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Promising first results in gene therapy trial for inherited blindness
Ophthalmology Research
16 January 2014
The first clinical trial of a gene therapy for an inherited cause of progressive blindness called choroideremia has shown very promising initial results, surpassing the expectations of the researchers involved.
Researcher’s company wins innovation award
Award Ophthalmology
20 December 2013
One of the senior researchers in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Professor Colin Espie, has received a prize for the digital sleep improvement programme that he co-founded with Peter Hames.
The Oxford Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Summer Schools
Event Ophthalmology
11 December 2013
The Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute will host a Circadian Neuroscience Summer School for the next five years. We will also be running a Sleep Medicine Summer School in parallel. The five-day Schools will consist of a common first day of introductory lectures for the two schools followed by separate, subject-specific workshops to give all attendees a practical understanding of their subject area.
Colin Espie on the impact of poor sleep on health
Ophthalmology Research
28 October 2013
The Professor of Behavioural Sleep Medicine in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences talks on BBC Radio Scotland about the link between poor sleep and depression, diabetes and heart disease.
How much can an extra hour's sleep change you?
Ophthalmology
10 October 2013
Senior Research Scientist Katharina Wulff explains what happens when we sleep.
TEDTalk by Oxford Professor
Ophthalmology
24 September 2013
Prof Russell Foster gives a TEDTalk on sleep.
Professor MacLaren awarded prize
Award Ophthalmology
10 September 2013
Professor MacLaren awarded 2013 ARVO Vision Foundation Pfizer Ophthalmics Carl Camras Translational Research Award
New stem cell approach for blindness successful in mice
Ophthalmology Research
15 January 2013
Blind mice can see again, after Oxford University researchers transplanted developing cells into their eyes and found they could re-form the entire light-sensitive layer of the retina.
Cheltenham Science Festival
Ophthalmology
29 June 2012
The tenth Cheltenham Science Festival took place between 12th and 17th June. The festival, currently chaired by Oxford’s Professor Russell Foster, brings together some of the World’s most innovative scientists from all fields to engage the public on the science behind today’s news stories, advances and issues.
Two Wellcome Trust Strategic Awards Confirmed
Ophthalmology
2 May 2012
Oxford Neurosciences has been successful in gaining two important Wellcome Trust Strategic Awards in the latest round of funding, with a combined value of over £6m. This round had attracted the most applications the Wellcome Trust had ever received, making the success of the applications that much more outstanding.
Professor Foster Wins BBSRC Social Innovator of the Yea
Ophthalmology
4 April 2012
Professor Russell Foster, head of the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, has won the BBSRC Social Innovator of the Year award at a ceremony on the 29th March. He received the award, now in its fourth year, for his work in identifying photosensitive retinal ganglion cells and the important role they play in regulating sleep, circadian rhythms and other physiological responses to light. Professor Foster’s work has had major implications in the clinic and social inferences in designing new lighting systems and the use of natural light in building design.