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We support research on subjects as diverse as the relationship between diet, human health and the environment, avoiding future pandemics, and developing more efficient models of drug discovery. Whether working with machine learning experts to understand vast, complex biomedical datasets or ethicists to develop a new understanding of collective moral responsibility in the face of infectious disease, our approach is to bring together researchers from different disciplines to advance human health and improve quality of life.
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Ancient DNA reveals how a chicken virus evolved to become more deadly
An international team of scientists led by geneticists and disease biologists from the University of Oxford - including biologists on the Oxford Martin programmes on the Future of Food and Pandemic Genomics - and LMU Munich have used ancient DNA to trace the evolution of Marek's Disease Virus (MDV).
Antimicrobial researchers use AI to detect antibiotic resistance faster
To mark World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, researchers supported by the Oxford Martin Programme on Antimicrobial Resistance Testing have reported advances towards a novel and rapid antimicrobial susceptibility test that can return results within as little as 30 minutes.
Oxford researchers develop 3D printing method that shows promise for repairing brain injuries
A breakthrough technique developed by University of Oxford researchers could one day provide tailored repairs for those who suffer brain injuries. The researchers demonstrated for the first time that neural cells can be 3D printed to mimic the architecture of the cerebral cortex. These results have been published in the journal Nature Communications.
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The Oxford Martin Programme on Global Epilepsy is working to improve diagnosis, understand and mitigate the social impact, and build a better future for people with epilepsy.
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View allSarah Harper
Director, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing
Angela McLean
Professor of Mathematical Biology
Arjune Sen
Professor of Global Epilepsy
Oliver Pybus
Professor of Evolution & Infectious Disease
Achillefs Kapanidis
Professor of Biological Physics
Derrick Crook
Professor of Microbiology
Zoltán Molnár
Professor of Developmental Neuroscience
Moritz Kraemer
Associate Professor of Computational and Genomic Epidemiology
Marco Springmann
Senior Researcher on Environment and Health