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10.9 completed for the JDRF Tri for type 1 swim today! Just completed over half the distance of the English Channel during August. Sami the dog was my support for the last swim ! support.jdrf.org.uk/s/1069/1145 @JDRFUK Parth Narendran Professor Alex Richter Dr Lauren M Quinn

Highlighting that Mpox an ongoing global infection risk 👇We are working on diagnostics with Ash Otter Sian Faustini to support seroprevalence and immunogenicity studies 🧪

📢New Correspondence: Suboptimal #measles immunity in UK healthcare workers, in The Lancet Cohort 1 (n=200): 3% measles IgG-, 4% equivocal Cohort 2 (n=413): 13% IgG-, 8% equivocal HCWs born 1998-2004 highest % IgG-, likely due to low 💉uptake thelancet.com/journals/lance… 1/

birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/glob… University of Birmingham is on the case Professor Alex Richter Sian Faustini et al

Installation of our new dried blood spot punching machine CIS-UoB ! Excited to use this for our various studies to help streamline high throughput antibody testing !

#Myeloma Paper of the Day: Myeloma patients with active disease or in remission after therapy have low levels of salivary IgG and IgA antibody levels against Pneumococcus, which may further contribute to infection risk: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39244631/. #mmsm

Fantastic meeting in Copenhagen at SSI for the 8th Network meeting for users of multiplex immune assays. Thank you British Society for Immunology for the travel grant that allowed me to present our Time of Day Study work. CIS-UoB Professor Alex Richter Niharika Duggal Kai-Michael Toellner, Janet Lord and Mark Drayson.

Researchers from Uni of Birmingham have received £230K funding from Cancer Research Horizons to develop a new test to monitor people at risk of #BloodCancer multiple myeloma. The test aims to make #MGUS monitoring more efficient for patients & the NHS. bit.ly/4j5RRGt #MultipleMyeloma

🩸 Researchers from CIS-UoB – a PHTA anchor resident – have received £230k of translational funding from Cancer Research Horizons to develop a prototype for a new test to monitor people at risk of developing the blood cancer multiple myeloma 👇 phta.co.uk/new-test-to-mo… Professor Alex Richter

Excited to be at Your Future in HE Aurora Network event today in Birmingham Advance HE . It’s been a wonderful few months on this training program so far.