Liz Challenger

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British Science Festival 2025 is in #Liverpool! Join us on Saturday, 6pm for Liverpool's Party People @ Quirky Quarter to learn about the science of a night out! #BSF25 @liverpooluni.bsky.social @livuniengagehls.bsky.social @therexuol.bsky.social @britsciassoc.bsky.social @drlaurarandle.bsky.social

We were back at @evertoninthecommunity.org today for a special summer edition of our Toddler Science Club with the @therexuol.bsky.social team. We had fun learning all about medicines with our mini scientists! @livunihls.bsky.social

We loved seeing all the new medicines being made and chatting about how medication helps our bodies fight infection.

@lizchallenger.bsky.social @drbthompson.bsky.social @helener3.bsky.social @livuni-ismib.bsky.social

Join Pharmacology and Therapeutics for 'Liverpool's Party People' exploring the science of a night out. britishsciencefestival.org/event/liverp...

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This September LJMU and UoL are hosting the British Science Festival!!

Join us for ✨ ONE NIGHT ONLY ✨ on 13th September at the Quirky Quarter to learn about the science of a night out!! @drlaurarandle.bsky.social @therexuol.bsky.social

Info here 👇🏻
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We were delighted to join the Careers Carousel at St Anne's Catholic Primary school this week and share insights of our work with the Year 6 children.

#STEM #engagement #clinicalscience

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A fab final night of @pintofscience.uk at the Bridewell 🥼 from dementia to drug discovery and allergic reactions to microplastics! Thanks to all our brilliant speakers 🍻👏

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Great night last night, taking pharmacology to the pub @pintofscience.uk - some great talks and fantastic shots of science! My talk focused on how we got treatments to patients during the COVID pandemic @therexuol.bsky.social @livuni-ismib.bsky.social @livuniengagehls.bsky.social

next up is @lizchallenger.bsky.social explaining how we get medicines from dose to destination and the repurposing medicines during the Covid19 pandemic.

#pint25

🧪 A new trial in Liverpool is testing a breakthrough oral treatment for visceral leishmaniasis.

Led by UHLG, @liverpooluni.bsky.social & DNDi, it could transform care for this deadly disease.

Call 0151 706 4863 to take part! 💊🌍

#GlobalHealth #ClinicalTrials #Leishmaniasis #DNDi

From Molecule to Man What happens after a medicine enters the body? Why does the immune system sometimes fight back? And what can we do to better support people living with dem…

Pleased to say that I'll be speaking at this year's Pint of Science festival on Weds 21st May.

Tickets are £5 & can be purchased here:

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It'll be a good night showcasing fantastic science being done right here in Liverpool, plus beer!

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Women offered jabs in HIV prevention trial Project leaders are looking for participants in Birmingham, Manchester, London and Brighton.

Volunteers wanted! , Are you a sexually active woman who might benefit from #PrEP ?

@profygilleece.bsky.social
@profchloeorkin.bsky.social @drlaurajwaters.bsky.social
@drrageshri.bsky.social
@savinglives.bsky.social

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Learn more and see if you qualify: www.agiletrial.net

#COVID19 #clinicaltrial

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Countries report ongoing impact from the US funding cuts on their HIV response

Latest reports from 67 UNAIDS offices confirm that, despite efforts by governments and partners to mobilize domestic resources to mitigate risks, US funding cuts continue to severely impact the HIV response, putting millions at risk.

Read the latest report: www.unaids.org/en/resources...

JFC.

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UPDATE: Here's where we're at w/ NIH grant terminations:

❌ 429 NIH grants terminated*
❌ 137 related to HIV/AIDS prevention
❌ 27 on cancer
❌ 16 on Alzheimer's

The full Airtable, thanks to wizardry of @noamross.net👇

*This is just what we know. There are certainly more we don't know about yet.

14 pages of terminated NIH grants--everyone should read through the list. The sweep is VERY broad, including "The Impact of the Herpes Zoster Vaccine on Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus" & "Mitochondrial-based Determinants of Sex Differences in Acute Kidney Injury"🧪 1/n
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Bleak.

So much progress has been made in these areas over decades of hard work. It would be a disaster to lose those gains

We must not go backwards.

#IDsky 🧪

The sudden U.S. funding cuts are also affecting efforts to eradicate polio, to monitor the emergence of diseases such as avian influenza, and to respond to disease outbreaks and humanitarian crises.

Now more than ever, we must step up action and protect #HealthForAll.

Recent funding cuts are hitting global health hard—let’s take action before it’s too late! 🧵

HIV testing requirements must be simplified for injectable PrEP to have a future Two slides presented at last week’s Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2025) in San Francisco starkly illustrated the cost of the almost-complete defunding of HIV pre-exposu...

#CROI2025
Two slides presented at last week’s conference starkly illustrated the cost of the almost-complete defunding of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) provision via PEPFAR, the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
www.aidsmap.com/news/mar-202...

Great fun yesterday morning @evertoninthecommunity.org toddler science club!

Today we were chatting to the scientists and healthcare professionals of the future about medicines and our brilliant bodies.
#science #medicine #education #STEM

Wtaf

YouTube video by IAS-USA 40+ Years of HIV: What’s Changed, What Hasn’t, What Shouldn’t, What Must

A must-watch: Rebecca Denison, founder of Women Organized to Respond to Life-threatening Diseases (WORLD), delivers the Martin Delaney Presentation at #CROI2025

"40+ Years of #HIV: What’s Changed, What Hasn’t, What Shouldn’t, What Must"

Thanks to IAS-USA for making it publicly available.

Event-driven PrEP for women may work, modelling study predicts Injectable PrEP clearly works at least as well for cisgender women having vaginal sex as it does for people having anal sex. But there remains some uncertainty as to whether the much lower effectivene...

Can event-based PrEP dosing (aka ‘on-demand’ or ‘2-1-1’) work for women?
New data presented at #CROI2025.
www.aidsmap.com/news/mar-202...

aidsmap's first summary bulletin of news from #CROI2025 is out now.
CROI 2025: US funding freeze threatens two decades' progress in HIV, 13 March 2025 https://www.aidsmap.com/bulletin/conference-news/croi-2025/13-march-2025

Prof Saye Khoo speaking at #CROI2025 on the risks for failure & resistance with long acting integrase inhibitors
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So grateful for the opportunity to present the first report of favipiravir triphosphate PK in human participants receiving Favi for COVID - stay tuned for the full manuscript in near future #CROI2025