A vaccine to help fight Ebola trialled in the city has been flown out to Liberia in West Africa.
Prof Adrian Hill of the Jenner Institute at the Churchill Hospital recruited 60 people for the trial which took place in September.
Ruth Atkins from Marcham near Abingdon became the first person in the world to be injected with the Ebola gene.
A batch of 300 initial doses of the vaccine, produced by GlaxoSmithKline and the National Institute of Health in the United States was expected to arrive in Monrovia today.
Prof Hill said: "It is great to see this vaccine, which was first tested in Oxford, on its way to West Africa for large-scale trials.
"This means that all the volunteers who gave their time to help test this vaccine have really had an impact.
"We are still improving the vaccination regime and looking for further volunteers to help now and in the coming weeks."
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