On 10 March 2023 OUCRU and Ho Chi Minh City Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, hosted a…
Photo: Pearl Gan; Photographer in Residence, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit Photographs have the power to inform and engage viewers.…
This new photography exhibition is by Yoppy Pieter, an award-winning photographer based in Jakarta, Indonesia. It documents, through a series…
Our overuse of antibiotics in humans, animals, and plants around the world is accelerating the development and spread of drug-resistant…
November 18 – 24 is World Antimicrobial Awareness Week. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) happens when bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites evolve…
July 28 is World Hepatitis Day. According to the World Health Organisation, 10 – 15 per cent of Vietnam’s population…
OUCRU’s Director, Professor Guy Thwaites, has recently contributed to an analysis of antibacterial agents in preclinical and clinical development by…
Our research article titled ‘Combination of inflammatory and vascular markers in the febrile phase of dengue is associated with more…
A first-of-its kind randomised controlled trial compared two different antitoxin treatments for tetanus. A comparison of human and equine intramuscular…
Leprosy impacts impoverished communities in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), with over 200,000 new cases recorded annually worldwide. This infectious…
Each year on 24 March, World TB Day is commemorated to raise awareness of this devastating and deadly disease. The…
Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, OUCRU has been actively involved in Covid-19 diagnostics, treatment, research, health education, and community engagement. We…
Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU), a leading clinical and public health research unit, and Dragon Capital Group, an established…
A drug repurposing study of tamoxifen for a deadly form of fungal meningitis suggests it has no benefits in clearing…
Using cutting-edge genomic sequencing techniques, researchers at the University of Oxford have identified almost all the genomic variation that gives…
The malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax (P. vivax) causes frequent, chronic infections that represent a major unrecognized burden on global health,…
It has come to our attention that a recent post from the Children’s Health Defense on 23rd August 2021 shared…
OUCRU’s Director, Professor Guy Thwaites, was recently honoured in the 2021 Queen’s Birthday Honours List. He was appointed a Member…
To improve the diagnosis of all forms of TB at any age, the OUCRU TB team is participating in the…
‘Vaccination is the reason most of the world doesn’t have to live with deadly diseases like polio, measles and smallpox.’…
