Charlotte Summers
@charlot_summers
Director of @hlri_Cambridge & Prof of Intensive Care Medicine @Cambridge_Uni; Fellow @selwyn1882; Trustee @SMC_London. #FLIER. Posts are only my personal views.
Ivermectin is an antiparasitic drug that kills mosquitoes feeding on treated persons. In this trial in Kenya, ivermectin given once per month for 3 months led to a 26% lower incidence of malaria than albendazole. Full trial results: nej.md/4lIyNzB Editorial: Ivermectin…
📢 Generous studentship honouring alumnus for health research 💉 The Raymond C. Read and Lillian J. Gostick PhD Studentship will focus on epidemiology, public health, global health, or infectious disease research at @HLRI_Cambridge and @Selwyn1882. 🔗 philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/impact-of-givi…
Whilst I am resharing this thread I wrote in 2024, please do also read the recent reports led by Patrick Chinnery (medics) and Jessica Corner (NMAHPs) highlighting some of the actions that need to be taken to improve the situation. Both can be found at ukri.org/publications/c…
There is a crisis in clinical academia in the UK. We talk of the need to expand medical schools, embed research into the NHS to improve care, & the importance of a vibrant life sciences sector for the economy of the UK, & yet we seem unable to tackle the underlying issues 1/9
I realise I talk about this topic a lot, but it is important. If we want to: * transform the NHS * innovate to improve health outcomes * drive economic growth we need specialist clinician researchers. They are essential & not an optional “nice to have”. medschools.ac.uk/latest/news/ur…
🎉 Congrats to Prof. Ziad Mallat! Winner of the 2025 Louis & Artur Lucian Award for his groundbreaking work in cardiovascular immunology, a top international honour in circulatory disease research. Read more ⬇️ 🔗 bit.ly/40XaxkJ @MedCambridge @mcgillu @Cambridge_Uni
When I was in Nottingham today, this VERY noisy juvenile peregrine was shouting for its parents, who were wilfully ignoring it! So great to see them.
Congratulations! 🎉 @HLRI_Cambridge Today marks 3 years since the VPD Heart & Lung Research Institute first opened! A collaboration between @CUH_NHS @RoyalPapworth @TheBHF @Cambridge_Uni & others, it seeks to 'improve cardiovascular and lung health for everyone' Prof C. Summers
3 years old today, @HLRI_Cambridge houses the largest concentration of scientists and clinicians in heart and lung medicine in Europe. 🥳 It covers everything from discovery science at the cellular scale to population scale data science – all to tackle the world's biggest…
In Nottingham today for COPD 2025, and enjoying a fabulous talk about how neutrophils sense air pollution and cause tissue damage from Emily Watts @EdinUni_CIR
Today, @HLRI_Cambridge is three years old! @Cambridge_Uni @RoyalPapworth @CUHPartners @CUH_NHS @CambridgeBRC @Cambridge_Uni @TheBHF @wolfsonfdn @cftrust cam.ac.uk/stories/heart-…
Immunomodulatory therapies in community-acquired pneumonia: a protocol for a systematic review and network meta-analysis @BMJ_Open @LukeFlower1 bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/7/e…
A quick heads up, if I may, for those voting online for the next Chancellor of the University of Cambridge: We're hearing that many voters are finding their voting link in their spam/junk folder. If you've registered to vote online and can't find the email in your primary inbox,…
Although CPR has become synonymous with medical heroism, nearly 85 per cent of those who receive it in a hospital die. Why has it remained the norm? nyer.cm/P48bbJ0
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I’m so proud of this lot: the new @Selwyn1882 graduates. They, and young people like them, make it possible to be optimistic about the future.
The NHS pension system is hideously complex. My Remedial Pension Saving Statement (RPSS) finally arrived yesterday & the system is so complex, the only way I’ll be able to calculate how much I owe or am owed is to pay for professional advice. The entire thing deeply stressful! 🤯
With Sadness and Resolve: Why I Resigned as Chief Medical Officer of a National Institutes of Health Institute and What Comes Next @atscommunity 🔓 Open Access 🔗 tinyurl.com/447dnzvc
Congratulations Calum, @tweediechap - Great appointment for #Scotland, UK, Global Health and Science 💐💐💐 gov.scot/news/championi…
Great discussion at #PandemicSciences25 about how to ensure policy actually turns into practice.
