Translational Research Immunology Group (TRIG)

2021

NDS Staff Awards

Joanna Hester and the ONE Study team who are winners of the NDS Scientific Achievement of the Year

Amy Cross who was one of the winners of the "NDS COVID Champion  - Academic Researcher" award.

The ceremony was held during the NDS Away Day Garden Party in the beautiful Oxford Botanic Garden on Thursday 9 September 2021. Plaques and certificates were awarded to staff in recognition of their achievements and hard work.

31 July 2020

Two prestigious Fellowships awarded to TRIG members

Many congratulations to Helen Stark who has been awarded a Royal College of Surgeons of England Fellowship and to Ollie (Oliver) McCallion who has been awarded an MRC Fellowship. Helen and Ollie are both undertaking a DPhil in TRIG.

3rd July 2020

Dr Fadi Issa, who has been made an Associate Professor (Academic Plastic Surgery and Transplantation) and Dr Joanna Hester, who has been awarded a University Research Lecturership (Transplant Immunology) in the recent recognition exercise.  Many congratulations to them both on their achievements.

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THE ONE STUDY TEAM :

The results of the ONE Study have been published in a paper in the Lancet as follows:

Sawitzski, Birgit et al:  Regulatory cell therapy in kidney Transplantation (The ONE Study): A harmonised design and analysis of seven non-randomised, single-arm, phase 1/2A trials. Lancet 2020 May 23;395(10237):1627-1639.

 Speaking about the achievement, Professor Kathryn Wood said: 

"This is the culmination of in depth research in the TRIG laboratory investigating how specialised cells known as regulatory T cells, that form part of everyone’s immune system can be used as a cell therapy to help the treatment of patients who need a life saving transplant

An outstanding example of multidisciplinary collaboration within Oxford, as well as nationally and internationally".  

TRIG are pleased to announce that we are part of the RESTORE community which has just been awarded with funding for the prepatory phase.

RESTORE is a Large scale Research Initiative, funded by the EU. It is designed to be a “place” where medicine, basic research, technology development and engineering meet, communicate and work together: to tackle grand interdisciplinary science and technology challenges and to find novel solutions.

To find out more about the initiative please go to: https://www.restore-h2020.eu/home

TRIG team members took part in the IF Oxford science and ideas festival recently, with an interactive story called  'The heroes and villains in transplantation - Can you sort them out?' which showed how an upcoming clinical trial, called The TWO Study, will sort 'good' protective cells from 'bad' cells that cause transplant rejection and how this might help save lives.

Pictured above are:  George Adigbli, Sabrina Wright, Dr Mathew Brook, Dr Joanna Hester and Cosmo Tullar.

Read the full story here: https://www.nds.ox.ac.uk/news/nds-at-if-oxford

Dr Andrew Bushell, a key member of the Wood Lab / TRIG passed away in December 2016 after a period of illness.

As a way to celebrate Andrew’s career and all of his contributions to the success of the group a travel fund has been set up to help provide travel bursaries for graduate students and early career researchers to attend meetings.    Andrew was passionate about educating and training young scientists and was very proud of the achievements of all of the students and fellows that have been members of the Wood Lab/TRIG over the years.

If you would like to contribute to the fund please follow the link below.

www.campaign.ox.ac.uk/bushell-memorial-travel

 If you would like any further information about the fund, please contact Monica Dolton:  monica.dolton@nds.ox.ac.uk

We offer many congratulations to Rebeca Arroyo Hornero and Jessica Padley who are the first two recipients of the Andrew Bushell Memorial Travel Fund Awards.