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\n \n\n \n11 October 2017
\n \n \n \nInterview of Professor Bob Snow, who tells us about his paper published in Nature in October 2017
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\n \n\n \n10 October 2017
\n \n \n \nThe world\u2019s number-one treatment for malaria is on the brink of failure because of a new strain of drug-resistant parasites\u200a\u2014\u200aunless health policymakers take action. Professor Sir Nicholas White says that the mosquito-borne parasite responsible for severe malaria is now showing resistance to the prime treatment, Artemisinin Combination Therapy (ACT), across South-East Asia. If this resistance jumps to Africa, he warns, the tragedy will be on a massive scale.
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\n \n\n \n4 October 2017
\n \n \n \nA new typhoid vaccine for both adults and children has been proven by Oxford researchers to be safe and effective in preventing the disease. Professor Brian Angus participated in this study.
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\n \n\n \n3 October 2017
\n \n \n \nMOCRU and its partner Medical Action Myanmar (MAM) have begun a study to identify areas in Myanmar where Burkholderia pseudomallei is present in the soil and where people are at risk of melioidosis, a difficult to diagnose deadly bacterial disease.
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\n \n\n \n27 September 2017
\n \n \n \nThe Universitas Indonesia Faculty of Medicine (FMUI) and the University of Oxford's Eijkman Oxford Clinical Research Unit (EOCRU, embedded with the Eijkman Institute of Molecular Biology, EIMB, and part of the Vietnam/Asia Wellcome research programme) have completed a facility dedicated to the support of the many collaborative clinical research activities between the two universities.
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\n \n\n \n26 September 2017
\n \n \n \nThe Medical Sciences Divisional Panel has conferred the title of Professor to two members of CTMGH's academic staff. Jeremy Day, Professor of Infectious Diseases heads the CNS and HIV Infections Research Group at OUCRU; Eduard Sanders, Professor of global health practice leads the HIV care and research programme at KWTRP.
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\n \n\n \n21 September 2017
\n \n \n \nA highly drug resistant malaria \"superbug\" from western Cambodia is now present in southern Vietnam, leading to alarming failure rates for dihydroartemisinin (DHA)-piperaquine \u2014 Vietnam\u2019s national first-line malaria treatment, leading malaria scientists warn.
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\n \n\n \n20 September 2017
\n \n \n \nAt their Annual Meeting 13 Sept, the Trustees of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH) awarded MORU\u2019s Dr Direk Limmathurotsakul its Emerging Leaders Award.
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\n \n\n \n13 September 2017
\n \n \n \nThe University of Oxford has conferred the title of Associate Professor to Yoel Lubell, Head of Economics and Translational Research at MORU, to Olivo Miotto from the Centre for Genomics and Global Health at MORU, and to Ronald Geskus from OUCRU. Louise Thwaites, Clinical Research Fellow at OUCRU, was appointed University Research Lecturer.
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\n \n\n \n8 September 2017
\n \n \n \nThe WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN) has been shortlisted for a 2017 Times Higher Education (THE) Award in the \u2018International Collaboration of the Year\u2019 category.
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\n \n\n \n7 September 2017
\n \n \n \nOn 30 Aug 2017, Professor Lisa White, Head of Mathematical/Economic Modelling (MAEMOD) at MORU, led an engaging interactive Bangkok Scientifique session on the uses of mathematical modelling in infectious diseases at Caf\u00e9 Tartine in Bangkok.
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\n \n\n \n6 September 2017
\n \n \n \nAn international partnership seeks African leadership to organize information about the disease.
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\n \n\n \n5 September 2017
\n \n \n \nOxford University has claimed the top spot in Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2018, which judge the performance of 980 universities across 79 countries.
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\n \n\n \n23 August 2017
\n \n \n \nIn Southeast Asia, some types of the malaria parasite develop resistance to the drug combinations used to cure and prevent the disease. If this drug resistance spread to Africa, it\u2019d be a disaster. Fortunately, partners on the front lines are finding ways to fight back. Watch this video about the amazing work our team of SMRU researchers is doing to combat drug resistance in Thailand.
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\n \n\n \n21 August 2017
\n \n \n \nChanging home designs and materials to make homes cooler and harder for mosquitoes to enter could reduce malaria transmission in sub-Saharan Africa, according to a new study in The Lancet Planetary Health.
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\n \n\n \n1 August 2017
\n \n \n \nThe amount of influenza-specific antibodies present in an individual\u2019s blood can indicate not only if they experienced the flu, but potentially when - a finding that could improve disease monitoring in the tropics, where flu season is unending.\r\n\r\nIn the largest study of its kind, an international team, led by researchers from the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and Penn State University, identified antibody concentrations that correspond to recent and past exposure to the flu strain H1N1 - the strain involved in the 2009 flu pandemic.
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\n \n\n \n20 July 2017
\n \n \n \nThe KEMRI-Wellcome Trust anounces that the call for abstracts towards the 5th Medical and Veterinary Virus Research Symposium, October 26th \u2013 27th, 2017, is open. This year\u2019s theme is One Health \u2013 Accelerating Virus Research in East Africa. You are invited to submit presentations related to research involving viruses of medical and veterinary importance.
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\n \n\n \n20 July 2017
\n \n \n \nThe first-ever MQPH Conference will take place at Keble College, Oxford on 23-28 September 2018. This international event will bring together people from public health, national regulatory authorities, pharmacy, biomedical, chemistry, law, ethics, cultural and social sciences, pharmaceutical industry, international organisations and NGOs. It grants an opportunity to discuss the problem and outline the necessary steps to tackle the issue on a global scale.
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\n \n\n \n19 July 2017
\n \n \n \nAn existing malaria rapid diagnostic test (RDT) can be adapted to predict the delayed anaemia that can complicate severe malaria in patients treated with artemisinin-based antimalarial drugs
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\n \n\n \n14 July 2017
\n \n \n \nResearchers from Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Vietnam have shown that amphotericin B is more effective than itraconazole for the initial treatment of talaromycosis in HIV patients.
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