Five members of the MSc Genomic Medicine teaching team have been awarded Advanced HE fellowships in recognition of their roles in teaching and supporting higher education learning.
Researchers in the CHG have authored a collaborative study which explored a new method for detecting bowel cancer, which was found to be more than 90% accurate at predicting which higher-risk people will develop this type of cancer in the future.
Global biopharma company GSK invests up to \u00a350 million in a collaboration with Oxford to advance the understanding of how cancer develops, which could inform future development of vaccines to prevent cancer.
New research led by Dr Steph Fowler (UCL and now Oxford IMCM), Professor Karen Duff (UKDRI, UCL), with Dr Benjamin Ryskeldi-Falcon and Dr Tiana Behr (MRC LMB), have shed light on a potential pathway for the spread of harmful tau protein in Alzheimer's disease. Their findings, published in Nature Neuroscience, focus on structures called extracellular vesicles and their role in transporting toxic tau fragments.
A new blood test \u2013 powered by machine learning \u2013 has shown real promise in detecting multiple types of cancer in their earliest stages, when the disease is hardest to detect. Developed by a team of researchers and co-lead by the Centre for Human Genetics\u2019 Dr Dimitris Vavoulis, the test accurately detected six cancer types and could distinguish between people with and without cancer.
Nicky Whiffin, Associate Professor and Sir Henry Dale Fellow at the University of Oxford\u2019s Big Data Institute and Centre for Human Genetics, has been awarded the 2025 Balfour Lecture by the Genetics Society.
Last month the final two Oxford-GSK Institute of Molecular and Computational Medicine (IMCM) Fellows were welcomed to NDM\u2019s Centre for Human Genetics. Dr Martina Hallegger and Dr Charmaine Lang join Dr Steph Fowler to build capacity in neurodegenerative disease research at the Centre.
The $5000 Scholarship Award for 2024 \ufeffwas granted to Dr. Grace Hood for her One Health Project titled \r\n\"Deforestation as a driver of emerging viral spillover events at the human-animal-environment interface in Malaysian Borneo\"
A pioneering study published in Nature Immunology offers unprecedented insights into cellular responses to common treatments, paving the way to transform the treatment landscape for these chronic inflammatory conditions.
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