Be on the TEAM: TEenagers Against Meningitis
The Oxford Vaccine Group are inviting students in school year 12 to take part in a research project to understand whether immunising teenagers with vaccines against ‘Meningitis B’ could protect them and the rest of the community against these potentially deadly bacteria. This is a national study involving 24 000 year 12 students across the United Kingdom. Teenagers at participating schools are being asked to take part by local research teams involved.
Read morePregnant women invited to take part in pioneering diabetes prevention research
Dr Matthew Snape leads a study investigating if giving small amounts of oral insulin to babies can prevent type 1 diabetes, thus allowing mothers to protect their children from injecting insulin.
Read moreHalting the spread of salmonella
There are between 11 and 27 million estimated cases of enteric fever worldwide every year, and 75,000–220,000 deaths. Could vaccination stop the spread of these diesases in the environment?
Read moreNHS features the Meningitis B vaccine in its "70 years, 70 discoveries" campaign
The National Health Service named Oxford Vaccine Group’s Meningitis B vaccination programme one of the 70 most transformative discoveries over the past 70 years.
Read moreHow do vaccines work?
To understand how vaccines work, it helps to look first at how the immune system works, because vaccines harness the natural activity of your immune system. This short animation explains how vaccines enable the body to make the right sort of antibodies to fight a particular disease.
Read moreVaccinations and the fight against poverty
What does it mean to be poor in the UK and around the world? Could we eliminate this kind of inequality or is it an unavoidable part of society? This needs a lot more thought...
Read moreBE ON THE TEAM: TEENAGERS AGAINST MENINGITIS
Visit http://beontheteam.uk/ or http://trials.ovg.ox.ac.uk/trials/be-on-the-team
Take part in a clinical trial – see a list of all the trials we are currently recruiting to.
stop TYPHOID An educational resource about typhoid – visit http://www.stoptyphoid.org
If you're not immune to measles you can catch it just by going into a room up to 2 hours after an infected person has left it!
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Vaccines are a key component of global health policy and are essential in the defence of the health of young children. Our research focuses on the development and evaluation of new and improved vaccines.
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See moreWhat's new
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Halting the spread of salmonella
12 October 2018
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Vaccinations and the fight against poverty
31 July 2018
Latest publications
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Epidemiology and Immune Pathogenesis of Viral Sepsis
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Lin G-L. et al, (2018), Frontiers in immunology, 9
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Computing threshold antibody levels of protection in vaccine clinical trials: An assessment of methodological bias.
Journal article
Voysey M. et al, (2018), PloS One, 13, e0202517 - e0202517
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Establishment of the first International Standard for human anti-typhoid capsular Vi polysaccharide IgG.
Journal article
Rijpkema S. et al, (2018), Biologicals
