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An international consortium, which includes the Department's Oxford Vaccine Group Receives $36.9 Million Grant to Fight Typhoid
11 November 2016
Typhoid fever, a bacterial infection that causes high fever, headache and other symptoms, remains a serious health problem in the developing world. It kills almost a quarter of a million people annually, and infects about 21 million.
These children have a built-in defense against AIDS (CNN)
13 October 2016
African children found with strong resistance to HIV (The Times)
30 September 2016
One in 10 children has 'Aids defence' (BBC Online)
29 September 2016
How some children with HIV don't develop AIDS (BBC World Service)
29 September 2016
Children could point the way to new HIV treatments
28 September 2016
Children with HIV who can resist the disease progressing could point the way to new treatments for HIV infection that are more widely applicable to infected adults and children alike, an international team of researchers led by Oxford University has found.
Study suggests routes to improved immunity in older people
22 August 2016
A study from Oxford and Basel universities may point the way to maintaining our immune systems as we get older.
Babies' painkiller problem
18 August 2016
It is difficult to test whether painkillers work for very young children and we often don't know the best dose to give. But if Professor Rebeccah Slater and her research team at Oxford are successful we may find alternative ways to measure pain in babies and may eventually be able to offer babies some better options to soothe their pain.
Neonatologist Dominic Wilkinson has been made Professor
18 July 2016
The title of full Professor has been conferred upon Dominic Wilkinson
Dr Matthew Snape wins prize for engaging the public
1 July 2016
The 12 winners of the inaugural University of Oxford's Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Public Engagement with Research were announced on Friday 1 July by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Louise Richardson, in a ceremony at Merton College.
Georg Hollander and Andrew Pollard join the Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences
29 June 2016
47 world leading UK researchers, including the Department's Georg Hollander and Andrew Pollard have been elected to the prestigious Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
Soapbox Science
15 June 2016
Caroline Hartley takes part in Soapbox Science this Saturday between 2-5pm on Cornmarket Street
Graduate Scholarship in Paediatrics
13 June 2016
Scholarship jointly offered by St Cross College and the Department of Paediatrics
We need more nurses!
12 May 2016
Our vaccine group (OVG) is looking to recruit nurses who are interested in working with researchers to help develop new vaccines.
Herd Immunity: How does it work?
26 April 2016
Dr Manish Sadarangani explains how herd immunity works and why vaccinating children is important.
It’s World Immunisation Week!
25 April 2016
During World Immunization Week 2016, held 24-30 April, WHO highlights recent gains in immunization coverage, and outlines further steps countries can take to “Close the Immunization Gap” and meet global vaccination targets by 2020.