New 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 moreCheltenham Science Festival: Let’s talk about infant pain!
A team from the Paediatric Neuroimaging group present their research on pain in babies at this year's Cheltenham Science Festival.
Read moreOxford Vaccine Group leads meningitis vaccine trial for teenagers
Researchers are working with schools around the county to find 24,000 volunteers aged 16 to 18 years to take part in the Be on the TEAM (Teenagers Against Meningitis) trial, led by the Oxford Vaccine Group at the Oxford University's Paediatrics Department with funding and support from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).
Read moreRebeccah Slater at the Pint of Science festival
At this year's event, Professor Rebeccah Slater introduced the audience to researching pain experienced in newborn babies, and the cutting edge methods she is using to understand it.
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 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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How do vaccines work?
23 May 2018
Upcoming events
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Hot Topics In Infection And Immunity In Children 2018 - The ESPID-Oxford Course
Professor Andrew J Pollard and others
Friday, 29 June 2018 to Sunday, 01 July 2018
Latest publications
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The technological imperative for value-based health care
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MEINERT E. et al, (2018), British Journal of Hospital Medicine, 79, 328 - 332
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Genomics Identifies XIAP Deficiency in an Adult Patient With Inflammatory Bowel Disease: The Clinical and Health Care Impact.
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Quaranta M. et al, (2018), Gastroenterology
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A Spectrum of Genetic Variants Contributes to Immune Defects and Pathogenesis of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases.
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Uhlig HH. and Booth C., (2018), Gastroenterology, 154, 2022 - 2024
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Disambiguating brain functional connectivity.
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Duff EP. et al, (2018), Neuroimage, 173, 540 - 550
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Teaching the relationship between health and climate change: a systematic scoping review protocol
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Osama T. et al, (2018), BMJ Open, 8, 1 - 5
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Compositional and Functional Differences in the Human Gut Microbiome Correlate with Clinical Outcome following Infection with Wild-Type Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi.
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Zhang Y. et al, (2018), mBio, 9
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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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