Developing a prototype for rapidly deployable ventilator
20 March 2020
An interdisciplinary team of engineers and medics is addressing ways to increase the UK’s capacity for ventilator manufacture.
Shared Parental Leave
12 March 2020
An interview about one couple's experience of shared parental leave at the University of Oxford.
International Women’s Day Wikipedia Editathon 2020
10 March 2020
To celebrate International Women’s Day 2020, this year NDCN teamed up with the Radcliffe Department of Medicine to host a Wikipedia Editathon
School students help with sleep research
9 March 2020
Ophthalmology Public engagement
A 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.
Wolfson Building housing stroke centre opens
6 March 2020
Research 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.
Gene therapy shows promise in tackling common cause of childhood blindness
27 February 2020
The 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.
Gift boosts research into UK’s biggest cause of sight loss
18 February 2020
£277,000 from the estate of Jean Williams will support cutting-edge studies into macular disease, which affects nearly 1.5 million people.
Improving epilepsy treatment in Africa
11 February 2020
The NIHR Research and Innovation for Global Health Transformation (RIGHT) programme has awarded £4.9 million to help fund a project investigating epilepsy in sub-Saharan Africa.
Our researchers test ‘Viagra’ drug to prevent recurrent strokes
17 January 2020
Researchers 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.
Testing epilepsy drug on people with Alzheimer's disease
17 January 2020
Dr 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).
Timothy Behrens recognised in prestigious Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists
15 January 2020
Award Integrative Neuroimaging
Professor Timothy Behrens has been recognised for ground-breaking contributions to translational research.
Parkinson's research group receive data sharing award
18 December 2019
The Oxford Parkinson's Disease Centre received the award for their contribution to the Critical Path for Parkinson’s initiative
Angela Vincent honoured for excellence in epilepsy research
17 December 2019
Emeritus Professor Angela Vincent received the Research Recognition Award, clinical science, at the annual meeting of the American Epilepsy Society.
Highly Cited Researchers
27 November 2019
Eight NDCN academics have been named in the 2019 list from Web of Science
Ground-breaking study for Huntington’s disease under way
11 November 2019
NDCN’s Associate Professor Andrea Nemeth is leading the Oxford part of a clinical trial for Hungtinton’s disease.
Sarosh Irani wins Graham Bull Prize
8 November 2019
The Graham Bull Prize in Clinical Science / Goulstonian Lectureship is a prestigious annual prize awarded by the Royal College of Physicians
NDCN staff win teaching awards
28 October 2019
The 2019 MSD Teaching Excellence Awards were celebrated in a ceremony at Merton College on Wednesday 23 October.
Oxford is joint top recruiter to drug-resitant epilepsy study
20 October 2019
The Oxford Epilepsy Research Group is at the forefront of some potentially ground-breaking work with patients who have drug-resistant epilepsy. Epilepsy affects over 50 million people worldwide and nearly one in three people with epilepsy are resistant to current drugs.
Advances made in understanding how eye movements are affected by medication in Parkinson's
14 October 2019
Clinical Neurology Publication Research
Our Neurometrology Group has published findings from its OxQUIP study looking at how eye movements are affected by medication in Parkinson's.
Prize for work on gene therapy for retinal diseases
10 October 2019
Dr Kanmin Xue has won the Ruskell Medal from the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers