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Dr Stef Menzies and Iara Cardoso (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine) attended the 11th International Toxinology Meeting: Venoms and Toxins in Oxford (20-22 August 2024), sharing results from the work of ADDovenom's researchers with over 100 attendees. Stef's oral...
A preprint paper providing a preclinical evaluation of the paraspecific efficacy of three Echis monospecific antivenoms has been published by Preprints with The Lancet. Co-authored by LSTM's ADDovenom researchers Rebecca Edge, Nicholas Casewell, and Stef Menzies, plus...
Horizon, the EU Research and Innovation Magazine, has published an article about the ADDovenom project, and the search for more effective treatments for snakebites. It includes contributions from ADDovenom Project Coordinator Prof Christiane Berger-Schaffitzel...
Dr Konrad Hus, a Research Associate at the University of Bristol, has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellowship for a project aimed at finding effective solutions for neutralizing the neurotoxic effects induced by African mamba venoms. Leveraging the ADDovenom...
ADDovenom researchers will lead a new project on snakebite treatments, one of twenty-two UKRI Engineering Biology Mission Awards announced by the UK government in February 2024. Prof Christiane Schaffitzel (University of Bristol) is Principal Investigator, with Prof...
Four current and former researchers from the ADDovenom team at the University of Bristol are among the authors of a paper about ADDobodies and ADDomers, published in the journal Structure in January 2024. ADDomers (adenovirus-derived nanoparticles) comprise 60 copies...
Congratulations to Thomas Crasset, who has been awarded a four-year FRIA (Fund for Research Training in Industry and Agriculture) doctoral scholarship by Le Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS). In his project, based at the Mass Spectrometry Laboratory (MSLab) at...
ADDovenom: Thermostable Protein-Based ADDomer Nanoparticles as New Therapeutics for Snakebite Envenoming, a paper describing the aims of the ADDovenom project and the methodologies being used, has been published by Toxins (28 November 2023). Abstract Snakebite...
Iara Aimê Cardoso, a Research Assistant at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, presented a poster at the 10th International Toxinology Meeting - Venoms & Toxins 2023 (Oxford, 22-24 August 2023) about some of the ADDovenom team's research. Iara's poster, Mapping...
The ADDovenom team gathered at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine for this year's annual meeting (12-13 September), discussing progress towards the production of the next-generation of snakebite treatments. Researchers from University of Bristol, LSTM, iBET,...