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CSM study protocol tied for winning position at ECCO workshop
15 January 2018
CSM collaborator Sean O’Cathail took CEDAR, an adaptive phase I trial in rectal cancer, to a Europe-wide protocol development workshop in June 2017, where it tied for most innovative protocol.
2017 Recognition of Distinction
11 January 2018
The 2017 Recognition of Distinction demonstrate the department's commitment to excellence in research and teaching and reflect our world-renowned multidisciplinary approach to medical research.
Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Dale Fellowship awarded to Kennedy Researcher
10 January 2018
We would like to congratulate Dr Luke Jostins-Dean on being awarded a 5-year Sir Henry Dale fellowship, joint funded by the Wellcome Trust and Royal Society, entitled ‘combining genetics and high-resolution cell phenotyping to map pathways underlying inflammatory bowel disease’.
Immune cells are natural networkers
9 January 2018
New research published in Cell Reports by the Dustin Group has discovered a new way for immune cells to relay information about infection or genetic mutations through dynamic, yet durable cell contacts before deciding how to respond.
Wellcome Trust Investigator Award for Professor Udalova
8 January 2018
Congratulations to Professor Irina Udalova on her successful Wellcome Trust Investigator Award entitled “Molecular control of pathogenic neutrophil responses in inflammation”.
Showcasing five years of the Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit
4 January 2018
The Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit celebrates five years of running and supporting excellent clinical trials that benefit patients and improve healthcare.
CRUK Fellow joins the Botnar Research Centre
4 January 2018
Congratulations to Siim Pauklin on the award of his CRUK Career Development Fellowship entitled ‘Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Cancer Stem Cell Formation and Maintenance in Pancreatic Cancer’.
Celebrating the last 5 years at OCTRU
22 December 2017
Earlier this month we celebrated the last five years of running and supporting excellent clinical trials that benefit patients and improve healthcare.
A secreted commensal sugar sweetens the deal for intestinal macrophages
20 December 2017
A recent publication from the Powrie group at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology has described a novel mechanism by which the commensal pathogen Heliobacter hepaticus maintains its niche in the intestinal environment.
University of Oxford creates a new Chair and Fellows in Clinical Therapeutics
19 December 2017
The University of Oxford and St Hilda's College are delighted to announce the creation of a new Chair of Clinical Therapeutics thanks to initial, generous, philanthropic support from Professor John Climax. The donation was confirmed at a signing ceremony on Friday 15th December 2017.
Super Science Saturday
1 December 2017
Researchers and families get weaving on Super Science Saturday
Botnar researchers lead in identifying new inflammatory target in Spondyloarthritis patients
23 November 2017
Spondyloarthritis encompasses a group of common inflammatory diseases caused by an overactive immune response affecting up to half a million people in the UK alone.
Placebo controlled randomised surgical trial for subacromial shoulder pain
21 November 2017
The role of arthroscopic subacromial decompression in the treatment of subacromial shoulder pain (impingement).
Improved outcomes for patients with fracture of the distal tibia
14 November 2017
In a recent study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), research from Oxford Trauma in conjunction with Warwick Clinical Trials Unit shows that intramedullary nail fixation provides better quality of life for patients in the 12 months following a fracture of the distal tibia and costs less than ‘locking’ plate fixation.
ImPAcT of inflammation in Achilles tendinopathy
9 November 2017
In a new study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, scientists at NDORMS investigated if chronic inflammation was a feature of Achilles tendinopathy and rupture.
Oxford/Celgene Fellowship to analyse neutrophil chromatin organisation in rheumatic patients
8 November 2017
We would like to congratulate Tariq Khoyratty, who has been appointed as a Celgene Fellow to study the link between neutrophil chromatin organisation in rheumatic patients and their ability to form pathogenic extracellular traps.