New NIHR Research Support Service launching in October
31 August 2023
NIHR’s newly-established Research Support Service will be available from 1st October 2023.
Multiple heart-related conditions linked to dementia risk, finds OUCAGS alumnus
20 June 2022
Having multiple conditions that affect the heart is linked to a greater risk of dementia than having high genetic risk. This is according to findings from a large-scale new study co-led by the University of Oxford and published by OUCAGS alumnus Dr Xin You Tai and colleagues.
Oxford MedSci Goes Silver: 10 Years of Athena Swan
8 June 2022
Celebrating a gender equality milestone in Oxford's Medical Sciences Division: all departments have achieved an Athena Swan silver award
NIHR Women’s Day blog: OUCAGS alumna on ‘smashing’ gender stereotypes in academia
22 March 2022
Dr Mirae Harford, former NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow at OUCAGS, writes about her experiences and how funders can help break down barriers to women’s success in academia.
COVID-19: Clinical academic trainees joined the front-line effort en masse
8 April 2021
The BMJ has highlighted the contribution of clinical academic trainees to clinical duties during the pandemic. It has emphasised how they brought clinical and research expertise to the Covid effort – in many cases to the detriment of their academic work and career.
COVID-19 survivors at risk of psychiatric illness, finds OUCAGS ACF
7 April 2021
Dr Maxime Taquet, Academic Clinical Fellow (ACF), and colleagues have found ‘evidence for substantial neurological and psychiatric morbidity in the 6 months after COVID-19 infection’.
Oxford ACFs and CLs - tackling COVID-19 through clinical work, research, and teaching
5 August 2020
Our Academic Clinical Fellows and Clinical Lecturers have been actively responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in many different ways. Here is a small selection of the clinical work, research, and innovative medical student teaching that some of them have been doing.
COVID-19 Career Support space launched
5 June 2020
The Academy of Medical Sciences launch their COVID-19 career support space for biomedical and health researchers during the pandemic.
OUCAGS celebrates 10th anniversary
18 October 2019
OUCAGS 2009-2019 – celebrating our 10th anniversary!
Sudden cardiac death in young people may be preventable, finds Dr Rina Ariga, Clinical Lecturer at Oxford
3 July 2019
A new scanning technique may enable doctors to diagnose hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, the leading cause of sudden cardiac death in the young. Such is the finding of the study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology by Dr Rina Ariga and colleagues.
OUCAGS alumnus features in #medscilife - stories about researcher work-life blends
8 May 2019
Dr Thomas Smith, Head of Aerospace Physiology, King's College London, and OUCAGS alumnus, talks about his #MedSciLife.
Multi-use thermometers pose 'Candida auris' risk, finds Dr David Eyre, OUCAGS Clinical Lecturer
1 May 2018
According to Dr David Eyre, OUCAGS Clinical Lecturer, multi-use patient equipment can contribute to health-care associated outbreaks of infection, such as that caused by 'Candida auris'.
Oxford-UCL study: clinical academics need better postdoctoral opportunities
29 August 2017
An Oxford-UCL study of the career plans of doctors doing PhDs has been published in BMJ Open: ‘The clinical academic workforce of the future: a cross-sectional study of factors influencing career decision-making among clinical PhD students at two research-intensive UK universities’.