EVENT: Venoms – Drugs and Antidotes
ADDovenom researcher Nick Casewell (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine) will be one of the speakers for the Academic Drug Discovery Consortium‘s latest ‘Things You Need To Know’ webinar which takes place on 16 June. This event will: “explore the career pathways and research activities of Steve Trim (founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Venomtech Ltd, a […]
Researcher Spotlight: Thomas Crasset
For our Researcher Spotlight features, we interview members of the ADDovenom research team, to find out about their interests, their contributions to the project, and their hopes for the future of venom research. Here, we speak with Thomas Crasset, who is undertaking a Master’s internship at the Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, University of Liège. Can you tell […]
This Podcast Will Kill You explores snake venom
This Podcast Will Kill You (TPWKY), a podcast about infectious diseases, has interviewed ADDovenom team member Nick Casewell for a special episode about snake venom evolution. The hour-long conversation with Nick is the second of two episodes that TPWKY has dedicated to snake venom. The first of these is available here. TPWKY say: “Professor Casewell takes […]
ADDovenom researchers feature in National Geographic
ADDovenom Project Co-ordinator Christiane Berger-Schaffitzel (University of Bristol) and ADDovenom researcher Nick Casewell (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine) have been interviewed for an article about the potential for a universal antivenom, published by National Geographic. This man gets bitten by deadly snakes in the name of science by Dominic Bliss was published on 27 May […]
Researcher Spotlight: Fernanda Amorim
For our Researcher Spotlight features, we interview members of the ADDovenom research team, to find out about their interests, their contributions to the project, and their hopes for the future of venom research. Here, we speak with Fernanda Amorim, a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, University of Liège. Can you tell us briefly […]
Snakebite antivenoms step into the future
ADDovenom researchers Nick Casewell and Robert Harrison, from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, have been interviewed for an article published by the Drug Discovery Network. Written by Stephanie DeMarco and published on 10 April, the article outlines some of the new developments in snakebite antivenom treatments including “camel nanobodies, human recombinant antibodies and small molecule drugs.” […]
Researcher Spotlight: Johara Stringari
For our Researcher Spotlight features, we interview members of the ADDovenom research team, to find out about their interests, their contributions to the project, and their hopes for the future of venom research. Here, we speak with Johara Stringari, a Research Associate in the School of Biochemistry at the University of Bristol. Can you tell us […]
Presenting ADDovenom (and seeing rattlesnakes) in California
Stefanie Menzies and Becky Edge, ADDovenom postdoctoral researchers from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, gave poster presentations at the 2022 Gordon Research Conference on Antibody Biology and Engineering, which took place in California (13-18 March). The conference, Connecting B Cell Biology with Antibody Structure, Function and Applications, provided an opportunity to network with other […]
Researcher Spotlight: Raquel Garcia
For our Researcher Spotlight features, we interview members of the ADDovenom research team, to find out about their interests, their contributions to the project, and their hopes for the future of venom research. Here, we speak with Raquel Garcia, a Research Associate in the Cell Based Vaccines Development Lab, Animal Cell Technology Unit at iBET (Instituto […]
Researcher Spotlight: Damien Redureau
For our Researcher Spotlight features, we interview members of the ADDovenom research team, to find out about their interests, their contributions to the project, and their hopes for the future of venom research Here, we speak with Damien Redureau, a PhD student at the Mass Spectrometry Laboratory (LSM), University of Liège. Can you tell us briefly […]
