Shift workers at increased risk of asthma
17 November 2020
2020 RDM graduate prize winners
5 November 2020
CVM Department General MRC WIMM
Many congratulations to Alba Rodriguez Meira and Ioannis Akoumianakis for winning this year's RDM graduate prize.
Analysis shows that funding gender equity incentives can work
4 November 2020
Athena SWAN CVM Department General Publication Research
A paper by Oxford BRC-supported researchers says that linking research funding to Athena SWAN gender equality action plans has been associated with a rise in the number of women in mid-level leadership positions and the proportion of funding going to women.
Congratulations to our new Professors
30 October 2020
Role-playing computer game helps players understand how vaccines work on a global scale
8 October 2020
COVID-19 research IMD MRC HIU MRC WIMM
A free game launched today allows players to role-play the deployment of a virtual vaccine to help to halt the global spread of a viral pandemic.
Unexpected eating turns on liver clock genes
29 September 2020
Department General OCDEM Publication Research
New PNAS paper finds that clock-target genes in mice livers become clock controlled only when the animals eat at unexpected times.
Researchers target previously unknown ‘genetic vulnerability’ in breast cancer cells
10 September 2020
Department General MRC HIU MRC WIMM Publication Research
New Nature paper reports on a genetic vulnerability in nearly 10% of breast cancer tumours, which could be targeted to selectively kill cancer cells.
CCRF partners with British Society of Echocardiography
4 September 2020
The partnership will produce the first ever British Society of Echocardiography National review of Stress Echocardiography Practice (BSE N-STEP).
Persistent immune memory of COVID-19 found in recovered patient T cells
4 September 2020
COVID-19 research IMD MRC HIU MRC WIMM
New Nature Immunology paper finds strong T cell responses in recovered COVID-19 patients