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Submissions open for ‘Toxins’ Special Issue

Dr Stefanie Menzies and Prof Nicholas R. Casewell, ADDovenom researchers at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, have been chosen as Guest Editors of a Special Issue of the journal Toxins. They said: Antivenom remains the gold-standard treatment for envenoming by...

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Introducing ADDovenom to postgraduates in Brazil

Johara Stringari, a Research Associate working on ADDovenom at the University of Bristol, gave a presentation on snake venom to students on the Postgraduate Program for Genetics and Biochemistry at the Federal University of Uberlândia in Brazil on 17 November 2022....

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ADDovenom attends IST 2022

Members of the ADDovenom team have been highlighting the work of ADDovenom at the 21st World Congress of the International Society on Toxinology (IST) in Abu Dhabi (18-21 October 2022). Dr Renaud Vincentelli (Aix-Marseille University) gave a 'flash talk' during which...

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ADDovenom team take part in research showcase in Bristol

Members of the EU-funded ADDovenom team have been talking to the public about their work as part of the FUTURES festival, a celebration of research and innovation, held on Brunel’s historic ship, the S.S. Great Britain, in Bristol on 30 September 2022. The event...

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ADDovenom team gather in Marseille for annual meeting

Researchers working on the ADDovenom project met for their annual conference in Marseille, France (12-13 September), to give updates on progress made since the inaugural meeting in Bristol in 2021. The first day was devoted to updates from each of the work package...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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