TRANSFuSE

17/08/2017

"How to read a paper" outside at GTC

16/07/2017

TRANSFuSE is collaborating with Hugh Cairns Surgical Society to bring you the Careers in Academic Surgery Conference 2017.

Get your tickets on Eventbrite via link to event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1815797758437689/?notif_t=plan_admin_added¬if_id=1500129821734340

14/03/2016

01/12/2015

Why right is never left: the systemic right ventricle in transposition of the great arteries

Congratulations to Kasia and Ben, two of our founding committee, for their discussion in this fortnight's Journal of Physiology.

Their discussion on the systemic right ventricle in TGA is worth a read - link below.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1113/JP271483/asset/tjp6879.pdf?v=1&t=iho027ed&s=08169d7cdc43ba94a295a31efd9ea4bf7db568b7&systemMessage=Wiley+Online+Library+will+have+be+unavailable+on+Saturday+5th+December+from+10%3A00-14%3A00+GMT+%2F+05%3A00-09%3A00+EST+%2F+18%3A00-22%3A00+SGT+for+essential+maintenance.+Apologies+for+the+inconvenience.

23/11/2015

Simon Lovestone, who spoke at our TRANSFuSion last week will be giving a talk at Exeter on Wednesday titled Alzheimer's Disease: Big Data, Big Problem, Big Solution. It's at Exeter College at 17:30. Please do go along if interested!

28/03/2015

Sorry some of them are a bit blurry!
We hope you all enjoyed the evening and found it informative.
Thanks to all our speakers - and for you all for coming.
We'd like to thank our generous sponsors: Wesleyan Students, Medical Protection Society, Royal College of Physicians of London, MDU student, NSAMR - National Student Association of Medical Research for all their support!

10/03/2015

Thank you all for coming to the Academic Careers Fair! We hope you had a good time - there will be some photos shortly. Once again we would like to thank our generous sponsors: Royal College of Physicians of London , Medical Protection Society , MDU student , Wesleyan Students , and NSAMR - National Student Association of Medical Research - without their support this event simply wouldn't have possible.

08/03/2015

REMINDER - Registration for the Academic Careers Fair closes at NOON Tomorrow (Monday). Please use the link below to register.
We look forward to seeing you all there!

The 2015 TRANSFuSE Academic Careers Fair will be held at 5pm on Tuesday, 10th March. Whether you are set on a career in academia or keeping your options open, this evening should be interesting and informative with a great line-up of speakers. There will be short talks by academic doctors at varying…

09/02/2015

WHIM syndrome spontaneously 'cured' by a CXCR4 gain of function mutation. The white blood cells subsequently produced as progeny of the mutated cell were able to control the HPV virus that caused the warts - which spontaneously vanished.

Original paper here: http://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674%2815%2900016-1

A woman with a rare disease has been spontaneously cured in an event so improbable doctors say it is the medical equivalent of a lottery win.

16/01/2015

Dr Anne Kiltie also told us about an exciting project called Reverse the Odds at this month's TRANSFuSION - a smartphone game involving crowd sourcing the analysis of immunohistochemistry slides for research to progress to the next level.

Dr Kiltie's slides are included in this project- and she was recently interviewed by BBC Radio Oxford about it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02g53qs (starts at 2.16.50)

Become a citizen scientist and help our scientists analyse cancer data. We collaborate together to create pioneering platforms to beat cancer sooner.

16/01/2015

We were joined by Dr Anne Kiltie to discuss biomarkers and bladder cancer.

07/01/2015

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30657486

Read the paper here: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature14098.html

The decades-long drought in the search for new antibiotics to tackle drug-resistant infections could be over, after a breakthrough by US scientists.