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.
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) has recognised outstanding contributions to bioscience made by members of its research community.
Can physical fitness improve academic achievement? Would teenagers do better in their exams if they could sleep in and start school later? These questions will be part of a multi-million pound research project, funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), to investigate a variety of ways neuroscience might improve teaching and learning in the UK.
On Friday 12 September, the Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain (FMRIB) invited members of the public to visit the control room of its Ultra High Field MRI scanner.
Researchers in our Department working on Motor Neuron Disease (MND) do the Ice Bucket Challenge, which has taken the internet by storm this week and so far raised \u00a36 million.
The Royal Academy of Engineering has awarded seven fellowships to engineering researchers whose projects have the potential to bring radical innovation to their fields. Dr Tom Okell is the recipient of one of the fellowships. He will benefit from financial support and mentoring for five years for his research into novel imaging techniques to visualise blood flow in the brain.
Several researchers in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences appear in the 2014 \u2018Highly-Cited Researchers\u2019 list published by Thompson Reuters, the world\u2019s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals.
Oxford University researchers funded by Parkinson\u2019s UK have developed a simple and quick MRI technique that offers promise for early diagnosis of Parkinson\u2019s disease.
The survey, developed by researchers at the University of Oxford and digital sleep improvement programme, Sleepio, is the largest of its kind and will provide a snapshot of the nation\u2019s sleep health.
The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research Centre is a \u00a3100M collaboration between Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust and the University of Oxford to accelerate healthcare innovation. Renewed in 2013, with a 50% increase in funding, the BRC features major neuroscience research themes including cerebrovascular disease and dementia led by Peter Rothwell, and functional neuroscience and imaging led by Peter Brown.
'Sleep disruption is so much more than the inconvenience of being able to sleep at the desired time - it is a global health disruption', said Russell Foster, Professor of Circadian Neuroscience at the University of Oxford, speaking at Wired Health in London on 6 May.
Three students studying for DPhils in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences have contributed to Oxford's wins in the women's and men's boat races.
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