If you’re visiting #Eisteddfodd today, do speak to the awesome @lunedbadder.bsky.social representing @cardiffunilib.bsky.social, the VITAL lab & HCRW Wales Applied Virology Unit (WAVU), explaining how we develop “#SmartViruses” to treat #Cancer. You can even make a designer virus of your own!

Congratulations to @gw4biomeddtp.bsky.social @atwales.bsky.social funded PhD student Rosie Mundy, presenting her groundbreaking structural and transcriptomic analysis of Ad10 today at the International Adenovirus Meeting at @cardiffunilib.bsky.social centre for student life.

Big moment for the youngest, collecting his first cap for @glamcricket.bsky.social U13 yesterday. Two terrific matches against a strong Gloucestershire U13 but showed their class securing back to back T20 wins. Exciting times ahead! 👏👏🏏 💥

Thanks for inviting me to be an honorary @pharmacycu.bsky.social member for and to talk "how to train your virus" at the ever wonderful @pintofscience.uk event at Tiny Rebel, Cardiff! A great evening talking about crossing the "Valley of Death" and into the clinic with our "smart viruses".

Looking forward to my favourite #PublicEngagement event @pintofscience! I'll talk "how to train your virus" at @TinyRebelCdff on 20/05, discussing how we turned a disease causing "nasty" into a clinical stage anticancer medicine. Grab a pint, pop along! pintofscience.co.uk/event/from-b...

Well, this is exciting, and has been a long time in the making. Many thanks to the many, many exceptional authors for their expert contributions. Would make a lovely Easter gift....(who needs chocolate eggs, right...?)

Fantastic talk from Prof Stephanie Schorge - discussing the path to translation for taking a lentiviral therapy for epilepsy from preclinical to clinical translation! A rollercoaster of a journey many of us can relate to!

Great to be over in London today UCL institute for child heath for what promises to be an awesome day of #AdvancedTherapies #UCL2025AdvTx . Thanks @atwales.bsky.social for funding my trip over! Looking forward to a great day!

Huge congrats 🥂 to our latest virus tinkerer fledgling Dr Adam Naskretski MD! What a journey it’s been but my goodness you have deserved it! Many thanks to fabulous viva panel Fiona Errington-Mais, Mererid Evans and @alextonks.bsky.social for chairing! 👏🎉👍🏻🥳🦠

Our virus tinkerers are out today at the Sbarc/Spark building for “be a scientist” day! If you’re looking for an interactive event to inspire the kids this half term, why not come down and build a virus - and learn all about how we are making “smart viruses” to treat disease! 🦠

Huge congrats to our VITAL team superstar, Rosie Mundy, winning the PGR Excellence in Innovation & Impact award tonight for her fantastic work on #adenovirus #structure & #biology. A much deserved award for a fabulous student 🎉🍾👏 🦠

Great news - Accession Therapeutics receive MHRA approval for first in human clinical trial of TROCEPT-01 across six UK sites in a range of recalcitrant tumour types. Fantastic to see an agent initially developed @cardiffuni.bsky.social in my VITAL team make it to clinic.

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Ad 🦠 vent is done, it’s time to wrap up 2024. It’s been a year of great highs and significant lows - but the team have been awesome throughout and make coming to work an absolute pleasure! 2025 is on the horizon & promises to be a huge year for us. Wishing all our friends the best for 2025! #VITALab

A very apt cake for a cricket mad, freshly minted teenager! Happy birthday, Jake!

Hello bluesky! I hear it's kinder here than the toxic bin Twitter has become. So here's my first ?flutter?...Wishing you a brilliant Christmas from me & my awesome team @cardiffuni.bsky.social. We turn viruses into cancer therapies. 2025 will be huge for us as we enter the clinic - wish us luck!