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First arm of ACCORD clinical trial platform completes patient recruitment
ACCORD – a Phase 2, clinical trial platform designed to rapidly test candidate drugs for the treatment of COVID-19 – has completed...
Mar 12, 2021
Southampton joins new collaboration to boost cancer research
NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre cancer researchers have joined experts across the country in a new collaboration to more...
Feb 26, 2021
COVID-19 human challenge trial seeks young healthy volunteers
Southampton is set to be part of a trial aiming to infect and closely monitor up to 90 low-risk healthy volunteers to better understand...
Feb 19, 2021
Patients who attended 'surgery school' plan to adopt a healthier lifestyle
A pioneering ‘surgery school’ initiative developed by Southampton doctors has been shown to motivate patients to adopt healthier habits –...
Feb 12, 2021
Janssen single-dose vaccine 66% effective against COVID-19
A single dose of the Janssen coronavirus vaccine has been shown to protect 66% from infection and 100% protection from hospitalisation or...
Feb 5, 2021
Call for Southampton over 50s to be part of coronavirus vaccine dose gap study
Southampton doctors are calling for volunteers over the age of 50 to take part in a study looking at the impact of varying the time...
Feb 4, 2021
UHS research team supports world's largest COVID-19 treatment trial
The research team at UHS is supporting the delivery of the world’s largest trial into treatments for patients hospitalised with COVID-19....
Jan 20, 2021
Southampton COVID-19 drug enters large scale trials
COVID-19 therapy inhaled interferon beta has entered into large-scale international trials, following early phase results indicating it...
Jan 18, 2021
Record enrolment of Southampton ICU patients helps find two more drugs for critical COVID-19 patient
Risk of death in critically ill patients is reduced by two anti-inflammatory drugs, according to new results from a global trial...
Jan 15, 2021
Call for volunteers to open a new front on coronavirus through vaccine trial
Southampton doctors are calling on the city and region’s adults to join trials of a vaccine using tried and tested technology to tackle...
Jan 13, 2021
Antiviral COVID-19 drug prospects boosted by discovery of short form coronavirus 'entry point' prote
A shadow over the promising inhaled interferon beta COVID-19 therapy has been cleared with the discovery that although it appears to...
Jan 12, 2021
Southampton researchers' COVID-19 responses recognised in New Year Honours
Professor Keith Godfrey, Dr Katrina Cathie and Dr Nisreen Alwan have all been awarded MBEs in the Queen’s New Year Honours list for 2021...
Jan 8, 2021
Oxford COVID-19 vaccine trial results confirm it is safe and effective
The interim analysis data for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine trial for COVID-19 has been published in The Lancet, following a press...
Dec 14, 2020
Point of care testing can improve the detection and treatment of influenza
Southampton-led research has shown that implementing point-of-care testing in hospitals to diagnose influenza (flu) can lead to better...
Dec 14, 2020
Southampton volunteers help demonstrate up to 90% protection from Oxford COVID-19 vaccine
The people of Southampton made a major contribution to data showing that a University of Oxford-developed COVID-19 vaccine could protect...
Nov 23, 2020
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