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\n \n\n \n \n \nA new clinical therapeutics centre has been set up by the University of Oxford to help life sciences companies identify interventions that have the greatest potential to deliver patient benefit, and so bring down the cost of early phase clinical trials.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA meta-review of the available research into cognitive behavioural therapy reveals it consistently improves health-related quality of life across different medical conditions and demographic populations.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe University of Oxford has entered into a strategic collaboration with Janssen Biotech, Inc., one of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nDr Kristina Zec has been awarded a Versus Arthritis Foundation Fellowship to investigate the role of products of lipid oxidation produced by synovial macrophages in triggering articular inflammation.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe results of an observational study published in JMBR and funded by the Health Technology Assessment Programme shows that bisphosphonate use is associated with a greater risk of chronic kidney disease progression.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe results of the WHiTE Four clinical trial for the treatment of fragility hip fractures have been published in The Bone and Joint Journal.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nNew Research from the Kusumbe group at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology identifies vascular attrition, marked by pericyte to fibroblast differentiation, as a primary hallmark of aging and highlights organ-specific vascular changes with age.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nHealth outcomes during the first wave of COVID-19 in Catalonia, Spain, have been described in detail in a study published by Nature Communications.
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\n \n\n \n \n \n\u2018Capture the Fracture\u00ae (CTF) Partnership \u2013 Guidance for Policy Shaping\u2019 sets out a step-by-step approach to building secondary fracture prevention policy which can improve patient outcomes, save healthcare costs, and save lives.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe Oxford-Mount Sinai (OxMS) Preprint Journal Club has partnered with Nature Reviews Immunology to launch a monthly Preprint Watch column.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nDr Laura Coates has been awarded \u00a31.8M 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.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe Research at Oxford on Analysis of Motion (ROAM) team at the University of Oxford have supported CURE Ethiopia Children\u2019s Hospital to develop and open a brand new gait laboratory, the first of its kind in the country and the only other active gait lab on the African continent outside of South Africa.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nStatutory Professor of Biomaterials is awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to Engineering
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA preliminary study shows that a drug which helps immune cells self-clean may improve vaccine protection in older adults
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\n \n\n \n \n \nIn a combined effort to help COVID-19 researchers the University of Oxford and Cardiff University have launched a series of \u201cliving reviews\u201d in Oxford University Press\u2019s new open access journal \u201cOxford Open Immunology\u201d.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nOxford University has today been awarded a \u00a32.4 million grant, as part of the Kennedy Trust MB PhD scheme, to fund undergraduate medical students to undertake DPhil research in the areas of inflammation, immunology and musculoskeletal disease.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA systematic review finds Incomplete excision rates for basal cell carcinoma range from 4.7% to 20.4% against recommended guidelines of 5%.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nNew research from the Kusumbe Group at the Kennedy Institute has shown a direct correlation between age-related decline in capillary and artery numbers and hormone production in the endocrine system.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nFive new Oxford-Bristol Myers Squibb Fellowships representing an investment of \u00a33M have been announced. The fellowships (formerly Oxford-Celgene) will support postdoctoral researchers and clinicians across five departments within the Medical Sciences Division and the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division, providing an opportunity for them to gain exposure to the field of commercial drug discovery and development.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nAdam Cribbs has been awarded a prestigious MRC Career Development Award to further his research to identify therapeutic targets for multiple myeloma.
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