The Centre for Medicines Discovery aims to catalyse the discovery and development of new medicines for patients.
LATEST NEWS
FOP Friends lab visit
2 November 2022
The Bullock group was delighted to welcome the FOP Friends charity and patient families to the CMD in October. FOP (fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva) is a congenital syndrome of extraskeletal bone formation caused by a gain of function mutation in the ACVR1/ALK2 protein kinase. Families were given a lab tour and updated on the latest research news, including progress of the “STOPFOP” clinical trial developed by the Bullock group and collaborators.
The Rainwater grant has been signed
28 June 2022
The Rainwater Charitable Foundation announces partnership with drug discovery teams at the University of Oxford.
Congratulations to our DPhil student Amber Truepenny
27 June 2022
Massive congratulations to our DPhil student Amber Truepenny who won the inaugural Jamie Ferguson Chemistry Innovation Award. It’s a real testament to all her hard work on an exciting and challenging project - watch this space!
Highlights
TREM2: A TEP for Neuroscience & Neurological Disorders
The Target Enabling Package on #TREM2 for #AlzheimersDisease includes investigations on binding modes & functional activity of scFv antibody fragments. In collaboration with @ARUK_ODDI @karolinskainst @thesgconline @KTHresearch @EisaiUS & VivaBiotech. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5256633
LATEST PUBLICATIONS
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Small-molecule Polθ inhibitors provide safe and effective tumor radiosensitization in preclinical models
Journal article
Rodriguez-Berriguete G. et al, (2023), Clinical Cancer Research
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Glioblastoma and the search for non-hypothesis driven combination therapeutics in academia
Journal article
Johanssen T. et al, (2023), Frontiers in Oncology, 12
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Simultaneous identification of viruses and viral variants with programmable DNA nanobait.
Journal article
Bošković F. et al, (2023), Nat Nanotechnol
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