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| New research identifies autoimmunity in IBD |
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| A ground-breaking study, including researchers at the Department of Paediatrics, and published in the New England Journal of Medicine last week, has identified a new disease-inducing mechanism for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in which the immune system attacks its own regulatory function. Interleukin-10 (IL10) is an anti-inflammatory protein that crucially controls intestinal immunity. Children with genetic defects in IL10 or its receptors, suffer from a severe form of IBD that typically presents within the first few months of life. Symptoms are acute and include bloody diarrhoea and severe abdominal pain. |
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| Where to find the administrative team |
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Your admin team, including members of the HR, Grants, Finance and Graduate Studies teams, are moving to offices and hot-desks on the second floor in the IDRM. The HR team will be available there as a matter of course, every Tuesday and the Finance team on a Wednesday. Please do feel free to approach them in person if you need to talk, alternatively do email or send a message to schedule an appointment.
In addition to the desk space changes, HR will be sharing out its workload across its team members allowing individuals to focus on particular topics. To this end, Mary Macaulay and Lucy Cornish will focus on general HR enquiries coming into the HR inbox; and Caitlin Beane and Millie Webb will be working on all things recruitment.
The team is of course happy to be approached with any other queries you may have and will be seeking feedback on your experience. |
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| Feedback required on our EAP |
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| The University's Employee Assistance Programme Health Assured exists to help staff and their families deal with personal and professional problems that affect their health and general wellbeing. The EAP has been live since July 2023 and the central team is now looking for feedback on staff experience. Therefore, if you have used Health Assured, please do share your feedback via the link below. Any feedback is useful both for assessing the service and highlighting further requirements that may need to be met by a future provider. |
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| Industry Insights Seminar |
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5 September 2024 | Online Only | 12pm
Title: Prevention is better than cure – realising a sustainable new paradigm to predict and pre-empt obesity and its consequences
Speaker: Professor Nadeem Sarwar (Corporate Vice President, Co-Founder and Head, Transformational Prevention Unit)
Company: Novo Nordisk |
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| New Therapeutic Approaches in Translational Mental Health |
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16 September 2024 | Maths Institute | All day
This in-person conference is hosted by the Oxford Health BRC and sponsored by the UK Mental Health Mission. The event aims to bring together industry, academic & clinical researchers, the regulator and government research funding organisations to discuss the current challenges facing therapeutic development. The overall objective is to forge collaborations that can increase capacity and capability through partnerships to deliver paradigm changes in translational mental health research. The event includes keynotes, lightning talks, roundtable discussion and industry led workshop sessions by Angelini Pharma, Big Health, Boehringer Ingelheim, Karuna Therapeutics and Reckitt Benckiser. |
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| Why are so many of us burnt out, and what we can do about it? |
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26 September 2024 | Online only | Seminar 11-12; Workshop 13.30 to 15.00
Why do ever more of us find it so hard to find a good balance between life and work? The dramatic rise of work-related suffering is clearly not the problem of just a handful of people who are bad at time management.
This seminar will explore some of the deeper cultural reasons for why we are all so burnt out and offer some practical, actionable advice on what we can do about our exhaustion and how we can re-learn how to thrive.
Sign up for the Seminar here: https://forms.office.com/e/0cyFgdacJp
Sign up for the workshop here: https://forms.office.com/e/vwFNxaUq37 |
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| Reflecting on who we are in the research environment |
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| 16 October 2024 | Hybrid | Seminar 11-12pm; Workshop 13.30 to 15.00
Inclusion, Intersectionality and Impact Specialist Dr Arun Verma, will be sharing his story and experiences as a queer person of colour, who has moved between and beyond categories and characteristics. He will be hosting both a seminar and a workshop at the IDRM on 16 October.
The Seminar will:
- Build confidence with what intersectionality is and how it applies to your everyday work
- Understand how equality issues are interconnected
- Develop small acts of kindness that can transform daily interactions
The workshop will explore intersectionality in more depth and focus on the following:
- Reflecting on where intersectionality comes from and why it matters
- Space to explore your own characteristics and stories
- Co-creating the big picture of an optimal research culture
There are just 15 spaces available for the workshop so please sign up here asap. There will also be a networking lunch in the IDRM Cafe after the seminar to which all are invited. Please reserve your place at lunch here. |
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Can you help these trials?
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| Oxford Vaccine Group would like to invite you to take part in a study investigating how two common respiratory germs alter the environment in your nose and impact human health. The knowledge gathered in this project could be used to help develop new interventions such as anti-virus agents and drugs targeting the host body response. If you are 18 to 55 years old, you may be eligible to take part. We will provide reimbursement for your time, inconvenience and travel. The study duration is approximately 10 weeks. If you would like to find out more, please read the Participant Information Sheet. If you are interested in joining the study, please visit the Pre-screening Questionnaire via the link below. |
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| We need volunteers for a new vaccine against Marburg virus |
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| If you are aged 18 to 55 years old and in good health, then you may be eligible to take part in a study investigating a new vaccine against Marburg virus. All participants will be reimbursed up to £1290 for their time, inconvenience, and travel. For further information please click on the link below. Here is a link to pre-screening questionnaire: Pre-screening Questionnaire or contact Oxford Vaccine Group with any questions: Email: info@ovg.ox.ac.uk Tel: 01865611400. |
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| Oxford Vaccine Group would like to invite you to take part in a study in a challenge study to find a vaccine against malaria. The total study participation time is 18 months. If you would like any further information regarding the study please contact info@ovg.ox.ac.uk, or call 01865 611400 |
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| Oxford Vaccine Group is looking for volunteers to help us understand how our immune systems respond to repeated infection with malaria. By taking part in this challenge study, you could help the research aimed at preventing hundreds of thousands of child deaths. If you are aged 18 to 45 years old, in good health and live in the Thames Valley, then you may be eligible to take part in the BIO-004 study. All participants will be reimbursed for their time, inconvenience and travel up to £9,100. |
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