📢 Save the date! Our 1st RCBB event of the year on research impact will take place on Jan 17th, 1 pm in TRB 1.43. Join us for impactful talks by Cathy Montgomery, Lisa Newson, & Kaye Richards on collaborative research with diverse professionals to improve community wellbeing

⚠️#DrugAlert: Fake diazepam Fake diazepam has been in circulation for a while but a batch has been identified as having dangerous synthetic opioids in such as Metonitazene, along with Bromazolam and Pregabalin. (1/3

A great event to start off the year on collaborative research with diverse networks to promote community healthy living. Big thank you to Dr Sam Roberts for organising, & insightful talks from Cathy Montgomery, Lisa Newson, & Kaye Richards. Grateful to everyone who attended.

Nice to get down to London today to meet our project partners Dr Anna Powell Professor Marie Claire Van Hout RCBB LJMUHealth

Saturday: absolute beast of a day! The toughest Chester Ultra 50 miler I’ve completed with sleet, hail and all the rain and mud! Big shout out to all the team Chester Ultra and Nate Dodd for the amazing support, & my best running buddy Cat ❤️ #GBUltras 📸 matchboxproductions

Lovely to catch up with David Nutt today for the first lecture in the LJMUHealth public lecture series. Why current drug policies do more harm than good Liverpool John Moores University LJMU Institute for Health Research

Great to talk about our evaluation in collaboration with Yasir Abbasi at Via this morning in #liverpool #buprenorphine #XR-BUP

Really saddened to hear of the passing of one my PhD supervisors and former Liverpool John Moores University LJMU Psychology lecturer Dr Nuke ✴️ Dr Russell Newcombe. Such a unique character, advocating for drug users’ rights. Never a dull lecture or supervisory meeting ❤️

80 miles is a long way to run, but it’s not 100 😭. First DNF at the #GBUltras Chester Ultra 100 with hip injury. Still, great day and night with amazing support from all the #GBUltras crew and special thanks to Cat, Nate Dodd & Peter Lloyd-Brown Guess I’ll have to try again next year!

The TPI team paid a visit to CSL Seqirus this week, seeing their remarkable facilities and sharing the great progress on our £5M collaboration on seasonal flu, avian influenza, vaccine access/equity. #VaccinesWork #VaccinesSaveLives

How does alcohol affect the body & brain? Dr Abi Rose and I spoke to BBC Radio 4's James Gallagher on #InsideHealth about why we drink, how it affects us and how much is too much? Thanks for organising Gerry Holt Catch up here on BBC Sounds bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… Liverpool John Moores University

There is still time to register for our LJMU Institute for Health Research Children, Young People & Families conference next Thuesday - 23rd May! We're aware of some issues with the link to register, so if you would like to attend please email [email protected] to reserve a place ☺️ please share!

How much #alcohol is safe when driving? With The BMA & Alcohol Health Alliance UK leading calls to reduce the legal UK drink-drive limit, it’s important to understand how alcohol affects driving even in low doses. Great to speak to Evan Davis on BBC Radio 4 PM LJMU Impact LJMU Institute for Health Research bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

LJMU’s Professor Ruth Ogden is part of an innovative £9 million Wellcome funded project. ‘After the End’ aims to improve how we end global health emergencies by critically examining how endings are determined and what happens after. ➡️ bit.ly/3RTe13k

Delighted to share that I have been conferred as Professor of Psychopharmacology A lovely way to start the weekend 🥂 Liverpool John Moores University LJMU Psychology LJMU Institute for Health Research

Really excited to be involved in this new partnership with The Pandemic Institute and Pharma Latch looking at acceptability and feasibility of a novel device for #vaccine delivery #PandemicPreparedness

In our second session of the day we have heard from our fantastic UG award winners; Katie Waldron and Marisa Soares, and our PG award winner Rebecca Kuiper. Great to see such amazing Psychbio research being done by students. Congratulations to you all #psychobio24

Our Themed symposium on Addiction and Substance use is now in progress, in which we are hearing from Prof Philip Murphy, Dr Cathy Montgomery and Dr Caroline Copeland about their really interesting and important drug related research. #psychopharmacology #psychobio24

Great to catch up with faces old and new Psychobio this week including a cracking walking tour of Cambridge’s worst sights and most inaccessible colleges from Michael Smith. Congrats to Rebecca Kuiper who aced it, winning the PGR award 🥇LJMU Psychology RCBB LJMU PGR Development