Pregnant women invited to take part in pioneering diabetes prevention research
Dr Matthew Snape leads a study investigating if giving small amounts of oral insulin to babies can prevent type 1 diabetes, thus allowing mothers to protect their children from injecting insulin.
Read moreHalting the spread of salmonella
There are between 11 and 27 million estimated cases of enteric fever worldwide every year, and 75,000–220,000 deaths. Could vaccination stop the spread of these diesases in the environment?
Read morePaediatrics DPhil student awarded the Inez Oliver Prize
Deniz Gursul won the Inez Oliver Prize for an outstanding essay on how brain imaging is used for measuring pain in babies, and how it can assist in developing pain relief measures.
Read moreHow do vaccines work?
To understand how vaccines work, it helps to look first at how the immune system works, because vaccines harness the natural activity of your immune system. This short animation explains how vaccines enable the body to make the right sort of antibodies to fight a particular disease.
Read moreNew guidelines to monitor blood cancer in Down syndrome babies
The recommendations result from research by Prof Irene Roberts (Department of Paediatrics) and Prof Paresh Vyas (Radcliffe Department of Medicine), published in the British Journal of Haematology.
Read moreVaccinations and the fight against poverty
What does it mean to be poor in the UK and around the world? Could we eliminate this kind of inequality or is it an unavoidable part of society? This needs a lot more thought...
Read moreLearn more about our research
Here you can find out a bit more about how the work we do in the lab reaches the wider community and how you can influence what we do.
Read moreResearch
Research in our Department focuses on a wide variety of aspect of children's health. We study the neuroscience of pain in infants, HIV, immunology, haematology, gastroenterology and vaccinology.
Teaching
The Department of Paediatrics is involved in medical sciences teaching in Paediatrics for Undergraduate students of the University of Oxford Medical School, as well as running a number of Postgraduate programmes.
Get involved
The research in our Department affects many children and their parents. Here you can find out what we do to reach out, from events that we have organised in the past to information about patient involvement schemes.
What's new
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Halting the spread of salmonella
12 October 2018
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Paediatrics DPhil student awarded the Inez Oliver Prize
15 August 2018
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Vaccinations and the fight against poverty
31 July 2018
Latest publications
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Interleukin-22 promotes phagolysosomal fusion to induce protection against Salmonella enterica Typhimurium in human epithelial cells.
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Forbester JL. et al, (2018), Proc natl acad sci u s a, 115, 10118 - 10123
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How Eliminating Malaria May Also Prevent Iron Deficiency in African Children
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ATKINSON SH., (2018), Pharmaceuticals
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Epidemiology and Immune Pathogenesis of Viral Sepsis
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Lin G-L. et al, (2018), Frontiers in immunology, 9
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Comprehensively Profiling the Chromatin Architecture of Tissue Restricted Antigen Expression in Thymic Epithelial Cells Over Development
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HANDEL AE. et al, (2018), Frontiers in immunology, 9
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Iron status and associated malaria risk among African children
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ATKINSON SH. et al, (2018), Clinical Infectious Diseases
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Computing threshold antibody levels of protection in vaccine clinical trials: An assessment of methodological bias.
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Voysey M. et al, (2018), PloS One, 13, e0202517 - e0202517
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Vaccine Knowledge Project
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Chair in Developmental Medicine
Gift of £3.3million from Mr André Hoffmann has secured future of Oxford Chair in Developmental Medicine.
Andrew Pollard receives BRC award
Professor Pollard received the award for his leadership has had a strong impact on healthcare and research.
World Economic Forum
Dr Rebeccah Slater has been nominated to The World Economic Forum to be elected as a 'Young Scientist'.
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