🚨Out today @TheLancet from @TheCrick@UCLHResearch Legacy study
https://t.co/z4H2LHYyQh
Two different COVID-19 mRNA vaccines were deployed for 5th dose boosters in the UK #JCVI
We tested if either 💉 generated neutralizing antibodies against BA.2.86 & JN.1
A short🧵
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Have you been invited?
Have you received an invitation to the PHOSP-COVID 5-year follow-up study?
🖥️ A short online survey + 🧠 optional cognitive tests – your experience still matters.
Paper published today in @BMJ_Open from our group describing trajectory of 3590 patients with #longcovid Important insights into inpatient and outpatient treated cohorts, impact of vaccine before illness, recovery trajectories and health economics https://t.co/WDqg3KmHMG
Clinical trajectories of > 3500 patients with #LongCovid@uclh 2020-2024.
🚨 Only 1/3 recovered🚨
➡️ Vaccination predicts recovery
➡️ Severe fatigue, POTS and PEM predicts slower recovery/non-recovery
➡️ LC clinic *reduces* GP and ED visits
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https://t.co/G9cKqqR2lq
Lecturer in Immunology of Host-pathogen Dynamics at Queen Mary University of London. Great opportunity to work with Emma Wall, setting up a new lab at QMUL. https://t.co/ETtF4HGsT8
Promoter variation in Streptococcus:
S. pneumoniae promoters contain repetitive nucleotides, driving strand slippage & promoter mutations. This drives population-level heterogeneity in gene expression, offering evolutionary strategy to maximize fitness
https://t.co/qdojFlpogn
"We often talk about the importance of research but rarely about the researchers. We celebrate innovation but overlook the innovators... blueprints do not build anything without skilled hands"
A great Keystone meeting on Long COVID this week in Santa Fe. The field has made great progress recently, but there is much more to do. Exciting science presented about viral and immune mechanisms, clinical data and future clinical trials. https://t.co/FViOhd73mC
We're hiring a sequencing technician for #TRACERx! Interested in cutting-edge genomic tech to understand cancer? 👉 https://t.co/IDBrhpAR1p #Genomics#CancerResearch Join our world-leading teams at @TheCrick & @uclcancer
It has been five years since the post-Covid clinic was set up outside University College Hospital.
The team has since expanded and continues to provide vital support as new cases emerge and some patients experience long-term effects.
https://t.co/Py9dOPWCCy
Emerging Clinical Researchers Awards 2025 - Open to Applications.
Deadline 31 May 2025 🧑💻
To find out more, follow the link below⬇️
https://t.co/RLtc296RqL
#ECR#TranslationalMedicine
New in Nature Comms: We applied metagenomic and targeted NGS to serum samples from undiagnosed febrile patients across Uganda. This work highlights how NGS can transform viral surveillance in LMICs—especially with infrastructure now in place post-COVID. 🔗 https://t.co/EQ0uXRdUIy
5 years on. Sobering to think 1in 280 people in UK have died of #COVID. The research journey has been steep but despite vaccines and antivirals the immune vulnerable remain at risk and we still have no treatments for #longcovid. So much more to do https://t.co/YVoZGDSoKo