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Claire D. Bourke @BourkeLab

Translational immunologist; Senior Lecturer; Collaborative; Curious; Population-health focused; @UofGlasgow @UofGSii; @ZvitamboZim

Joined March 2021
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@BourkeLab members sharing our research at the British Society of Immunology Annual Congress in Liverpool this week. Well done for all your hard work Leticia & Tracy @UofGMVLS
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*NEW PREPRINT* Find out more about how innate immune cell function changes over the course of nutritional recovery of children after an acute admission to hospital with severe malnutrition in our new work, currently in revision. @BourkeLab @ZvitamboZim researchsquare.com/article/r…

Restoration of anti-bacterial innate immune cell function lags behind nutritional recovery among...

Children recovering after hospitalisation with complicated severe acute malnutrition (SAM) have a high risk of infectious mortality and morbidity. In a cross-sectional cohort of SAM inpatients in...

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**New policy report on sustainable health research** A privilege to be part of this US-UK partnership discussing how we can work together to make the health research sector more sustainable. Read our report and let us know what you think!
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24 Sep 2025
How can we make health research more sustainable? 🌱✨ We brought together leaders from the UK and US, as part of our joint initiative with @theNAMedicine to explore and develop key actions. Read and share our new report: ow.ly/KJmN50X1oLm
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& here: acmedsci.ac.uk/next-gen-rese…

Exploring climate and health with next generation research leaders

Discover Academy of Medical Science's bilateral project with the US National Academy of Medicine, offering future research leaders opportunity to gain policy experience and connect with international...

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Read more about how this project was supported by AMS & NAM here: nam.edu/news-and-insights/fu…

Shaping the Future of Sustainable Health Research - NAM

Discover how the US and UK national medical academies empowered future research leaders to advance environmentally sustainable health research.

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Join us next month to discuss best practice in impactful international collaborations. Some fantastic speakers sharing their experience: Dr. Mutsa Bwakura-Dangarembizi, Prof. Jay Berkley, Dr. Duy Pham Thanh, Dr Margaret Ebubedike and more. @acmedsci
Academy of Medical Sciences@acmedsci
1 Oct 2025
⌛ One month until our career development event! Join us to discuss how we can build fair and impactful global research collaborations between the Global North and South 🌍 📅 Wed 29 Oct, 10am GMT 📍 Online 👉 Register now: ow.ly/rjzh50X4Sw0
A photo of Professor James Berkely FMedSci, event chair, with a quote that reads: "Developing a career in medical research can appear challenging, especially for scientists in low and middle-income countries. Attendees will learn what approaches can lead to success and how to manage equitable international collaborations from both higher and lower resource settings."

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Academy of Medical Sciences@acmedsci
1 Oct 2025
⌛ One month until our career development event! Join us to discuss how we can build fair and impactful global research collaborations between the Global North and South 🌍 📅 Wed 29 Oct, 10am GMT 📍 Online 👉 Register now: ow.ly/rjzh50X4Sw0
A photo of Professor James Berkely FMedSci, event chair, with a quote that reads: "Developing a career in medical research can appear challenging, especially for scientists in low and middle-income countries. Attendees will learn what approaches can lead to success and how to manage equitable international collaborations from both higher and lower resource settings."

ALT A photo of Professor James Berkely FMedSci, event chair, with a quote that reads: "Developing a career in medical research can appear challenging, especially for scientists in low and middle-income countries. Attendees will learn what approaches can lead to success and how to manage equitable international collaborations from both higher and lower resource settings."

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Join our MRC-funded GLAMIRIS Study team with @DrToniHo at @CVRinfo @UofGlasgow - aiming to understand more about how maternal vaccination during pregnancy protects babies against RSV.
Antonia Ho@DrToniHo
22 Aug 2025
Please repost this exciting opportunity! 📣
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Antonia Ho@DrToniHo
22 Aug 2025
Please repost this exciting opportunity! 📣
MRC-Uni of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research@CVRinfo
22 Aug 2025
📢 VACANCY | Research Assistant/Associate - Data Analysis Support @DrToniHo & @louisa_pollock1's @pfizer-funded research project focused on effectiveness of maternal #RSV vaccination in infants in Scotland. More: bit.ly/CVR-WorkWithUs Apply: gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/ Ref 180274
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New paper in @NEJM today: clinical outcomes from the COMBI trial of anti-microbial & anti-inflammatory prophylaxis during pregnancy to improve birth outcomes. Congratulations to Bernard, @ZvitamboZim & all the COMBI team & thanks to all our participants. nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…

A Trial of Trimethoprim–Sulfamethoxazole in Pregnancy to Improve Birth Outcomes | NEJM

Maternal infections underlie several adverse birth outcomes. Whether trimethoprim–sulfamethoxazole prophylaxis during pregnancy will improve birth outcomes is unknown. In a double-blind, randomized...

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Research summary: nejm.org/do/10.1056/NEJMdo00…

Trimethoprim–Sulfamethoxazole to Improve Birth Outcomes | NEJM

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15 Feb 2025
A must-read point of view article from my friend and collaborator ⁦⁦@ntobekon⁩ Ntusi CEO ⁦@MRCza⁩ - US aid cuts are an opportunity to reimagine global health ⁦@UofGCoRENCD⁩ ⁦@UofGCoREAID⁩ nature.com/articles/d41591-0…

US aid cuts are an opportunity to reimagine global health

Nature Medicine - The global south should become self-reliant by investing in health.

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New research funding opportunities for colleagues in Africa: Fully-funded PhD at @ZvitamboZim in Zimbabwe on severe acute malnutrition: create-phd.org/post/phd-fell… ARUA is publicising 6 month postdoctoral fellowship funding for early career researchers: arua.org/early-career-resear…
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Centre For Parasitology@WCIPGLASGOW
3 Apr 2025
It’s Non Communicable Diseases #NCD’s today at #AFRIBOP2025 Great talks from @ntobekon @PasqualeMaffia @CrampinMia @BourkeLab 🌍
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Experimenting with Bluesky as our new group platform for online connection & research updates - bourkelab.bsky.social - if you're already on there, follow us to stay connected!
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Centre For Parasitology@WCIPGLASGOW
16 Dec 2024
#AFRIBOP2025 deadline for applications is 14th January 2025 Apply here : shorturl.at/2sRFS
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**Job Advert** still open to applications for the role of Research Assistant/Research Associate in nutritional immunology within my team at the University of Glasgow. Closing date 4th November. jobs.ac.uk/job/DKA830/resear…
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**Job Advert** Come & join my team at the University of Glasgow as a Research Assistant/Associate to explore reciprocal interactions between the human immune system & (mal)nutrition accross the life course. @UofGMVLS @UofGSii jobs.ac.uk/job/DKA830/resear…
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Take a look at Ethan & SHINE study team's work on how abundance of intestinal B. longum & carriage of breastmilk-suited strains might influence the success of feeding interventions for child stunting @ZvitamboZim @MangesLab @MutasaKuda @ruairirobertson doi.org/10.1016/j.cdnut.2024…
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Congratulations @Riitho, great to see this out today! The REALITY team demonstrate how immune biomarkers shape clinical outcomes for people with advanced HIV & that enhanced antimicrobial prophylaxis ameliorates intestinal inflammation. nature.com/articles/s41467-0…

Biomarkers of mortality in adults and adolescents with advanced HIV in sub-Saharan Africa

Nature Communications - In this study, by analysing immune biomarkers in a cohort of people with advanced HIV, the authors show that elevated levels of some biomarkers at baseline were associated...

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