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New Fellow to develop treatment for retinal disorder
26 October 2015
Harry Orlans will work with Robert MacLaren to develop a treatment for retinitis pigmentosa.
New insight into light detection in vertebrates
19 October 2015
Research carried out in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences is paving the way for a better understanding of how light detection works in vertebrates.
New evidence on how deep brain stimulation works
15 October 2015
Deep brain stimulation is known to treat the symptoms of stiffness, slow movement, and tremor in people with Parkinson’s disease. Researchers are now a step closer to understanding exactly how this electrical stimulation of specific areas in the brain works.
£50,000 dementia drug discovery project gets underway
7 October 2015
Researchers in our Department are embarking on a £50,000 study to develop treatments for dementia. The funding from Alzheimer’s Research UK will kick off new drug discovery efforts that specifically target dementia with Lewy bodies.
New £1.3m research consortium for spinal muscular atrophy
2 October 2015
Researchers in our Department will lead a new collaborative initiative for Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) research in the UK over the next three years. The programme is funded by the SMA Trust.
Athena SWAN Silver Award
2 October 2015
Our Department has received an Athena SWAN Silver Award. This recognises that we are a thriving community, not only undertaking groundbreaking research, but also nurturing our staff and promoting women in science.
Particular brain connections linked to positive human traits
28 September 2015
There is a strong correspondence between a particular set of connections in the brain and positive lifestyle and behaviour traits, according to a new study by Oxford University researchers.
Registration now open for MRI-based neuroimaging in research courses
23 September 2015
We are pleased to announce that the FMRIB Graduate Programme for the 2015/2016 academic year is now open for registration.
Our researchers test health technology on zero gravity flights with NASA
22 September 2015
A team of doctors and scientists from the University of Oxford have tested a tissue oxygen monitor in microgravity for the first time.
Pedalling like a professional is a losing strategy for most cyclists
21 September 2015
Pedalling like Chris Froome or Alberto Contador might seem appealing, but researchers from our Department have found that for most of us it’s likely to reduce rather than improve our performance.
New system to identify patients at risk of admission to intensive care
3 September 2015
Researchers and clinicians from Oxford and Portsmouth have been awarded £1.8m by the Health Innovation Challenge Fund to develop a new electronic system to recognise deteriorating patients in hospitals.
The effects of working the night shift
29 July 2015
BBC Radio 4 presenter Sarah Montague, with input from Professor Russell Foster, investigates how working when most people are sleeping affects our bodies.
Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology Student becomes Professor
20 July 2015
Dominik Fischer, who completed his DPhil in our Department, received an extraordinary professorship at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen on Tuesday 7 July 2015.
Gene therapy gives long-term protection to photoreceptor cells in a mouse model of retinitis pigmentosa
15 July 2015
A collaboration between scientists in the UK and the USA has shown that gene therapy can give life-long protection to the light-sensitive photoreceptor cells responsible for colour vision in a mouse model of the most common inherited eye disorder.