Researcher spotlight: Iara Cardoso

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 Iara Cardoso, who is undertaking a PhD at the University of Bristol, having previously worked on ADDovenom as […]

Researcher spotlight: Camille Abada

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 Camille Abada, who is undertaking a PhD at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Can you tell us briefly […]

iBET CEO Paula Alves honoured with APIFARMA award

iBET CEO Paula Alves was one of three health sector professionals recognised with a Merit Personality Award at APIFARMA’s 85th Anniversary event.  iBET reports: “Paula Alves was honored for her internationally recognized research, which has contributed to the advancement of precision therapies through close collaboration with the Pharmaceutical Industry and clinicians. “In his opening remarks, […]

Axel de Monts wins poster prize at SFET 2024

Congratulations to ADDovenom researcher Axel de Monts (University of Liège), who won the Best Poster Presentation Award at the 30th Meeting on Toxinology of the French Society of Toxinology (SFET), which took place in Nice on 2-3 December 2024. The ADDovenom team was strongly represented at the event, with seven researchers and one advisory board […]

PhD viva success for Sophie Hall

Congratulations to ADDovenom researcher Sophie Hall, a member of the Berger-Schaffitzel Lab at University of Bristol, who successfully defended her PhD and passed her viva in November 2024. Her research focussed on the recombinant production and purification of Snake Venom Metalloproteinases. Sophie’s PhD was supervised by Prof Imre Berger and Prof Christiane Schaffitzel, and her […]

ADDovenom annual meeting takes place in Portugal

Researchers from University of Bristol, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, University of Liège, Aix-Marseille University and iBET met last week for the fourth and final annual meeting of the ADDovenom project. The meeting took place in Carcavelos, near Lisbon, and included a tour of iBET’s facility in neighbouring Oeiras.  There were updates from PIs and ECRs about progress in each […]

ADDovenom researchers give presentations at Venoms & Toxins 2024

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 presentation – An in vitro toolkit to characterise the effects of venom neurotoxins on human […]

Researcher spotlight: Stefanie Menzies

For our Researcher Spotlight features, we focus on members of the ADDovenom research team.  Stefanie Menzies was a Senior Research Associate at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. She has now established her own lab at Lancaster University.  Prior to joining LSTM, I was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department for Molecular Microbiology at Washington […]

Researcher spotlight: Rute Castro

For our Researcher Spotlight features, we focus on members of the ADDovenom research team.  Rute Castro is a Senior Scientist at iBET.  I am a Senior Scientist at Late-Stage R&D and Bioproduction Unit, where I have been working since 2015. In the past 10 years, I have been involved in process development for the production […]

ADDovenom researchers publish preprint on echis venoms

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 others, ‘Preclinical evaluation of the neutralising efficacy of three monospecific antivenoms against the venoms of five African Echis […]