@sfaustini

Post-doc Research Fellow, University of Birmingham.

 Birmingham, England, UK
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Joined July 2009
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Do you work with flu diagnostics? I'd really value your input! I'm running an anonymous survey on current flu serology testing practices and future diagnostic needs. 🔗 forms.office.com/e/hawnUDGuz… Please share with colleagues who may be interested! #Influenza #Diagnostics

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Ayoub Khan MP@AyoubKhanMPJun 9
Wonderful to meet a number of academics from the University of Birmingham as part of a Women with Impact training session at Parliament today !
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Establishing the performance and acceptability of dried blood spot sampling to screen for islet‐specific autoantibodies - Faustini - Diabetic Medicine - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Diabetic Medicine | Diabetes UK Journal | Wiley Online Library

This comprehensive validation and acceptability study shows dried blood spot sampling can be used as an alternative to serum for use with the 3-screen assay for population type 1 diabetes autoantib...

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DBS is a reliable, accepted method for early type 1 diabetes screening in the community! @Dr_LaurenQuinn @parthnarendran @AlexRichter3 @elsadiabetes
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Excited to be at Your Future in HE Aurora Network event today in Birmingham @AdvanceHE . It’s been a wonderful few months on this training program so far.
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PHTA Ltd@PHTA_Ltd17 Apr 2025
🩸 Researchers from @CISUoB – a PHTA anchor resident – have received £230k of translational funding from @CR_Horizons to develop a prototype for a new test to monitor people at risk of developing the blood cancer multiple myeloma 👇 phta.co.uk/new-test-to-monit… @AlexRichter3
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Researchers from @unibirmingham have received £230K funding from @CR_Horizons to develop a new test to monitor people at risk of #BloodCancer multiple myeloma. The test aims to make #MGUS monitoring more efficient for patients & the NHS. bit.ly/4j5RRGt #MultipleMyeloma
Close-up of nurse disinfecting male arm before a blood test.

ALT Close-up of nurse disinfecting male arm before a blood test.

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Delighted to say that our manuscript has been published in Vaccine: "Time of day of vaccination does not influence antibody responses to pneumococcal and annual influenza vaccination in a cohort of healthy older adults" lnkd.in/eT4VP6nj

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@AlexRichter3 @Duggal_UoB @ToeKai @UoBinfectionsch @CISUoB
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1/In a study of individuals over 50 years old receiving pneumococcal and annual influenza vaccines, we found that the time of vaccination (morning or afternoon) did not affect short- or long-term antibody responses.
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4/These findings suggest that while the timing of vaccination is not critical, further work is needed to ensure all older adults are adequately protected.
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3/The study also revealed that responses vary depending on the specific vaccine components, with particularly weak responses to the influenza B Victoria strain.
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2/While most participants maintained their immune response for up to a year, 18% showed suboptimal responses, emphasizing the need for improved vaccines to protect older adults.
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Fantastic meeting in Copenhagen at SSI for the 8th Network meeting for users of multiplex immune assays. Thank you @britsocimm for the travel grant that allowed me to present our Time of Day Study work. @CISUoB @AlexRichter3 @Duggal_UoB @ToeKai, Janet Lord and Mark Drayson.
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#Myeloma Paper of the Day: Myeloma patients with active disease or in remission after therapy have low levels of salivary IgG and IgA antibody levels against Pneumococcus, which may further contribute to infection risk: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3924…. #mmsm
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Installation of our new dried blood spot punching machine @CISUoB ! Excited to use this for our various studies to help streamline high throughput antibody testing !
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birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/g… University of Birmingham is on the case @AlexRichter3 @sfaustini et al

Global health expertise is deployed to support the control of Mpox disease in Africa - University...

Experts in infectious diseases, immune diagnostics and vaccines who have been working in Rwanda for years and will now engage on the needs of disease outbreak.

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Antonia Ho@DrToniHo27 Jun 2024
📢New Correspondence: Suboptimal #measles immunity in UK healthcare workers, in @TheLancet Cohort 1 (n=200): 3% measles IgG-, 4% equivocal Cohort 2 (n=413): 13% IgG-, 8% equivocal HCWs born 1998-2004 highest % IgG-, likely due to low 💉uptake thelancet.com/journals/lance… 1/
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Highlighting that Mpox an ongoing global infection risk 👇We are working on diagnostics with @asherichia @sfaustini to support seroprevalence and immunogenicity studies 🧪
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In South Africa, today, the Health Minister reported the first death due to Mpox. In addition, 5 cases are now confirmed since 8 May 2024. Suggesting that SA is experience its first large outbreak of Mpox. A summary thread on what we know on the Mpox situation in SA⬇️
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10.9 completed for the JDRF Tri for type 1 swim today! Just completed over half the distance of the English Channel during August. Sami the dog was my support for the last swim ! support.jdrf.org.uk/s/1069/1… @JDRFUK @parthnarendran @AlexRichter3 @Dr_LaurenQuinn – at New Jersey, USA
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