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\n \n\n \n20 January 2016
\n \n \n \nFacebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg recently posted a photo on the social networking site of his two-month-old daughter in the doctor\u2019s surgery waiting to be vaccinated. It provoked a storm on social media, with millions of people commenting on the pros and cons of vaccination. So was Zuckerberg right to have his child vaccinated?
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\n \n\n \n15 January 2016
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\n \n\n \n17 December 2015
\n \n \n \nMore children in England and Wales, who are at high risk of being infertile after cancer treatment, will be given the chance of a family later in life thanks to a major donation to Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
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\n \n\n \n25 November 2015
\n \n \n \nShrijana Shrestha, Imran Ansari, Bibek Khadka & Sanjeev Bijukchhe talk about their experiences of the earthquakes that took place in Nepal this year. Sarah Kelly has added images to the soundtrack and originally presented it at the Oxford Vaccine Group away day. However, we wanted to share the moving stories here too for all to listen to.
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\n \n\n \n24 November 2015
\n \n \n \nDr Sadarangani gave a talk on the body's immune response to novel vaccines at the Winter Science Meeting 2015 at the Academy of Medical Sciences this month. His efforts to make the talk accessible and engage with a lay audience won him the Communications Prize.
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\n \n\n \n26 October 2015
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\n \n\n \n24 September 2015
\n \n \n \nApplications are now open for all graduate admissions starting 2016/17
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\n \n\n \n18 September 2015
\n \n \n \nAn international team of researchers have been presented with medals for their work combating Ebola in West Africa. All were involved in efforts to find an effective treatment for the Ebola virus.
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\n \n\n \n7 September 2015
\n \n \n \nAll you need to know about vaccines and infectious diseases in one handy app!
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\n \n\n \n29 July 2015
\n \n \n \nResearchers suggest that babies born before 32 weeks of pregnancy or with a birthweight lower than 1500 grams are at risk of being more risk averse, neurotic and introverted compared to babies who were born full term.
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\n \n\n \n9 June 2015
\n \n \n \nThe 102-year-old Ingeborg Rapoport has become the world's oldest person to be awarded a doctorate on Tuesday, almost 80 years after the Nazis prevented her from sitting her final exam
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\n \n\n \n28 May 2015
\n \n \n \nProfessor Louise Richardson, currently the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of St Andrews, has been nominated as the next Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford.
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\n \n\n \n12 May 2015
\n \n \n \nThe University's fundraising campaign has reached the \u00a32 billion mark in record time. The generosity of its donors is funding financial support for students, ambitious programmes of academic research and high-quality new buildings and facilities.
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\n \n\n \n16 April 2015
\n \n \n \nThe Oxford Vaccine Group in the Department is currently looking to recruit healthy adults aged between 18 to 60 in a study investigating how the adult immune system responds to a new meningococcal B vaccine.
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\n \n\n \n7 April 2015
\n \n \n \nThe University of Oxford has secured over \u00a3139m in research funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) for the academic year 2015-2016 - more than any other institution.
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\n \n\n \n5 November 2014
\n \n \n \nA new hepatitis C vaccine has shown promising results in an early clinical trial at Oxford University, generating strong and broad immune responses against the virus causing the disease.
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\n \n\n \n9 October 2014
\n \n \n \n\u00a318.5m will be invested in training the next generation of bioscience leaders at Oxford University to tackle global challenges such as food security and animal health.
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\n \n\n \n7 October 2014
\n \n \n \nFor the fourth year running, Oxford Medical Sciences has been ranked #1 in the world in clinical, pre-clinical and health related subjects in The 2014-2015 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
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\n \n\n \n1 October 2014
\n \n \n \nThe Oxford Society of Paediatrics presents the latest in a series of talks aimed at medical students and foundation doctors
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\n \n\n \n6 September 2014
\n \n \n \nThe first OSOP event of the new term is unmissable for anyone interested in a career in paediatrics! Consultant Dr Alison Shefler and trainee Dr Peter Sidgwick will be sharing their varied experiences in this exciting speciality, and will be giving advice on how to build your career from medical school onwards!
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