1/14 Delighted that our COVID paper is out now @thelancetinfdis.bsky.social - authors.elsevier.com/a/1kta85E-Uo... Link is to free full text. Some notes....

I am excited to work with Caesar Atuire supporting Oxford University’s role in equitable and impactful global health partnerships

Researchers at the KEMRI Wellcome Trust have recently discovered that using a lower-dose of the #YellowFever vaccine is no less effective than the standard dose. This therefore means that outbreaks can be managed better during vaccine shortages 💉🌍 Find out more 👉 buff.ly/E3JLtpV

In happier news, today is National Black Women Physicians Day. My fellow Black women physicians and I proudly stand on the shoulders of Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler (1831–1895), who, in 1864, became the first Black woman to earn a medical degree in the United States.

🧪The deadline for our one-day programme on #AMR at the Biologists @ 100 conference has been extended to 🗓️ Friday 17 January 2025. Organised by Kate Duncan & @sergemostowylab.bsky.social. View the programme and speakers at bit.ly/4ddBF2t. #biologists100

#MeetOurResearchers video interview with @susannadunachie.bsky.social #Vaccines for vulnerable populations. Immune responses in healthy individuals helps protect those with frail immune systems, such as the elderly and diabetics Watch the video👉 www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/wall-of-face...

#MeetOurResearchers interview with Proochista Ariana @ndmoxford.bsky.social Building capacity for #GlobalHealth impact Our MSc in International Health and Tropical Medicine fosters effective solutions & global health leadership Watch the video 👉 www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/wall-of-face...

💉 How do we optimise the neutralising antibody responses of HSCT/CAR-T recipients following COVID vaccination? We found ChAdOx1-S recipients were EIGHT times more likely to have neutralising antibodies than those receiving mRNA vaccines in our new paper! Read more --> doi.org/10.1111/bjh....

To all the global health nerds joining @bsky.app, here are some welcome gifts 🎁 A compilation of over 400 amazing books on global health! communities.springernature.com/posts/if-you...

re-posting the potentially best meme I've ever made here, before the other place collapses and it's lost to history #MicroSky 🦠

Really fascinating

This Fergus, he knows he’s handsome

New pre-print out from Rusty Jones’ team: Dietary restriction enhances CD8+T cell metabolic fitness via increased ketolysis ->boosts mitochondrial membrane potential ->fuels TCA cycle-dependent pathways —>more effective CD8 effectors in TME #immunosky #immunometabolism #CD8Tcells #cancermetabolism

My first post - hi everyone! My lab was intrigued by the interaction between starvation and infrction so med student Jessy Jindal wrote a review, led by senior immunologist Barbara Kronsteiner. Very interesting evolved responses www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. ― Toni Morrison

Diabetes mellitus is associated with a shared hyper-inflammatory immune response in melioidosis and tuberculosis patients: an observational case-control study https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.31.24308267v1

Here is Ella's & Bart Currie's #openaccess concise review on #melioidosis www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @ellameumann.bsky.social @cmicomms.bsky.social #IDSky #MedSky #EpiSky