Stije Leopold 🦠🔬💊
stijeleopold.bsky.social
Stije Leopold 🦠🔬💊
@stijeleopold.bsky.social
Infectious Disease Physician and Clinical Researcher #EmergingInfections #AcuteRespiratoryViruses #AdaptivePlatformTrials #DrugRepurposing #100DaysMission #UniversityofOxford #MORU Views are my own https://www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/team/stije-leopold
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#NatMicroPicks

AI to design therapeutic antibodies! 🧪⚕️

AI-driven monoclonal antibody generator designs novel antibodies without templates, targeting SARS-CoV-2, H5N1, and RSV-A

#MicroSky

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Generation of antigen-specific paired-chain antibodies using large language models
MAGE is a sequence-based protein language model designed to generate diverse human antibody sequences targeting various pathogens, including SARS-CoV-2, H5N1, and RSV-A. This AI-driven approach addres...
www.cell.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Actions to be taken:

• monitor exposed people for 10–14 days
• if symptoms appear, self-isolate and seek testing
• health-care workers in affected areas should ask patients with flu-like symptoms about recent contact with animals.

Read more:
www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-even...
Widespread avian influenza in birds increases risk of human exposure
This autumn has seen an unprecedented surge in detections of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) virus in wild birds, accompanied by many recent outbreaks in domestic poultry across affected are...
www.ecdc.europa.eu
November 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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In our new issue, @ukhsa.bsky.social authors describe the early start to this year's #flu season in England with dominating #influenza A(H3N2) subclade K

Conclusion: #vaccination is effective against clinical disease caused by A(H3N2) viruses

🗞️ bit.ly/EUS3046

#IDSky #EpiSky #MedSky #PedSky 🛟🧪🦠
November 21, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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📣 New #Communicable drops Mon 3 Nov!
@anniejoseph.bsky.social & Nav host @andre-siqueira.bsky.social (Brazil) & Steven Lim (Malaysia) to discuss #dengue as a rising global health burden, how to diagnose & manage it, and what's in the therapeutic pipeline 🔍

@dndi.org #denguealliance #IDSky
October 30, 2025 at 10:30 AM