Today we had the honour to host the Wellcome CEO Paul Schreier (interim) and John-Arne Røttingen (incoming) Oxford University Clinical Research Unit Indonesia to meet our team and share the research we do with our local partners to tackle infectious diseases in #Indonesia Tropical Medicine Oxford OUCRU FKUI

I don’t think OUCRU can do a bigger trial. But a coordinated effort with other TBM trial groups in Africa + India should allow 500/year recruitment and crack this disease. That’s the plan. Watch this space. New TB regimens + new adjunctive drugs

Adjunctive Dexamethasone for Tuberculous Meningitis in HIV-Positive Adults. Monumental effort from OUCRU in Vietnam & Indonesia. Highlights importance of pragmatic clinical trials in lethal infectious diseases| NEJM nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

A pleasure to introduce you and your team to OUCRU

Look forward to working ever closer with World Health Organization (WHO) to improve the health of all those in Vietnam and the region.

The Antibiotic footprint concept supports global reduction in antibiotic overuse. Direk Limmathurotsakul et al describe how anyone can use their open-access, web-based antibiotic footprint calculator app to see how ind'l decisions can reduce or increase their antibiotic footprint

Another practice-defining finding from RECOVERY: high dose steroids worsen outcome in hypoxic people with COVID who required either no O2 or simple O2. Note 59% of patients recruited in Asia by OUCRU thelancet.com/journals/lance…

A pleasure to meet Ambassador Nguyen Hoang Long in London this morning. Much to discuss and celebrate with 50 years of UK Vietnam relations, especially in healthcare and 32 years of OUCRU Wellcome University of Oxford in Vietnam

Congratulations to the recipients of this year’s OUCRU Prize Studentships!
These excellent candidates will join our PhD family and enroll at Nuffield Department of Medicine 🎉 Learn more about the PhD Programme: ow.ly/wZNc50N9nO6

And celebrating a new era of Oxford University Clinical Research Unit Indonesia with UniversitasIndonesia Faculty of Medicine as our primary hosts. Much to be done together.

Fantastic trial. Well done George M Varghese and team.

Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🎉

Here's how these female researchers, who are working in different disciplines and in different stages of their careers, are making an impact on local and global health.

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Monkeypox Virus Infection in 2 travelers returning to Vietnam from Dubai. First cases reported in Vietnam. Full recovery. Excellent care by Hospital for Tropical diseases. Viruses sequenced <72hrs Le Van Tan OUCRU pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36696624/

Celebrating 5 decades of UK in Viet Nam🇬🇧🇻🇳 🇬🇧🇻🇳 OUCRU is a great example of UK & Vietnam working together to further education & health innovations. Pictured here are all the proud Chevening Awards🇬🇧 scholars currently working at OUCRU Ho Chi Minh! Guy Thwaites Louise Thwaites Katrina Lawson

Tryptophan metabolism determines outcome in tuberculous meningitis: a targeted metabolomic analysis. Productive collaboration between Oxford University Clinical Research Unit Indonesia OUCRU Radboud University @[email protected] Broad Institute defining TBM pathophysiology medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

It has officially started the 5-decade diplomatic relations between 🇬🇧 and 🇻🇳! Our Vietnamese Cheveners are happy and proud to enhance this strategic partnership by both academic career and community engagement, particularly in health sector. We are OUCRU !🤝🫶👍

And that’s a wrap for 2022!

We gained some normalcy back this year, and being able to travel internationally again paved the way for many great new initiatives, projects, and events. Here are some of the highlights. 🎉

Tropical Medicine Oxford Oxford University Clinical Research Unit Indonesia

A wonderful man and a very important figure in Vietnam's science. A sad day, but we were very fortunate he spent the last part of his career with OUCRU He will be much missed.

Most HCMC residents have Covid antibodies: survey bit.ly/3EMU1YG
Nice work Le Van Tan and OUCRU emerging infections group.

The OUCRU faculty. Still smiling after 2 days discussing scientific and operational strategy and how we maximise Wellcome 7 years core support. Wonderful to get together in person after 2.5 years of zoom.

Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh city, celebrating 160 years. Vietnam's oldest Hospital and one of the largest infectious diseases Hospitals in the world. Host and key partner for OUCRU A privilege to share the last 31 years together.