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Funding awarded for autoimmune disease research
Clinical Neurology Research
13 May 2022
Dr Kate Attfield awarded project funding by Connect Immune Research and The Lorna and Yuti Chernajovsky Biomedical Research Foundation.
Oxford researchers part of major UK initiative to understand chronic pain
Clinical Neurology Integrative Neuroimaging Research
10 May 2022
Oxford pain researchers are playing a major role in a new multi-million pound research programme launched by a consortium of funders, including UKRI, Versus Arthritis, Eli Lilly and the Medical Research Foundation.
Little understood brain region linked to how we perceive pain
Clinical Neurology Integrative Neuroimaging Research
28 March 2022
A new DPAG-led review paper, published in the journal Brain, has shown that a poorly understood region of the brain called the claustrum may play an important role in how we experience pain.
New funding awarded to study persistent pain in inflammatory arthritis
Clinical Neurology Research
7 March 2022
The £3.9M Wellcome Collaborative Award will be used to identify the drivers of pain in people living with rheumatoid arthritis.
First-in-human implant of a “closed-loop” bioelectronic research system for investigating treatments for brain disorders
Clinical Neurology
7 February 2022
Researchers at Oxford University have implanted a novel closed-loop research platform for investigating the role of the pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN) – a brainstem nucleus – in Parkinson’s-like Multiple Systems Atrophy (MSA).
Attention and memory deficits persist for months after recovery from mild COVID
Clinical Neurology Coronavirus Research
19 January 2022
Researchers from Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Department of Experimental Psychology have shown that people who have had COVID but don’t complain of long COVID symptoms in daily life nevertheless can show degraded attention and memory for up to six to nine months.
New spinout company: Human-Centric Drug Discovery
Clinical Neurology Research
7 January 2022
Human-Centric Drug Discovery is a new Oxford University spinout company from Professor Zameel Cader's lab.
Funding received for research into Motor Neuron Disease
Clinical Neurology Research
5 January 2022
A £210,000 donation from the Alan Davidson Foundation has been made to our Department to advance our world-leading research into Motor Neuron Disease. The funding will support a project manager to deliver an innovative research project using the genetic causes of MND to develop approaches to early diagnosis.
Protein test could lead to earlier and better diagnosis of Parkinson’s
Clinical Neurology Research
13 December 2021
Scientists have observed the clumping of alpha-synuclein in the cerebrospinal fluid taken from people with Parkinson's. The findings offer hope that a pioneering new clinical test could be developed to diagnose Parkinson's correctly in its early stages.
Evaluating risk to people with epilepsy during the COVID-19 pandemic - study wins international prize
Clinical Neurology Coronavirus Research
19 November 2021
In May 2020 our researchers initiated a global project to investigate how COVID-19 has affected people with epilepsy, their carers and health care workers.
New European initiative to accelerate the discovery and validation of biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases
Clinical Neurology Research
3 November 2021
Members of the European Platform for Neurodegenerative Diseases (EPND) will establish a collaborative platform for efficient sample and data sharing, linking existing European research infrastructures to accelerate the discovery of biomarkers, new diagnostics and treatments for the benefit of people with neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
COVID-19 infection has greater risk than vaccines of causing very rare neurological events
Clinical Neurology Coronavirus Research
27 October 2021
Research reveals risks of developing neurological complications following a positive COVID-19 PCR test, or a first dose of either the Oxford-AstraZeneca or Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccinations.
Mapping uncharted networks in the progression of Parkinson’s
Clinical Neurology MRC BNDU Research
26 October 2021
A major new $9 million project funded by the Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) initiative will map the original circuits vulnerable to Parkinson’s on an unprecedented scale. The project is a collaboration between core investigators Stephanie Cragg, Richard Wade-Martins, and Peter Magill at Oxford, Mark Howe at Boston University and Dinos Meletis at the Karolinska Institutet, as well as collaborators Yulong Li at Peking University and Michael Lin at Stanford University.
Royal Commission Industrial Fellowship for Andrei-Claudiu Roibu with F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd
Award Clinical Neurology Research
8 October 2021
Mapping brain network activity from structural connectivity using deep learning
Researchers awarded Wellcome Innovator Grant to investigate role of brainstem nucleus in human consciousness
Award Clinical Neurology Research
30 September 2021
Researchers at Oxford University have received a prestigious Wellcome Innovator Grant for investigating the role of the pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN) – a brainstem nucleus – in human consciousness.
Blood lipoprotein levels linked to future risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Clinical Neurology Research
17 September 2021
Greater understanding of the role of lipoproteins could support screening and efforts to develop treatments.
Multimodal imaging sheds light on brain network abnormalities in Parkinson's disease
Clinical Neurology MRC BNDU
10 September 2021
Alexander Davies wins top UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship
Award Clinical Neurology Research
8 September 2021
Alex is one of eight Oxford University academics who have been awarded significant financial funding from the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships Scheme
New study on link between autoimmunity and pain
Clinical Neurology Research
7 September 2021
Patients with autoantibodies which target neuronal proteins can have pain as an under-recognised clinical manifestation.