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\n \n\n \n \n \nPepGen, a therapeutics company targeting severe neuromuscular diseases, including Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), has closed a $45 million Series A funding round led by RA Capital Management with participation from Oxford Sciences Innovation (OSI), the company\u2019s original seed investor.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe awardees for the second round of the University of Oxford\u2019s Enriching Engagement funding scheme have now been announced, including a project from Paediatrics.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nCongratulations to Professor Andrew Pollard who is the Winner of the Policy Engagement category in the Vice-Chancellor Innovation Awards 2020 for his work on Global policy on typhoid vaccines through research at Oxford!
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA multi-site project, called \u2018What\u2019s the STORY?\u2019 has received funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to assess novel coronavirus infection rates in children and teenagers across the UK. Given the importance of this study to the national Covid-19 response it has been deemed a priority study for the National Institute for Health Research\u2019s (NIHR) Urgent Public Health Response.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nFive projects from across Oxford University's Medical Sciences Division, including a project led by Professor Matthew Snape from the Oxford Vaccine Group, are among twenty-one new studies into the novel coronavirus which have been funded by the UK government.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe launch of the MDUK Oxford Neuromuscular Centre marks an exciting new stage in the partnership between Muscular Dystrophy UK and the University of Oxford, with the goal of delivering new experimental medicines and developing enhanced clinical trial capacity in adult and paediatric neuromuscular diseases.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nCongratulations to Professor Andrew Pollard, named as one of three 2019 Ros\u00e9n von Rosenstein laureates.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nMany congratulations to Prof Andi Roy who was awarded a fellowship to further develop her independent research.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nMany congratulations to Prof Irene Roberts, recipient of the European Hematology Association (EHA) Education & Mentoring Award 2019.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nDr Dominik Aschenbrenner from the Mucosal Immunology Group was awarded the first prize at the Falk Foundation Symposium for his poster titled \u201cIBD: From Pathophysiology to Personalized Medicine\u201d.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nDr Caroline Hartley, a Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Paediatric Neuroimaging Group, has been awarded the highly competitive Sir Henry Dale Fellowship.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe Paediatric Neuroimaging research team from the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Oxford will receive a \u00a3145,987 grant from Bliss, over three years, to fund a project which seeks to improve the measurement and treatment of pain in premature babies.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nDeniz 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.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nMildred Iro, a Paediatric Research Fellow working with the Oxford Vaccine Group, won the Lorber Prize for the best paediatric publication of 2017 for her work on childhood encephalitis admissions.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nTyphoid 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.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe title of full Professor has been conferred upon Dominic Wilkinson
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe 12 winners of the inaugural University of Oxford's Vice-Chancellor\u2019s 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.
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\n \n\n \n \n \n47 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.
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