At the British Association of Urological Surgeon (BAUS) Annual Meeting, held in Manchester from 15 to 18 June, final year undergraduate medical student Joel Ward was awarded the BAUS 2015 Medical Student Essay prize. Also during the meeting, Clinical Lecturer in Urology Dr Richard Bryant received the Best Academic Paper award.
Oxford University's work on precision cancer medicine has received a significant boost after Cancer Research UK announced that it would give the existing Cancer Research UK Oxford Centre Major Centre status and increase funding for research in the city.
The Patient Safety Academy (PSA) is celebrating their one year anniversary. To find out what they've been up to throughout the past year, take a look at the latest issue of the PSA newsletter.
On 29 April and 1 May 2015, thirty-eight surgical trainees from the Oxford and Severn Deaneries attended the first Bristol Oxford Surgical Trials Course (BOSTiC) - a joint initiative between the Oxford Surgical Intervention Trials Unit (SITU) at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences and the Bristol Surgical Trials Centre (BSTC).
The BRC have released a video summarising the six-hour event that was part of the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre\u2019s (BRC) Open Weeks series of events. The event featured talks and exhibitions about BRC-supported research such as trials of a \u201cbionic eye\u201d microchip implanted underneath the retina to partially restore vision for those who have lost their sight.
NDS professor Tipu Aziz appeared on BBC National news to speak about the pioneering surgery he delivered to a British woman who has had electrodes placed deep inside her brain in an experimental operation to help cure her of anorexia.\r\nWires carrying electricity were connected to parts of her brain that register her feeling of reward when she eats.\r\nProfessor Aziz said: \u201cAnorexics have a 40 times higher mortality rate compared to the normal population and people forget that. Otherwise healthy people, mostly girls, die of this disease.\u201d\r\n\r\nSee him interviewed on BBC News.
Three members of the Patient Safety Academy team will be presenting posters at the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors annual conference in Daventry (13-16 April 2015).
Many congratulations to Dr Sushma Shankar who was awarded the Medawar Medal for best scientific presentation at the recent Joint British Transplantation Society and Nederlandse Transplantatie Vereniging Congress which was held in Bournemouth on 11 \u2013 13 March 2015.\r\n\r\nDr Shankar won this prestigious award for her presentation of \u201cB cells from a tolerant environment can control a T cell allograft response in an antigen specific, IL-10 dependent mechanism\u201d by Jessica Stolp, Masaaki Zaitsu, Sushma Shankar and Kathryn Wood.
Prof Paul Johnson and his Islet Transplant Research Group have been awarded Horizon 2020 Funding as part of the DRIVE Consortium to evaluate and develop novel biomaterials and macroencapsulation strategies for transplanting islets without immunosuppression. This new award adds to their current FP7 European Funding, in which the Group has been evaluating and optimising islet function and survival within the MAILPAN (Deymed) device, with 'first in man' implantation planned in Oxford for 2016.
The PART study, which is a feasibility study comparing partial ablation (PA) using HIFU and standard treatment, radical prostatectomy (RP), recruited its first two patients in the first week of February.
The BRC brings together the research expertise of the University of Oxford, the clinical skills of staff of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust and the experiences of patients to improve healthcare. Come and join us for 2 weeks of talks, tours and exhibitions and learn about our projects!\r\n\r\nIn particular, NDS is involved in the Open Day on Wednesday 11th March, where we will showcase the latest technology developments in healthcare. Two talks will be given by members of our department
The COPE team is very pleased and proud to announce that COPE was chosen as a project success story by the European Commission DG Research & Innovation.
The 16th January saw the first liver randomised in Barcelona in the WP2 Liver Trial! It was randomised to Normothermic Machine Perfusion arm and a member of the Consortium is currently in Barcelona with the team to take them out on this first machine procedure.\r\n\r\n
The Consortium for Organ Preservation in Europe (COPE) \u2013 an EU funded surgical research project on organ preservation \u2013 is running three clinical trials in five European countries. As of December 2014, all COPE trials are now live. \r\n
Fadi from Professor Kathryn Wood's Transplantation Research Immunology Group has been awarded an MRF grant for his project entitled 'Assessment of patient immunophenotype after vascularised composite allotransplantation\".
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