Tom Parks
@parks_tom
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Clinical Senior Lecturer in Infectious Disease at Imperial College London: StrepA, RHD, rheumatic fever, IGAS, antibodies, host genomics
London, UK
Joined July 2011
@StolenRide Please help recover this stolen Brompton taken yesterday from the Hammersmith Hospital site. Wearable @Hiplok U-lock cut in two!
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RT @Grampospath: The #iSpyNetwork! Five year mission to decipher and understand Immunity to Strep pyogenes ...across 11 countries funded b…
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Want to dive into the remarkable world of antibody genes? Study impact on major infectious & inflammatory diseases. Join us as a postdoc @imperialcollege I-HUB @DNAFoundry New cutting-edge long-read seq project with collab @ctwatson29 Closes: 10/07/23
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Finally, the hospital subset from our study looks very similar to @lieslzuhlke and team’s #REMEDY study making these findings much more generalisable beyond Fiji. Huge thanks to the team and communities in Fiji and funders @The_MRC @BMAFoundationMR @NIHRresearch @wellcometrust
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Wonderful to see @wellcometrust RHDGen study findings published: Important step for understanding mechanisms of #RHD in #Africa where major burden found. Replication of #antibody heavy chain and new light chain finding. Congrats to @mach_taffy and team!
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RT @jcarapetis: Public Health Advocates: Call to Action: Ending Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease - Sign the Petition! https://t.…
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@dr_michaelmarks @LancetRH_WPac @Dan_Engelman @AshaBowen @onisillos @edwinarmitage @Grampospath @alice_ahalliday @jcarapetis @JoshOsowicki @CrocoDylbert Important work given #rhd burden. But #StrepA may be under-represented as in older lit where more #staph. See: Microbiology approach, time to plating matter:
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Please keep an eye out for this almost new bike taken from just outside our flat by unbolting the parking sign.
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New #RHD genetics results from India & Fiji: HLA signal but more to resolve. Funding incl @TheBHF @BMAFoundationMR
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RT @bxv_genomics: A novel framework for characterizing genomic haplotype diversity in the human immunoglobulin heavy chain locus https://t.…
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Honoured to be giving the @biainfection Barnett Christie Lecture this morning at #FIS2019. Wonderful opportunity to talk about the global public health importance of group A strep and #RHD, and some of the work colleagues and I have done to better understand these diseases.
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Exciting inaugural #UKGAS2019 meeting today @LSHTM. Supported by the @The_MRC and others. Key opportunity to bring together UK investigators to tackle global public health challenge of group A strep #GAS including #RHD. Delighted to have @TheLeeSparkFDN joining.
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RT @helged80: Exciting day ahead: first Group A Streptococcus Focus Meeting with researchers and patient support groups! Thanks to our spon…
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Learning about #cardiovascular disease in Africa with Dr @SsinabulyaIsaac for @EADTMH. Big thank to @HeartUganda and @emmyrov for facilitating. Substantial burden of #hypertension #cardiomyopathy #RHD #peripartum disease. @worldheartfed @escardio @ReachRHD
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RT @HoKwongLi: Great collaboration between @ImperialInfect and @PHE_uk to investigate unprecedented surge in #scarletfever. Not only is "St…
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