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San Diego based Abide Therapeutics is collaborating with the University of Oxford and the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust to explore the therapeutic potential of serine hydrolases, a validated but under-explored class of drug targets.
Are sleep trackers accurate? Here’s what researchers currently know
Ophthalmology Research
12 January 2021
Scientists uncover the role of neuronal networks in moving between wake and sleep states
Ophthalmology Research
13 August 2020
Changes in the way that neurons communicate with each other affect our ability to move between sleep and wake states.
Professor Robert MacLaren receives Innovation Award
Award Ophthalmology
27 July 2020
Professor Robert MacLaren is the winner of the Inspiring Leadership category in the Vice-Chancellor's Innovation Awards 2020 for his work on Nightstar, a retinal gene therapy company.
Seminar Summary: Interventions for improving chronic sleep disruption
Ophthalmology Research
22 July 2020
DPhil student Lampros Bisdounis summarises a departmental seminar by Associate Professor Simon Kyle
Effects of COVID-19 on sleep: Oxford researchers lead international study
Coronavirus Ophthalmology Research SCNi
11 June 2020
An international group of researchers led by Professor Colin Espie is investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sleep and daily rhythms in adults.
Professor Russell Foster receives Daylight Award 2020
Award Ophthalmology
16 May 2020
On the UNESCO International Day of Light, The Daylight Award announce the 2020 Laureates, including Russell Foster who receives the award for his clinical studies in humans addressing important questions regarding light.
Sleep and stress - journal special issue
Ophthalmology Research SCNi
27 April 2020
Royal Society Publishing has recently brought out a special issue of 'Interface Focus' on sleep and stress, past and present
NHS staff across England get free access to wellbeing apps
Coronavirus Ophthalmology Research SCNi
6 April 2020
NHS 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.
School students help with sleep research
Ophthalmology Public engagement
9 March 2020
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.
Gene therapy shows promise in tackling common cause of childhood blindness
Ophthalmology Research
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
Ophthalmology Research
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.
Prize for work on gene therapy for retinal diseases
Award Ophthalmology
10 October 2019
Dr Kanmin Xue has won the Ruskell Medal from the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers
Simon Kyle named NIHR Oxford BRC Senior Research Fellow
Award Ophthalmology SCNi
16 May 2019
The Oxford BRC is delighted to announce the appointment of seven new Senior Research Fellows.
Later school start time trialled in Teensleep Project
Ophthalmology Public engagement Research
21 March 2019
Researchers in our Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute are working with Havant & South Downs College on a teenage sleep study.
World’s first gene therapy operation for common cause of sight loss carried out
Ophthalmology Research
19 February 2019
Researchers in Oxford have carried out the world’s first gene therapy operation to tackle the root cause of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the UK’s most common cause of sight loss.
Award success for MSc in Sleep Medicine student
Award Ophthalmology SCNi
28 January 2019
Priya Maharaj has won the Archibald Jackson Prize from Somerville College for achieving a Distinction in the MSc in Sleep Medicine.
NDCN welcomes ocular oncologist
Ophthalmology
19 November 2018
Bertil Damato will oversee the provision of clinical care to patients with an ocular tumour and develop a research group to focus on ocular melanoma and other eye tumours.
Gene therapy breakthrough in treating a rare form of blindness
Ophthalmology Research
8 October 2018
The positive results of the world’s first gene therapy trial for a genetic cause of blindness known as choroideremia have been reported in this week’s edition of Nature Medicine.
Digital insomnia medicine rolled out as major study links sleep to better health
Ophthalmology Research
30 September 2018
Millions of people are to be given access to digital treatment for insomnia as an alternative to sleeping pills. Study by Colin Espie et al shows that Sleepio improves wellbeing in nearly three quarters of participants.