Absolutely privileged to have met Michel Sidibé, AU Envoy for African Medicines Agency, former @unaids.org Director & Mali Health Minister. Our chat spanned topics ranging from #HIVcure development to implementation. Should a cure be discovered, do we have systems to ensure equitable access?

Had an excellent time at this year’s #RetroPATH2025 meeting in Tübingen, Germany, talking about my work on #HIVcure. Many thanks to @agschindler.bsky.social and Daniel Sauter for hosting. Especially interesting was the variety of talks on #HERVs @goffinetlab.bsky.social @lstmnews.bsky.social

I am very pleased to be hosting @goffinetlab.bsky.social from @lstmnews.bsky.social tomorrow, sponsored by @infect-net.bsky.social 📣: Feodor-Lynen lecture hall @genecenter-lmu.bsky.social 🕙 18.9. 1:00 pm

Many thanks Prof Henry Mwandumba and Prof Kondwani Jambo & teams for the warm welcome and hospitality at Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Research Programme, Blantyre. We had fantastic discussions and developed prospects for collaboration on #HIVCure. A truly inspiring visit!

We had a great time hosting three college students - Sadie, Chloe and Isobel - as part of the In2STEM programme with Dr Kelly Johnston. With @dylanpostmus.bsky.social, they learned about our work in #HIVCure, drug development pipelines and assay design. Check out the programme here: in2scienceuk.org

Congratulations to @juliaprigann.bsky.social for being awarded the 2025 CFAR Excellence in Basic/Translational Science Award! cfar.ucsf.edu/user/11703

En route pour Lyon. Je me réjouis de présenter quelques snapshots de notre recherche @lstmnews.bsky.social sur le Chikungunya virus #CHIKV et son interaction avec le système immunitaire inné! #JFV2025

An inspiring meeting #KSHIV25 in Durban ends. Great presentation by @dylanpostmus.bsky.social on why many LRAs for #HIVCure are imperfect. A pleasure meeting the next promising generation of African ECRs, speaking to old friends and making new ones. Plus the daily sunrise over Indian Ocean!

Shout-out to @dylanpostmus.bsky.social speaking at #MicroBio25. Just in time before heading to Keystone Symposium on #HIVCure keysym.us/KSHIV25 Stay tuned!

Happy to be part of the EU consortium DEFENDER @horizoneu.bsky.social and contribute to discovery of novel entry factors of #CHIKV, laying the ground for development of antiviral therapies @lstmnews.bsky.social

#InternationalWomensDay2025 “When I’m sometimes asked 'When will there be enough?’ and I say ‘When there are nine,’ people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that.” Ruth Bader Ginsburg 1933-2020

It was a pleasure attending #GfV2025 in Hamburg today and chairing the Innate Immunity Plenary today together with @sparrerlab.bsky.social with fantastic keynotes by Adolfo García-Sastre, @scheellab.bsky.social and Michaela Muller-Trutwin. Thanks for coming!

Due to high interest in the role, the ad will be kept live until March 9th:

Deadline for submission of applications for the role of Chair in Immunology at @lstmnews.bsky.social is March 2nd 👇

Join me at the LSTM in Conversation Webinar with Barry Atkinson @ukhsa.bsky.social and @gsrajahram.bsky.social in less than two days! Sign up via the link in the description 👇

We @lstmnews.bsky.social are looking to appoint a Professor of Immunology with strong record in human pathogen and/or tropical disease research for translation of basic science into tangible solutions for the patients affected by global health challenges: app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

📢Post-Doctoral Research Associate Position (2.5 years with prospect of extension) on alphavirology at @lstmnews.bsky.social, Liverpool, UK - Characterisation of cellular entry inhibitors of #CHIKV within starting @horizoneu.bsky.social Consortium DEFENDER📢 app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

Happy to be part of the new Horizon EU consortium DEFENDER and to start characterising CHIKV-modulating cellular factors and their druggability!

@lstmnews.bsky.social is recruiting a Full Professor in Immunology. If you are interested in developing a competitive and impactfull research programme in the field of immune control of tropical diseases, in a vibrant scientific environment, please reach out! app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

💥 Postdoc position advert in the making (to be filled early 2024 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine): if you are interested in investigating arthritogenic alphavirus infections in human cells and mosquitoes, with a focus of cell-intrinsic innate immunity, sensing and viral evasion, stay tuned 💥

Our lab is open to virology scientists displaced from their labs in Israel. Please reach out!

Our most recent SARS-CoV-2 study on virus-mediated subversion of the iBET-induced antiviral state: journals.plos.org/plospathogen...