Covid

29 May 2024 - DPhil Student Miroslav Gasparek wins Imperial College Emerging Alumni Leader Award 2024 for entrepreneurial activities

Gasparek and colleagues aim to develop the world’s first cell-based platform to deliver high-quality and accessible mRNA medicines to millions of patients…

24 Jan 2024 - Lockdown air quality boost helped 41% reduction in adult asthma hospital stays

Reductions in Nitrogen Dioxide and Particular Matter combined with fine weather during 2020 led to cleaner air conditions compared to previous five year average…

05 Dec 2023 - Oxford Chemical Engineers win top prize at 2023 IChemE Global Awards

Collaborative 'Rapid test for Covid-19' project won the 'Outstanding Achievement in Chemical and Process Engineering Award' plus two additional awards …

12 May 2023 - Covid-19 has reduced diverse urban interactions

Mobility-related data show the pandemic has had a lasting effect, limiting the breadth of places people visit in cities.…

27 Mar 2023 - COVID-19 Lockdowns Show Positive Impacts on Traffic Flow and Air Quality in Oxford

Researchers looked at how the COVID-19 lockdown measures impacted the traffic flow and the concentrations of pollutants in Oxford’s atmosphere. …

02 Sep 2021 - AI test screens for COVID-19 26% faster than lateral flow tests

An Artificial Intelligence test performed by the bedside in 10 minutes quickly and safely triages patients presenting with COVID-19, an Oxford study has shown.…

17 Jun 2021 - Impact Award for DPhil’s role in developing rapid diagnostic test used in UK airports

MPLS COVID-19 Award recognises Boon Lim’s contribution to designing early experiments, overseeing clinical trials and setting up airport testing labs…

04 Jun 2021 - Royal Society Award recognises researcher’s pandemic modelling effort

Dr. Saiful Khan has received an Early Career Investigator Award for voluntary efforts in data visualization and visual analytics aimed at combating COVID-19…

21 Apr 2021 - Oxford University and Prenetics announce landmark collaboration to scale rapid testing tech globally

Collaboration agreement will further develop the award-winning OxLAMPTM technology, a rapid, molecular testing technology for infectious diseases…

16 Feb 2021 - Two recent successes at The Engineer - Collaborate to Innovate (C2I) Awards

The annual awards, supported by The Engineer magazine, celebrate inspiring UK technology innovations and ways in which engineers collaborate to respond to the big challenges of society…

20 Jan 2021 - January lockdown had 1/3 less national impact on movement than the March shutdown

UK population movement falls 59%, compared to -89% in March, shows Oxford COVID-19 Monitor…

12 Dec 2020 - AI test rules out a COVID-19 diagnosis within one hour in Emergency Departments

Artificial Intelligence test has been shown to be able to rapidly screen patients arriving in Emergency Departments for COVID-19…

23 Nov 2020 - Low-cost ventilator wins at E&T Innovation Awards

OxVent has been recognised as one of the best innovations of the year by the Institute of Engineering and Technology…

04 Nov 2020 - Rapid COVID-19 test now in use at Heathrow and trials at Hong Kong International Airport

Oxsed RaViD Direct, developed at Oxford University, is being used at Heathrow and trialled at Hong Kong International Airport…

05 Oct 2020 - Understanding the global impact of COVID-19 through Data Science

Oxford COVID-19 (OxCOVID19) database and tracker is a powerful tool for understanding the pandemic and predicting its future course, using the combined power of Statistical, Mathematical Modelling and Machine Learning techniques…

03 Sep 2020 - Knowledge engineering for patient care: lessons from COVID-19

A new approach to rapid translation of clinical guidelines into point of care support services has produced a novel pattern for designing and deploying AI systems across healthcare …

17 Aug 2020 - Oxford developers of rapid Covid-19 test awarded RAEng President's Special Award

Professor Cui and his team are one of the winners of the Royal Academy of Engineering's President's Special Awards for Pandemic Service for their rapid viral RNA test for COVID-19…

31 Jul 2020 - New AI test identifies COVID-19 within one hour in emergency departments

Infectious disease and clinical machine learning experts at the University of Oxford have developed an Artificial Intelligence test that can rapidly screen for COVID-19…

07 Jul 2020 - Oxford scientists form spinout to launch rapid Covid-19 virus test

Covid-19 pandemic demands availability of highly accessible and rapid testing around the world to enable countries to emerge from lockdown with confidence…

07 Jul 2020 - Air and noise quality study will help inform Oxford City’s future environmental policy approach

Researchers at Birmingham and Oxford Universities have secured £207,000 funding to investigate the impacts of COVID-19 related public health measures upon air and noise quality in Oxford. …

25 Jun 2020 - DPhil student wins Most Innovative Idea

Selena Milanovic and teammates compete in hackathon with innovative idea …

05 Jun 2020 - Free Global Guidance tool launched by Oxford researchers to help medical device innovators

Tool has been used over 1,500 times including for Covid-19 related innovations…

28 May 2020 - Knowledge hub developed to track SARS-CoV antibody studies

Worldwide team of researchers partners with Canada’s COVID-19 Immunity Task Force …

21 Apr 2020 - COVID-19: UK population movement decreases by 98%

Oxford researchers create Impact Monitor to reveal how life in the UK is changing during the pandemic…

08 Apr 2020 - FAIRsharing announces COVID-19 resource collection

Collating coronavirus, clinical trials, public health and patient databases, registries and standards in one place…

01 Apr 2020 - Using wearable technology to monitor COVID-19 patients

System being used in John Warin isolation ward at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital…

18 Mar 2020 - Oxford scientists develop rapid testing technology for COVID-19

Project initiated by Oxford Suzhou Centre for Advanced Research in China, with experiments performed in the Department of Engineering Science…

International Women in Engineering Day Flash Talks

23 Jun 2021, Online

Lubbock Lecture 2021: Dr Arun Majumdar, Stanford University

17 Jun 2021, Virtual event

Oxford Battery Modelling Symposium 2021

31 Mar 2021, Online

33rd Jenkin Lecture and Research Showcase: "Engineering Solutions for COVID-19"

12 Sep 2020, Online (Zoom)

Virtual Event: Digital Humanities at Oxford 2020

13 Jul 2020 12:00 AM to 15 Jul 2020 12:00 AM, VIRTUAL EVENT

Software Sustainability Institute Collaborations Workshop 2020

31 Mar 2020 09:00 AM to 01 Apr 2020 05:00 PM, VIRTUAL EVENT

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