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Read what BDI professor Aiden Doherty said about the massive achievement of the #500KGenomes project using UK Biobank data, which has been released today. 🧬👇
🎥 EVENT: Screening of ‘Lovesick’ at Curzon Oxford. Film followed by a panel discussion and refreshments. 🍕 Food provided, open to members of the University and the public. Register now 👉 buff.ly/3SMa9R9 Medical Sciences University of Oxford
Job alert - senior researcher to develop new methods for the remote assessment of health relevant traits in large-scale epidemiological studies. OxWearables Big Data Institute Oxford Population Health (OxPop) University of Oxford tinyurl.com/wearablesOxford Please feel to email me to find out more.
Congratulations to Nicky Whiffin for being selected as one of the 2024 #ListerFellows by the The Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine 🥳🎉 Find out more 👉 ndm.ox.ac.uk/news/nicky-whi…
📝A new study has found that people with worse #metabolichealth are more likely to have memory and thinking problems, and worse brain health.🧠📉 Read more 👉 bit.ly/3XrptXp Dementia UK Medical Sciences University of Oxford #brainscience #healthresearch
The amazing Cecilia Lindgren steps down as Director of Big Data Institute. She stays on as a group leader while pursuing exciting new avenues. Big thanks for all she has done (a lot!!) led by Sir Rory Collins and Richard Cornall. Oxford Population Health (OxPop) Nuffield Department of Medicine
Preventive #vaccinations could be a key strategy against #LassaFever and the next #pandemic, new study suggests. 😷🌍 Read more 👉 bit.ly/3ZlmeSD University of Liverpool University of Oxford Medical Sciences CEPI @tropmedoxford Linksbridge SPC Health Economics Research Centre (HERC)
A new study has produced a new way of documenting #genetic ancestry. The approach allows scientists to store and analyse large amounts of genetic data on a standard laptop, and it generalises to any species of life on Earth.🧬 Read more 👉 bit.ly/4gg04XM Genetics Society of America
Congratulations to Pandemic Sciences Institute and @BDI_oxford's Professor David Aanensen for winning the 2025 Translational Microbiology Prize from Microbiology Society, for his significant contributions to translational #microbiology and genomic #epidemiology.🏆 Read more 👉 ndm.ox.ac.uk/news/professor…
NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext! This week Dr Sabine L.van Elsland speaks with Dr James Hay Big Data Institute about #influenza: who, where and when influenza infections are likely to occur using antibody profiles and individual infection histories👇
Current water contact and Schistosoma mansoni infection have distinct determinants: a data-driven population-based study in rural Uganda Oxford Population Health (OxPop) @BDI_Oxford Goylette Chami Fabian Reitzug SchistoTrack nature.com/articles/s4146…
🎉 Congratulations to Associate Professor Nicky Whiffin, who has been awarded the 2025 Balfour Lecture by The Genetics Society! Read more on our website 👉 bit.ly/4g2GNbz
BDI and Oxford Population Health (OxPop) researchers are to be co-investigators in one of two Medical Research Council research centres, which are being launched to develop new advanced treatments for currently untreatable diseases.🧬 Read more 👉 buff.ly/41oS6qn