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Professor Powrie to become new Wellcome Governor
19 July 2017
Fiona Powrie, Director of the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology is joining Wellcome as a new Governor in Jan 2018. Fiona says she’s thrilled to join Wellcome: "It’s an organisation I’ve admired since I started my research career. Through funding great scientific ideas, Wellcome is committed to promoting health around the world. It will be an honour to help deliver this goal."
OPAL study reaches 2,000 participants!
19 July 2017
Oxford Pain, Activity and Lifestyle (OPAL) study
Dopamine rewards immune cells through immunological synapse
16 July 2017
Researchers at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology at the University of Oxford mapped dopamine and the consequences of its release to the immunological synapse.
UNIQ Summer school
7 July 2017
Secondary school students attending the UNIQ Summer school visited NDORMS for a morning of talks, workshops and practicals.
Kennedy Institute investigator receives MRC Career Development Award
3 July 2017
Dr Anjali Kusumbe has been awarded an MRC Career Development Award to support her research examining how blood vessels support bone growth and repair.
Supporting patient safety through best-practice trial design
30 June 2017
UK statisticians and trialists reach out to the clinical trial community in an awareness-raising paper published this week as a first step in changing practice. They promote the use of adaptive designs in early-phase clinical trials to improve trial efficiency, which will benefit patients.
Oxfordshire Science Festival 2017
23 June 2017
Last weekend groups of researchers from NDORMS got up to all manner of things in the name of outreach - from demonstrating gut inflammation with soft plush bacteria (both friendly and far from!) to randomised trials involving skittles, chopsticks and straws.
Chris Hyungseop Han receives Award of Excellence from the International Magnesium Association.
15 June 2017
Chris Hyungseop Han picked up the Award of Excellence at the 74th Annual International Magnesium Association (IMA) World Magnesium Conference held in Singapore last month.
Three new clinical trials for NDORMS
8 June 2017
NDORMS have been successful with 3 Clinical Trials (BioPatch, MANTIS and NINJA) being awarded.
NDORMS is celebrating World Clubfoot Day today!
2 June 2017
More than 30,000 children in Africa are born with clubfoot each year. Many thousands of these children get no treatment, as it is simply not available where they live. They end up with severe deformities that make it hard and very painful to walk.
Expanding clinical research at the Kennedy Institute
31 May 2017
Christopher Buckley joins the Kennedy Institute as a new Director of Clinical Research from May 2017.
The PART study has completed recruitment
26 May 2017
The PART study, a feasibility study comparing radical prostatectomy (RP) and partial ablation (PA) using HIFU of the prostate in men with unilateral, intermediate risk prostate cancer has now completed recruitment.
EQUATOR Network honoured by the Council of Science Editors
24 May 2017
We take great pride in announcing that the EQUATOR Network has won the Council for Science Editors’ 2017 Award for Meritorious Achievement.
Celebrating International Clinical Trials Day 2017
19 May 2017
International Clinical Trials Day helps to raise awareness of clinical trials and recognises everyone involved in and affected by trials – researchers, clinicians, statisticians, patient participants, funders and the wider public.
OCTRU members attend ICTMC 2017
12 May 2017
Members of OCTRU attended this weeks 4th International Clinical Trials Methodology Conference and Society for Clinical Trials 38th Annual Meeting in Liverpool
CSM, past and future
8 May 2017
Celebrating 20 years of excellence with Doug Altman and welcoming the future.