AoPcasts: "The Consult" Bringing you the latest in medical research

Reflecting on a distinguished and wide-ranging career as a clinician scientist, Professor Sir Mark Caulfield shares candid insights into the logistical, political and administrative challenges he has encountered along the way. From his early work in hypertension research to his leadership of the landmark 100,000 Genomes Project, he distils the key lessons learned and the practical toolkit needed to navigate a successful academic career. Offering clear, experience-based advice on planning rese...

Artificial Intelligence is transforming medicine, from diagnostics and drug discovery to personalised treatment and predictive analytics. But alongside its promise come some important challenges: Algorithmic bias, data privacy, accountability and the tension between human judgment and machine intelligence. This webinar brings together medical scientists and academic physicians to explore the realities behind the (potential) hyperbole. An expert faculty will examine how AI can responsibly be i...

Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is a rare autoimmune disease, but also one where a great deal of progress has been made in development of new therapies. Prof Cooper performs clinical trials to understand the impact of new therapies, based upon and also gaining insights into the underlying pathogenesis. The clear readout of platelet count allows for a trial design which can funnel diverse new types of therapy into the translational pathway, and this sort of study has implications more broadly fo...

Immune Mediated Inflammatory Diseases (IMIDs) are a common and growing problem. Traditional models of research and service delivery silo their management within specific specialities and within adult or paediatric settings. Very often patients with disease in one organ have co-morbid involvement in another, suggesting shared pathogenic pathways. Moreover, IMIDs are often treated in very similar ways (combination therapy) with very similar drugs (steroids and anti TNF biologics). In this semin...

The Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland presents a comprehensive exploration of diabetes complications, hosted by Dr Uazman Alam, Reader at the University of Liverpool and Honorary Consultant Physician in Internal Medicine, Diabetes and Endocrinology. Professor Gregory Lip examines the critical relationship between atrial fibrillation and diabetes, highlighting SGLT2 inhibitors' impact on cardiovascular outcomes, whilst Professor Solomon Tesfaye shares groundbreaking insigh...

Welcome to the Association of Physicians (AoP) podcast series AoPcasts: Bringing you the latest in medical research. The AoPcasts is a fascinating series of podcasts bringing cutting edge medical research to new audiences. Produced by the AoP and hosted by science broadcaster Vivienne Parry, the series will explore some of the major themes debated at the annual AoP meeting. The first AoPcast brings together Rino Rappuoli, Chief Scientist of the vaccines division of GSK an...