#HBV #CDC #NIHfundingcuts

Work presented at the international #HBV meeting & #COLDA highlights high level impact & profound concern around loss of funding for #hepatitis clinical care, public health programmes & research. 🧪 @crick.ac.uk @mariondelphin.bsky.social @worldhepalliance.bsky.social doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

Shout out to @lou-downs.bsky.social & Dorcas Okanda for a prize at #COLDA. Their #HBV work in #Kenya expands insights in a neglected space, using #virus #genomics to influence healthcare. #MedSky #NoHep @crick.ac.uk @ndm.ox.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk @wellcometrust.bsky.social @kemriwellcome.bsky.social 🧪🇰🇪🌍

Work by @mariondelphin.bsky.social & @tongaimaponga.bsky.social to describe #immune signatures associated with diverse treatment outcomes in #HBV infection. #hepatitis #immunology #LiverSky #MedSky 🧪 @crick.ac.uk @suhealthsci.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

📢 Call to anyone working in - or affected by - #HIV #HBV #hepatitis, as we gather data about impact of #funding cuts. Can you help with a short questionnaire? link here ⬇️ forms.gle/nUJZFpMTdiwB... Can be anonymous. Preliminary results in this thread. #PEPFAR #CDC #NIH #MedSky #LiverSky #NoHep 🧪

Funding cuts threaten UK leadership on global health research. Fewer resources ➡️ damage to partnerships ➡️ loss of scientific output ➡️ reduced influence ➡️ fewer resources...etc 🧪 #MedSky #HepSky #EpiSky #AcademicSky #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth sciencebusiness.net/news/cuts-th...

Impact of international #funding cuts on #HBV. Results of a questionnaire to clinical, research & civil society reflect high impact, presented at HBV meeting in #Berlin. 🧪 #PEPFAR #USAID #CDC #NIH #MedSky #LiverSky @ice-hbv.bsky.social @who.int @worldhepalliance.bsky.social doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

'Aid cuts are hampering UK #science, Crick researcher says...' reducing overseas development aid is a disaster... for ethics, environment, ecosystem, education, excellence & economy @crick.ac.uk @uclnews.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social 🧪 www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

International #HBV meeting this morning in #Berlin hosted by @ice-hbv.bsky.social ...targeting the #liver reservoir by gene editing, technologies working for #DNA & #RNA. Great to see investment in new antiviral therapeutics emerging, aiming for #hepatitis B #cure. #NoHep #LiverSky #HepSky #MedSky 🧪

Knowledge is power in the fight against viral hepatitis. On #WorldHepatitisDay, catch this quick crash course by @pippa-matt.bsky.social — breaking down the basics of HBV and why it matters. @crick.ac.uk @worldhepalliance.bsky.social #nohep www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFr9...

JUST IN - Our comment on combatting hepatitis stigma and discrimination is on the cover of @thelancet.com! Read here: bit.ly/45kCjdu #WorldHepatitisDay

For #WorldHepatitisDay, twin papers explore perspectives on #HBV #treatment expansion: 🦠 Scientific & medical: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 👨‍👨‍👦 Patient & public health: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @ice-hbv.bsky.social @lancetgastrohep.bsky.social #HepSky #MedSky #LiverSky 🧪

It’s #WorldHepatitisDay! We work all through the year with amazing international and interdisciplinary partners to improve awareness, advocacy, training and access to interventions. Thanks to an amazing team! @crick.ac.uk @ahri-news.bsky.social @cnwl.nhs.uk #KWTRP #UVRI #NoHep #HBV 🧪🌍🦠💉🏥

Research is crucial to inform better interventions for #diagnosis, #prevention & #treatment of viral #hepatitis for different people in different settings. Global collaboration essential! #WorldHepatitisDay #NoHep #HBV @crick.ac.uk @ahri-news.bsky.social @cnwl.nhs.uk @ucllifesciences.bsky.social 🧪

NEWS ALERT! 🚨 We finally heard back from the UK government which is keen to hear reports of impact of funding cuts on UK-ECRs research - please (if you haven't already)fill in this survey and/or contact us if you want your voice and experience to be reported! docs.google.com/forms/d/1Yoa...

Screening event to promote #liver health awareness & offer screening at the #Naadam #Mongolia community event in #London this weekend. Food, families, music, dancing, wrestling… & know your #hepatitis status. @crick.ac.uk @uclnews.bsky.social #MedSky #LiverSky #HepSky #NoHep #InclusionHealth #HBV 🧪

Thanks again to @londoninfectionecr.bsky.social for the invitation to speak at their excellent annual symposium. A really positive community of impressive ECRs. 5 star review!

Thanks for coming to our #LINEsymposium2025! What a great day! Congratulations to the winners of our attendees' vote for best presentation and poster: @wjbranchett.bsky.social @immun0liver.bsky.social @ziqizhou.bsky.social @dylanpostmus.bsky.social (With live captions for all to enjoy!)

It is a wrap! A big thank you to all of you for coming, sharing your science and making this day the vibrant exciting event that it was! We are hoping to see you again next year! #LINEsymposium2025

This has been a fantastic day! We’re excited that we are ending on an inspiring keynote by @amayabustinduy.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social on her science focussing on schistosomiasis and reflecting on her journey as a clinical scientist. #LINEsymposium2025

Our last (but not least) selected speaker for today is @immun0liver.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk with a great talk on how ADP-ribosylation poses an important barrier to infection that viruses like SARS-CoV-2 have to overcome. #LINEsymposium2025

Our next speaker in this session is Audrey Peters (@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social showcasing her work on phage-bacteria interactions in complex environments, spanning in vitro and in vivo models. #LINEsymposium2025

We are heading straight into session 3 of our selected talks. @wjbranchett.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk is up first, focussing on M. tuberculosis infection. #LINEsymposium2025

We’re excited to have @laurawolz.bsky.social and @carterlj.bsky.social from @carersinstemm.bsky.social with us today to tell us about their important work advocating for equitable and accessible support for those balancing caring and career. #LINEsymposium2025

Time for our career panel: Tina Chowdhury (Reader, QMUL), @peterwshill.bsky.social (Group leader KCL), Cat Gale (Producer/Director), Henry Blest (Co-founder @polarilabs.bsky.social), Catrin Beetham (Policy adviser) and Aimé Palomeras (Clinical Project Manager @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social).

Straight to the poster flash talks ⚡️: Baptiste Pradel (@crick.ac.uk) @dylanpostmus.bsky.social (@lstmnews.bsky.social) Felix Scharte (@mrclmb.bsky.social) Jack Mellors (@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social)!

Energized into session 2: How do antibiotics kill bacteria? @ejadouglas.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social  is casting light onto the mode of action of polymyxin. #LINEsymposium2025

Next in session 2 is Chloe Rees-Spear @ucl.ac.uk presenting her work using a novel tonsil organoid system to study human antigen-specific germinal centre B cell responses to viral infections. #LINEsymposium2025

Our third speaker in session 2 is Wenye Ma @bristoluni.bsky.social who is studying interkingdom interactions between fungi and bacteria with the aim to combat Group B Streptococcus neonatal disease. #LINEsymposium2025

Closing session 1 is Raul Y Sanchez David @qmulfmd.bsky.social. A fascinating talk on self-amplifying mRNA, its interaction with our innate immunity and how we can exploit and modulate its function!

Next up in session 1: Tom Williams @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social presenting his work on fungal infection in the airways to understand key immunological pathways that drive airway disease. #LINEsymposium2025

Excited for the LINE Symposium 2025!!! @mariondelphin.bsky.social @londoninfectionecr.bsky.social

We’re starting off with the invited plenary by @grovearmada.bsky.social (@cvrinfo.bsky.social). An inspiring tour de force about using AI for discovery science to understand the virosphere! #LINEsymposium2025

TGIF! Happy Friday! Our symposium is just around the corner! The FINAL PROGRAMME is out! Take a look: londoninfection.wixsite.com/home/lipn It's a full day of infection science and registration is still open: shorturl.at/wLyWY

Viral #hepatitis is a neglected public health threat. Right at the bottom of the pile is #HDV #Delta virus, which coinfects with #HBV. As so often, #clinicaltrials are least done where most needed. @mariondelphin.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk #NoHep @who.int 🧪 www.journalofinfection.com/article/S016...

New European #guidelines for #HBV launched and presented this morning in Amsterdam, outputs from panel and Delphi process, led by Markus Cornberg 📢🧪 @easlnews.bsky.social @ecdc.europa.eu @whoeurope.bsky.social

The global #HIV response is at serious risk. Abrupt U.S. funding cuts are destabilizing services, forcing clinic closures, and threatening a resurgence in HIV infections and deaths.

Discussion at #EASLCongress regarding shrinking funds for viral #hepatitis... potentially devastating impact for diagnosis, prevention & treatment. Add your voice & experience via a short questionnaire: forms.gle/wyPgUiMsqPts... & please share! 🧪🌍 @easlnews.bsky.social #NoHep #LiverSky #HepSky #HBV

The LINE release today it's cross-disciplinary survey to assess and report the impact of US funding cuts on UK's ECRs. We know and have heard a lot of you feeling anxious, alone and hopeless to have any impact - but there's power in number! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #ECRs #Standupforscience

We can see our ECR-focused LINE symposium already on the horizon (9th of June) @crick.ac.uk. shorturl.at/MyWNl 🥳 You can submit your abstracts (talk or poster) until the EXTENDED DEADLINE on the 12th of May here: shorturl.at/7KuXL Free registration shorturl.at/wLyWY We're excited to see you there!

#WorldLiverDay We live with a huge & neglected burden of disease from viral #hepatitis. We have the tools for prevention, diagnosis & treatment... now we must fight to keep using them. @crick.ac.uk @ahri-news.bsky.social @cnwlnhs.bsky.social @uclhresearch.bsky.social #CDC #PEPFAR #NoHep #HBV 🧪🌍

New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause: - 15.2m deaths from AIDS - 2.2m deaths from TB - 7.9 additional child deaths

I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years. This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

We spoke up at our last seminar about the US funding cuts, and we realised we were not alone to be scared for science, and/or to be directly impacted in our research. I am very glad the LINE is leading the way and hope a lot of you will reply so we can go with strong numbers to key stakeholders!

Thanks to everybody who made it to our seminar yesterday (IRL and remotely)! It was great to hear about their exciting science from @oscart32.bsky.social and @melghazaly.bsky.social. See you very soon at our symposium or the next seminar!

Tired of the news and want to take action against the current situation? Join the #Handsoff protest in London tomorrow at 3pm in front of the National Gallery. The LINE is fully committed to #Standupforscience!

Come next Wednesday at 5pm at #UCL to listen to @oscart32.bsky.social and @melghazaly.bsky.social share their science and have a drink with us after! The event is hybrid to cater for availability and capacity, so if you cannot make it in person, join us online!

🚨🚨🚨 Four NIH institute directors have been removed from their posts and some offered reassignments to the Indian Health Service, effective today. These institutes include NIAID (Jeanne Marrazzo), NIMHD (Eliseo Pérez-Stable), NICHD (Diana Bianchi), and NINR (Shannon Zenk).

The entire #lab for CDC's Division of Viral Hepatitis fired by today's reduction in force(RIF). Nobody else does this role for the US. 👉Jono Mermin, Director of CDC's NCHHSTP (HIV/Hep/TB/STI Division) put on leave. along w other division directors & so many others 😠 #CDC #LiverSky #IDSky #Medsky

'there is some good in this world and it's worth fighting for' #StandUpforScience