Great to have this out as a preprint - a fantastic collaborative effort led ably by the dream team of Rosie and Kasim....have a look, the structures are amazing!

Great to have this out as a preprint - a fantastic collaborative effort led ably by the dream team of Rosie and Kasim....have a look, the structures are amazing!

Potential @gw4biomeddtp.bsky.social 4 year PhD project for Oct 2026 start adopting machine learning to develop precision virotherapies - co-supervisors Yukun Lai, @mariekedoesscience.bsky.social, Kerry Wadey & Julian Fischer. Come, make some smart viruses with us! gw4biomed.ac.uk/developing-p...

Make sure you don't miss our next #Advancedtherapies MDRG on Friday. Hear from Dr Michael Chapman -'CAR-T therapy in haematological malignancy' and Professor Andrew Sewell 'How T-Cells clear cancer' Virtual option available #Research @alanlparker.bsky.social @lifesciencescymru.bsky.social

Very excited our paper describing the development of a precision Virotherapy directly delivering bispecific molecules to tumour cells is in it's final polished form! www.cell.com/molecular-th...

Am Sdeddfod wych!! Diolch o galon i bawb ddaeth i'n gweld ni ym mhabell @prifysgolcdydd.bsky.social, i ddysgu mwy am ein gwaith yn Uned firoleg gymhwysol Cymru Wales Applied Virology Unit (WAVU). Braf odd cal gweld y "firysau" oddachi wedi ei greu o gwmpas y maes!

If you’re visiting #Eisteddfodd today, do speak to the awesome @lunedbadder.bsky.social representing @cardiffunilib.bsky.social, the VITAL lab & HCRW Wales Applied Virology Unit (WAVU), explaining how we develop “#SmartViruses” to treat #Cancer. You can even make a designer virus of your own!

Congratulations to @gw4biomeddtp.bsky.social @atwales.bsky.social funded PhD student Rosie Mundy, presenting her groundbreaking structural and transcriptomic analysis of Ad10 today at the International Adenovirus Meeting at @cardiffunilib.bsky.social centre for student life.

Big moment for the youngest, collecting his first cap for @glamcricket.bsky.social U13 yesterday. Two terrific matches against a strong Gloucestershire U13 but showed their class securing back to back T20 wins. Exciting times ahead! 👏👏🏏 💥

Thanks for inviting me to be an honorary @pharmacycu.bsky.social member for and to talk "how to train your virus" at the ever wonderful @pintofscience.uk event at Tiny Rebel, Cardiff! A great evening talking about crossing the "Valley of Death" and into the clinic with our "smart viruses".

Looking forward to my favourite #PublicEngagement event @pintofscience! I'll talk "how to train your virus" at @TinyRebelCdff on 20/05, discussing how we turned a disease causing "nasty" into a clinical stage anticancer medicine. Grab a pint, pop along! pintofscience.co.uk/event/from-b...

Thrilled and honoured to be announced as a Health and Care Research Wales Senior Research Leader. Looking forward to contributing towards accelerating translational research, shaping policy and mentoring the next generation of researchers in Wales. healthandcareresearchwales.org/about/news/h...

Join our new Wales Applied Virology Unit as a Lecturer in Infectious Disease Epidemiology / Behavioural Science! See the advert here: krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search… And contact WAVU co-director David Gillespie for informal enquiries. #NewPI #Lecturer #GroupLeader #Job #Opportunity

Well, this is exciting, and has been a long time in the making. Many thanks to the many, many exceptional authors for their expert contributions. Would make a lovely Easter gift....(who needs chocolate eggs, right...?)

Great to be over in London today UCL institute for child heath for what promises to be an awesome day of #AdvancedTherapies #UCL2025AdvTx . Thanks @atwales.bsky.social for funding my trip over! Looking forward to a great day!

Fantastic to have you there representing us today @alanlparker.bsky.social #AdvancedTherapies

Huge congrats 🥂 to our latest virus tinkerer fledgling Dr Adam Naskretski MD! What a journey it’s been but my goodness you have deserved it! Many thanks to fabulous viva panel Fiona Errington-Mais, Mererid Evans and @alextonks.bsky.social for chairing! 👏🎉👍🏻🥳🦠

Scientists found that the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine can infect endothelial cells but doesn’t activate them, suggesting it’s not a direct cause of VITT. The vaccine’s hexon protein binds PF4, supporting a role in triggering the immune response. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Preprint klaxon: Investigating endothelial cell transduction and hexon:PF4 binding of ChAdOx1 in the context of VITT. Providing evidence of direct PF4 binding to purified hexon protein, & efficient, CAR independent transduction (but not activation) of ECs by ChAdOx1 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Investigating endothelial cell transduction and hexon:PF4 binding of ChAdOx1 in the context of VITT https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.09.642192v1

Investigating endothelial cell transduction and hexon:PF4 binding of ChAdOx1 in the context of VITT https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.09.642192v1

Our virus tinkerers are out today at the Sbarc/Spark building for “be a scientist” day! If you’re looking for an interactive event to inspire the kids this half term, why not come down and build a virus - and learn all about how we are making “smart viruses” to treat disease! 🦠

If you're looking for a lectureship in virology/viral immunology then good news, we have a position available!

Want to hear a great #Virology opportunity? We have an amazing opportunity for a new PI/#Lecturer/group leader in virology/viral immunology as part of a new @researchwales.bsky.social Virology unit headed by myself, @richstanton.bsky.social @davidgillespie.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2c2jkerd

Huge congrats to our VITAL team superstar, Rosie Mundy, winning the PGR Excellence in Innovation & Impact award tonight for her fantastic work on #adenovirus #structure & #biology. A much deserved award for a fabulous student 🎉🍾👏 🦠

Great news - Accession Therapeutics receive MHRA approval for first in human clinical trial of TROCEPT-01 across six UK sites in a range of recalcitrant tumour types. Fantastic to see an agent initially developed @cardiffuni.bsky.social in my VITAL team make it to clinic. mailchi.mp/9425dbf8fce8...

Fantastic to see significant investment in health and social care research in Wales. Excited & proud to co-lead a new £3M Wales Applied Virology Unit with @richstanton.bsky.social and David Gillespie - impactful research ahead #Virology #Unit #Research healthandcareresearchwales.org/about/news/m...

Really thankful to Health & Care Research Wales for funding us to establish a new Virology Unit in Cardiff, led my myself along with @alanlparker.bsky.social and Dave Gillespie! www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/28...

Announcement 📣 REGISTRATION IS LIVE!! If you plan to join us in Cardiff for #IAMXVI then do register ASAP as places are limited! Do note the early bird deadline is 1 Feb! See you in #Cardiff in July #virology #adenovirus #meeting www.eventsforce.net/cbs/frontend...

Ad 🦠 vent is done, it’s time to wrap up 2024. It’s been a year of great highs and significant lows - but the team have been awesome throughout and make coming to work an absolute pleasure! 2025 is on the horizon & promises to be a huge year for us. Wishing all our friends the best for 2025! #VITALab

A very apt cake for a cricket mad, freshly minted teenager! Happy birthday, Jake!

Hello bluesky! I hear it's kinder here than the toxic bin Twitter has become. So here's my first ?flutter?...Wishing you a brilliant Christmas from me & my awesome team @cardiffuni.bsky.social. We turn viruses into cancer therapies. 2025 will be huge for us as we enter the clinic - wish us luck!