Congratulations @drkatyroach and the team at @uniofleicester for a very successful #BALR26. It’s been a blast! Handing back the account to @MereteLong, it’s been lovely to briefly be back on Comms. See you all next year! @DrManuPlate
Continuing with one of BALR main aims, ECR support, we now have the Postgraduate Competition. The first speaker is Mathuscha Ratnasingham, from @uniofleicester.
Next up is Dr Panayiota Stylianou from @uniofleicester, talking about conservation of donor response profiles in cryopreserved lung tissue supported by initial metabolic and secretory cytokine analyses.
#BALR26 is coming to a close with the winners of the competitions!
The early career prize goes to Dr @AmandaTGoodwin from @UniofNottingham, the APF Prize goes to Dr Nancy Gomez, also from Nottingham, and the Mid-career prize goes to Dr Ruth Saunders from @uniofleicester! 🎉
Now at #BALR26, Three forces shaping lung disease: Genetics. Damage, and Mechanisms of Repair. First up is Prof Martin Tobin from @uniofleicester talking about what we have learnt from 18 years of consortium genome-wide association studies of lung function.
Supporting and promoting early career respiratory scientists is a major part of our charitable aims.
And so we kick off the first of our competitions at #balr2026 the early career researcher competition with dr Rohan Paranjpe from University of Nottingham
New preprint: KCa3.1 in aortic stenosis.
Our data suggest this channel contributes to pro-fibrotic activation in valve cells, and that inhibition may attenuate these responses.
Excited to put it out for discussion and feedback.
biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
We are delighted to host the Annual British Association of Lung Research (BALR) Conference 2026 at University of Leicester - 23rd to 25th June 2026.
Just 1 day left to submit your #RespiratoryResearch abstract - check out the program here
balr.co.uk/meetings
Exciting PhD opportunity at the @uniofleicester exploring the mechanisms of fibrosis across organs.
If you’re passionate about translational science and multi-omics research, I’d love to hear from you! warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/…#findaphd#PhD
📢The BALR is thrilled to welcome @drkatyroach as our new Secretary and @EmilyRCash as new PhD Rep. Thank U @kyliebelchamber, Chloe Hughes and @DocMoschos who are stepping down from their current committee positions. More about BALR and its committee: balr.co.uk/about