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\n \n 3 January 2024\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA partnership between CEPI, Barinthus Biotherapeutics and the University of Oxford aims to fast-track the development of a potential vaccine for the prevention of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA recent study by researchers at the Pandemic Sciences Institute shows that the NHS COVID-19 contact tracing app successfully predicted people\u2019s risk of catching the virus following exposure to an infected person.
\n \n\n\n \n 19 December 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA new study by Pandemic Sciences Institute, Ethox Centre, Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research at the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health and Royal Melbourne Hospital Department of Medicine, sheds light on important ethical considerations in Nipah virus outbreak control, its treatment, and research into vaccines.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA recent study by the PANGEA-HIV consortium, including researchers from the Pandemic Sciences Institute and Big Data Institute at NDM, has generated the largest dataset of HIV genomes in Southern and Eastern Africa to improve the current understanding of the epidemic.
\n \n\n\n \n 15 December 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nTo boost the fight against drug-resistant malaria parasites now emerging in Africa, researchers at the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit will study the safety and efficacy of a fixed-dose combination (FDC) containing three antimalarial drugs currently given to patients separately in a triple artemisinin-based combination therapy (TACT) cocktail.
\n \n\n\n \n 14 December 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe study by Oxford University Hospitals and NHS Foundation Trust researchers is the first to test the acceptability of transdermal sampling in children. Sixty-three percent of participants preferred this method to a needle, while just seven percent preferred the needle.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nAn international network of researchers, led by NDM\u2019s Professor Helen McShane and Professor Samantha Sampson from Stellenbosch University, has recently been awarded a new UK Medical Research Council (MRC) grant to continue the network activities until 2027.
\n \n\n\n \n 12 December 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA recent study by NDM researchers and collaborators estimates that nearly 1 in 4 people with P. falciparum malaria in Africa are at risk of receiving too low a dose of artemisinin combination therapies (ACTs). This increases the chance of treatment failure and the risk that malarial parasites develop resistance to the drug they were exposed to.
\n \n\n\n \n 11 December 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe first patient in Oxfordshire has been treated in an mRNA cancer vaccine trial at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation trust (OUH). The trial, led locally by Dr Ketan Shah, consultant clinical oncologist at OUH, marks a significant milestone in the national cancer vaccine advance.
\n \n\n\n \n 8 December 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nResearchers from the CAMS Oxford Institute and NDM Target Discovery Institute, including Prof Benedikt Kessler and Dr Ad\u00e1n Pinto-Fern\u00e1ndez, have collaborated with the team of Dr Paul Geurink and Dr Aysegul Sapmaz from Leiden University to investigate an important interferon-stimulated gene, ISG15.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA meta-analysis of nearly 30,000 patients by the The Infectious Diseases Data Observatory researchers, suggests that a post-treatment follow-up duration of longer than 6-months may be needed to identify visceral leishmaniasis relapses.
\n \n\n\n \n 6 December 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nIn a recent study, Prof Colin Goding's group from NDM's Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in collaboration with Dr Bill Pavan\u2019s group at the National Human Genome Research Institute, at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), uncovered the transcriptomic profile of MC1R-inhibited melanocytes at single-cell resolution in Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research.
\n \n\n\n \n 5 December 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe Global Health Network and Nursing Now Challenge have launched The 1000 Challenge, a global research leadership initiative to enable health professionals to ask locally important questions to generate evidence. The initiative aims to change practice and management to improve patient management, care, or treatment in a commitment to advance Health for All.
\n \n\n\n \n 4 December 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA recent study by the researchers at NDM\u2019s Big Data Institute, and Centre for Human Genetics, showed that many mutations, a much higher number than previously thought, are the result of self-induced damage to our cells. The study shows that mutations resulting from deliberate DNA breaks increase the risk of many conditions, including autism, and certain types of cancer.
\n \n\n\n \n 30 November 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA group of researchers led by Dr Roman Fischer at NDM\u2019s Target Discovery Institute and Centre for Medicines Discovery (CMD) has developed a method to study proteins in human tumours by creating detailed maps that show how much of each protein is present in different parts of the tissue.
\n \n\n\n \n 24 November 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA recent study led by NDM\u2019s Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU) researchers highlighted the factors associated with the number of visits to one tertiary public hospital (HTD) that serves as the referral clinic for two-thirds of Vietnam for Hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nDr Azim Ansari, Sir Henry Dale Fellow and Group Leader at NDM\u2019s Experimental Medicine Division, is among the three outstanding hepatitis researchers who have been announced as winners of the Medical Research Foundation\u2019s Emerging Leaders Prize.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA team of researchers including Dr Shobhana Nagraj from NDM Centre for Global Health Research, has received an INTERPROFESSIONAL.GLOBAL award for outstanding interprofessional teamwork and collaboration.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nTo mark World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, researchers supported by the Oxford Martin Programme on Antimicrobial Resistance Testing have reported advances towards a novel and rapid antimicrobial susceptibility test that can return results within as little as 30 minutes.
\n \n\n\n \n 16 November 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe Pandemic Sciences Institute has joined forces with the Science for Africa Foundation and the Mastercard Foundation to launch a call for applications to establish innovative networks of research excellence in epidemic and pandemic sciences across Africa.
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