NDORMS, University of Oxford

The first patient in the PEGASUS clinical study (part of the GSK-University of Oxford Experimental Medicine Collaboration) has received the first dose! https://www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/news/first-clinical-study-in-gsk-oxford-experimental-medicine-collaboration-starts

Join us to Meet the researcher! We’ll be hearing from Prof Steph Dakin and Dr Shirish Dubey about diseases affecting soft tissues and autoimmune diseases. 🗓️ Monday 26 October ⏰ 1 – 2pm 📍 Online Register now 👉 https://medsci.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ldU8_S8tRlqFeAlvT_8Oqg

Applying to study at Oxford is a daunting task. Don’t worry — our students are here to offer their advice!

🎉 Congratulations to Emmanouil Solomonidis, who recently won an early career investigator prize from the British Society of Atherosclerosis!

September was a successful month for the Alsaleh Group! 🏆 Ghada has been awarded an Arthritis UK Bridging Fellowship 🛰️ Declan was recognised as a top student at the ESA summer school 🔬 Maria won the prestigious Korenchevsky Prize at the BSRA annual scientific meeting! 🎉 Congratulations team!

🎉 Congratulations to Rachel Kuo, who has successfully defended her DPhil thesis!

🎉 Congratulations to Sanjana Choudhury, who has successfully defended her DPhil thesis!

🎉 Did you see this? Congratulations to Prof Laura Coates, who has been appointed Director of the Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit! https://www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/news/professor-laura-coates-appointed-director-of-octru

Thinking of studying for a PhD at Oxford? Come to our open day to to find out more! Tour labs, attend taster lectures, find out about our technology and facilities, and meet our students! 🗓️ Friday 6 November ⏰ 1pm 📍 Kennedy Institute More info 👉 https://www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/study-with-us/open-day

🎉 Congratulations to DPhil student Declan Moran, who has been recognised as a top student at the European Space Agency summer school! https://www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/news/ndorms-student-declan-moran-recognised-as-top-student-at-european-space-agency-summer-school

Colin Forde has been awarded a NIHR Health Technology Assessment Postdoctoral Award to lead a national study evaluating rehabilitation for people with a kneecap dislocation. https://www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/news/nihr-fellowship-to-support-national-trial-evaluating-rehabilitation-after-kneecap-dislocation

🎉 Congratulations to DPhil student Maria Kyriazi, who has been awarded the prestigious Korenchevsky Prize for her presentation at the BSRAritish Society for Research on Ageing annual scientific meeting! https://www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/maria-kyriazi-wins-korenchevsky-prize

Two major studies, published in the BMJ, have found that robotic-assisted hip and knee replacement does not reduce overall early risk of repeat surgery compared with conventional surgery. https://www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/news/robotic-hip-and-knee-surgery-fails-to-cut-overall-risk-of-repeat-surgery

👋 📰 The brilliant Akira Wiberg shares his advice for easing carpal tunnel syndrome in this article in The Times!

A massive welcome to our new cohort of DPhil students! Welcome to NDORMS! 🔬 🧫 🧬 🩻🥼🩺🎓

FUNDING: Calling all early career researchers with an OUH contract!   The OHSRC are offering grants of up to £10,000 to NHS staff (including honorary contracts) whose research will help patients of the OUH. Find out more and apply 👉https://www.ouh.nhs.uk/researchers/grants/ Deadline: 15 October

Interested in joining the Powrie Lab for a PhD? Applications are open now for two projects with us!👩‍🔬🧑‍🔬 Find out more over at: www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/study-with-us or via the studentship the links on our lab webpage: www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/research/res... @kiroxford.bsky.social @ndorms.bsky.social

Congratulations to Hasan Mohammad and the authors of these papers. Great to see them out in the @bmj.com @ndorms.bsky.social

Did you see this? NDORMS student Rabia Khan has led a project to digitise historic records from the world’s last naturally occurring smallpox outbreaks, creating an open dataset for future epidemiological and disease modelling research. https://www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/historic-smallpox-records

🎉 Congratulation to the wonderful Ghada Alsaleh, who has been awarded an Arthritis UK Bridging fellowship. She will advance her work studying potential osteoarthritis treatments. https://www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/news/ghada-alsaleh-awarded-an-arthritis-uk-bridging-fellowship

🩻 🦴 🖥️ 🔬 Applications are now open to study at the Botnar Institute @botnaroxford.bsky.social next year! Find out what it’s like to study at Oxford, meet our supervisors and see available projects! www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/study-at-the-botnar

Researchers at the Kennedy Institute @kiroxford.bsky.social are joining forces with international partners in a bid to transform how chronic inflammatory disease is treated. https://www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/news/researchers-funded-to-cure-rather-than-manage-inflammatory-disease

🎓 Today our wonderful Botnar Director of Graduate Studies, Prof Afsie Sabokbar, retires after more than 30 years at NDORMS. Goodbye and have a wonderful retirement Afsie – you deserve it! https://www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/news/professor-afsie-sabokbar-retires-after-more-than-30-years-at-ndorms

Thinking of studying for a PhD at Oxford? Come to our open day to to find out more! Tour labs, attend taster lectures, find out about our technology and facilities, and meet our students! 🗓️ Friday 6 November ⏰ 1pm 📍 Kennedy Institute More info 👉 https://www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/study-with-us/open-day

Apply to do your PhD at Oxford! At NDORMS, our students are part of world-class research into musculoskeletal and inflammatory conditions in both wet lab and computer-based projects. 🔬🖥️🥼🔎 https://www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/study

There’s still time to join us to Meet the researcher later! This month we’ll be learning about frailty and fixing feeling in fingers with two University of Oxford researchers. 🗓️ Monday 28 September ⏰ 1 – 2pm 📍 Online Register now 👉 https://medsci.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UhwPMOj8QKa6zslGTsvRKg

🔬 🧫 🖥️ 🧬 Applications are now open to study at the Kennedy Institute @kiroxford.bsky.social next year! Look at available projects, meet our supervisors and find out what it’s like studying at the University of Oxford. https://www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/study

Applying for a PhD or MSc? 🤔 Study at Oxford! Our students tell you about why they chose to study at NDORMS.

🔬 🧫 🧬 🩻 Applications are now open to study at NDORMS next year! 🥼 🩺 🎓 Join us at our world class University of Oxford research institutes, the Kennedy @kiroxford.bsky.social and the Botnar @botnaroxford.bsky.social for your DPhil! https://www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/study

Join us next week to Meet the researcher! This month we’ll be learning about frailty and fixing feeling in fingers with two University of Oxford researchers. 🗓️ Monday 28 September ⏰ 1 – 2pm 📍 Online Register now 👉 https://medsci.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UhwPMOj8QKa6zslGTsvRKg

Thinking of studying for a PhD at Oxford? Come to our open day to to find out more! Tour labs, attend taster lectures, find out about our technology and facilities, and meet our students! 🗓️ Friday 6 November ⏰ 1pm 📍 Kennedy Institute More info 👉 https://www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/study-with-us/open-day

Did you see this? Researchers at the Kennedy Institute @kiroxford.bsky.social have discovered that some joints may be more susceptible to inflammatory arthritis before birth. https://www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/news/arthritis-origins-may-begin-before-birth-study-finds

Join us later this month to Meet the researcher! This month we’ll be learning about frailty and fixing feeling in fingers with two University of Oxford researchers. 🗓️ Monday 28 September ⏰ 1 – 2pm 📍 Online Register now 👉 https://medsci.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UhwPMOj8QKa6zslGTsvRKg

👂 Listen to Prof Eleanor Stride on BBC Radio 4’s The Best Medicine, where she argues that her work using bubbles to improve the effectiveness of antimicrobial and cancer drug delivery is the best medicine! 🫧💉

NEWS: Arthritis origins may begin before birth, study finds @kiroxford.bsky.social study offers new insight and explains why rheumatoid arthritis attacks particular joints while sparing others.

Thinking of studying for a PhD at Oxford? Come to our open day to find out more! Tour labs, attend taster lectures, find out about our technology and facilities, and meet our students! 🗓️ Friday 6 November ⏰ 1pm 📍 Kennedy Institute More info and register 👉 www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/study-with-u...

Thinking of studying for a PhD at Oxford? Come to our open day to to find out more! Tour labs, attend taster lectures, find out about our technology and facilities, and meet our students! 🗓️ Friday 6 November ⏰ 1pm 📍 Kennedy Institute More info 👉 https://www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/study-with-us/open-day

🎉 Congratulations to Matt Costa and Rachel Kuo, who have been announced as winners of the NIHR20 Research Leaders Prizes in recognition of their outstanding contribution to health and care research! https://www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/news/ndorms-researchers-win-prestigious-national-leadership-prizes

We had a great time at the Kennedy retreat last week! There were lots of great talks from each of the KIR labs, a treasure hunt, and even a choir performance! Thanks to all the organisers for a great 2 days☀️ @kiroxford.bsky.social @ndorms.bsky.social

NEWS: Trial exploring effects of drug on liver in psoriasis patients recruits first UK patient Read about the BALANCE study led by @ndorms.bsky.social

Mariela Ortiz, a pharmacist from Paraguay, received a Trueta Bursary to attend the Botnar Institute's Summer School in Real World Evidence this June. She shared her experience with us. https://www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/news/from-oxford-to-paraguay-trueta-bursary-supports-medicines-safety-ambitions

🎉 Congratulations to Sara Lyden, a medical student at NDORMS, who has gained a top prize in the prestigious 2026 Falk Foundation/Guts UK Charity national awards! https://www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/news/ndorms-student-wins-national-research-prize

A new study by Kennedy Institute @kiroxford.bsky.social researchers has found that arthritis origins may begin before birth.