The Oxford Magazine
Latest news and stories
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Government funding for space innovation businesses in Oxfordshire
Several Oxfordshire-based companies have been awarded a share of over £7 million of funding to put the UK at the forefront of the latest advances in space innovation.
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Oxford University most influential research institution in the UK
With 52 individuals on the 2020 Highly Cite Researchers List, Oxford’s academics are the most cited researchers in the UK and the second most cited in Europe.
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Atkins and Faithful+Gould relocate office to Oxford city centre
This will see 60 architects, engineers, cost consultants and project managers move to a new home at ‘One St Aldates’, part of the Town Hall building.
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Milton Park refreshes brand identity and launches new website
The brand refresh has resulted in refining its values to four: ‘welcoming’, ‘dynamic’, ‘vibrant’ and ‘proud’, and launching a new brand identity and website.
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Oxfordshire County Council to accelerate A40 improvement scheme
Plans include better connections into Oxford with acceleration of a new park and ride at Eynsham as part of the Science Transit 2 (ST2) scheme for the A40.
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Therapeutics company PepGen raises $45m Series A funding
The funding round was led by RA Capital Management with participation from Oxford Sciences Innovation (OSI), the company’s original seed investor, University of Oxford and CureDuchenne.
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University of Oxford awarded major European Research Council grants
European Research Council (ERC) grants, worth more than €16.3 million, have been awarded to eight University of Oxford researchers for a range of cutting-edge projects.
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Oxford-based AI company Sensyne Health raises £25m to fund growth
The funds will enable the company to capitalise on an expanding number of commercial opportunities, deliver economies of scale and accelerate future revenue growth.
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Enara Bio relocates to the Bellhouse Building at The Oxford Science Park
The move from the Oxford BioEscalator to one of the UK’s largest biomedical innovation centres is in preparation for its future growth and ambition to transform cancer care.
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Cornbury Festival 2021 to go ahead with Bryan Adams headlining
Oxfordshire’s much loved festival will go ahead as a socially distanced festival from 09 to 11 July 2021, and the rest of the line-up will be announced early in the New Year.
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COVID-19 vaccination underway in Oxfordshire
Tuesday 8 December 2020 was a momentous day for Oxfordshire as the highly anticipated COVID-19 vaccination programme started at the Churchill Hospital.
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Oxford Biomedica CEO named Executive of the Year at Annual Scrip Awards 2020
The Digital Scrip Awards took place on 02 December 2020 and acknowledged the outstanding achievements in pharmaceutical, biotech and other allied industries.
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Christmas campaign to help put an end to homelessness in Oxfordshire
Help avoid the tragedy of a return to the streets by giving to Oxfordshire Homeless Movement this Christmas and have your gift doubled by Oxfordshire Community Foundation.
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Oxford Brookes Uni spinout MetaGuideX wins business innovation programme
The innovative cancer diagnostics company was identified from eight start-ups as a promising solution to the NHS and UK life science’s needs.
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WPP company Ogilvy Health find new home at Oxford’s Seacourt Tower
The deal for 3,300 sq ft of office space was agreed by commercial property consultants VSL & Partners during the COVID-19 lockdown.
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Join the creative writing competition by The Hummingbird Centre
Fancy yourself the next Charles Dickens or J.K.Rowling? Or perhaps John Lennon or Annie Lennox are more your thing?