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A more tailored approach to treating psoriatic arthritis

Arthritis Botnar Funding Main

8 January 2021

Dr Laura Coates has been awarded £1.8M from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to explore the potential for precision medicine in the choice of biologics to reduce inflammation and pain in psoriatic arthritis.

Professor Katja Simon awarded Wellcome Trust Investigator Award

Funding Kennedy Main

13 November 2020

Professor Simon has been successful in her Wellcome Trust Investigator Award entitled: “Proteostasis and Autophagy in Immune Senescence.”

Ethnic representation within the Tendon Human Cell Atlas to be improved with Chan Zuckerberg Initiative funding

Funding Main

29 October 2020

NDORMS researchers have been awarded funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to ensure that tendon samples from understudied ethnic groups are included in the Tendon Human Cell Atlas.

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative awards funding to Oxford team to support inflammation research

Funding Kennedy Main

30 April 2020

Professor Alan Silman receives Nuffield Foundation grant for research into joint replacement surgery

Funding Main

7 April 2020

The three year funding will provide evidence on how musculoskeletal conditions progress and their effect on people’s well-being and life chances.

CRUK success for NDORMS researchers

Funding Kennedy Main

21 February 2020

Investigators based at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, NDORMS have recently received CRUK awards to increase understanding of a variety of cancers and immunotherapy.

Sponsored place available for the Randomised Controlled Trials Course

CSM Funding Main

13 February 2020

The inaugural Doug Altman scholarship will be offered to an LMIC (lower-to-middle-income country) applicant or a student.

Cancer Research UK Senior Fellowship awarded to John Christianson

Funding Main Research

2 December 2019

John Christianson, Associate Professor at NDORMS, has been awarded a £2 million Cancer Research UK Senior Cancer Research Fellowship to explore new treatments for patients with multiple myeloma.

Two NDORMS researchers receive Versus Arthritis Fellowships

Botnar Funding Main Rehabilitation and self-management Shoulder

13 November 2019

Two Versus Arthritis Fellowships have been awarded to NDORMS researchers for the study of frozen shoulder and for management of osteoarthritis among the oldest adults.

New national surgical shoulder trial to investigate repair of partial rotator cuff tendon tears

Botnar Funding Main OCTRU Shoulder

8 November 2019

Professor Jonathan Rees and colleagues in the Surgical Intervention Trials Unit (SITU) have just been awarded a £1.5 million National Institute of Health Research HTA grant for the PRoCuRe trial to explore the benefits of surgical repair of partial rotator cuff tendon tears of the shoulder.

NIHR success for NDORMS researchers

Awards Botnar CSM Funding Main

5 November 2019

Four investigators based at the Botnar Research Centre, NDORMS have been recently awarded National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) fellowships to further our understanding of a variety of musculoskeletal conditions and develop better methodology to support medical research.

Kennedy Trust renews commitment to rheumatology research with £20M

Funding Kennedy Main

2 July 2019

The Kennedy Trust for Rheumatology Research (KTRR) has pledged a minimum of £20M over five years to the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology at the University of Oxford to support pioneering research into chronic inflammatory disease.

Unravelling the cellular blueprint of tendons with Chan Zuckerberg Initiative funding

Funding Main

24 June 2019

Researchers at NDORMS and their international partners have been awarded USD1.7 million by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) to unveil the cellular makeup of our healthy tendons. This unprecedented multidisciplinary approach will create the first ever blueprints of healthy tendons from across multiple anatomical sites in the human body.

Shaping medical care through innovative methodology

CSM Department Funding Main Statistics and epidemiology

16 May 2019

The Centre for Statistics in Medicine (CSM) has been awarded £2.5m by Cancer Research UK to advance a programme of work for research on research, developing crucial methodology and key guidelines for excellent medical research.

Creating a cellular atlas of healthy human joints

Funding Kennedy Main

21 January 2019

Kennedy researchers, in collaboration with colleagues at the Botnar Research Centre, Oxford, and the Universities of Birmingham and Leeds, have been awarded strategic funding from the Medical Research Council (MRC) to map in detail the different types of cells that make up human joints.

NIHR Clinician Scientist Award to improve outcomes for Open Fracture Patients

Botnar Funding Main Trauma

14 May 2018

We would like to congratulate Associate Prof. Xavier Griffin on successfully gaining an NIHR Clinician Scientist Award, entitled ‘Improving outcomes in trauma patients with open fractures: proving the utility of a national audit dataset.’

NIHR Fellowship to Study Treatment Decisions in Hand Surgery

Botnar Funding Main Orthopaedics and trauma Research

12 March 2018

Many congratulations to Jeremy Rodrigues who has been awarded an NIHR Postdoctoral Fellowship for a project entitled “Improving treatment decision making in hand surgery”. This aims to understand the variation in Dupuytren’s disease intervention in the NHS and to improve decision making in treatments.

Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Dale Fellowship awarded to Kennedy Researcher

Funding Kennedy Main Research

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’.

Wellcome Trust Investigator Award for Professor Udalova

Funding Kennedy Main Research

8 January 2018

Congratulations to Professor Irina Udalova on her successful Wellcome Trust Investigator Award entitled “Molecular control of pathogenic neutrophil responses in inflammation”.

CRUK Fellow joins the Botnar Research Centre

Botnar Funding Main Research

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’.