Employers support in the NHS for complex long-term conditions - what is available for OH and managers and what more do they think is needed?

Liz Walker and Liz Price along with colleagues from Cambridge (Addenbrooke's) and Herriot-Watt have been successful with a grant application to the Addenbrooke's Charitable Trust in December for a project:

‘Employers support in the NHS for complex long-term conditions - what is available for OH and managers and what more do they think is needed? A Phase 0 study'.

Serum profiling identifies ibrutinib as a treatment option for young adults with B‐cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

MSc students Stephanie Jordaens and Leah Cooksey from Barbara Guinn’s group have published as joint first authors:

Stephanie Jordaens, Leah Cooksey, Stephanie Bonney, Laurence Orchard, Matthew Coutinho, Viggo Van Tendeloo, Ken I. Mills, Kim Orchard, Barbara‐ann Guinn (2020) Serum profiling identifies ibrutinib as a treatment option for young adults with B‐cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia British Journal of Haematology doi: 10.1111/bjh.16407

New targets for therapy: antigen identification in adults with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

Work by three MSc students who have now graduated from the Guinn lab was published in a pre-print review:

Stephanie Jordaens, Leah Cooksey, Laurie Freire Boullosa, Viggo Van Tendeloo, Evelien Smits, Ken Mills, Kim Orchard and Barbara Guinn (2020) New targets for therapy: antigen identification in adults with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy 

Stephanie Jordaens and Laurie Freire Boullosa were both Erasmus+ students who visited the University of Hull for their lab based project while Leah Cooksey (photo) graduated with a MSc (by Research) Biomedical Sciences in January 2020

PhD success for Clare O'Connor

Left to right:
Roger Watson, Judith Dyson,
Clare O'Connor, Poppy Nash, Jo Bell

Clare O'Connor successfully defended her PhD thesis, subject to some amendments this week. Her supervisors were Judith Dyson and Roger Watson and she was Examined by Poppy Nash from the University of York and Jo Bell from the University of Hull.
The thesis was titled:
"School-based mental health promotion: provision, perceptions and future requirements."

Approaches used to enhance transition and retention for newly qualified nurses (NQNs): a rapid evidence assessment

Jane Wray, Helen Gibson, David Barrett and Roger Watson have published the following pre-print:

Approaches used to enhance transition and retention for newly qualified nurses (NQNs): a rapid evidence assessment 

Screening and brief interventions for adolescent alcohol use disorders presenting through emergency departments: a research programme including two RCTs

Tom Phillips has co-authored:
Paolo Deluca, Simon Coulton, Mohammed Fasihul Alam, Sadie Boniface, Kim Donoghue, Eilish Gilvarry, Eileen Kaner, Ellen Lynch, Ian Maconochie, Paul McArdle, Ruth McGovern, Dorothy Newbury-Birch, Robert Patton, Tracy Pellatt-Higgins, Ceri Phillips, Thomas Phillips, Rhys Pockett, Ian T Russell, John Strang and Colin Drummond (2020) Screening and brief interventions for adolescent alcohol use disorders presenting through emergency departments: a research programme including two RCTs Programme Grants for Applied Research Volume 8 • Issue 2