New research has revealed that drug shortages can become a systemic issue affecting the health of millions of patients, and impacting healthcare systems in Europe and North America.

🎉 Congratulations to Prof Sara Khalid, who has received the Wellcome Trust Accelerator Award! https://www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/news/wellcome-accelerator-award-for-sara-khalid

🎉 Congratulations to the wonderful Associate Prof Ghada Alsaleh, who has been made an Official Fellow in the Cellular Life Theme at Reuben College!

🩻 🦴 🖥️ 🔬 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

🔬 🧫 🖥️ 🧬 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. www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/study

The first trial of microsurgical suture repair vs nerve alignment for digital nerve injuries suggests that suture repair does not improve outcomes.

☢️ A woman being exposed to radiation?! No, it’s not the latest Marvel film – it’s a new study at the Oxford Translational Myeloma Centre. In a world first, researchers are testing a new technology that could enable clinicians to better diagnose and treat myeloma. www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/magneto-study

Four PhD projects advertised for October 2026 @ndorms.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk Find info and apply here: www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/study/botnar...

🔬 🧫 🧬 🩻 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

🚨 New evidence from the NEON Trial: microsurgical suture repair does not improve outcomes for digital nerve injuries. 🔗Keen to know more? Read up on the details here!📖 www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/news/trial-s... @ndorms.bsky.social @situ-oxford.bsky.social @bjsurgery.bsky.social @octructu.bsky.social

Thinking of applying for a DPhil?   Join us at the Kennedy Institute for lab tours, taster lectures, a chance to meet our students, and to find out what studying for a DPhil is like!   🗓️ Friday 24 October ⏰ 1 – 5pm 📍 Kennedy Institute   Register 👉 https://www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/study-with-us/open-day

Join us later this month to Meet the researcher! Maria Sanchez-Santos @mtsanchez.bsky.social will be talking about midlife factors and risk of frailty, and Danielle Newby @daniellenewby.bsky.social will speak about heart equity and making treatments safer for everyone.

🎉 Congratulations to Jelena Bezbradica Mirkovic, Audrey Gerard, Karthik Ramasamy and Sarah Snelling, who have been awarded the title of Full Professor by the University of Oxford! https://www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/news/ndorms-researchers-honoured-in-the-recognition-of-distinction-scheme-2025

Applications will open soon to study with us. Would you like to find out more? Join us at the Kennedy Institute @kiroxford.bsky.social  for our student open day!   🗓️ Friday 24 October ⏰ 1 – 5pm 📍 Kennedy Institute   Find out more and register. 👉https://www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/study-with-us/open-day

🎉 Congratulations to Kennedy @kiroxford.bsky.social student Julia Karjalainen, who has been awarded a competitive Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD fellowship! https://www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/news/julia-karjalainen-awarded-boehringer-ingelheim-fonds-phd-fellowship

A team of researchers has discovered more about the evolutionary battle between humans and malaria. Research has revealed how the malaria parasite evades the immune system, and how the human body fights back. https://www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/news/malaria-parasite-found-to-hijack-human-immune-system

Bittersweet farewell weeks at @kiroxford.bsky.social, a place pivotal to my growth as an independent scientist. With deep gratitude for this chapter, I'm thrilled to begin the next at @unibas.ch @biomedizin.unibas.ch, where my lab will study organelle inheritance in T cells in the context of ageing.

Julia Karjalainen, A DPhil candidate at the Kennedy Institute, has been awarded a competitive Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD fellowship to study neuro-immune interactions in skin disease! www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/news/julia-k...

We had a fab time running The Gut Florists stall at Green Man Festival! From talking all things microbiome, painting gut microbes, making bacterial pom-poms, or doing microbe word searches, we had something for everyone & loved chatting to you!🧫💐🦠🌼 @britsocimm.bsky.social @greenmanfest.bsky.social

We’re thrilled to announce that NDORMS has been recognised as a @eular.org European Centre of Excellence in Rheumatology Research! 🎉 www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/news/ndorms-...

We’ve launched a new £50m MRC Centre with @UofManchester to uncover how the environment triggers chronic inflammatory diseases like asthma, COPD & IBD. How do pollution, smoking & viruses affect our immune system? Could our research lead to better prevention and treatments? bit.ly/MRCCore

🎉 Congratulations to Jinyi Zhao and Esther Jones, who have both successfully defended their DPhil theses!

A new study has found that people from non-White ethnic backgrounds in England and Wales continued to be disproportionately impacted by severe outcomes after COVID-19 such as cardiovascular disease. https://www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/news/ethnic-disparities-persist-in-covid-19-and-cardiovascular-disease

It was great to see Amit, one of our final year DPhil students, presenting his work at the BBSRC Interdisciplinary Bioscience DTP symposium last week!☀️ @amit-halkhoree.bsky.social @kiroxford.bsky.social

🎉 Congratulations to the Botnar Institute @botnaroxford.bsky.social, who have won the Green Impact Gold Award!

A new study has been able to see what happens in the inflamed joints of children with arthritis, giving new insights into why treatment affect children differently.

A new study, run by a team including Dr Chrissy Bolton from the Kennedy @kiroxford.bsky.social, has revealed important clues about what drives disease in children with arthritis. https://www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/news/first-of-its-kind-study-for-children-with-arthritis-reveals-possible-new-disease-targets

🏆 Honoured to receive Best Free Paper 2025 and the TEDct Prize at the British Oculoplastic Surgery Society Annual Meeting for my DPhil project on thyroid eye disease. 👁️ Grateful to my mentors Prof. @ajclarke.bsky.social, Mr. Norris & all our collaborators @ndorms.bsky.social 🔬 Oxford Eye Hospital 🏥

🎉 Congratulations to Colm O’Reilly, who has successfully defended his DPhil thesis!

The Centre for Statistics in Medicine for the Randomised Controlled Trials Course 2025! 🗓️ 29 September – 3 October 📍Merton College, University of Oxford Find out more and register! https://www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/study/courses/randomised-controlled-trial-course

Researchers at the Kennedy Institute @kiroxford.bsky.social have discovered new clues about how immune memory exacerbates inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis. https://www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/news/new-insights-into-chronic-inflammation-in-rheumatoid-arthritis

NEWS: @ndorms.bsky.social‬ Associate Professor David Metcalfe has begun a two-year secondment with Thames Valley Air Ambulance. This secondment will allow David to study treatments that are used to help patients before as well as after they arrive at hospital. www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/...

Happy World Microbiome Day! We celebrated this year with some delicious petri dish cheesecakes, with everyone “streaking” some plates whilst learning about the microbiome!🧫🍰 @microbiologysociety.org @kiroxford.bsky.social @ndorms.bsky.social

Prof Marco Fritzsche at the Kennedy Institute @kiroxford.bsky.social is co-leading a research project that has been awarded a Programme Foundation Award from Cancer Research UK.

Prof David Metcalfe from Oxford Trauma @oxfordtraumaresearch.bsky.social is reaching new heights as he starts his secondment with Thames Valley Air Ambulance! https://www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/news/associate-professor-reaches-new-heights-with-the-thames-valley-air-ambulance

🎉 Congratulations to Dr Chrissy Bolton (DPhil student at the Kennedy Institute @kiroxford.bsky.social), who won the Best Abstract Award at the recent EULAR Congress! https://www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/news/dr-chrissy-bolton-wins-best-abstract-award-at-eular-2025-congress

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈🧁 Thank you to everyone that came and celebrated identity and inclusivity at NDORMS Pride, and a big thank you to our brilliant students for organising!

A new £1.4 million Programme Foundation Award from @cancerresearchuk.org will investigate how physical forces within tumours affect the ability of a type of white blood cell to attack and eliminate cancer cells. Read more! ⬇️ www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/news/ps1-4m-...

If you're a member of the University of Oxford and have any questions about publishing #OpenAccess, we'd love to hear from you. openaccess.ox.ac.uk/contact-us @oxpop.bsky.social @ndcnoxford.bsky.social @ndorms.bsky.social @oncology.ox.ac.uk @oxprimarycare.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk

Researchers at the Botnar Institute @botnaroxford.bsky.social have joined a new consortium that has been awarded £3m by Versus Arthritis!

🎉 Congratulations to Dr David Keene, who was awarded Outstanding Platform Presentation at the World Physiotherapy Congress in Tokyo! He presented the results from the AFTER trial, a study based at Oxford Trauma @oxfordtraumaresearch.bsky.social and OCTRU @octructu.bsky.social in Oxford.

The SPEED trial found that early use of biologic therapy or combination conventional DMARDS may be more effective than standard step-up care with methotrexate for psoriatic arthritis patients with poor prognostic factors.

A new study to better understand the deadly bone cancer chondrosarcoma aims to reveal potential weak spots of the disease, with the ultimate goal of developing more effective treatments for patients.

Our librarian Kat Steiner recently co-authored a systematic review with colleagues in @ndorms.bsky.social, @medsci.ox.ac.uk, @ouhospitals.bsky.social on the effects of delayed hand movement after surgical repair of hand fractures (ORIF) - published OA in JPRAS. www.jprasurg.com/article/S174...

New paper out: the largest and most international paper to date on clustering of #longcovid patients 🧪 @ndorms.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

🎉 Congratulations to the brilliant Ghada Alsaleh and Alex Clarke, who have both been awarded the title of Associate Professor by the University of Oxford!

NEWS: King's Birthday Honours 2025 Professor Andrew Carr ‪@ndorms.bsky.social‬ has been appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to Orthopaedic Research and Training. Congratulations, Professor Carr! 🎉 www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/...

🎉 Congratulations to Prof Andrew Carr, who has been awarded an MBE for services to Orthopaedic Research and Training in the 2025 King’s Birthday Honours List! https://www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/news/professor-andrew-carr-recognised-in-king2019s-birthday-honours

On Monday 16 June, Prof Rod Dunbar will join is to talk about 'how are CD8+ T cell responses primed in humans?' Our External Seminars are open to any member of the University of Oxford. Don't miss it! talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/914...

New chondrosarcoma research! We are funding a four-year @ndorms.bsky.social study to uncover critical weaknesses 🧬 - Track tumour progression - Test new drugs - Guided by patients every step of the way Learn more: ow.ly/zvFI50W8ala #Research #UntilTheresACure