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Congratulations to Kennedy researchers Professor Chris Buckley, Professor Mark Coles and Dr Stephen Sansom who have been awarded £1.5M funding from the Medical Research Council (MRC) to explore fibroblasts as an emerging target to treat chronic inflammatory disease.
CRUK funding success for Audrey Gérard
Funding Research
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.
Caroline Morrell awarded an MRC Fellowship
Funding
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.
EPSRC fellowship awarded to Huw Colin-York
Funding
4 July 2023
Huw Colin-York has been awarded a fellowship from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to develop synthetic biology tools to understand the immune response.
Kennedy researchers awarded Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowships
Funding
16 February 2023
Kennedy Institute researchers Mariana Borsa and Edward Jenkins have both been awarded Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowships, which give recently qualified postdoctoral researchers the opportunity to start independent research careers.
NIHR funding for musculoskeletal and inflammatory disease research
Department Funding
17 October 2022
Health and care research in Oxford is to receive £122 million in government funding over the next five years to improve diagnosis, treatment and care for NHS patients.
Leducq Foundation grant boosts cardiovascular research
Department Funding
11 October 2022
The Leducq Foundation has awarded $7.5 million to researchers at the University of Oxford and their collaborators to advance immunotherapy as a treatment for cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in the UK.
MRC funding awarded to Kennedy researchers
Funding
8 September 2022
Two new projects led by Tal Arnon and Irina Udalova have been awarded Medical Research Council (MRC) funding.
Kennedy researchers awarded funding to improve the understanding of inflammatory bowel diseases
Funding General
5 July 2022
A new £1.5M grant from the Medical Research Council (MRC) to the Powrie Group at the Kennedy Institute will help define different pathotypes of inflammatory bowel diseases that could lead to better and more focused treatments for patients.
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.”
Oxford researchers awarded funding to study the immune response to malaria
Funding
15 March 2022
Professors Matthew Higgins and Michael Dustin from the University of Oxford, Prof Gavin Wright from the University of York, and Professors Shiroh Iwanaga and Hisashi Arase from Osaka University have secured a Wellcome Collaborative Award for their study “How do RIFINs and STEVORs modulate human immunity during malaria?”
New funding awarded to study persistent pain in inflammatory arthritis
Funding
7 March 2022
The £3.9M Wellcome Collaborative Award will be used to identify the drivers of pain in people living with rheumatoid arthritis.
Single-cell ancestry vaccine research funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Funding
17 November 2021
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) has provided $2 million in funding to investigate how our ancestry and diversity influence the way that vaccines work in our cells.
Novo Nordisk Postdoctoral Research Fellowship awarded to Inhye Park
Funding
6 October 2021
Inhye Park has been awarded a Novo Nordisk Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to research the biology of resident vascular macrophages in atherosclerosis.
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.
EPSRC funds research to avert an antibiotics apocalypse
Department Funding
7 June 2021
Researchers at the Kennedy Institute join a collaboration to find new ‘drug-free’ ways of treating illnesses where current treatments have become ineffective due to antibiotic resistance.
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.
Oxford University awarded £2.4 million to fund DPhil research in inflammation, immunology and musculoskeletal disease
Awards Funding
18 December 2020
Oxford University has today been awarded a £2.4 million grant, as part of the Kennedy Trust MB PhD scheme, to fund undergraduate medical students to undertake DPhil research in the areas of inflammation, immunology and musculoskeletal disease.
CRUK success for NDORMS researchers
Funding
21 February 2020
Investigators based at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, NDORMS have recently received CRUK awards to increase understanding of a variety of cancers and immunotherapy.
Kennedy Trust renews commitment to rheumatology research with £20M
Funding
2 July 2019
The Kennedy Trust for Rheumatology Research (KTRR) has pledged a minimum of £20M over five years to the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology at the University of Oxford to support pioneering research into chronic inflammatory disease.
Meet the team
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Christopher Buckley
Kennedy Professor of Translational Rheumatology and Director of Clinical Research
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Mark Coles
Professor of Immunology
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Stephen Sansom
Associate Professor
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