The University of Oxford is at the forefront of global efforts to understand the coronavirus (COVID-19) and protect our communities, both in the UK and throughout the world. Over 150 senior scientists at Oxford are driving forward research across a number of key areas including:
- Drug development: Our researchers are developing new drugs to treat COVID-19, and testing existing drugs for effectiveness against the disease. Results from our clinical trials are already informing patient treatment and saving lives.
- A vaccine: Oxford’s researchers responded immediately and have developed a promising and advanced COVID-19 vaccine candidate. The vaccine is now in clinical trials in the UK. We are also working to enhance our ability to manufacture and distribute a successful vaccine at scale.
- The immune response: Researchers are working on understanding how the human immune system responds to COVID-19. This will help scientists decide which treatments and tests will be most effective.
- Mental health. We are exploring the impact of the pandemic and the lockdown on mental health and developing effective interventions to combat trauma, depression and loneliness.
So far, this research has received funding from many different sources, including the government, trusts, foundations, industry and individuals like you.
Yet there is much still to do.
Your support today will help accelerate our time-critical research, and deliver results as quickly as possible to the people who need it most.
Thank you for being a part of the effort to address this global crisis.
Philanthropists wishing to make a significant investment towards this important and urgent work can contact Carly Nieri to discuss in more detail.
Tax-efficient giving is available to donors in some countries via the North American Office, the University of Oxford China Office, Swiss Friends of Oxford University among others. Find out more.
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Oxford University Development Trust
All gifts are processed by the University of Oxford Development Trust Fund (OUDT). Your kind gift will be held in the specific OUDT fund whose purposes most closely correspond to the area you wish to support and shall then be applied in accordance with the purposes of the relevant fund. Details of the funds can be found at the OUDT website. Wishes expressed shall not give rise to new trusts or other legally-binding obligations.
The objects of OUDT are to procure, assist and secure the advancement of education, learning, teaching, scholarship and research at or in connection with the University of Oxford, its colleges and societies. OUDT is administered by the University and established for a special purpose in connection with the University. It is therefore an exempt charity for the purpose of charity legislation. As such, it has full charitable status; albeit it is exempt from the requirement to register as a charity with the Charity Commission, and therefore does not have a Charity reference number. OUDT's HMRC reference number is XN80595.
