NEW: Oxford University, through its strategic partnership with @eitoxford.bsky.social, has received research funding of £118m to launch an ambitious new programme of vaccine research. Read more ⬇️

EVENT | Infection and Immunity in Children: The ESPID-Oxford Course There is just under three weeks to go till the 22nd edition of the IIC: The ESPID-Oxford Course, find out more about the course in the link below.

NEW PODCAST | Prof Sir Andrew Pollard, in conversation with Professor Andrew Steer, Director of Infection, Immunity and Global Health at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute and Paediatric Infectious Disease Specialist at Royal Melbourne Children's Hospital. www.ovg.ox.ac.uk/news/podcasts

5 Years on from the start of the pandemic, Parvinder Aley, Sagida Bibi and Hannah Robinson, from @ovg.ox.ac.uk talk to the BBC about the challenges they so vividly remember. www.bbc.co.uk/news/a...

Join Andrew Pollard and Prof Margaret Stanley OBE, Emeritus Professor of Epithelial Biology at the University of Cambridge, where they discuss the development of an HPV vaccine and the impact of communication on local and global vaccination programmes.

VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITY: BiVISTA - Bivalent Vaccination against Salmonella Typhi and Paratyphi A @ovg.ox.ac.uk is looking for volunteers in good health to take part in the BiVISTA study to find a vaccine against typhoid and paratyphoid A fever. www.ovg.ox.ac.uk/stu...

NEW| Join Sir Andrew Pollard and Laureate Professor Peter Doherty on his controversial discovery of killer T cells, ensuing notoriety, and the accidental tweet that made him famous! Available on all major podcasting platforms and our website: ovg.ox.ac.uk/news/podcasts

Great to meet with colleagues at WHO Nepal and Patan Academy of Health Sciences in Kathmandu

Episode 4 released: Polio www.ovg.ox.ac.uk/news/podcasts

Lord Hague of Richmond will serve as the next Chancellor of University of Oxford, having won a majority of support in the final round of voting for the post. Lord Hague becomes the 160th recorded Chancellor in the University’s history, a role that dates back at least 800 years.