News Archive
10 Aug 2010 - Morgan Cole appointed
Law firm Morgan Cole has been appointed by the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (OxBRC) to provide legal services, on a secondment basis, on clinical...
7 Aug 2010 - OxBRC receives ISO 9001 accreditation
The NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford (OxBRC) has for the second year in a row been credited as ISO9001 compliant.
This means that the OxBRC documents, implements,...
3 Aug 2010 - BBC Radio 4 'Inside the Ethics Committee'
Dr Mark Sheehan, the Oxford BRC Ethics Fellow, was one of a panel of experts on 'Inside the Ethics Committee' on BBC Radio 4 3rd August.
In this...
30 Jul 2010 - International Data Sharing Conference 2010, St Hugh's College
New ways of using vast amounts of data could transform scientific practice for the better. It is vital that decisions about the use of individual medical...
30 Jul 2010 - Sleep Session Sells Out
On Sunday 13 June, top sleep researcher Professor Russell Foster help to end this year's successful Times Cheltenham Science Festival with a sold out session. More...
23 Jul 2010 - Preventing strokes research
Two projects led by Professor Peter Rothwell, from the Department of Clinical Neurology, University of Oxford, are leading to major improvements in the effectiveness...
22 Jul 2010 - Current vacancies
Please visit this section of our website for current vacancies.
16 Jul 2010 - Swine flu clinical trial results published
Last autumn the Oxford Vaccine Group was the lead site on a novel influenza H1N1 (‘Swine Flu’) vaccine study that enrolled over 900 children...
25 Apr 2010 - NIHR call for proposals
This section of the NIHR website is dedicated to calls for proposals and funding opportunities. www.nihr.ac.uk/proposals/pages/default.aspx
16 Apr 2010 - The Times Cheltenham Science Festival
Described by Professor Lord Robert Winston as “unquestionably the leading science festival in the country”, The Times Cheltenham Science Festival is a five-day celebration...
13 Apr 2010 - Two Oxford professors win international medical award
Professors Peter Ratcliffe and Nick White of Oxford University have been named winners of Canada Gairdner Awards for 2010, one of the most prestigious...
2 Apr 2010 - Patient-centred research on display at open day
First Public Open Day – 18 March
A busy and successful open day was held in the West Wing atrium at the John Radcliffe Hospital. ...
29 Mar 2010 - Scientists look for examples of people’s writing for new Alzheimer’s study
Scientists at the Universities of Oxford, Southampton and St George’s, University of London are asking people with and without Alzheimer’s disease to come forward...
24 Mar 2010 - Clinical Research Fellow in Infectious Diseases/Immunology
The Jenner Institute
Clinical Research Fellow in Infectious Diseases/Immunology
Salary Scale for Whitley Council Clinical Grade E64: £30,685 - £49,178
Applications are invited from clinically qualified candidates,...
16 Mar 2010 - Variable blood pressure a new stroke risk factor?
Rethinking diagnosis and treatment of high blood pressure: variability is important too
Three recent papers recently published in The Lancet, and a further study in...
10 Mar 2010 - Clinical Research Accolades for Oxford
NIHR Senior Investigator Awards
Leading medical researchers in Oxford have been recognised for their outstanding contribution to healthcare research by the National Institute for Health...
25 Feb 2010 - mHealth: mobile technology for 21st century healthcare
Prof Lionel Tarassenko is the theme leader for the Bioengineering, Innovation & Technology research theme at the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre. On Feb 22 he gave...
23 Feb 2010 - BioTuesday at Oxfordshire Bioscience Network
16 March - Milton Park Innovation Centre, Abingdon
Dr Mark A Taylor, General Manager of the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre is one of three speakers...
18 Feb 2010 - New method makes vaccines stable at tropical temperatures
A simple and cheap way of making vaccines stable – even at tropical temperatures – has been developed by scientists at Oxford University and...
18 Feb 2010 - Tumour mapping for novel cancer treatment in Oxford
Professor Mark Middleton, Professor John Bell, Dr Jenny Taylor and research colleagues from Oxford were interviewed on BBC Radio 4 on 17 February about...
9 Feb 2010 - Medical Innovation Event at Said Business School
The Oxford Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation are delighted to announce that registration for Medical Innovation 2010 on 17th and 18th March at the Saïd Business...
4 Feb 2010 - Viral Hepatitis affects 1 in 12 people around the world - find out more
You are invited to attend a public lecture by leading experts Drs Jane Collier, Ellie Barnes and Prof Paul Klenerman. Would you like to...
1 Feb 2010 - Oxford Ataxia Centre launch
Patients with neurological disorders affecting speech, balance and coordination will get greater access to specialist services and research.
The new Oxford Ataxia Centre, launched at...
26 Jan 2010 - Patient Information day for people with inherited heart rhythm conditions
On 26 January patients have been invited in to find out more about inherited heart rhythm conditions (Long QT Syndrome and Brugada Syndrome). Other subjects included...
21 Jan 2010 - Geoff Salt visits Biomedical Research Centre projects
Mr Geoffrey Salt was Director of Selling for Waitrose, responsible for 188 shops and 37,000 staff, and a member of the Waitrose Board. He joined...
21 Jan 2010 - New Oxford institute will be a centre of excellence for research into fertility & reproduction
The Institute for Reproductive Sciences – a new centre for cutting-edge research into causes of infertility and assisted reproduction techniques such as IVF –...
20 Jan 2010 - Public Talk - vaccines Tuesday 26 January
When? Tuesday, 26 January from 6-7pm (light refreshments at 5.30pm)
Seminar Rooms 2A&B, level 3, George Pickering Post-Graduate Centre, The John Radcliffe Hospital
Who? Professor Andrew...
17 Dec 2009 - Statistician - Infection in Oxfordshire Research Database
Grade 8: Salary £36,532 - £43,622 per annum
The Infection in Oxfordshire Research Database (IORD) program at the University of Oxford is seeking to appoint...
7 Dec 2009 - Clinical Research Fellow Vacancies (2 posts)
Applications are invited for two Clinical Research Fellows to undertake translational research in one of the OxBRC themes.
The posts are offered in conjunction with...
26 Nov 2009 - Oxfordshire patients to benefit from robotic surgery
The University of Oxford and the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust have acquired the latest technology in robotic surgery, the only one of its...
13 Nov 2009 - Professor Sir John Bell appointed as Non-Executive Director
Professor Sir John Bell, FRS is Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University and is also President of the Academy of Medical Sciences. He...
22 Oct 2009 - Launch of new Oxford Vaccinology Programme
In November, The Jenner Institute will be launching the new Oxford Vaccinology Programme in collaboration with the University's Department for Continuing Education.
This academic year,...
6 Oct 2009 - Research Integrity Seminar Series
A series of lectures looking at different aspects of research integrity and their application in biomedical research
25 Sep 2009 - Swine Flu Vaccine Trial
The Oxford Vaccine Group, part of the University of Oxford, would like to invite you and your child to take part in a study...
1 Sep 2009 - Heart Centre sneak preview
Journalists were offered a sneak preview of the Oxford Heart Centre on Tuesday 1 September 2009. They were invited for a tour before staff and...
1 Aug 2009 - New contracts officer appointed
Diana Nicol has recently been appointed as a full time Biomedical Research/ORH contracts officer, embedded in the University Research
Services team at the Churchill Hospital. ...
26 Jun 2009 - Patient and public involvement in research
Since 2003, the NHS has had a duty to involve and consult people about changes to health services. This duty to involve has now...
25 Jun 2009 - Fellows elected - 2009
40 of the United Kingdom’s leading doctors and medical researchers have been recognised for excellence in medical science with their election to the Academy...
24 Jun 2009 - Additional investment in high through-put sequencing
The Medical Research Centre (MRC) is pleased to announce an additional investment in high-throughput sequencing that will bring funding of hubs for high-throughput sequencing...
1 Mar 2009 - New Director of the Oxford BRC appointed
Prof Keith Channon
Keith Channon, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oxford and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist at the John Radcliffe Hospital has been appointed...
15 Jan 2009 - New diabetes research theme leader appointed
Professor David Matthews has handed over the reigns of diabetes research theme leader (Oxford Biomedical Research Centre – OxBRC) to Dr Fredrik Karpe, Reader...
12 Dec 2008 - New brain theme research theme leader appointed
Professor Christopher Kennard, who has been appointed Head of the Department of Clinical Neurology, succeeds recently retired Professor Angela Vincent to take on the...
16 Jul 2008 - Oxford group awarded millions to boost infection research
An Oxford group has today been chosen as one of two major consortia dedicated to research into healthcare associated infections and antibiotic resistance.
The Oxford...
