@gshotwell How are these studies ever accepted for publication!? Multiple reports have shown that mega dose vit D as a bolus does not work. Why intramuscular injection? Thanks to nice negative outcome the authors have their very first vit D paper

DNA origami and silica beads reveal how immune cells decide when it is time to attack elifesciences.org/articles/68311…

A feature of #SARSCoV2 #VariantsOfConcern, including #variantDelta: they display enhanced Spike-mediated Syncytia Formation. See our updated manuscript biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

"We are not just sleepwalking into climate catastrophe, we are running headlong into it" With only 3 months til COP26 climate summit, extreme weather events must be the wake-up call for governments to treat #ClimateEmergency as the crisis it is Me on Sky News

Global Deletion of 11β-HSD1 Prevents Muscle Wasting Associated with Glucocorticoid Therapy in Polyarthritis mdpi.com/1198514 via MDPI

Happy to announce our latest paper on metabolism in muscle, linking rheumatology, metabolism and biomedical sciences UoB Department of Biomedical Sciences, Inflammation and Ageing, @IMSR_UoB. We identify new opportunities for interventions to prevent muscle wasting in diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis.

Endogenous Glucocorticoid Metabolism in Bone: Friend or Foe frontiersin.org/article/10.338…

Great work from Claire martin in our latest review on the therapeutic targeting of glucocorticoid metabolism to prevent bone loss in human disease. UoB Department of Biomedical Sciences, Inflammation and Ageing, @IMSR_UoB

Congratulations! Claire Martin, in the final year of her PhD, has been awarded £25K in an ISSF Wellcome mobility award, taking her to Maastricht to work with world leaders in lung inflammation and macrophage function.

More guess the organ from last night's #SfEBES2021 quiz!

Happy to announce our latest insights in understanding drug induced bone loss in rheumatoid arthritis. We identify new opportunities for interventions to prevent glucocorticoid induced bone loss. mdpi.com/1706878 #mdpiijms via IJMS MDPI UoB Department of Biomedical Sciences, Inflammation and Ageing,

Clear winner for the 3rd place air guitar completion at the quiz! #sfebes2022 Rowan S Hardy

Really happy to see the latest output from Aysha who spent time in our lab examining novel antioxidants. Please check out the paper! UoB Department of Biomedical Sciences, Inflammation and Ageing sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Great collaborative output from my friends and colleagues on the benefits of GIP targeting in bone disease. Well done everyone! UoB Department of Biomedical Sciences, Inflammation and Ageing academic.oup.com/ejendo/advance…

Great achievement from my one and only Clinical Fellow, Michael Sagmeister. Fantastic insights into steroid dysregulation in chronic kidney disease. UoB Department of Biomedical Sciences, Inflammation and Ageing frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Great insights into the application of Oligonucleotide Therapeutics in muscle disease from my good friends and collaborators. Well done all! More to come at the BSR2023 BSR, UoB Department of Biomedical Sciences, @InflamAge mdpi.com/2062402 #mdpipharmaceutics via Pharmaceutics MDPI

Very happy to introduce our latest insights into good arthritis modelling best practice. Great job Helen and Amy for pulling this together! Bench to Bedside: Modelling Inflammatory Arthritis UoB Department of Biomedical Sciences, @InflamAge academic.oup.com/discovimmunolo…

Really proud of this great work from Justine, one of my earliest PhD students who has completed her 5th and final Paper in my lab. Great insights into 11β-HSD1 in muscle wasting during acute lung inflammation. UoB Department of Biomedical Sciences, Inflammation and Ageing journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.115…

Congratulations to Dr Rowan S Hardy who has received a UoB award for excellence in postdoctoral supervision. Rowan said, "Thank you to the past and present fantastic students who nominated me for the postdoctoral supervision award". Well done Rowan! #postdoc @UoBMDSPostGrad

Currently recruiting a senior technician post examining dissociated sterioid in inflammatory muscle wasting. Please take a look if you are interested: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…