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Fitness compensation in m.tuberculosis: a game of genetic chess
27 February 2024
Viktoria Brunner takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Compensatory mutations are associated with increased in vitro growth in resistant clinical samples of Mycobacterium tuberculosis' published in Microbial Genomics.
3.4 million assays run by NDM’s serology platform
7 June 2023
Within weeks of the pandemic starting, the Nuffield Department of Medicine (NDM) began antibody testing as part of the UK’s ONS COVID-19 Infection Survey. The platform successfully tested millions of blood samples over three years, providing invaluable information on how vaccinations and previous infections affect the chance of getting COVID-19 again.
COVID-19: accelerating testing with robotics
3 April 2023
Kevin Chau, a PhD student on our National PhD Training Programme in AMR Research, has contributed to the pandemic response as part of the Modernising Medical Microbiology team at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. In a new blog post, he describes the experience.
Three NDM researchers awarded Associate Professorships
5 January 2023
We are delighted to announce that three researchers have been awarded the Associate Professor title, in recognition of their research achievements, contribution to teaching, and contribution to the general work of the Nuffield Department of Medicine.
Monitoring Populations at risk from Coronavirus
25 November 2021
Emma Pritchard, Statistician and PhD student shares her work with ONS on Coronavirus statistics.
Oxford and Oracle partner to speed identification of COVID-19 variants
21 September 2021
The fast spread of the highly infectious Delta variant underscores the need for faster identification of COVID-19 mutations. Uniting governments and medical communities in this challenge, the University of Oxford and Oracle’s Global Pathogen Analysis System (GPAS) is now being used by organizations on nearly every continent. Institutions using the platform include: the University of Montreal Hospital Centre Research Centre, the Institute of Public Health Research of Chile, the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Vietnam, the Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research – New South Wales Pathology, and Oxford Nanopore Technologies. GPAS is also now part of the Public Health England New Variant Assessment Platform.
UNDERSTANDING THE IMMUNITY OF RECOVERED COVID-19 PATIENTS
20 October 2020
Two vital research programmes taking place at the University of Oxford may hold the key to understanding the immunity of recovered Covid-19 patients. The data will also be used by Professor Sarah Walker at the University of Oxford who is working with the Office for National Statistics on the COVID-19 Infection Survey.
Prof Sarah Walker receives OBE
12 October 2020
Prof Walker, Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology at the University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Medicine, was recognised for services to academia and the COVID-19 response and will receive an OBE.
Evaluation of LamPORE rapid tests for Covid-19 show high levels of diagnostic sensitivity
25 September 2020
Scientists from the University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Medicine have today published their evaluation of LamPORE, a novel diagnostic platform for detecting SARS-CoV-2 RNA. It combines loop-mediated isothermal amplification with nanopore sequencing. This technology has the potential to analyse thousands of samples per day on a single instrument.