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« Back to NewsOxford gets £122m funding for healthcare research
14 October 2022
Funding Research Translational Research
Health and care research in Oxford is to receive £122 million in government funding over the next five years to improve diagnosis, treatment and care for NHS patients. The funding was awarded to the city’s two National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centres (BRC).
Eileen Parkes secures Clinical Research Career Development Fellowship
16 December 2021
Eileen is awarded funding for her research into the tumour microenvironment
Further funding secured to hunt out cancer using innovative radiotherapy techniques
8 April 2021
Initial success leads to new award for Oxford researcher pushing forward new cancer-hunting radiotherapy despite lockdown.
Oxford University to lead a new national programme of AI research to improve lung cancer screening
3 July 2020
Artificial Intelligence Funding
UK Research and Innovation, Cancer Research UK and industry are investing more than £11 million in an Oxford-led artificial intelligence (AI) research programme to improve the diagnosis of lung cancer and other thoracic diseases.
Breast Cancer Grant for Prof Ramadan
6 February 2020
Congratulations to Prof Kristijan Ramadan who has been awarded a three year research grant from Breast Cancer Now. The grant will support Dr. Abhay Narayan Singh who will explore new ways to use chemotherapy in order to improve the outcomes for women with breast cancer.
Professor Anna Schuh awarded funding from the NIHR RIGHT programme
4 November 2019
The NIHR has invested £34 million of funding into global health research projects to tackle epilepsy, infection-related cancers and severe stigmatising skin diseases in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Oxford secures Innovate UK funding to use AI to improve diagnosis
6 November 2018
Artificial Intelligence Funding Research
Greg Clark, UK Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), will confirm today (Tuesday 6 November) that UK Research and Innovation will invest £10million in the National Consortium of Intelligent Medical Imaging (NCIMI), to be led from Oxford University as part of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.
Grant success for pancreatic cancer research
6 April 2018
Funding Research Tumour Microenvironment
Congratulations to Dr Bart Cornelissen of the CRUK/MRC Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology, Department of Oncology who has secured a £200k grant from UK medical research charity, Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund (PCRF).
Medical Research Council grant success for Peter McHugh
8 February 2018
Associate Professor Peter McHugh of the Department of Oncology has been awarded a 4 year grant from the Medical Research Council.
Peter McHugh awarded CRUK grant to investigate how cancel cells resist treatment
6 February 2018
The 5-year programme award will support research on the DNA repair mechanisms that protect cancer cells from therapy, informing the development of future therapies.
Successful CRUK research bursary for Oncology Clinical Fellow
22 January 2018
Many congratulations to Robert Watson, a NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in the laboratory of Benjamin Fairfax in the Department of Oncology. Robert was successful in his application for a CRUK pre-doctoral research bursary.
European Research Council success for Francesca Buffa
8 December 2017
Congratulations to Associate Professor Francesca Buffa who has been awarded a five-year €2M grant by the European Research Council (ERC) to develop computer simulations of cancer cell behaviour, to help us personalise cancer treatment and prevent drug resistance.
New era in precision medicine for pancreatic cancer
27 March 2017
The development of new treatments for pancreatic cancer is set to be transformed by a network of pancreatic clinical trials, aiming to find the right trial for the right patient, after a £10 million investment from Cancer Research UK announced today.