Oxford Centre for Neuroinflammation

Join us at the Oxford Neuroinflammation Conference 2026
https://www.ndcn.ox.ac.uk/study-with-us/continuing-professional-development/oxford-neuroinflammation-conference

Our research team, along with our local and international collaborators, aims to design tools for faster diagnosis, accurate prognosis, and to identify new targets for life-changing and life-saving treatments.

We are located in the Weatherall Institute for Molecular Medicine (WIMM) at the John Radcliffe Hospital. ​We collaborate closely with a wide range of scientists and clinicians and have close ties to the Broad Institute and the Karolinska Institutet.

Aims

• Harness genetic information to facilitate the diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases
• Determine how environmental factors contribute to disease development and progression
• Understand why disease presentation and prevalence varies across different ethnic populations
• Determine whether drug efficacy, indications, and potential side effects can be predicted prior to clinical testing to help prioritise therapeutic  strategies that will likely confer the greatest benefit
• Assess whether drugs already in use for other conditions can be repurposed to accelerate the treatment of neurodegenerative disease patients - without the need for lengthy clinical trials that can take decades factors contribute to disease development and progression