VEXAS syndrome is an autoinflammatory condition that leads to fevers, general inflammation, skin rash, anaemia and organ damage. It can affect almost any organ in the body, result in bone marrow failure and it is associated with reduced survival. A...

Two professorships in translational medicine have been endowed at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology thanks to a generous gift from the Kennedy Trust for Rheumatology Research.  The Kennedy Trust has been a long-time supporter of the University of Oxford through...

We are delighted to announce that we have awarded ten new Research Ignition Awards, the Kennedy Trust’s inaugural pump-priming grant scheme designed to enable researchers to build ambitious programmes of research.  The research themes cover diverse areas, including osteoarthritic pain,...

In June 2022, The Kennedy Trust began funding a project to catalogue and house our archive at Wellcome Collection. Cataloguing Archivist Annie Lord was recruited to process the archive and she has spent the past 16 months sorting, listing, arranging,...

The Kennedy Trust has partnered with Versus Arthritis to fund a comprehensive scoping review on the ways of measuring, assessing and treating severe fatigue associated with rheumatic and related musculoskeletal disorders. The review will be carried out by Assistant Professor...

We are thrilled to announce that The Kennedy Trust and Medical Research Council (MRC) are co-sponsoring two Daphne Jackson Fellowships to aid supporting research returners. Dr Stephen Simpson, CEO of the Kennedy Trust, commented, “we are delighted to partner with...