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Professor Katja Simon awarded Wellcome Trust Investigator Award

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

The NDORMS response to COVID-19

A number of members of the department are actively helping with the response to the COVID pandemic. Playing a key role in research, literature reviews, clinical trials and engineering projects, all have a shared commitment to collaborate globally to tackle the pandemic.

Drug may boost vaccine responses in older adults

A preliminary study shows that a drug which helps immune cells self-clean may improve vaccine protection in older adults

Reach for the sky

A building project to extend the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology building with a new floor will create much needed space for the Institute to expand, particularly in the areas of data science and clinical trials.

High-resolution 3D image, tile scan (l) and medulla region (r) of an adrenal gland showing blood vessels (red) and perivascular cells (green and blue)

3D imaging reveals the role of blood vessels in hormone production

New 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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Professor Katja Simon awarded Wellcome Trust Investigator Award

The NDORMS response to COVID-19

Drug may boost vaccine responses in older adults

Reach for the sky

3D imaging reveals the role of blood vessels in hormone production

Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology

A world-leading medical research centre where discovery research drives the development of transformative therapies for chronic inflammatory and degenerative disease.

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Autophagy in T cells from aged donors is maintained by spermidine, and correlates with function and vaccine responses

Decreased blood vessel density and endothelial cell subset dynamics during ageing of the endocrine system.

A dynamic CD2-rich compartment at the outer edge of the immunological synapse boosts and integrates signals.

The Interleukin 22 Pathway Interacts with Mutant KRAS to Promote Poor Prognosis in Colon Cancer.

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Oxford to collaborate with Janssen to map the cellular landscape of immune mediated disorders

Versus Arthritis Foundation Fellowship awarded to Dr Kristina Zec

Vascular loss shown to be the primary hallmark of aging

Immunology preprint reviews launched in Nature Reviews Immunology

Drug may boost vaccine responses in older adults

COVID-19 research

COVID-19 research at the Kennedy Institute

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