New in @ScienceAdvances today: we demonstrate the distinct ways that innate immune cells from severely undernourished children respond to bacteria compared to their adequately-nourished peers

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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.

RT @PasqualeMaffia: A must-read point of view article from my friend and collaborator ⁦⁦@ntobekon⁩ Ntusi CEO ⁦@MRCza⁩ - US aid cuts are an….

New research funding opportunities for colleagues in Africa:. Fully-funded PhD at @ZvitamboZim in Zimbabwe on severe acute malnutrition: ARUA is publicising 6 month postdoctoral fellowship funding for early career researchers:

RT @WCIPGLASGOW: It’s Non Communicable Diseases #NCD’s today at #AFRIBOP2025 Great talks from @ntobekon @PasqualeMaffia @CrampinMia @Bourke….

Experimenting with Bluesky as our new group platform for online connection & research updates - - if you're already on there, follow us to stay connected!

RT @WCIPGLASGOW: #AFRIBOP2025 deadline for applications is 14th January 2025 . Apply here :

**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.

**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 .

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 .

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.

RT @ttchowdhury: Exciting PhD studentship funded by @tommys @PrenatalTherapy @DocBruggsBunn @QMULSciEng to repair membranes & prevent prete….

RT @ScouseMicrobe: Ten 5-year fellowships currently available in the College of Medical, Veterinary, & Life Sciences at University of Glasg….

RT @jimbrewer84: Join the team at the Centre for Immunobiology @UofGSii.We have a vacancy for a Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Immunology. App….

BioMedEng24 is coming up @QMUL in September with a dedicated session on womens health & pregnancy research @ttchowdhury. Aim is to develop interdisciplinary collaboration for new tools to improve clinical care. Abstract submissions are open now.

New ecoimmunology postdoc working with colleagues at the University of Edinburgh - focused on how diet, the gut microbiota and the immune system combine to shape susceptibility to helminth infection in wild mice on the Isle of May, Scotland.

Inspiring innate immunology & systems biology research at this years @KeystoneSymp. Grateful to get the chance to discuss our translational immunology work on anti-bacterial innate immune cell function from the HOPE-SAM study @ZvitamboZim .

Congratulations Therapeutic Approaches to Malnutrition Enteropathy (TAME) team @ZvitamboZim @UnzaOfficial on publishing multi-arm randomized phase II trial findings on novel inteventions to boost gut healing in severely malnourished children @NatureComms .

New today in @NatureComms: characterisation of how inflammatory and cytomegalovirus-driven pathways in the circulation of mums & their babies influence mortality & immune cell phenotype in HIV-exposed infants. Great work from @Ceri_Evans & @ZvitamboZim.

RT @PLOSMedicine: Shrey Mathur and colleagues estimate the potential impact of alternative cotrimoxazole strategies on mortality in childre….