Covid

10 Sep 2024 - FAIRsharing announced as one of success stories of EC BY-COVID project

The cross-disciplinary resource has enabled discoverability of and access to heterogeneous, yet interlinked and organised data, building a digital space for infectious disease data…

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.…

28 Apr 2022 - FAIRsharing and FAIR Cookbook to enhance the coordination of FAIR for COVID-19 response and beyond

Oxford e-Research Centre led FAIR-enabling resources among core set of tools highlighted by an independent expert report to the European Commission…

06 Dec 2021 - COVID-19 Rapid Review Initiative report shows COVID research is freely accessible, but data sharing and preprinting are low

The Centre-based FAIRsharing has contributed to strengthen data policies of the journals and publishers participating in the initiative, to make results of COVID-19 articles available for scrutiny and reproducibility.…

13 Oct 2021 - BY-COVID project launched to address pandemic preparedness

This EU supported project aims to ensure that data on SARS-CoV-2 and other infectious diseases can be found and used by everyone, and our Centre-led FAIRsharing and the FAIR Cookbook will contribute to the goals.…

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…

20 Jan 2021 - COVID-19 Rapid Review publishers agree to mandate data deposition

Agreement ensures transparency and speed of peer review of COVID-19 articles and makes results available for scrutiny and reproducibility…

15 Dec 2020 - Jan Brauner, Mrinank Sharma et al publish paper in Science

14 Dec 2020 - UK VIS Experts Volunteer their Time and Expertise to Help Combat COVID-19

Volunteers support modelling scientists and epidemiologists in the Scottish COVID-19 Response Consortium…

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…

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…

From Curiosity to Award-Winning Science Communication

Postdoctoral Researcher Dr. Chenying Liu began her path to award-winning science communication unexpectedly during the COVID-19 lockdown. What started as a writing internship with Tom Rocks Maths led to prestigious honours such as the British Science Festival Award Lecture and the Josh Award for Science Communication. Her journey highlights the power of curiosity, adaptability, and a growth mindset - qualities any researcher can develop.

Artificial intelligence and big data help rapid screening antibodies

Nearly two and a half years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the emergence of new variants of interest of SARS-CoV-2 has prompted the development of a broad range of neutralizing antibodies. Variants such as Delta (B.1.617.2 lineage) and Omicron (BA.1 and BA.2) have been reported to exhibit immune evasion against some current therapeutic antibodies. Evolving SARS-CoV-2 requires rapid prediction of antibody binding to new variants and the development of broadly neutralizing antibodies.

OxLAMP® – accurate and rapid COVID-19 test with no specialist equipment needed

Researchers at the Department of Engineering Science and at the Oxford Suzhou Centre for Advanced Research (OSCAR) developed a test very early on in the COVID-19 pandemic to detect in under 30 minutes whether a person is infected with the virus and is still infectious. *Image credit: Jude Palmer/Royal Academy of Engineering*

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

12 Sep 2020, Online (Zoom)

Rapid Nucleic Acid Test for Covid-19