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Congratulations to University of Sheffield alumni, Kirsty Smitten and her team at MetalloBio for winning the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) UK Young Entrepreneur of the Year and Small Business of the Year 🎉👏 Amazing work! metallobio.com/news-events/me…

So today is the day I have my pre-operative cardiac MRI and staging CT scans. If the scans show no progression or metastasis my surgery should be the first week in June. My life is riding on these scans so to say I’ve got a bit of anxiety is an understatement! #cancer #sarcoma

Huge congratulations to #HubMember company MetalloBio for winning five awards in one week! Co-founder and CEO Kirsty Smitten was the recipient of two - Federation of Small Businesses (FSB)'s Small Business of the Year and UK Young Entrepreneur of the Year. Well done! metallobio.com/news-events/me…

For anyone following my cancer journey, the scans were good! I’ve had no spread and the heart tumour is still stable with a some shrinkage! I’m all okay for surgery! Surgery will be in the next couple of weeks! #cancer #sarcoma #sarcomauk

Another successful end to the week for MetalloBio we’ve been accepted onto the second stage of the biggest AMR grant going, signed the letter of intent with our lead investor and I’m having surgery! Who said you can’t run a company well whilst battling heart cancer?

I'm not sure if I should be happy or scared but I have a surgery date for next week! This is a million miles from where we were in January. Now I just need everyone's fingers crossed for a negative margin!

We really do need that trophy cabinet now! Congratulations to my MetalloBio team for winning the Medilink UK Start-up of the Year at the National Medilink Healthcare Business Awards last night!

The moment I got a standing ovation for my speech at the FSB Awards

Whilst sitting in hospital waiting for my surgery I have finally started the blog back up. It's been a busy few weeks. In this post I discuss the second opinion. kickingthebigc.uk/2023/06/11/sec…

I love hearing about thriving entrepreneurs, but #Sheffield's Kirsty Smitten is something else! MetalloBio is an example of what women in #STEM can, and do, achieve. Congratulations to Federation of Small Businesses (FSB)'s Entrepreneur of the Year 2023 👏 business-live.co.uk/partners/entre…

Surgery update, they got all the tumour out on Monday but unfortunately on Wednesday I had type 1 respiratory failure and Ct-scans have shows a severe infection in my right lung. I’ve been in intensive care since whilst they try to find out what’s up :(

2 weeks ago I had open heart surgery to remove a cardiac angiosarcoma tumour from the right atrium of my heart. In this week's blog post I discuss the operation and going into type 1 respiratory failure. kickingthebigc.uk/2023/06/27/sca…

After a very intense 2 weeks medically it’s nice to come back to work and see we’ve been awarded another Innovate UK grant to progress our antimicrobial technology towards GLP-tox studies!

Dear 🇬🇧, As we approach the NHS 75th anniversary, here's your reminder that 10 years ago, it was ranked the #1 healthcare system on Earth. You don't need a new system. You need a new govt that won't intentionally destroy it for their own financial benefit. #SOSNHS #NHS75

The last 3 weeks have made me realise just how dangerous it is for immunocompromised patients to be in hospital. I’ve been in hospital again this week for a potential clot and have ended up with a multi-drug resistant lung infection. Infection control needs to be better!

I was interviewed by Health Tech World on antimicrobial resistance after winning the Health Tech World Awards Health Tech Leader of the Year

The irony around developing a new drug for antibiotic resistance and then spending the last 5 weeks fighting multiple antibiotic resistant infections post surgery. Having pneumonia back to back three times in a row with different pathogens is 0 fun!

In my continuous good luck my tumour turned resistant to paclitaxel. My follow up chemo will be doxorubicin (the Red Devil) and isofamide. Renowned to be one of the toughest chemo regimes :(. Followed by a potential first ever treatment of proton beam with isofamide.

I have been nominated as the Sarcoma UK young sarcoma voice of the year. Not sure what chance I have against a 24.7 million subscribers YouTube sensation 😂. But you can vote for me here - sarcoma.org.uk/get-involved/y…