Sian Faustini

Post-doc Research Fellow, University of Birmingham.

[Ayoub Khan MP @AyoubKhanMP]

Wonderful to meet a number of academics from the University of Birmingham as part of a Women with Impact training session at Parliament today !

[Sian Faustini @sfaustini]

DBS is a reliable, accepted method for early type 1 diabetes screening in the community!

@Dr_LaurenQuinn @parthnarendran @AlexRichter3 @elsadiabetes

[Sian Faustini @sfaustini]

Establishing the performance and acceptability of dried blood spot sampling to screen for islet‐specific autoantibodies - Faustini - Diabetic Medicine - Wiley Online Library https://t.co/qrukzvbOwZ

[Sian Faustini @sfaustini]

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

[PHTA Ltd @PHTA_Ltd]

🩸 Researchers from @CISUoB – a PHTA anchor resident – have received £230k of translational funding from @CR_Horizons to develop a prototype for a new test to monitor people at risk of developing the blood cancer multiple myeloma 👇
https://t.co/PskTfRGyI6 @AlexRichter3

[UoB School of Infection, Inflammation & Immunology @UoBinfectionsch]

Researchers from @unibirmingham have received £230K funding from @CR_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.
https://t.co/CJOFaJs25U
#MultipleMyeloma

[Sian Faustini @sfaustini]

@AlexRichter3
@Duggal_UoB
@ToeKai
@UoBinfectionsch
@CISUoB

[Sian Faustini @sfaustini]

Delighted to say that our manuscript has been published in Vaccine: "Time of day of vaccination does not influence antibody responses to pneumococcal and annual influenza vaccination in a cohort of healthy older adults" https://t.co/mD9syBWge8

[Sian Faustini @sfaustini]

4/These findings suggest that while the timing of vaccination is not critical, further work is needed to ensure all older adults are adequately protected.

[Sian Faustini @sfaustini]

1/In a study of individuals over 50 years old receiving pneumococcal and annual influenza vaccines, we found that the time of vaccination (morning or afternoon) did not affect short- or long-term antibody responses.

[Sian Faustini @sfaustini]

3/The study also revealed that responses vary depending on the specific vaccine components, with particularly weak responses to the influenza B Victoria strain.

[Sian Faustini @sfaustini]

2/While most participants maintained their immune response for up to a year, 18% showed suboptimal responses, emphasizing the need for improved vaccines to protect older adults.

[Sian Faustini @sfaustini]

Fantastic meeting in Copenhagen at SSI for the 8th Network meeting for users of multiplex immune assays. Thank you @britsocimm for the travel grant that allowed me to present our Time of Day Study work. @CISUoB @AlexRichter3 @Duggal_UoB @ToeKai, Janet Lord and Mark Drayson.

[Robert Z. Orlowski @Myeloma_Doc]

#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: https://t.co/zfb3N3bHhD. #mmsm

[Sian Faustini @sfaustini]

@cameron_wraith @CISUoB Hehe nope!

[Sian Faustini @sfaustini]

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

[Sian Faustini @sfaustini]

@paimadhu @immunologydoc @AlexRichter3 Thank you @paimadhu , we’re working in collaboration with governments on this as well.

[Adrian Shields @immunologydoc]

https://t.co/JmRoo4biN7

University of Birmingham is on the case

@AlexRichter3 @sfaustini et al

[Sian Faustini @sfaustini]

@AlexRichter3 @unibirmingham @BritishTri @ParalympicsGB She’s incredible! Well done Meg!

[Antonia Ho @DrToniHo]

📢New Correspondence: Suboptimal #measles immunity in UK healthcare workers, in @TheLancet

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

https://t.co/QWT4oblFFe
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