We’re excited to announce a new Strategic Research Centre (SRC) on CFTR folding and function. In honour of our FeBREWary fundraising month, we caught up with the SRC’s Principal Investigator Professor David Sheppard and his PhD student Diana Veselu over a brew, to chat day-to-day life in the lab - now and back in the day. We covered everything from high performance computing to late night recordings on VHS tapes!
The aim of this Strategic Research Centre (SRC) is to design new and innovative medicines to act on the CFTR protein that will be bigger difference for more people with cystic fibrosis (CF).
Fundraising for Cystic Fibrosis Trust takes many forms – from starting a JustGiving page for your sponsored run, to holding an auction at a sparkly ball – and now it’s even easier to raise vital funds for our charity, with just a couple of simple clicks.
Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a day to celebrate the achievements of women scientists and inspire the next generation to take up the baton. We spoke to CF researcher Dr Jo Fothergill about her career studying the CF-infection causing bug Pseudomonas aeruginosa and her advice to girls and women considering a career in science.
“The people on our team have been with us through all the ups and downs”: CF mum Denise tells us about her experiences of Great Strides - and why having her team in her corner means so much to her
In our latest YouGov poll, revealed today, we found that of the figures listed, 28% of people said they would like to have a cup of tea with the Queen, while 13% chose Dawn French, and 11% chose Judi Dench.
Cendl Xanthe is the Trials Accelerator Early Phase Trials Co-ordinator at the All Wales Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre in Cardiff. She also sits on the Steering Committee of the QuestionCF Priority Refresh project. We caught up with Cendl to chat QuestionCF and the impact it will have on future research studies.