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« Back to News$3m Rockefeller Foundation funding to strengthen pandemic surveillance and response innovation co-developed by Oxford biologists
1 November 2022
Biology COVID-19 Funding Medical science
The Rockefeller Foundation has announced $3 million in new funding for Global.health (G.h) – a first-of-its-kind, open-source platform for scientific pandemic data.
More than 10 million children affected by COVID-19-associated parental and caregiver deaths
7 September 2022
COVID-19 Computer science Research
Oxford's computer scientists contributed to an international study published this week, which estimates that more than 10.5 million children experienced the death of a parent or caregiver as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, by 1 May 2022.
Biologists use genome tracing to reveal how COVID-19 Delta variant spread
12 August 2022
An international team, co-led by Professor Oliver Pybus and Associate Professor Moritz Kraemer from Oxford's Department of Biology, has used genome tracing to show how the Delta variant of COVID-19 expanded out of India and became the dominant variant in the UK in 2021
Creating statistical models for infectious diseases is challenging: COVID modeller Professor Christl Donnelly on making a difference
9 August 2022
Christl Donnelly from the Department of Statistics discusses how she came to work in epidemiological modelling for infectious diseases ranging from Ebola to bovine TB, and most recently COVID-19.
Research winners and commendation announced for MPLS Impact Awards 2022
11 July 2022
AI and data science Award Biomedical engineering COVID-19 Computer science Engineering Innovation and Enterprise Physical sciences underpinning health Physics Public Engagement Quantum Research Space Spin out
Eleven MPLS researchers have been recognised in this year’s MPLS Impact Awards, which showcase research impact across the division and help us to identify examples of impact excellence that will help us to prepare the ground for future Research Excellence Framework (REF) submissions and similar exercises.
Engineering researcher awarded funding to lead international collaboration on machine-learning for cardiac monitoring
22 June 2022
AI and data science Biomedical engineering COVID-19 Engineering Women in science
Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow, Dr Tingting Zhu, has been awarded Royal Society funding to lead an international collaboration that aims to develop an open-source platform for cardiac monitoring, using machine-learning.
OxVent ventilator set to be manufactured at-scale
14 February 2022
COVID-19 Engineering Physical sciences underpinning health Spin out
Created by a team from the University of Oxford in collaboration with King’s College London, the OxVent ventilator was designed especially for COVID-19 in response to the UK Government’s ‘Ventilator Challenge’ to address the potential shortage of ventilators caused by the pandemic.
Key surveys overestimate COVID-19 vaccination rates in the USA
9 December 2021
COVID-19 Computer science Research Statistics
Estimates of COVID-19 vaccine uptake in the USA based on large surveys that are used to guide policy-making decisions tend to overestimate the number of vaccinated individuals, research published in Nature suggests.
A unique international ‘zoom’ collaboration to develop treatments for COVID-19
17 September 2021
COVID-19 Chemistry Research Statistics
An international collaboration of 29 scientists around the world has focused on understanding how SARS-COV-2 makes its worker proteins at the molecular level in order to develop novel antiviral drugs that block their production.
Coronavirus Epidemics first hit more than 21,000 years ago
3 September 2021
Biology COVID-19 Research Zoology
A new Oxford University Study, published today, shows that the most recent common ancestor of the SARS-CoV viruses existed more than 21,000 years ago, nearly 30 times older than previous estimates.
AI test screens for COVID-19 26% faster than lateral flow tests
1 September 2021
COVID-19 Engineering Medical science Research
An Artificial Intelligence (AI) test performed by the bedside in 10 minutes quickly and safely triages patients coming to hospital for COVID-19, a University of Oxford-led study has shown.
Sharing vaccines between nations: a mathematical approach
17 August 2021
Biology COVID-19 Maths Research Zoology
New research from the University of Oxford and the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, published in Frontiers in Public Health, uses mathematical modelling to determine the most equitable way to share vaccines between nations.
Alpha variant spread via ‘super-seeding’ event: warning over COVID-19 variants
28 July 2021
The COVID-19 Alpha (or Kent) variant is not 80% more transmissible, as was originally thought, according to a new study published by researchers at universities including Oxford. But, they warn, the rapid spread of the variant around the UK last year has major implications for the treatment of other variant outbreaks, because it resulted from multiple ‘exports’. It was, in fact, a major ‘super-seeding’ event, with the variant ‘exported’ numerous times from the large outbreak in the Kent/London area.
Oxford overseas research facility expands to include diagnostics and genetics testing centre
8 July 2021
Biomedical engineering COVID-19 Funding Medical science Physical sciences underpinning health Research
The Oxford-Suzhou Centre for Advanced Research, known as OSCAR, has marked another significant milestone with the launch of OSCAR-Prenetics Innovation and Technology Centre for Advanced Molecular Diagnostics (the OSCAR-Prenetics ITC).
Science Blog: The wet market sources of Covid-19: bats and pangolins have an alibi
8 June 2021
Biology COVID-19 Research Zoology
By David Macdonald, Department of Zoology. The finger of blame has been pointed at wildlife trade in the wet markets of Wuhan, Hubei, China, where this Covid-19 outbreak seems to have originated. But could bats and pangolins really be responsible?
COVID-19 lockdowns significantly reduced transmission of invasive bacterial diseases
3 June 2021
Biology COVID-19 Medical science Research Zoology
A new international study involving University of Oxford researchers has conclusively demonstrated that national lockdowns and public health campaigns introduced at the start of the pandemic have reduced the transmission of bacteria that cause respiratory infections.
SARS-CoV-2 naming system given open platform to harness international scientific collaboration
26 May 2021
Biology COVID-19 Research Zoology
Researchers at the Universities of Oxford and Edinburgh have announced the formalisation of the Pango Network, an international team of experts to oversee the identification and naming of different lineages of SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Oxford University and Prenetics announce landmark collaboration to scale rapid testing tech globally
20 April 2021
Biomedical engineering COVID-19 Engineering Innovation and Enterprise MPLS
Today, the University of Oxford, Prenetics Limited, a global leader in diagnostics and genetic testing, and Oxford Suzhou Centre for Advanced Research (OSCAR) have signed collaboration agreements to further develop the award-winning OxLAMP technology, a rapid, molecular testing technology for infectious diseases.
Oxford researchers create online resource to optimise NHS routes for housebound vaccinations
29 March 2021
COVID-19 Engineering Medical science
Two engineering DPhil students from the University of Oxford have created a website for GP surgeries across the UK to optimise the delivery of Covid-19 vaccinations to the UK’s 1 million housebound patients.
UK population movement falls 59%, compared to -89% in March - COVID-19 Monitor
12 January 2021
COVID-19 Engineering Maths Research
The latest data from Oxford’s COVID-19 Impact Monitor shows the January lockdown has, so far, had one third less national impact on movement than the March shutdown. The figures demonstrate that some regions are still moving at more than 50% of pre-pandemic levels, despite the tough restrictions and calls for people to remain at home.