
RespTRACT
@resptract
The Respiratory Trainee Research Collaborative in the West Midlands
Enabling trainees across the region to collaborate and increase the reach of their research
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13-08-2018 17:37:15
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Another site has been opened in the UK today. Welcome East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust 💙 to the VITDALIZE Trial, we look forward to your first recruit! Dhruv Parekh Karin Amrein #vitdalize #vitaminD3

Midland Thoracic Society is back, alive & kicking! Great online meeting today, high quality research by Sebastian Lugg Shaun Thein (for RespTRACT ) Dr Marina Soltan Chris Huntley Max Thomas and that's only the prizewinners on Twitter. Will def make time to attend all of it next time 🙂


Great news for Birmingham!. Pollution triggers asthma in children and adults. Public health measures save lives of children and adults with asthma. #brumbreathes #WorldAsthmaDay2021 BWC NHS Trust Asthma UK @BWCHBoss @sat_rao Birmingham Health Partners Bham City Council @Dr_D_Dosanjh @AdelMansur1


Check out our latest review discussing the effects of smoking on alveolar macrophage function Sebastian Lugg Dhruv Parekh Birmingham Acute Care Research Centre Inflammation and Ageing thorax.bmj.com/content/early/…

Flash talk uploaded for Neutrophil2021 - our little secret project is not so secret anymore 😄 Neutrophil Mediated Collateral Damage in COVID-19 - please watch and send feedback, all comments/questions welcome! Team Neutrophil Team Respiratory UoB

Fantastic work in store in Kylie Belchamber flash talk for Neutrophil2021! A brilliant project and exciting story. Catch your sneak peak on the Neutrophil 2021 platform 😉🫁 Shaun Thein Liz Sapey Team Respiratory UoB British Association for Lung Research (BALR) Birmingham Acute Care Research Centre

Delighted to announce that my review article “Understanding potential mechanisms of harm: the drivers of electronic cigarette-induced changes in alveolar macrophages, neutrophils and lung epithelial cells” has been published in AJP-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology 🥳🫁 journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.115…

🚨PRE-PRINT OUT NOW🚨 read all about our recent work on neutrophil function in #COVID19. A lot of hard work from the whole team during challenging times went into this, it’s great to have it out there! 🫁Kylie Belchamber Shaun Thein Aaron Scott Liz Sapey medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Another opportunity to join our team! PhD studentship examining the role of FGF23 in modulating inflammation in critically ill patients - driver or consequence? This exciting project is led by Dhruv Parekh, UK CI of the linked VITDALIZE UK clinical trial findaphd.com/phds/project/e…


Calling all healthcare professionals who refer COPD patients to #pulmonaryrehab. Dr Amy Barradell is conducting research with University Hospitals Leicester looking at communication bias in patients with COPD. Can you take just 15 minutes to fill our the survey below?

How have #Covid19 measures - like social distancing, mask wearing and shielding for vulnerable groups - affected rates of community-acquired pneumonia? Inflammation and Ageing's Dr Frances Grudzinska has been granted access to PIONEER's #HealthData to investigate > pioneerdatahub.co.uk/project-summar…


🆕 PIONEER pre-print | Our team has used retrospective #HealthData to evaluate discharges and readmissions using a #COVID19 'Virtual Ward' model, assess patient outcomes, and predict staffing commitments. Read more > pioneerdatahub.co.uk/publications/e… Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) medRxiv


Listen to the latest instalment of #respGuru, interview with Alice Turner about copd updates. Alice’s knowledge and understanding of copd research is mind bending, and a must for all respiratory clinicians SWB NHS Trust RespTRACT podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/res…

Great being at the national trainee led research group INSPIREresp talk at the British Thoracic Society (BTS) Summer Meeting!
