The Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre (OH BRC) December 2024 newsletter is available on our newsletters web page: Issue 11 – Oxford Health BRC Newsletters – NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical…
Partner Universities of Oxford and Surrey have launched an exchange scheme designed to enhance the skill sets of researchers across both institutions by leveraging their respective strengths in sleep research…
Recently staff and colleagues from across our National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre (OH BRC) celebrated the outstanding leadership and achievements of Director…
New research, funded by our Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre, has found that poor cardiovascular health in childhood, adolescence and young adulthood may contribute to brain structure changes linked to…
Started in 2014, the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Award recognises exceptional achievements in knowledge and innovation, which have contributed to the advancement of science and positively impacted societies…
Colleagues from our BRC’s Mental Health in Development theme have established a network to facilitate relationships between schools and mental health researchers. The WISDOM Research Network brings together primary and…
Two Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) Professors have received funding awards from NIHR’s Invention for Innovation (i4i) Programme The NIHR i4i Programme is a translational research funding scheme aimed at…
Clarivate, a global leader in transformative intelligence, has announced its 2024 Highly Cited Researchers. These individuals have shown significant impact in their research fields with multiple papers ranked in the…
As part of the Oxford Kafka 2024 celebrations, a series of events exploring Franz Kafka’s contributions to literature, arts, culture and society, Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) supported a…
New research, supported by our BRC Molecular Targets’ Theme Co-Leads Professors Paul Harrison and Rachel Upthegrove and BRC Dementia Theme Co-Lead Professor Masud Husain, has found that patients who were…
Recently, the NIHR Oxford Health Clinical Research Facility (OH CRF) has begun researching a new potential drug treatment for Treatment-Resistant Depression (TRD). A significant number of people with depression are not…
We would like to congratulate our esteemed colleague Professor Rachel Upthegrove MBE, MBBS, FRCPsych, PhD on her recent achievement of receiving the Member of the Order of the British Empire…
Clare Mackay, National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre (OH BRC) Dementia Theme Lead and Professor of Imaging Neuroscience at the University of Oxford,…
The New Therapeutic Approaches in Translational Mental Health Conference was held on 16 September 2024 at the Mathematical Institute in Oxford. The event was organised by Betina Nair and Dr…
NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre (OH BRC) and NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre are seeking committed individuals to join their Diversity in Research Group to share experiences and ideas…
Researchers from our BRC Data Science Theme have contributed to an article on the use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) to facilitate personalised treatments for psychiatric conditions. Clinical prediction models…
This week, a product licence for the medicine lecanemab (Leqembi) was approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to treat adult patients in the early stages of…
Research supported by University of Oxford’s Department of Experimental Psychology Prof. Anke Ehlers, Theme Lead of the BRC’s Psychological Treatments Theme, has found that the type of coping strategy used…
Oxford will host the first conference of its kind into body-focused repetitive behaviours (BFRBs) such as hair pulling and skin picking next month. It comes just over a year after…
A prescription treatment for insomnia developed by Big Health has received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval this week. Big Health joint co-founder University of Oxford’s Prof Colin Espie…
