Dylan Postmus

👀Good thread on some very good news, for some countries, on #lenacapavir for #HIV PrEP, and what remains to be done to ensure affordable access for all.⬇️

📣 Infect-Net Lecture: Virologist Prof. Dr. Christine Goffinet
from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine will talk about #HIV and #MPox
📅 Sep 18, 2025
🕑 1 pm
📌 Max von Pettenkofer Institut Munich
Host: PD Dr. Hanna-Mari Baldauf
@baldauflab.bsky.social @lstmnews.bsky.social @goffinetlab.bsky.social

Classic Welsh response to flags appears on bridge and people are loving it "I've been feeling so downhearted but this is glorious"

Proud of Wales for this super response to the appearance of St George flags everywhere. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Africa’s Outbreak Response Is the Global Standard Now From outbreak containment to clinical innovation, African nations are setting new global standards for success

I wrote about how much progress African countries have made in containing these outbreaks when they emerge and keeping the world safe while doing so.
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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!

HIV-1 manipulates CD96 on CD4+ T cells to subvert antiviral immunity HIV-1 down-regulates CD96, revealing the role for this receptor in regulating the antiviral immune responses in CD4+ T cells.

HIV-1 manipulates CD96 on CD4+ T cells to subvert antiviral immunity www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (open access) #HIV

This is how outbreak response should go: fast, transparent, and actionable.

Ebola will continue to spill over into humans. So will other viruses, some new, some old. Having this response capacity is what controls outbreaks, stops epidemics, & saves lives.

Very honoured to have visited the MLW Centre in Blantyre, Malawi to discuss #HIVcure. It was inspiring to hear about the research conducted by the teams of Prof. Jambo and Prof. Mwandumba - looking forward to building strong research partnerships @goffinetlab.bsky.social @lstmnews.bsky.social

Real world effects of funding cuts.
#TB #HIV #hepatitis #vaccines all being hit. #GlobalHealth will slide backwards… and it will happen quickly.
@who.int @thelastmileusaid.bsky.social
#PEPFAR #CDC #USAID
🧪

The Moral Injury of Denying Gender-Affirming Care This essay describes the author’s response to legislation on gender-affirming care.

"For transgender and gender-diverse adolescents, gender-affirming health care is not optional—it is lifesaving. This is not rhetoric; it is evidence-based medicine." Powerful piece on the "Moral Injury of Denying Gender-Affirming Care" published in JAMA Pediatrics.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Happy Monday (and Happy September!) ! We hope you had a fantastic summer! Our next LINE seminar is coming up on the 10th of September at UCL! Don't miss out on @nellymak.bsky.social and Baptiste Pradel's brilliant talks! Register here: shorturl.at/jDMUn

Giraffes are four distinct species, major report confirms The revised classification will help ensure different giraffe populations are adequately protected, conservationists say

Giraffes, long considered a single species, are in fact four. https://scim.ag/4n2po6f

How Botswana eliminated paediatric HIV Political will, free maternity care and digital health tools helped Botswana achieve high standards for ending mother-to-child transmission.

Amidst all the daily bad news, here is some good news to lift up your week!

Botswana eliminates paediatric HIV

www.nature.com/articles/d44...

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

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!)

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)!

#LINEsymposium2025

Pumped to be at the @crick.ac.uk today to present a flash talk and poster from my PhD work on #HIVcure in the @goffinetlab.bsky.social at the @londoninfectionecr.bsky.social symposium

Dylan, Ashley and Raqib present to an audience at the Ship and Mitre pub, Liverpool, for Pint of Science

Had a great time co-hosting this year’s @pintofscience.uk #pint25 in Liverpool, organised by @lstmnews.bsky.social, featuring scorpion venom, vaccines and some global health slam poetry from @jenniesuz.bsky.social 🧪🍺

A TV screen displaying the Pint Of Science event title: “Sting of Science: Venom, Vaccines, and Activism”

Very excited to co-host this year’s Pint Of Science in Liverpool all about venom, vaccines and activism, organised by @lstmnews.bsky.social @pintofscience.uk #pint25

A new study published in The Lancet Global Health forecasts a significant rise in resistance to Dolutegravir, the cornerstone of HIV treatment in South Africa, potentially threatening progress made in controlling the epidemic. Read more at the gem - issuu.com/the.gem/docs...

Africa’s Outbreak Response Is the Global Standard Now From outbreak containment to clinical innovation, African nations are setting new global standards for success

Uganda stopped a Sudan Ebola virus outbreak in under 3 months.
No chaos. Just fast action, local leadership, and a rapidly implemented vaccine trial.
Maybe the problem isn’t capacity in Africa after all—maybe it’s the story we keep telling about it.
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This will be a great ECR infection symposium on the 9th of June!
Don't forget to sign up! (It's free! 🤓)

It's also not too late to submit abstracts for talks or posters, we've just extended the deadline! ⏬️

@lstmnews.bsky.social

What an honour to be back home in SA 🇿🇦 presenting my PhD work in the @goffinetlab.bsky.social on optimising #HIVcure strategies at the @keystonesymposia.bsky.social #KSHIV25 meeting. Met some of my heroes and talented future collaborators - truly a source of hope in difficult times!

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!

Beyond excited to be back in my home country 🇿🇦 to attend the @keystonesymposia.bsky.social meeting on #HIVcure, with the chance to talk about my work at @goffinetlab.bsky.social @lstmnews.bsky.social. #HIV #defeatHIV

Many thanks to @microbiologysociety.org for the opportunity to present my work on modeling latent HIV-1 infection in the @goffinetlab.bsky.social at this year’s #MicroBio25. Always so much to learn at this conference!

It's #WorldTBDay.

To ensure quick diagnosis and early treatment, WHO recommends the use of rapid molecular #tuberculosis (TB) tests as the initial diagnostic test for all persons with signs and symptoms of TB.

Learn more about TB 👉 bit.ly/3yYNwzx #EndTB

“Orchestrated assault”: New tsunami of NIH grant cuts hits South Africa hard Agency moves to terminate nearly 1000 awards, including programs involving “DEI”

Exclusive from me and Jon Cohen @science.org: NIH is terminating nearly 1000 grants in a series of batches. One, which conducts HIV and TB clinical trials in South Africa, was labelled as a "DEI" study that "harms the health of Americans." www.science.org/content/arti...