Less than one week to go until #camfest 🎉 See below our full list of events, we look forward to seeing you there! More info: shorturl.at/hiC46 👉Book your place on our Artificial Intelligence talk: tinyurl.com/ye4bu5b3

Hi lovely people, I recently gave my first ever solo piano recital at an intimate college venue. Thank you all for your support, near and far. You're welcome to access recordings from the evening here: yaning-wu.github.io/recital-2024/

It was great fun to run a Cambridge Festival event last week to engage in dialogues about blood donation research with children and families 💙 It's an honour to have the opportunity to learn from diverse publics.

A worldwide village and decade-old generosity brought me to my first science communication competition, FameLab, at the The Cambridge Union. You can read about my experience via yaning-wu.github.io/posts/2024/03/…❤️

Join us on Monday 22nd April at 11:30-12:30 with Professor Jukka Partanen, Finnish Red Cross Blood Service on genomic studies on blood donor biobank in Finland and including sociological studies on donor’s opinions. Hybrid link: donorhealth-btru.nihr.ac.uk/btru_events/

What a pleasure to convene with donation research experts from Sanquin, lifebloodau, Établissement français du sang, and Uni of Nottingham #WeAreUoN at the VPD Heart & Lung Research Institute today! Many thanks to NIHR BTRU in Donor Health and Behaviour colleagues for connecting us all.

Today marks the beginning of #StrokeAwarenessMonth. I've learned so much from stroke survivors and their families during the last few years working with Divya Manocha and team developing an assistive tech app for aphasia and related conditions. Just wanted to say thank you.

Essential PSA :)

"Donating blood is an easy way for me to give back to my fellow human beings." 🩸 Donors like Bilal are saving and improving lives every single day. We need donations from O positive and O negative donors ➡️ orlo.uk/AmBbY #GiveBlood #SaveLives

June is #AphasiaAwarenessMonth. Here are some important findings about aphasia from the @rcslt. I've put them in a thread to help think about these one at a time. #Aphasia. #RockingAphasia. 1/4

Happy #ScoliosisAwarenessMonth! I have had the dual privilege throughout my life to (1) receive quality care since diagnosis and (2) make my patient voice heard in hospital, research, and arts settings. 💚 to all who have made that possible.

My colleagues are inspiring!

First-year PhD presentation ✅ Many thanks to NIHR BTRU in Donor Health and Behaviour and BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit at Cambridge colleagues, collaborators, friends, and family for being so lovely ❤️

To all our blood donors, don't worry, our donation services are not affected by the Microsoft/Crowdstrike outage. Please keep your appointment - we particularly urgently need O Neg blood. 🩸 Please go to orlo.uk/B42Ae to book.

Assistive technology includes devices like prosthetic limbs and wheelchairs that help people perform tasks, enhance independence, and improve quality of life. It's like a superhero sidekick that helps people, ranging from older people to those with disabilities, live their