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« Back to NewsProfessor Sir Andrew Pollard Awarded the James Spence Medal in 2022
1 July 2022
Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, BSc MA MBBS MRCP(UK) FRCPCH PhD DIC FHEA FIDSA FMedSci, is Professor of Paediatric Infection and Immunity at the University of Oxford, Honorary Consultant Paediatrician at Oxford Children’s Hospital and Vice Master of St Cross College, Oxford.
Professor Sue Ann Costa Clemens awarded an Honorary CBE
24 September 2021
Congratulations to Professor Sue Ann Costa Clemens for her Honarary CBE award for her positive contribution towards public health. Here at the Oxford Vaccine Group and the Paediatrics department, we are extremely proud of what Sue and her team have achieved.
University of Oxford researchers among recipients of Ireland and UK joint research awards for digital humanities in €6.5m boost for interdisciplinary research partnerships
9 August 2021
Dr Samantha Vanderslott (Oxford Vaccine Group) and Dr Claas Kirchhelle (University College Dublin) have had their three-year project ‘Typhoid, Cockles, and Terrorism’ about the history of typhoid in Dublin successfully funded.
Oxford Vaccine Group among winners at NHS Parliamentary awards
9 July 2021
Awards & Appointments COVID-19
Researchers behind the Oxford AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine have been recognised for their excellence at a healthcare awards ceremony.
OVG's director recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours
11 June 2021
Andrew Pollard, Director of the Oxford Vaccine Group, and Professor of Paediatric Infection and Immunity, becomes a Knight Bachelor for services to Public Health, particularly during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Professor Matthew Snape named NIHR Senior Investigator
4 March 2021
Four academics supported by the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre have been awarded a prestigious national award, among them Matthew Snape from the Oxford Vaccine Group.
Philharmonic Orchestra film special tribute concert for the Oxford vaccine team
7 December 2020
Awards & Appointments COVID-19
A special concert to say thank you and pay tribute to the achievements of the Oxford vaccine team has been recorded at the Sheldonian Theatre for a film screening in time for Christmas
Oxford vaccine team shortlisted for parliamentary awards
24 November 2020
Awards & Appointments COVID-19
The University of Oxford team who have developed a COVID-19 vaccine in record time have been shortlisted for the Excellence in Healthcare Award at the NHS Parliamentary Awards.
Award for OVG's learning games
19 November 2020
Awards & Appointments Public Engagement
Learning games explaining the links between typhoid, sewage systems and food hygiene have won the gold prize at the Learning Technologies Awards 2020.
Typhoid vaccine project wins Vice-Chancellor award
27 July 2020
Congratulations to Professor Andrew Pollard who is the Winner of the Policy Engagement category in the Vice-Chancellor Innovation Awards 2020 for his work on Global policy on typhoid vaccines through research at Oxford!
Alice in Typhoidland wins film trophy
15 June 2020
Awards & Appointments Public Engagement
Bristol Science Film Festival awarded the Professional Science Fact Film Prize to "The Adventures of Alice in Typhoidland" co-created by the Oxford Vaccine Group.
Paediatrics project receives funding to assess novel coronavirus infection rates in children and teenagers across the UK
20 April 2020
Awards & Appointments COVID-19 Research
A multi-site project, called ‘What’s the STORY?’ has received funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to assess novel coronavirus infection rates in children and teenagers across the UK. Given the importance of this study to the national Covid-19 response it has been deemed a priority study for the National Institute for Health Research’s (NIHR) Urgent Public Health Response.
Funding for new COVID-19 studies awarded to OVG's project on infectious disease immunity in children
17 April 2020
Awards & Appointments COVID-19 Research
Five projects from across Oxford University's Medical Sciences Division, including a project led by Professor Matthew Snape from the Oxford Vaccine Group, are among twenty-one new studies into the novel coronavirus which have been funded by the UK government.
Professor Pollard among the world's most distinguished paediatricians
14 October 2019
Congratulations to Professor Andrew Pollard, named as one of three 2019 Rosén von Rosenstein laureates.
Mildred Iro wins best paediatrics paper of 2017!
28 February 2018
Awards & Appointments Publication Research
Mildred Iro, a Paediatric Research Fellow working with the Oxford Vaccine Group, won the Lorber Prize for the best paediatric publication of 2017 for her work on childhood encephalitis admissions.
International consortium, including OVG, receives $36.9 million grant to fight Typhoid
12 November 2016
Awards & Appointments Research
Typhoid fever kills almost a quarter of a million people annually and infects about 21 million.
Vaccine Knowledge Project becomes member of the World Health Organization's Vaccine Safety Net
31 July 2016
Since July 2016 the Vaccine Knowledge Project has been a member of the World Health Organization's Vaccine Safety Net
Dr Matthew Snape wins prize for engaging the public
1 July 2016
Awards & Appointments General Public Engagement
The 12 winners of the inaugural University of Oxford's Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Public Engagement with Research were announced on Friday 1 July by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Louise Richardson, in a ceremony at Merton College.
OVG's Andrew Pollard joins the Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences
29 June 2016
Awards & Appointments Department
47 world leading UK researchers, including the Department of Paediatrics' Georg Hollander and Andrew Pollard have been elected to the prestigious Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences.