OAcentre — The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology

NDORMS DPhil & MSc by Research

NDORMS provides excellent opportunities for high quality research training in leading areas of musculoskeletal and inflammatory sciences and an outstanding environment for undertaking a DPhil, Oxford’s equivalent to a PhD.

Preventing osteoarthritis after injury: first international pre-guidelines

International expert working group develop first pre-guidelines for conducting robust studies aimed at prevention of osteoarthritis (OA) after acute knee injury.

Partial knee replacements better for many patients and cheaper for NHS

Researchers at NDORMS have found that many more patients could be given a partial knee replacement instead of a total knee replacement, resulting in improvements in their quality of life and lower costs for the healthcare system.

About Us

The Arthritis Research UK Centre for Osteoarthritis Pathogenesis aims to develop new treatments for this disabling condition, improving healthcare and transforming people's lives.

Our strategy is to turn our research findings into patient benefit. This includes finding targets for new treatments, new tests or markers, and personalised approaches to symptom management for osteoarthritis.

Directed by Professor Tonia Vincent within the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, the OA Centre is hosted by the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS), University of Oxford.

We bring together researchers and clinicians from across the University of Oxford including the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, the Botnar Research Centre, and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, as well as Queen Mary University of London, King's College London and MRC Mutagenesis Unit, Harwell.

In addition to developing novel disease "markers" and therapies for patients with osteoarthritis, we are also creating a national training resource for scientists and clinicians working within the OA field.

The Centre was created in April 2013 with substantial funding from Arthritis Research UK, the University of Oxford and the Kennedy Trust for Rheumatology Research (KTRR). A further five years funding was awarded in 2018.