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The Oxford Vaccine Group is an independent multi-disciplinary clinical trials and epidemiology group based at the Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford. OVG works towards the goal of developing new and improved vaccines for the prevention of infection in adults and children.
Ground-breaking research revealed in new video
17 September 2024
The Oxford Vaccine Group has released new footage of ground-breaking research aimed at revolutionising vaccine design, particularly for those most vulnerable to diseases like flu and COVID-19.
Ground-breaking study reveals how COVID-19 vaccines prevent severe disease
3 May 2024
A landmark study by scientists at the University of Oxford, has unveiled crucial insights into the way that COVID-19 vaccines mitigate severe illness in those who have been vaccinated.
New trial to study how the human immune system adapts to ‘tolerate’ malaria parasites
18 March 2024
Scientists at the University of Oxford and the University of Edinburgh have launched a pioneering study that examines how the immune system responds to repeated malaria infections. The BIO-004 study is being run in partnership between the Department of Biochemistry (Draper Lab, based in the Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery), the University of Edinburgh (Spence Lab, Institute of Immunology and Infection Research) and the Oxford Vaccine Group (part of the Department of Paediatrics). BIO-004 will provide a unique insight into how the immune system adapts over the first few malaria infections of life, learning to tolerate malaria parasites and developing natural immunity to severe illness.
New campaign hopes to boost jab numbers
8 December 2023
Experts have launched a new campaign in a bid to boost waning vaccine uptake by giving people more information about how clinical trials work. Researchers hope to alleviate hesitancy by showing with a simple animation and comic the complex way vaccines are developed.
OVG Researcher awarded prestigious NIHR Professorship
20 November 2023
Daniela Ferreira, Professor of Respiratory Infection and Vaccinology at the University of Oxford’s Department of Paediatrics and the Department of Clinical Sciences at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has been awarded one of six prestigious Research Professorships by the National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR).
Oxford launches new vaccine trial to enhance design of flu & COVID-19 vaccines
25 October 2023
A pioneering study into human immunity is being launched today by Oxford Vaccine Group at the University of Oxford. The study, called LEGACY03, is being funded by the Medical Research Council part of UK Research and Innovation. By investigating how lymph nodes work, and how they make responses to vaccines in younger and older people, it has the potential to improve vaccine design for different age groups significantly.
First vaccine trial in older people launched for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)
18 September 2023
Researchers at the University of Oxford's Pandemic Sciences Institute have launched a new clinical trial to find a vaccine to protect people against Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).
First in-human trials commence for CCHF vaccine
13 September 2023
A University of Oxford study has administered a new vaccine against tick-borne virus Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) to human volunteers for the first time. The clinical trial of the ChAdOx2 CCHF vaccine aims to confirm its safety and understand how individuals develop immunity following vaccination.