Dr Ashwin Jainarayanan has been selected to become a 2024 Schmidt Science Fellow \u2013 an honour bestowed on only 32 exceptional early career researchers worldwide.
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, 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.
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.
A new understanding of the PD-1 axis (programmed death cell) could help shape ongoing efforts to improve treatments for cancer and autoimmune diseases.
The Medical Research Council\u2019s Infections and Immunity Board (IIB) funds research into infectious human disease and disorders of the human immune system.
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.
Audrey G\u00e9rard has received \u00a3 1.5 million in funding from CRUK for a new research project to unravel the coevolving cancer and immune landscape.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A recent publication from Audrey G\u00e9rard\u2019s lab looks at how a specific protein, called IFN\u03b3, can coordinate CD8+ T cell responses during a flu infection.
Ruth Nanjala, DPhil student in Molecular and Cellular Medicine funded by the Africa Oxford Initiative (AfOx) Kennedy Trust Prize Studentship, attended a reception at Buckingham Palace hosted by King Charles III and Queen Camilla to mark the 60th anniversary of Kenya\u2019s independence. Ruth was invited in her capacity as student leader within the Oxford University Africa Society (AfriSoc).
The Kennedy Trust for Rheumatology Research (KTRR) visited the Kennedy Institute in early October. The Institute benefits extensively from the generous support of the KTRR and the visit was a great opportunity to share stories of our scientific successes and discuss future directions.
We welcome Fr\u00e4nze Progatzky who joined us this month as a new Principal Investigator, establishing her research group to study how glial cells in the nervous system of the gut and the lungs maintain healthy organs and drive responses to infection and injury.
Marco Fritzsche has been honoured in the 2023 Recognition of Distinction Scheme, the University of Oxford\u2019s annual exercise to confer the title of full professor for excellence in research and teaching.
The launch of a new endoscopy service at the Oxford Experimental Medicine Clinical Research Facility (EMCRF) will enhance the collection of data for research projects at NDORMS and across the University of Oxford.
We welcome Calliope (Calli) Dendrou who joined the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology this Summer as a Principal Investigator leading a research group. Calli is a leader in cross-disease multiomics and her research focuses on using omics (the study of totality of a molecular process in organisms) to find patterns shared by different inflammatory diseases, so that we can develop better treatments for these life-impacting conditions and repurpose existing treatments to help more people.
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