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Greg was invited to present at the听, July 2024

Visit to Sierra Leone for First International West Africa Symposium & Workshops on Infectious Disease in Freetown Sierra Leone. Staff of the Kono Health Centre, july 2024

Visit to Sierra Leone for First International West Africa Symposium & Workshops on Infectious Disease in Freetown Sierra Leone. The maternal Centre of excellence, july 2024

Sierra Leone Montage from the Maternal Centre of Excellence. Top left - Building the facilities, Top right - wise words in the classroom. Bottom left - The teaching staff. Middle - Information for new mothers. Bottom right - Tools for teaching electrics,

Trainee Nurses join the First international West Africa Symposium and Workshops for Infectious Diseases in Freetown Sierra Leone, July 2024

John Chew explains the project at the Maternal Centre of Excellence, July 2024

Opening presentation at 'The First International West Africa Symposium & Workshops on Infectious Diseases', July 2024

The听听in Freetown Sierra Leone organised by the University of Sierra Leone and The Quantitative Biosciences Institute at University of California San Francisco. We had two days of talks from an International list of speakers considering infectious diseases and public health. It was a fabulous meeting where we learned plenty of new science and how to manage infectious diseases effectively in a resource poor setting. Then we visited a Health Care Centre in Kono District as well as the Koidu Government听Hospital and the building project next door for the new听听built by听听and听. We were treated to a hugely inspiring tour of the site with construction supervisor John Chew who showed us how a 140 bed hospital facility can be built by training the local community. 鈥淭hey said we couldn鈥檛 do it, but we can and we will鈥�.

Lab Alumni Chris Van Tulleken and Layal Liverpool launch Layal's book, June 2024

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Layal launched her book "Systemic: How Racism is Making Us Ill"听at an event lead by Dr Chris Van Tulleken and hosted by Intellegence Squared at 果冻影院.

We welcomed Dr Jayakumar Manoharan to the Towers lab, June 2024

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Mao left the lab in May 2024

Dr Mao Xie leaving do. Marta, Ziqi, Dara Dejan, Mao, Ying, Oliver, Clare, Greg, and Jane, May 2024

Mao has joined the University of York to apply his skills to the research of stem cells. We wish him well.

Aonther Great Cold Spring Harbour Retrovirus Conference, May 2024

Cold Spring Harbor Retrovirus Conference. Greg, Linran and Kate take a morning walk with collaborators, May 2024

Cold Spring Harbor Retrovirus Conference. David Jaques, Greg, Kate and Linran in New York with collaborators, May 2024

Cold Spring Harbor Retrovirus Conference. Kate presenting, May 2024

Cold Spring Harbor Retrovirus Conference. Linran presenting her poster, May 2024

Cold Spring Harbor Retrovirus Conference. Kate and Linran enjoy some lunch, May 2024

Cold Spring Harbor Retrovirus Conference. Chalkboard announcing who is up next. Kate Morling goes third, May 2024

Greg Towers and Mike Malim at Cold Spring Harbor retrovirus Conference, May 2024

Greg Towers and Peijun Zhang at Cold Spring Harbor retrovirus Conference, May 2024

Towers lab were back at the Cold Spring Harbor Retrovirus to showcase our work and catch up with collaborators. Kate presented "Novel Cofactor-Mimicking HIV-1 Capsid Inhibitors Drive Inate Immune Sensing" and Linran "The Regulation and Function of transposible Elements in Cancer and infection"

We welcomed Dr Bruno Carvalho Ramos to the Towers lab, May 2024

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Lydia and Linran presented at 果冻影院 Infection and Immunity's PhD Colloquium, April 2024

Lydia presented her poster at 果冻影院 Infection and Immunity's PhD Colloquium, April 2024

Lydia won the 3rd year poster prize for her poster "Fully Synthetis Macrocyclic PROTACs Selectively Degrade Cyclophillin A and Inhibit HIV-1". Linran won for her talk "Investigating the Relationship between Transposible Element Expression, Immune Infiltration and therapeutic Outcome in Cancer". Congratulations to听both!

Dara has won听funding from the听Biomedical Research Centre, Feb 2024

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Dara has won funding for her project 'Establishing Transduction Enhancers for T-cell gene therapy.' from the听NIHR 果冻影院H Biomedical Research Centre (BRC). The aim of this BRC funding is听to improve the outcomes of infectious and immune-mediated diseases by translating our mechanistic and applied research expertise into new approaches for diagnostics, patient stratification, and new immunomodulatory therapies.