Celebrating two new professorships at the Kennedy Institute
25 July 2024
The Kennedy Institute at the University of Oxford recently hosted a dinner to celebrate and thank the Kennedy Trust for Rheumatology Research for its generous support and the endowment of two new professorships in translational medicine at the Institute.
Adrien Hallou joins Franco-British Young Leaders Programme
9 July 2024
The Franco-British Council has announced Dr. Adrien Hallou as one of its 20 new Young Leaders for 2024.
New network aims to bring together microbiome researchers across Oxford
4 June 2024
The Oxford Microbiome Network (OMiN) aims to facilitate collaborations, knowledge sharing, and access to resources for microbiome researchers across Oxford. OMiN is co-led by researchers in the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology and the Department of Biology. The network officially launched on 20th May 2024 with an event at Keble College.
The Kennedy Institute welcomes Distinguished Investigator Dr Alan Sher
4 June 2024
Alan has spent two months at the Kennedy Institute as a guest of Professor Dame Fiona Powrie. During his visit he has spent his time collaborating with researchers at the Kennedy and other departments in the University, and mentoring young investigators on their career development.
Oxford researchers contribute to report on the future of healthcare
23 May 2024
Prof. Michael Dustin was one of 17 researchers from across Oxford's Medical Sciences and Maths, Physics and Life Sciences Divisions that have contributed to a new report on the future of healthcare, compiled by Citi Global Perspectives & Solutions (Citi GPS).
NDORMS researchers awarded Associate Professor title
9 May 2024
The University of Oxford has awarded the title of Associate Professor to Calliope Dendrou and Siim Pauklin.
Kennedy DPhil selected for 2024 Schmidt Science Fellow program
7 May 2024
Dr Ashwin Jainarayanan has been selected to become a 2024 Schmidt Science Fellow – an honour bestowed on only 32 exceptional early career researchers worldwide.
British Heart Foundation Programme grant will explore the molecular immunology of heart and vessel disease
23 April 2024
A new programme of research led by Professor Claudia Monaco and funded by the British Heart Foundation aims to unpick the inflammatory processes behind cardiovascular disease so that immune-targeted therapies may be developed in future.
Connects-UK launches to foster scientific collaborations between EU and UK researchers in a post-Brexit era
10 April 2024
Connects-UK, a new pan-European network dedicated to advancing scientific collaborations between researchers in the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK), was officially launched at an event in London yesterday. The network, led by a diaspora of EU researchers working in the UK, seeks to bridge the gap created by Brexit and ensure that collaboration, innovative research, funding, and knowledge exchange continue to thrive in the post-Brexit era.
New study reveals how T cells gain and maintain tolerance to gut bacteria
3 April 2024
The immune system in the intestine maintains a careful balance, tolerating our long-term resident (commensal) gut bacteria while defending against invading pathogens. Under certain circumstances, dysregulation of our intestinal immune response to commensal and pathogenic microbes can drive inflammatory disease.
PD-1 gets an “A” for team-work
8 March 2024
A new understanding of the PD-1 axis (programmed death cell) could help shape ongoing efforts to improve treatments for cancer and autoimmune diseases.
Professor Irina Udalova appointed to the MRC’s Infections and Immunity Board
1 March 2024
The Medical Research Council’s Infections and Immunity Board (IIB) funds research into infectious human disease and disorders of the human immune system.
Oxford-ZEISS Centre of Excellence officially opened
23 February 2024
ZEISS is partnering with the University of Oxford bringing ground-breaking microscopy imaging equipment, and analysis tools, to advance the study of global health and disease.
CRUK funding success for Audrey Gérard
14 February 2024
Audrey Gérard has received £ 1.5 million in funding from CRUK for a new research project to unravel the coevolving cancer and immune landscape.
BBSRC funding awarded to Kennedy researchers to understand how neutrophils develop
11 January 2024
A project led by Irina Udalova and co-led by Marco Fritzsche and Erinke van Grinsven, a senior postdoctoral fellow in the Udalova laboratory, has received funding from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to uncover why and how neutrophils experience dramatic nuclear changes during their development, and the link between maladaptive neutrophil development and chronic inflammation.
Caroline Morrell awarded an MRC Fellowship
9 January 2024
A DPhil candidate at NDORMS, Caroline received the MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowship that has enabled her to further her research into head and neck cancer.
Kennedy Trust gift to help drive forward research into inflammatory and musculoskeletal diseases at Oxford
30 November 2023
Two professorships in translational medicine have been endowed at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology thanks to a generous gift from the Kennedy Trust for Rheumatology Research.
Tom Hosack awarded an MRC Fellowship
28 November 2023
A DPhil candidate at NDORMS, Tom Hosack received the MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowship to further his research into tissue tropism in PD-1 therapy in immune-mediated inflammatory diseases.
New PI will study the mechanical forces impacting cell fate decision-making and tissue dynamics in inflammatory diseases
23 November 2023
We welcome Adrien Hallou who has joined the Kennedy Institute as a new Principal Investigator. Adrien will be establishing his lab to better understand the role of mechanical forces on cell fate decisions and tissue dynamics in inflammatory diseases, with a particular focus on inflammatory skin diseases such as psoriasis or atopic dermatitis.
New discovery furthers our understanding of how critical immune cells are controlled during an infection
21 November 2023
A recent publication from Audrey Gérard’s lab looks at how a specific protein, called IFNγ, can coordinate CD8+ T cell responses during a flu infection.