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News and Trends 11 Mar 2017

You Can Watch Fleming’s Original Penicillin Culture in Oxford!

The Museum of the History of Science in Oxford is hosting an exhibition on the history of penicillin and the current challenges of antibiotic resistance featuring the first culture used to extract the antibiotic. The discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming in the early 20th century changed the world of medicine. Antibiotics have saved millions […]

March 11, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

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News and Trends 3 Mar 2017

An HIV Vaccine Eliminates the Virus in a Patient for 7 Months

An HIV vaccine developed at the University of Oxford has kept 5 out of 15 patients completely free of HIV. One of the patients has already been clear for 7 months. AIDS affects over 36.7 million people. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is the most common treatment, which kills those cells in which the virus is active. However, HIV can remain inactive and […]

March 3, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 30 Jan 2017

Novo Nordisk will open a €135M Diabetes R&D Center at Oxford University

A new research center funded by Novo Nordisk will foster collaborations between its staff and researchers from the University of Oxford. Novo Nordisk and the University of Oxford have announced a collaboration focused on type 2 diabetes research. As part of the effort, the Danish pharma will invest €135M (£115M) over a 10-year period to […]

January 30, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

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News and Trends 21 Dec 2016

Can partnerships between Biotechs and Academia be the Key to Success?

We had the opportunity to hear the story behind the successful Evotec by Thomas Hanke, Executive VP, who gave plenty of advice for biotech companies seeking to grow. One of the biggest biotechs in Europe, with over 1,000 employees, Evotec is now transitioning from offering services to other companies to building its own pipeline. Thomas Hanke, Executive […]

December 21, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 10 Nov 2016

Evotec chooses Oxford as Proving Ground for Academia-Industry Bridge

The German CRO has struck a deal with the University of Oxford to test a model framework for bringing academic research to the clinic faster. Evotec started out as a service provider in Hamburg, but thanks to former CEO Jörn Aldag, it has blossomed into a company that specializes in transforming newly discovered therapies into […]

November 10, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Evelyn Warner

News and Trends 7 Nov 2016

Results from 45% of Clinical Trials are kept Secret

A new transparency study has identified Sanofi, Novartis and GSK as the companies that keep the most clinical trial results unreported. TrialsTracker is a tool developed at the University of Oxford that automatically rates transparency on clinical trials by checking if there are results available in clinicaltrials.gov and PubMed. The results: globally, 45% of data on […]

November 7, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 4 Oct 2016

One Step Closer to an HIV Cure That Can Eliminate the Latent Virus

HIV has completely disappeared from the blood of a patient in clinical trials. The new HIV treatment that can target the virus even in its dormant state by activating latent infected cells and could possibly become the first HIV cure available. These initial results show that the new therapy, developed in the UK, may be effective in curing HIV. One of 50 […]

October 4, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 8 Aug 2016

The Brain’s Sleep Switch was just discovered, zZz …

Researchers from the University of Oxford have discovered how certain neurons control when we go to sleep. The biology behind it involves an ion channel that reacts to the ‘happy chemical’ dopamine, changing places in the neurons. Sleep is essential to health, with the Center for Disease Control even calling insufficient sleep a public health […]

August 8, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 13 Jun 2016

Immunotherapy reaches Breakthrough in eliminating HIV

Immunocore has published key results for its new preclinical candidate for HIV, ImmTAV. This TCR-based immunotherapy has succeeded in targeting T-cells where HIV infection often ‘hides’ from drugs. Just after presenting promising results from its leading candidate at ASCO 2016 (read our coverage here), Immunocore is making headlines in another area – infectious disease. The […]

June 13, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 14 Mar 2016

Florida to release Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes to stop Zika Virus

Oxitec (UK) is on track to be allowed to trial their self-limiting, genetically engineered mosquitoes in the US – and stop the spread of Dengue and Zika. As a spin-off from Oxford University, Oxitec specialises in using genetic engineering to control insect pest populations with the ‘Sterile Insect Technique’. This is an interesting alternative to pesticides […]

March 14, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 11 Nov 2015

Oxford’s Nightstar Gene Therapy for Blindness in Men Shines with $35M Fundraiser

Choroideremia is a rare X-linked recessive retinal disease which eventually leads to blindness. A series B funding round has landed the NightstaRx (‘Nightstar’) biotech in Oxford an additional $35M for their vision-improving gene therapy. Since the mutation causing Choroideremia is sex-linked, sufferers are almost always males, with the onset of symptoms in childhood often starting […]

November 11, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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You Can Watch Fleming’s Original Penicillin Culture in Oxford!

An HIV Vaccine Eliminates the Virus in a Patient for 7 Months

Novo Nordisk will open a €135M Diabetes R&D Center at Oxford University

Can partnerships between Biotechs and Academia be the Key to Success?

Evotec chooses Oxford as Proving Ground for Academia-Industry Bridge

Results from 45% of Clinical Trials are kept Secret

One Step Closer to an HIV Cure That Can Eliminate the Latent Virus

The Brain’s Sleep Switch was just discovered, zZz …

Immunotherapy reaches Breakthrough in eliminating HIV

Florida to release Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes to stop Zika Virus

Oxford’s Nightstar Gene Therapy for Blindness in Men Shines with $35M Fundraiser

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