Tag: Oxford University

• Tuesday, September 15th 2020 - 09:40 UTC

  AstraZeneca Oxford University Covid-19 vaccine trials resume in Brazil

  

  Clinical trials for the coronavirus vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca PLC and Oxford University resumed in Brazil on Monday after the country’s health regulator got confirmation over the weekend that its British equivalent MHRA had approved the restart, a company representative said.

• Wednesday, September 9th 2020 - 09:55 UTC

  AstraZeneca and Oxford University suspends vaccine trial following adverse reactions from US volunteer

  

  AstraZeneca has paused a late-stage trial of one of the leading COVID-19 vaccine candidates after a suspected serious adverse reaction in a study participant, health news website Stat News reported on Tuesday.

• Saturday, August 8th 2020 - 07:55 UTC

  Brazilian billionaire will fund the building to produce the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine in Sao Paulo

  

  Brazilian billionaire Jorge Lemann's foundation and other business interests will fund the building of the factory to produce the Covid-19 vaccine being developed by Oxford University and pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca.

• Monday, June 29th 2020 - 07:23 UTC

  Brazil signs agreement to purchase millions of AstrZeneca Oxford University vaccine to fight Covid-19

  

  Brazil announced over the weekend that it had signed a US$ 127 million agreement to start producing locally an experimental vaccine developed by AstraZeneca that has shown promise to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Thursday, June 25th 2020 - 06:51 UTC

  Oxford University coronavirus vaccine tested among 2,000 Brazilian volunteers

  

  Researchers in Brazil began administering an experimental coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University to volunteers, the Federal University of Sao Paulo said on Wednesday.

• Tuesday, October 8th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Two Americans and a Briton win the 2019 Nobel Medicine Prize

  

  Two Americans and a Briton won the 2019 Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for discovering a molecular switch that regulates how cells adapt to fluctuating oxygen levels, opening up new approaches to treating heart failure, anemia and cancer.

• Tuesday, November 13th 2018 - 21:58 UTC

  Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi no longer deserving of Amnesty International award

  

  Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi, once deemed worthy of Amnesty International's highest honour, was stripped the the human rights organization's Ambassador of Conscience Award, which she received in 2009, due to “shameful betrayal of the values she once stood for,” it was announced Tuesday.

• Tuesday, May 9th 2017 - 07:41 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez meets Greek leaders, cuts short European tour: no Oxford visit

  

  Argentine ex president Cristina Fernandez met on Monday with Greek parliament speaker Nikos Voutsis and Prime minister Alexis Tsipras, as part of the first leg of her trip to Europe where she travelled following authorization from magistrates, and depositing a significant bail, since she has been indicted in several cases.

• Thursday, April 27th 2017 - 10:54 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez invited to give a conference at Oxford University

  

  Ex president Cristina Fernandez and her daughter Florencia Kirchner, both indicted in several alleged corruption cases have been allowed to travel to Europe in May, where the Argentine leader has been invited to a round of conferences and discussions including one from the Oxford Union at Oxford University.

• Thursday, September 22nd 2016 - 10:34 UTC

  Oxford leads world university rankings; 15 out of 20 top list are from US

  

  Oxford University has come top of The Times Higher Education world university rankings - a first for a UK university. Oxford knocks California Institute of Technology, the top performer for the past five years, into second place. But there are warnings the vote to leave the European Union could destabilize UK higher education and hinder work with academics abroad.