Great work from Richard Allen and co. Thanks to Action for Pulmonary Fibrosis and Asthma + Lung UK Research and others for funding and to all patients who gave their DNA and data.

On my way to the @MRC_AIM_DTP DTP Symposium in Birmingham today. Really looking forward to meeting many of our PhD students for the first time in person 😀. Its going to be a fantastic event Daniel A Tennant Louise V Wain

Online now in ThoraxBMJ Joint patient and clinician priority setting to identify 10 key research questions regarding the long-term sequelae of COVID-19 thorax.bmj.com/content/early/… 1/3

Our new study highlighting limitation of UK electronic healthcare records for defining idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

Lecturer in population genomics in my Department at University of Leicester - open-ended contract. We are a decent bunch to work with. Please RT. DMs are open, AMA! jobs.ac.uk/job/COQ991/lec…

Every 10 seconds someone has a potentially life-threatening asthma attack in the UK. We need more research to change this so I’m supporting Asthma + Lung UK’s ambition to see UK annual spend on lung research tripled #WorldAsthmaDay

Our analysis of genetic factors determining survival time after IPF diagnosis is now on medRxiv! In this we identify and follow-up a genetic loci implicating the PCSK6 gene as having a role in IPF survival times medrxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/4

If you want to know more about our research of pulmonary fibrosis genetics, a recording of my EU-PFF webinar is online. A summary version will be available soon with subtitles in 8 languages (Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, German, Italian, Greek and Romanian).

How about this for the Friday The Times and The Sunday Times Headlines? University of Leicester Uni of Leicester Cardiovascular Sciences Leicester's Hospitals NIHR Leicester BRC and CRF Leicester's Hospitals thetimes.co.uk/article/leices…

Fully funded Wellcome PhD studentship with @lvwain to study the puzzling human 17q inversion in UK Biobank and beyond, starting this September. Why is it associated with so many traits, and what are the likely causative variants? le.ac.uk/study/research… Please RT.

JOB ADVERT! Post-doc position investigating the genetics of fibrosis (scarring) across multiple organs using large-scale datasets University of Leicester! Click here for more info and to apply! jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/6126… 1/3

Fantastic opportunity to work with & learn from world-class researchers and be involved in important research. I spent >3 years UoL Population Health Sciences and enjoyed every second of it thanks to Richard Allen, Olivia leavy, Martin Tobin, Louise V Wain, Nick Shrine, Chiara Batini et al.

September is Pulmonary Fibrosis Month! 🫁 If you're wondering 'What is Pulmonary Fibrosis?' then this🧵is for you! Target audience: general public Objective: increase #PF awareness #PFMonth #CurePF #CureIPF American Thoracic Society (ATS) ERS CHEST Canadian Thoracic Society @ALATIntersticiales 1/15

Want to know how are we developing the Canary Islands Reference database (CIRdb)?

Post-ICLAF Icelandic pony riding with ElizabethRedente #iclaf2022

Long-COVID is an ongoing public health concern In response to this global challenge, the European Respiratory Journal is calling for submissions on long COVID, postCOVID syndrome and the long term impacts of the pandemic: deadline 1st Nov ERS publications ersnet.org/news-and-featu…

Still time to register for #respiratorygenomics2023 Conference, Leicester, UK, 14-15 November 2023. A fantastic line up of invited speakers & submitted abstracts spanning #geneticepidemiology, #functionalgenomics & #targetvalidation for #drugdiscovery le.ac.uk/genetic-epidem…

Late breaking abstracts & registrations for remaining places encouraged! Please RT: IGES SEGEG: South of England Genetic Epidemiology Group Asthma + Lung UK British Association for Lung Research (BALR) Research at Leicester's Hospitals Rawlins Lab Joo-Hyeon Lee Lab Louise V Wain TSANZ Anubha Mahajan tarja laitinen Gisli Jenkins Erik Melén CFlores-Lab Martijn Nawijn

Closing on the 1st Oct! Role University of Bristol part of the MRC IEU supported by Scar Free Foundation. Data from Children of the 90s and #pelotas_cohort for research into wound repair. Population health research integrated into basic science #oscarcabello and #paulmartin. University of Bristol job ACAD107094

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