Based at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health our research focus is on paediatric and adolescent rheumatology.
Joined September 2022
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Ever wondered what happens to your blood when you donate it to research?🩸🔬
We partnered with @CCAA_org and a young person living with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis to show young people and families what happens to their research samples at @UCLchildhealth.
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23 Sep 2025
Congratulations to Aris Syntakas for presenting his recent work on Spatial transcriptomic analysis of muscle biopsies from patients with treatment naive JDM highlighting mitochondrial abnormalities despite IFN signature at the recent PReS Congress! 🇫🇮
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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23 Sep 2025
Congratulations to Nia Evans for presenting her work on T cells in Juvenile Dermatomyositis at the recent PReS 2025 Congress! 🇫🇮
#PReS2025 #PediatricRheumatology
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23 Sep 2025
Congratulations to Dr Laura Scagnellato for presenting her work on damage at transition in JIA at the recent PReS 2025 Congress! 🇫🇮
#PReS2025 #PediatricRheumatology
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22 Aug 2025
Delighted to share that our paper using spatial transcriptomics in JDM is now published in Annals Rheum Dis: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Huge credit to Aris Syntakas, PhD student who led the analyses, and Dr Merry Wilkinson, Career Development fellow who is leading this work🌟👏
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Lucy Wedderburn retweeted
1 Jul 2025
📢 It´s Juvenile Arthritis Awareness Month!
By raising awareness and supporting research, we can improve care and offer hope to young patients and their families.
#eularADVOCACY #EULAR #SupportKidsWithArthritis
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Lucy Wedderburn retweeted
22 Jun 2025
We had some great engagement during our workshop on the 21st June with Canadian families. The workshop was an absolute success 🙌
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An inspiring Lister Prize visit to @bcells_rosser at @ucl this week. Lizzy gave a powerful talk on her research into immune health in children and juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)
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19 Jun 2025
Really excited to share that our recent paper identifies a set of genes which could help predict treatment response in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis. Check it out here: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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13 Jun 2025
Exciting research at #EULAR2025!
Dr. Laura Scagnellato presenting her poster: "Early onset ANA positivity does not predict damage at transition in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis."🔬👏 #Rheumatology #JIA
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11 Jun 2025
Congratulations to Dr. Chrissy Bolton for being awarded the Translational Science Award for her EULAR 2025 abstract!! 👏👏
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Lucy Wedderburn retweeted
19 May 2025
We have some fantastic news that we would like to share with you. Our systematic review assessing support for parents and carers has been approved. Check it out here:
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Lucy Wedderburn retweeted
16 Apr 2025
No one with #arthritis should be left behind. But before 2012, adolescents were often left out of rheumatology research. So researchers @ucl, and clinical teams @uclh and @GreatOrmondSt teamed up to put young people in the picture. Read about the impact: versusarthritis.org/research…
ALT Promotional graphic for "The World's First Centre for Adolescent Rheumatology Impact Report," showing an individual in a lab coat interacting with scientific equipment, against a blue background.
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Lucy Wedderburn retweeted
28 Nov 2024
🎉Huge congratulations to our CLUSTER researchers on this promising piece of research.
👁️Exploring how genetic information might tell us which patients with childhood arthritis are at higher risk of eye inflammation.
👉versusarthritis.org/news/202…
27 Nov 2024
Unlocking future possibilities through genetic and clinical insights! @CLUSTER_tweet's #research shows promising strides in predicting eye inflammation in juvenile idiopathic arthritis (#JIA) patients. Read more: 👇 versusarthritis.org/news/202…
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12 Sep 2024
Aris Syntakas, up and coming bioinformatician, presents “Understanding the mechanisms of B cell and interferon pathway disregulation in juvenile dermatomyositis” at #PReS2024
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12 Sep 2024
First peek on groundbreaking CLUSTER finding 👀🔬 Melissa Kartawinata presents “Interferon pathways are associated with the response to methotrexate treatment in juvenile idiopathic arthritis” at #PReS2024
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12 Sep 2024
Future JDM leader @meredythwilk delivered an incredible presentation at #PReS2024
Join us at #PReS2024 to hear Dr. Meredyth Wilkinson present on leveraging mitochondrial gene signatures to stratify Juvenile Dermatomyositis patient groups for more precise, targeted treatments! @meredythwilk
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11 Sep 2024
"I have never spoken to anyone about this before" Klaudia Kupiec explores experiences from fathers of children with rheumatological conditions as part of the @theIMPACT_Study research at #PReS2024
Fantastic work Klaudia and @PollyLivermore
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11 Sep 2024
Over 150 participants of parents, children and young people, and health care professionals have shared their experiences, which is being used to codevelop an app to support parents mental health.
Watch this space at @theIMPACT_Study for more details.
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Lucy Wedderburn retweeted
9 Sep 2024
A very emotional day, thank you to the amazing family who made it all possible 25 years ago and everyone since who has been part of this journey @UKMyositis @GOSHCharity
A huge thank you to everyone who attended the 25-year celebration event on Thursday 5/9/24 at ICH GOSH UCL, and to all the families and patients who are part of the JDCBS!
Your presence and support made it all possible. We couldn’t have done it without you! 🙏
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