Meet our Insectary at the Jenner Institute.
The Insectary at the Jenner Institute
The Jenner Institute Insectary at the Old Road Campus Research Building is used to test vaccines against malaria, targeting the liver and blood stages of malaria infection. The facility is also used to test transmission-blocking malaria vaccines that aim to halt the sexual development of the malaria parasite in the mosquito.
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The Nuffield Department of Medicine is a large multi-disciplinary department that links high quality clinical research with medical application. NDM is based across multiple local sites, including the John Radcliffe and Churchill Hospitals, and the University of Oxford’s Old Road Campus – one of the largest centres for biomedical research in Europe. Research units in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Kenya support activities at numerous sites in South East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.