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Yoshi Itoh wins the International Dupuytren Award 2022
Awards General
30 June 2022
Yoshi Itoh, Associate Professor and Principal Investigator Cell Migration Group at the Kennedy Institute has been awarded the International Dupuytren Award 2022.
Professor Fiona Powrie recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours
General
6 June 2022
Professor Fiona Powrie was honoured in the 2022 Queen’s Birthday Honours List, published as Her Majesty celebrates her Platinum Jubilee.
Wellcome Trust Investigator Award for Professor Arnon
Funding General
12 April 2022
Congratulations to Professor Arnon on her successful Wellcome Trust Investigator Award entitled: “Spatiotemporal basis of adaptive immunity in the spleen.”
New Oxford-Zeiss Centre of Excellence opens at the University of Oxford
Department General
17 December 2021
The Kennedy Institute for Rheumatology and the Institute of Developmental and Regenerative Medicine announce the launch of the Oxford-Zeiss Centre of Excellence, providing state-of-the-art imaging technologies to lead future discoveries in global health and disease.
The Kennedy Institute Student Symposium returns for its 5th year
Department General
30 September 2021
A two-day student symposium returned to the Kennedy Institute bringing together students and peers from across the department to discuss their latest research.
Researchers from the Kennedy Institute awarded MRC funding
Funding General
29 September 2021
Tonia Vincent, Jelena Bezbradica and Alex Clarke have been awarded funding grants by the Medical Research Council (MRC) for different projects.
The Kennedy Institute completes its roof extension
Department General
17 August 2021
Building work at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology has finished, providing a new third floor that houses additional meeting and collaboration space for data science and offices for the management of clinical trials.
Major ERC funding awarded to Professor Michael Dustin
Funding General
4 May 2021
Professor Michael Dustin and an international team of collaborators have been awarded a €10M grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to develop a new biotechnology around supramolecular attack particles (SMAPs) engineered to kill cancer cells.
Drug may boost vaccine responses in older adults
General
18 December 2020
A preliminary study shows that a drug which helps immune cells self-clean may improve vaccine protection in older adults
£3M invested to drive forward early translation through five new Oxford-Bristol Myers Squibb Fellowships
Awards General
10 December 2020
Five new Oxford-Bristol Myers Squibb Fellowships representing an investment of £3M 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.
Kennedy researcher receives MRC Clinical Training Fellowship
General
9 October 2020
Dr Rahul Ravindran has been awarded a highly competitive MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowship, following a successful research placement at the Kennedy Institute in 2019.
Reach for the sky
General
8 July 2020
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.
Researchers identify markers in joint fluid that could be the key to cartilage repair
General
9 March 2020
Molecular changes in the joint fluid during surgical joint distraction reveal markers that may drive cartilage repair in osteoarthritis.
Professor Irina Udalova joins Wellcome Trust Expert Review Panel
General
22 October 2018
Kennedy research Professor Irina Udalova has joined the Wellcome Trust’s Immune System in Health and Disease Expert Review Group from 1 October 2018.
What is it like to be a work experience student?
General
22 August 2018
NDORMS ran two work experience weeks for eleven Y12 students from local state schools. While they were here they created video diaries about their week.
Professor Michael Dustin elected as EMBO member
Awards Department General
9 August 2017
Many congratulations to Professor Michael Dustin on his election as a member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO).
The art and science of arthritis
General oacentre
7 April 2017
Artist in residence at the Kennedy Institute unveils her ‘Healing Hands’ exhibition examining the art and science of arthritis.
Dr Luke Jostins joins the Kennedy Institute
General
13 January 2017
Dr Luke Jostins joins the Kennedy Institute to lead a new research group that will develop statistical methods to decode the genetics of complex immune diseases.
M40 Alliance forms to accelerate arthritis therapy
General
7 December 2016
A new partnership has been formed between the Universities of Oxford and Birmingham to speed up the development of novel treatments for arthritis, supported by a £7 million investment from the Kennedy Trust for Rheumatology Research.
1st Kennedy Institute Student Symposium
General
17 November 2016
Students presented their research at a one day symposium open to all staff at the Institute