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« Back to NewsCongratulations 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.
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.
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
Oxford-Sri Lanka study to compare COVID-19 immune response
9 June 2020
COVID-19 research IMD MRC HIU MRC WIMM
Study co-led by MRC HIU/MRC WIMM's Professor Graham Ogg.
Professor Vincenzo Cerundolo FRS 1959-2020
7 January 2020
Department General MRC HIU MRC WIMM
It is with profound sadness that we learnt of the death of Professor Vincenzo Cerundolo FRS.
Immune response explained by mathematics of narrow escapes
18 September 2019
Department General MRC HIU MRC WIMM
Study finds that shape of immune cells plays key role in recognising invaders.
Two weeks of inspiring science
9 August 2019
Department General MRC HIU MRC MHU MRC WIMM
For the second year running, the MRC WIMM hosted a group of work experience students from under-represented backgrounds, in partnership with in2scienceUK.
New approach to tackle Ebola and other deadly infections
2 April 2019
Department General MRC HIU MRC WIMM
Researchers isolate therapeutic antibodies from healthy volunteers exposed to the Ebola vaccine but not Ebola virus itself.
RDM at IF festival
22 October 2018
Department General MRC HIU MRC MHU MRC WIMM OCDEM
Over two weekends, RDM researchers talked about their work to visitors of all ages at Oxford IF.
Controlling infection essential to tackle global anaemia
2 August 2018
General MRC HIU MRC WIMM Research
New proposals published today by MRC HIU suggest that iron supplements on their own are not enough to efficiently tackle this disease.
New research makes progress towards general Salmonella vaccine
21 June 2018
Department General IMD MRC HIU MRC WIMM Research
Work by researchers at MRC HIU zeroes in on the mechanisms by which T cells respond to Salmonella infections.
Facebook LIVE: What is a virus?
14 June 2018
Layal and Mirjam in the Rehwinkel lab were live on Facebook to talk about their research on viruses.
Matt Dickinson awarded a Cumberland Lodge Scholarship
21 May 2018
A unique opportunity to take part in an engaging programme of conferences, retreats and seminars to explore cross disciplinary topics.
Prof Vincenzo Cerundolo elected Fellow of the Royal Society
9 May 2018
Many congratulations to the Director of our MRC Human Immunology Unit for this prestigious honour recognizing his pioneering work on T cell immunology.
RDM Awards for Excellent Supervision Announced
19 March 2018
Department IMD MRC HIU MRC WIMM NDCLS
Congratulations to Professor Graham Ogg and Associate Professor Tatjana Sauka-Spengler – the first recipients of the RDM Awards for Excellent Supervision. The Awards were presented at the RDM Symposium on Monday 19 March 2018.
Oxford medical researchers win prestigious national awards
23 February 2018
Department IMD MRC HIU MRC MHU NDCLS OCDEM
Congratulations to Prof Graham Ogg and Prof Paresh Vyas who have been named National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Senior Investigators in recognition of their “outstanding contribution to clinical and applied health and social care research”. In addition, Prof Mark McCarthy has had his Senior Investigator award renewed. This is a tremendous achievement for all of them as these are highly competitive and prestigious awards
Defining the role of lipids in skin inflammation
16 February 2018
Department IMD MRC HIU MRC WIMM Research
Congratulations to Prof Graham Ogg who has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Collaborative Award to investigate aspects of the immune response in skin diseases such as eczema, with the hope of identifying new treatment options.