Haematologist and scientist. 'When you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in deep enough to do something exciting.'

Joined April 2011
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Super excited to have been nominated onto the ASH Scientific Committe on Bone Marrow Failure...look forward to working with a great committee to support and showcase the best research in the field over the next few years #ASH23 @ASHClinicalNews @ImperialImmuno @ImperialNHS
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Come and do a PhD with me! How do different ways of making a home warmer affect the risk of preschool respiratory infections? A 4- year funded PhD in beautiful Edinburgh in the UKRI Artificial Intelligence Centre for Doctoral Training in Biomedical Innovation.
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Job opportunity for an enthusiastic research assistant! Work on an exciting wet lab project investigating cancer in Diamond-Blackfan anaemia syndrome. Based in London @ImperialImmuno with excellent collaborators in U.K and beyond..
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Congrats to my @nih_nhlbi colleagues @DrDavidJYoung @BrynnDuncan @cedunbar80 on publication of their trial using EPAG in #DBA in @BrJHaem! Unfortunately suboptimal response seen, likely driven by necessary dose reductions due to thrombocytosis. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… #IBMFS
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Mother's Day Bake: peanut butter and dark chocolate smores @ottolenghi
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Great job Paul and @bloodcancer_uk!
Thanks to our amazing @bloodcancer_uk supporters, we’re able to fund researchers like @paulmaciocia to find the next game changer in beating blood cancer, delivering hope to the blood cancer community 👇🏻
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From bench to bedside! Wonderful plenary #ASH23 from @PamelaTing, @novartis on new potential therapy for upregualtion of HbF in Sickle Cell Disease. Exciting times for this somwhat neglected clinical area @juliemakani @RalphBrown85
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Inspiring talk by the inimitable Dr Blanche Alter who trained under the very Louis Diamond (Scwachan Diamond and Diamond Blackfan) and has had patients at the centre of her research into inherited bone marrow failure syndromes @DBA_UK @CharitySdsuk.
1/3It’s hard to put into words the impact of Dr. Blanche Alter’s work. Today she received the Walter H Coulter Lifetime Achievement Award. @ASH_hematology
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If you look out for kind running mates at #ASH23 5(4.2)K, make sure to apply for ASH/EHA #TRTH @AlexandraBVelo1 @myllymaki_mikko As a caveat, you might also get exposed to stellar mentoring by inspiring leaders in hematology. hematology.org/awards/career…
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Does the evolutionary history of a cancer predict outcome? In our pre-print, we introduce a new method to measure a cancer’s past using bulk methylation data. In chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL), these inferred histories are highly prognostic! (1/9) doi.org/10.1101/2023.11.10.2…
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So grateful to the #TRTH, @EHA_Hematology and @ASH_hematology for this fantastic year! Amazing mentors and fellows! Looking forward to what the future will bring to us! #TRTH2023 #ASH2023
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8 Dec 2023
Looking forward to #ASH23 . Very proud of Dr Hongwei Ren and @ElliottNatalina who have worked on this @CRUKresearch funded project co-led by Prof Karadimitris @ImperialImmuno . Dr Ren has won an abstract achievement award 🙌, and will be presenting on Monday 👇
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V happy catching up with another of my fav haematologists (& dear friend/collaborator) this wk, with Cris Lo Celso staying with us in Melb after receiving a highly deserved prize for her IVM contributions in Sydney on Friday! We enjoyed a trip to Healesville Sanctuary yesterday♥️
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In a major milestone for science, for medicine, and for patients, the world’s first CRISPR drug has been approved in the UK. “A new treatment for sickle-cell disease and transfusion-dependent β-thalassemia has been authorised by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) for patients aged 12 and over after a rigorous assessment of its safety, quality and effectiveness.” Congratulations to the many scientists, doctors, patients, and industry leaders who made this development possible.🍻 gov.uk/government/news/mhra-…

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Very exciting that @MHRAgovuk has approved #first in human #gene editing treatment worldwide bbc.co.uk/news/health-674352… : great #hope for patients with #thalassaemia & #sicklecelldisease. #proud #ImperialNHS @ImperialImmuno @ImperialPaeCH contribution

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