First ever tweet & about a virus, ironic. New preprint from Uni of Birmingham 8 kids with PIMS/#KawasakiDisease-like, all #PCR-ve & strong #COVID19 Ab+ve. Prob means infected wks ago, controlled virus, disease tragic side-effect of imm sys working Professor Alex Richter Barney Scholefield 🌈 💙 Medical Research Council

#PIMSTS data in children emerging. Really important role of #COVID19 antibody testing in #pedsicu shock diagnosis. New realm of #PREPRINT research with lab science colleagues. Great collaboration University Hospitals Birmingham Uni of Birmingham BWC NHS Trust Birmingham Acute Care Research Centre Adam Cunningham Full paper to follow

Looking forward to participating in this IGI Birmingham #webinar & talking about developing #antibody tests to detect #COVIDー19 infections & how we can use them to understand & #FightCOVID19 disease Professor Alex Richter David Wraith 💙 @unibirm_MDS IMIBirmingham Max Crispin

Great to hear Professor Alex Richter on BBC Radio 4 Today talking about how the Uni of Birmingham team are developing #antibodytest sensitive enough to detect #COVIDー19 in saliva samples making home testing in the #community a real possibility. #FightCOVID19 @unibirm_MDS IGI Birmingham

Important paper supported by BactiVac Network. Helps lay roadmap for much needed new vaccine to gonococcus. Huge cause of infertility & #AMR problem. Great start & well done! Global Health Security, DHSC UK @unibirm_MDS Martin Broadstock Birmingham Health Partners IGI Birmingham Immunology and Immunotherapy British Society for Immunology World Health Organization (WHO)

This is a really great development. The next step in this collaboration with Binding Site. Very humbling to see this test help make a difference to what we know about our immune response to the #COVIDー19 virus IGI Birmingham Immunology and Immunotherapy British Society for Immunology @unibirm_MDS Birmingham Health Partners

The Binding Site is aiming to have CE mark in place in the next couple months. Professor Alex Richter IGI Birmingham @unibirm_MDS Immunology and Immunotherapy Birmingham Health Partners British Society for Immunology

#COVID19 📢 A test developed by experts here in Birmingham confirms COVID-19 as trigger for a rare Kawasaki-like syndrome in children. Read more about the work from Dr Alex Richter Professor Alex Richter & Professor Adam Cunningham Adam Cunningham here ⬇️ birmingham.ac.uk/news/latest/20…

#COVID19 | Dr Alex Richter (Professor Alex Richter) and Prof Adam Cunningham (Adam Cunningham), working with BWC NHS Trust, University Hospitals Birmingham, Max Crispin and Binding Site, have developed a test confirming that COVID-19 can be a trigger for #Kawasaki-like syndrome in children: birmingham.ac.uk/university/col…

📰 | A Birmingham designed test, developed by a team led by Dr Alex Richter (Professor Alex Richter) and Professor Adam Cunningham (Adam Cunningham) has confirmed #COVID19 as a trigger for a new Kawasaki-like syndrome in children birmingham.ac.uk/news/latest/20… @unibirm_MDS

A test developed by experts at Uni of Birmingham has offered evidence confirming #COVID19 to be the cause of a newly emerged multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children, who have tested negative for the virus by the PCR test. birmingham.ac.uk/university/col… Professor Alex Richter Adam Cunningham

Fantastic to be part of such a great team & developing a more reliable test to detect low levels of Ab in asymptotic/mild disease. Also, important to look at both saliva & serum Ab to determine #SARSCoV2 exposure Professor Alex Richter Max Crispin IGI Birmingham Birmingham Health Partners @unibirm_MDS

Great to highlight the Uni of Birmingham approach to #COVID19 antibody testing & our fantastic collaboration with Binding Site during Amanda Solloway visit. Our highly sensitive #ELISA test will be commercially available in July Professor Alex Richter @unibirm_MDS IGI Birmingham Birmingham Health Partners

Lovely new paper in The Journal of Immunology from @MilernaLain & the group shows how IFNg & T-bet work in Th1 responses to Salmonella to keep bacteria in iNOS+ granulomas. Well done all for great work. Immunology and Immunotherapy @unibirm_MDS BactiVac Network bit.ly/Perez-T

This is such an important advance in COVID-19 antibody testing. The use of dried blood spot will allow accurate home testing and seroprevalence studies in LMIC countries. Congrats to a fantastic team Professor Alex Richter Adam Cunningham Immunology and Immunotherapy

Great to be supporting our colleagues Immunology_UCT to do this important work to diagnose PIMS-TS in children using the #COVID19 #antibodytest Uni of Birmingham have developed with Binding Site. IGI Birmingham @unibirm_MDS Birmingham Health Partners Immunology and Immunotherapy IMIBirmingham

We are committed to working collaboratively with LMICs & want to say a huge thank you to IGI Birmingham Uni of Birmingham for their financial support that has made this all possible. Binding Site Professor Alex Richter @unibirm_MDS Immunology_UCT Immunology and Immunotherapy Birmingham Health Partners IMIBirmingham

Fanrastic opportunity to join Cal MacLennan group Jenner Institute to work on gonococcal #vaccine project