology Research (KTRR) Fellows at the Kennedy Institute were recently awarded prestigious funding awards, highlighting the success of the KTRR programme in supporting outstanding investigators launch their independent research career.
Research for better shared decision-making in knee surgery
25 September 2018
New research by a team at the University of Oxford and the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre and published today in The Lancet provides robust basis for informed shared decision-making and consent on keyhole knee surgery.
Preventing osteoarthritis after injury: first international pre-guidelines
18 September 2018
International expert working group develop first pre-guidelines for conducting robust studies aimed at prevention of osteoarthritis (OA) after acute knee injury.
Making an impact in more ways than one
12 September 2018
The Kennedy Institute has won not one but two Green Impact scheme awards in the University’s fifth Sustainability Showcase – a Silver Award for the building and a Gold Award in the Labs category.
INTACT Trial opens to recruitment
12 September 2018
INTACT is a feasibility, randomised controlled trial comparing intravenous iron to usual care in patients discharged from critical care with moderate-severe anaemia. The primary aim is to assess recruitment, randomisation and follow-up rates to inform the design of a future large multi-centre trial.
EFIS-EJI Ita Askonas Prize for Professor Katja Simon
10 September 2018
Professor Katja Simon is the recipient of this year's prestigious Ita Askonas Prize for her contribution to immunology.
ASPECT Trial results
6 September 2018
The Aspirin Esomeprazole Chemoprevention Trial (AspECT) is to our knowledge one of the largest cancer prevention trials using aspirin and acid suppression in the world. In total 2557 patients with a common precancerous change in their oesophagus, called Barrett’s oesophagus, were followed up for an average of 9 years resulting in over 20,000 life-years of follow up. After informed written consent, patients were randomly allocated to four different combinations; Low acid suppression alone, High acid suppression alone, low acid suppression with 300mg aspirin and high acid suppression with 300mg aspirin. We wanted to see if we could prevent progression to local cancer/cancer in-situ (high grade dysplasia), invasive cancer or prevent death by all causes both cancer and non-cancer.
Dr Lesley Ward is awarded Scientific Article Prize 2017-18
5 September 2018
Higher standards for yoga research. The prestigious ISCMR Scientific Article Prize in Complementary and Integrative Medicine is awarded for Lesley's research into yoga for the management of pain and sleep in rheumatoid arthritis.
TARDOX Trial paper published
31 August 2018
Published in The Lancet Oncology journal, the 10-patient phase 1 clinical trial used focussed ultrasound from outside the body to selectively heat liver tumours and trigger drug release from heat-sensitive carriers, known as thermosensitive liposomes. Building on over a decade of preclinical studies, the study demonstrated the ultrasound technique to be feasible, safe, and capable of increasing drug delivery to the tumour between two-fold and ten-fold in the majority of patients.
BOOST Trial finishes recruitment!
30 August 2018
The BOOST Trial completed recruitment yesterday with the final recruit (number 438!) at Gloucester Care Services NHS Trust. The BOOST Trial is studying two different approaches to physiotherapy treatment for older people with back and leg pain due to lumbar spinal stenosis. Follow up assessment will continue for the next 12 months. Well done to the BOOST team and thank you to everyone taking part either as a patient or a centre.