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« Back to NewsIOI awards £5m to Oxford consortium to develop new therapies for drug-resistant tuberculosis
25 February 2025
The Ineos Oxford Institute for antimicrobial research (IOI) has awarded £5 million to a group of 17 interdisciplinary researchers from Oxford University to develop new therapies for drug-resistant tuberculosis.
Winners of new “After the End” poetry competition announced
20 December 2024
Nigerian poet, Chiwenite Onyekwelu, is the winner of the first poetry competition to consider concepts of endings, with his poems ‘On Memory and Forgetting’ and ‘Time/Our Time’. ‘On Memory and Forgetting’ describes Onyekwelu’s father’s recollections of the Biafra war and ‘Time/ Our Time’ reflects on the impact of oil spills into the Niger Delta.
PSI’s Md Zakiul Hassan recognised as 2024 ISID Emerging Leader
10 December 2024
The award from the International Society for Infectious Diseases acknowledges early-career excellence in the field.
Oxford Clinical Lecturer awarded prestigious BIA Barnet Christie Lecture
2 December 2024
Xin Hui Chan has won the competitive 2024 Barnet Christie Lecture award of the British Infection Association. As part of the award, Dr Chan delivered a lecture entitled ‘Drugs for Tropical Infections: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Infectious Disease Physician’
NDM unit awarded £11m to address antimicrobial resistance
22 November 2024
The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) has awarded the Modernising Medical Microbiology consortium £11 million to address major public health threat, antimicrobial resistance. The Oxford Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU) in Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance, hosted by the Nuffield Department of Medicine since 2014, is one of 13 HPRUs funded by NIHR as part of an £80 million funding boost.
Professor Prabhat Jha appointed as Nuffield Professor of Population Health and Head of Department
3 October 2024
Professor Prabhat Jha has been appointed as Nuffield Professor of Population Health and Head of the Nuffield Department of Population Health. He will succeed Professor Sir Rory Collins who has been Head of Department since its inception in 2013.
Professor Sassy Molyneux awarded five-year NIHR Global Health Research Professorship
2 August 2024
Professor Sassy Molyneux has received a prestigious five-year NIHR Global Health Research Professorship to study how to better protect frontline staff in international health research from moral distress. This is one of only five to seven such `flagship’ professorships awarded by the NIHR each year to outstanding scientists.
Oxford researcher to lead one of UKRI's new research networks to tackle antimicrobial resistance
23 July 2024
Eight new networks, combining different research specialisms, will work together to tackle one of humanity’s biggest threats, antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
NDM-CGHR Director announcement
7 May 2024
Professor Susanna Dunachie has been appointed to the new role of Director of the NDM Centre for Global Health Research
Interview with Diagnostics in Tropical and Infectious Diseases(DiTi) award recipient Dr Christopher Chew
17 April 2024
Global Health research at the University of Oxford and its partners is broad reaching, bringing significant impact across all academic disciplines of medicine, the physical and life sciences, social sciences and humanities. The Diagnostics in Tropical and Infectious Disease (DiTi) award, run by the Translational Research Office, aims to strengthen the long-term partnership between Oxford University and Mahidol University by establishing partnerships and supporting collaborative projects to develop diagnostic devices for tropical and infectious diseases, with the goal of driving more translational research initiatives in global health. Read this interview from award winner Dr Chris Chew.
Sir Stewart Cole joins the Ineos Oxford Institute for antimicrobial research as Executive Chair
10 January 2024
Sir Stewart Cole, KCMG, FRS has joined the Ineos Oxford Institute for antimicrobial research (IOI) as Executive Chair. The IOI is a world-leading centre of research, training, and education in the field of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) based at the University of Oxford. It was established thanks to an unprecedented £100 million gift from INEOS, one of the world’s largest chemical companies.
Oxford scientist to lead international transdisciplinary consortium towards delivering NetZero Healthcare
13 December 2023
The European Union Horizon Europe (with joint funding from UK Research Innovation) has awarded NetZeroAICT Consortium major funding to develop a novel technology with great potentials to promote climate neutral and sustainable health care.
Professor Alan Bernstein appointed as new University of Oxford Director of Global Health
9 October 2023
Professor Alan Bernstein has been appointed as the new head of Oxford Global Health, which will bring together and showcase the breadth of global health research across the University of Oxford.
Future of Chair in Global Health secured with £5 million gift
20 September 2023
The University of Oxford’s commitment to tackling major global health challenges has been strengthened following the endowment of a chair in global health and clinical development. The new permanent post was made possible by a £5 million donation from Brazilian healthcare organisation SAIL for Health.
Professor Chris Lavy appointed to WHO technical advisory group
2 August 2022
Congratulations to Professor Chris Lavy, who has been appointed to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) technical advisory group for integrated clinical care for a period of two years.
Professor Hugh Watkins wins £30 million research award to cure killer heart diseases
28 July 2022
The British Heart Foundation award aims to help researchers rewrite DNA, in “defining moment” for cardiovascular medicine.
Global Parenting Initiative Receives £11 million grant from LEGO Foundation
1 May 2022
The LEGO Foundation is awarding a £11 million five-year grant to international research aimed at developing and providing free, evidence-based, playful parenting support to every parent all over the world.
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative funding awarded to build a globally inclusive musculoskeletal map
12 November 2021
Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS) researchers and several international collaborators have been awarded funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to deliver an ancestrally diverse musculoskeletal atlas of healthy tissues.
Catherine Porter joins Young Lives as new Director
30 September 2021
We are delighted to announce that Dr Catherine Porter joins ODID today as the new Director of Young Lives.