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Team FB is very proud to announce that Dr Gill Lowe – working with the Platelet Group at the University of Birmingham – was nominated for the Royal College of Pathologists Furness Prize for Science Communication. It was recently announced that Gill was runner up and we’re delighted for her! Well done Gill!!
This is a national competition for all medical pathology trainees in ...
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Team FB are delighted to be working with the West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) to raise awareness of PFDs within their crew.
Ruby and the WMAS are working together to raise the profile of the rare condition to all the paramedics; with a view to rolling it out to other crew. Ruby stated that “it’s great news that the WMAS are working with us. As a parent it’s important ...
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Earlier in the year, Funny Blood funded a piece of equipment to the GAPP Project based at The University of Birmingham. The aggregometer allows the research team to confirm if people have Platelet Function Disorders – more details on the Where your money goes page … you can see the equipment in action below. We’re very proud x
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The research team at the University of Birmingham has published a paper on their current findings into Platelet Function Disorder : Blood paper 2012. The research – the project that Ruby and her family are part of – is undertaken at the Platelet Group (GAPP) at the University of Birmingham. Funny Blood has funded a Fellow over Summer 2012 to engage with the project and also helped fund a piece of equipment to help with the research … if ...
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Team FB were asked to join BBC Radio DJ Tony Fisher this morning to talk about how they funded a fellow at the University of Birmingham. Ruby and the team raised funds at a BBQ event earlier in the year and gave some of the monies to The Platelet Group (GAPP) at the University of Birmingham. This was then spent on funding Paul Carter – a third year student – to continue research into Platelet Function Disorder of ...
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