Research group @UCL dissecting immune correlates & immunotherapy targets in viral infection & HCC. Tweets by @mmaini6 & @StephyKucyKousa

London, England
Joined May 2015
We are pleased to announce the publication of our STEMM sector-wide survey The report highlights our findings & suggests recommendations. Now available to download on our website carersinstemm.co.uk Please share especially w/ institutions, funders & EDI advocates widely
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Maini Lab UCL retweeted
Review @NatRevGastroHep @ljpally19 @iit_ucl @pallett_lab @BrownRom1 @george_e_finney Tissue-resident memory CD8+ T cells: master deciphers of the hepatic environment nature.com/articles/s41575-0…
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Our FREE immunotherapy public event is a month today! 🚨 Introducing one of our amazing panellists @ShivanSivakumar oncologist and researcher at @unibirmingham! Still spaces left, come join us in Oxford! 📅26th September 2025 at 5:30pm! 👉 tinyurl.com/4pfnr8bd @OxTweets
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Maini Lab UCL retweeted
The Lee lab is expanding! We are interested in mechanisms of local + systemic immune tolerance esp in liver metastases - X2 research technicians 💡 Creative fun environment 🌱 Opportunities to grow 🫂 Highly collaborative with clinical+basic research 📢 Pls spread word!
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Follow us over on 🦋 and see our exciting new post-doc opportunity @iit_ucl eur01.safelinks.protection.o…
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Such a privilege to work with this fabulous group of people ❤️ Secret Santa, some lunch time fizz & plenty of laughs Staying in is the new going out 😊 #scienceisfun @maini_lab @Leo1401j @XAZhuang @das_lab1 @BeckiLee @george_e_finney @BrownRom1 @StephyKucyKousa @BethanyHope95
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This was amazing- a must watch! Imagine your fave talk show meets #HepB. What a treat- an incredibly smart & funny host who made #HBV learning fun & got the origin stories of some of my fave scientists! @HepBFoundation @maini_lab
TWiV 1163: Hepadnaviridae in the heartland 〰️ From the 2024 International Hepatitis B virus meeting in Chicago, TWiV speaks with Mala Maini and John Tavis about their careers, the replication and transmission of HBV, and the HBV Foundation. 📺 bit.ly/3Yw1llq
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Are you currently attempting to juggle a research career w/ caregiving responsibilities in the UK? With @FLFDevNetwork funding #CarersinSTEMM have launched an anonymous survey to gather your lived experiences, it will take ~15 mins ⏰ 31/10/2024 📌 qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/j…
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Are you a #caregiver (e.g. of a child/elderly parent/other adult) and a STEMM-researcher in the UK? If so we want to hear your lived experiences. Please take 15 mins to complete our anonymous survey: qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/j… #carersinSTEMM #AcademicChatter Deadline: 31/10/24
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I am so excited to start my new @Barts_Charity funded project investigating how menopause and HRT impacts upon immunity. But we are in need of volunteers to help with the study :)
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🚨Survey design complete🚨 Aim: to capture as much data from those experiencing life as a researcher in the UK with caring responsibilities. e.g. How many opportunities have you missed (if any)? Have you received grants/reimbursement to help cover costs? How are you finding it?
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Maini Lab UCL retweeted
Three years today since we moved into the Pears Building! 🎊 To mark this, we've just launched a new film celebrating some of the fantastic scientists from the Stauss Lab here at the Institute 🎬 buff.ly/3XKAEZV #Immunotherapy #TCells #CancerResearch #AutoImmuneDisease
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Maini Lab UCL retweeted
📢Do not miss the 5th Annual Community Forum co-organized by @HepBFoundation and @ICE_HBV at the 2024 International HBV Meeting in Chicago! Date: September 11, 2024; 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM; Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk (Hybrid) Register now at: hbvmeeting.eventsair.com/202…
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Maini Lab UCL retweeted
📢Join @ICE_HBV and @HepBFoundation for the 2024 ICE-HBV Symposium on the role of interferons and their continuing contributions to Hepatitis B and D cure at the #2024InternationalHBVMeeting Date: September 15, 2024 Register here >>> buff.ly/3zsuvt3
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That’s a wrap #ECI2024. We were quiet on here this time but we had a fabulous time with our friends in @maini_lab and so many others. See you all at the next one 😊
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Tuesday afternoon, our post-doc Mariana Diniz will present her work on #NKcell engineering to improve liver immunotherapy in the 'adoptive cell therapy for cancer & infectious disease' session 🌟
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Followed by PhD students @StephyKucyKousa (P2.08.42) & @JoeMcd22 (P2.09.39) in Poster Session 2 showing their work on NK cell regulation of CD8 T cell responses in HCC🔬and of humoral responses in therapeutic vaccination 💉
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Wednesday we have clinical PhD student Gloryanne Aidoo-Micah will be at the 'Cancer Immune Evasion & Resistance' morning session talking about her work using fine needle aspiration to profile the immune populations in HCC 👀
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We are very excited to be attending #ECI2024 in Dublin! @EFIS_Immunology 🤩🇮🇪 Many members of the lab will be presenting some of our latest work 🙌 👉if you're interested in liver immunology come along to the talks & posters in thread below:
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