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\n \n 21 June 2021\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nPostdoctoral Researcher Ghada Alsaleh has been awarded a research grant by Versus Arthritis which she will use to develop a new therapy for osteoarthritis.
\n \n\n\n \n 10 June 2021\n \n
\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \nA new study published in Circulation Research by researchers at the Kennedy Institute shows that CD200, an inhibitory immune checkpoint, reduces the development of atherosclerosis.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nResearchers at the Kennedy Institute join a collaboration to find new \u2018drug-free\u2019 ways of treating illnesses where current treatments have become ineffective due to antibiotic resistance.
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\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \nResearchers at the Kennedy Institute demonstrate that the drug decitabine can boost regulatory T cell responses.
\n \n\n\n \n 18 May 2021\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nProfessor Anjali Kusumbe and Professor Cyrus Cooper have been presented with research awards by the European Calcified Tissue Society (ECTS).
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\n \n\n \n \n \nProfessor of Immunology Katja Simon has been elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
\n \n\n\n \n 4 May 2021\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nProfessor Michael Dustin and an international team of collaborators have been awarded a \u20ac10M grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to develop a new biotechnology around supramolecular attack particles (SMAPs) engineered to kill cancer cells.
\n \n\n\n \n 29 April 2021\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nRecognised for his outstanding contributions to the field of immunology, Michael becomes the fourth Kennedy professor to be elected to the Academy.
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\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \nOxford researchers have used advanced microscopy techniques to measure previously unseen forces generated by cells during an immune response; a breakthrough for mechanobiology and future advances in health and disease.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThree NDORMS researchers have received awards from the International Dupuytren Society, a patient organisation that brings together Dupuytren Disease patient societies from across the world.
\n \n\n\n \n 12 March 2021\n \n
\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \nThe research, which was a collaboration with researchers from Oxford University and Queen Mary University of London and published in Journal of Autoimmunity, looked at changes in receptors known as toll-like receptors (TLRs) in arthritis at different stages of disease.
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\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \nIt\u2019s International Womens Day! This year\u2019s theme is #Choosetochallenge. We\u2019re celebrating some of the amazing women at NDORMS, and asking them what changes they\u2019d like to see in medical sciences over the next 100 years.
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\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \nThe University of Oxford has entered into a strategic collaboration with Janssen Biotech, Inc., one of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson.
\n \n\n\n \n 22 February 2021\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nDr Kristina Zec has been awarded a Versus Arthritis Foundation Fellowship to investigate the role of products of lipid oxidation produced by synovial macrophages in triggering articular inflammation.
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\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \nNew Research from the Kusumbe group at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology identifies vascular attrition, marked by pericyte to fibroblast differentiation, as a primary hallmark of aging and highlights organ-specific vascular changes with age.
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\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \nThe Oxford-Mount Sinai (OxMS) Preprint Journal Club has partnered with Nature Reviews Immunology to launch a monthly Preprint Watch column.
\n \n\n\n \n 18 December 2020\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA preliminary study shows that a drug which helps immune cells self-clean may improve vaccine protection in older adults
\n \n\n\n \n 18 December 2020\n \n
\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \nIn a combined effort to help COVID-19 researchers the University of Oxford and Cardiff University have launched a series of \u201cliving reviews\u201d in Oxford University Press\u2019s new open access journal \u201cOxford Open Immunology\u201d.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nOxford University has today been awarded a \u00a32.4 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.
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\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \nNew 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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