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\n \n\n \n29 April 2020
\n \n \n \nThe Oxford Simulation, Teaching and Research Centre has been busier than ever during the coronavirus pandemic
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\n \n\n \n27 April 2020
\n \n \n \nRoyal Society Publishing has recently brought out a special issue of 'Interface Focus' on sleep and stress, past and present
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\n \n\n \n14 April 2020
\n \n \n \nResearch carried out by George Tofaris and his team has led to the development of a new way to test for Parkinson\u2019s disease before the main symptoms occur. This could allow clinicians to identify patients who would benefit from precision therapies that are currently at clinical trial stage.
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\n \n\n \n7 April 2020
\n \n \n \nThe NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) has allocated funding to three COVID-19 research projects in an attempt to improve treatment, understand how the virus interacts with chronic diseases, and the longer-term effects of infection on organs.
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\n \n\n \n6 April 2020
\n \n \n \nDr Alexander Davies summarises a departmental seminar by Dr Simon Rinaldi
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\n \n\n \n6 April 2020
\n \n \n \nNHS England has announced a programme to provide NHS staff with evidence-based digital programmes to protect their mental health during the COVID-19 response. The apps are designed to help maintain healthy sleep, and reduce anxiety.
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\n \n\n \n1 April 2020
\n \n \n \nSystem being used in John Warin isolation ward at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital
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\n \n\n \n1 April 2020
\n \n \n \nWe are pleased to announce that today the University of Oxford MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit joins the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences (NDCN) as a sixth division.
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\n \n\n \n20 March 2020
\n \n \n \nAn interdisciplinary team of engineers and medics is addressing ways to increase the UK\u2019s capacity for ventilator manufacture.
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\n \n\n \n12 March 2020
\n \n \n \nAn interview about one couple's experience of shared parental leave at the University of Oxford.
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\n \n\n \n10 March 2020
\n \n \n \nTo celebrate International Women\u2019s Day 2020, this year NDCN teamed up with the Radcliffe Department of Medicine to host a Wikipedia Editathon
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\n \n\n \n9 March 2020
\n \n \n \nA group of students got a taste of research at Oxford earlier this month when they spent a day analysing data at our Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute.
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\n \n\n \n6 March 2020
\n \n \n \nResearch into strokes and vascular dementia took a major step forward on Thursday 5 March with the official opening of our Wolfson Centre for the Prevention of Stroke and Dementia (CPSD) based at the new Wolfson Building.
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\n \n\n \n27 February 2020
\n \n \n \nThe results of a first-in-human clinical trial of gene therapy to treat a common cause of genetic blindness have shown partial reversal of sight loss in some patients.
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\n \n\n \n18 February 2020
\n \n \n \n\u00a3277,000 from the estate of Jean Williams will support cutting-edge studies into macular disease, which affects nearly 1.5 million people.
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\n \n\n \n11 February 2020
\n \n \n \nThe NIHR Research and Innovation for Global Health Transformation (RIGHT) programme has awarded \u00a34.9 million to help fund a project investigating epilepsy in sub-Saharan Africa.
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\n \n\n \n17 January 2020
\n \n \n \nResearchers in our Centre for the Prevention of Stroke and Dementia have begun a clinical trial to assess whether the drug sildenafil could improve blood flow to the brain.
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\n \n\n \n17 January 2020
\n \n \n \nDr Arjune Sen is leading a new six-month trial funded by the MRC Confidence in Concept scheme. The study is known as IliAD (Investigation of Levetiracetam in Alzheimer's Disease).
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\n \n\n \n15 January 2020
\n \n \n \nProfessor Timothy Behrens has been recognised for ground-breaking contributions to translational research.
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\n \n\n \n18 December 2019
\n \n \n \nThe Oxford Parkinson's Disease Centre received the award for their contribution to the Critical Path for Parkinson\u2019s initiative
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