RAiN are on the road to Tralee 🚗🚘 Join us at Munster Technological University in Tralee for our Summer Symposium on the 10th of June from 11:30-16:15 hours. Register using the link below 👇👇
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Fabulous - now to make similar & other exciting initiatives happen for #RenalResearchNI #RareDiseaseNI #PatientsMatter

the wonderful Dr Carleen Walsh winning best thesis presentation at the All Ireland Rare Disease conference yesterday

Many thanks everyone who contributed to today’s RAiN #ECR event Queen's University Belfast 🎓 today. The future of #RareDisease #research RAiN is promising with so much exciting work presented & promising collaborations. #RareDisease NI #RARDTAC #RAiN #RenalResearchNI Dr Suja Somanadhan

Not every day I come home from a conference with some new crystalware. I had a great time at the RAiN Early Career Researcher forum today. So many wonderful talks and posters! A great network and lots of fab work going on across the island of Ireland! Prof AJ McKnight

Congratulations Emma Cadoria ⁦UCD Conway Institute⁩ Rasha Alhazza ⁦Queen's University Belfast 🎓⁩ Dr Beth Milofsky ⁦Trinity College Dublin⁩ for their winning performance as part of the early career research forum ⁦Queen's University Belfast 🎓⁩ congratulations and well done 👏

What a wonderful day to catch up with my rare diseases research colleagues ⁦at the ⁦RAiN ECR forum ⁩ Dr Stephanie Dugue ⁦Ulster University⁩ ⁦Prof AJ McKnight⁩ ⁦Queen's University Belfast 🎓⁩ thank you for the wonderful work in the field of rare diseases 🙏

Congratulations Claire Hill for winning the best 10 minutes presentation award at the #RAiN #ECR forum Queen's University Belfast 🎓 #raredisease research University College Dublin UCD Research Dr Suja Somanadhan Prof AJ McKnight

Congratulations Dr Carleen Walsh for winning the best 3 minutes research presentation award #RAiN #ECR Queen's University Belfast 🎓 University College Dublin UCD Research well done and congratulations 🙌 Dr Suja Somanadhan Prof AJ McKnight

So excited! Been a long time coming (2 years!) - thanks Kerry Longmore making it happening and modelling so well - sustainable & ecofriendly… #RARDTAC #RareDiseaseNI

I thought I was early, but looks like Kerry Longmore has already been in action! RAiN QUB Research Development

Delighted to welcome #RareDisease colleagues from across Ireland to Visit Belfast QUB MHLS Faculty #RAiN #RARDTAC #RareDisease NI #LoveQUB QUB Public Health Postdoctoral Development Centre at Queen's Wellcome-Wolfson Institute Experimental Medicine SPACE QUB UK Biobank All-Island Cancer Research Institute (AICRI) Northern Ireland Kidney Research Fund Northern Ireland Chest Heart & Stroke NIRDP HSCRandD The Patrick G Johnston Centre for Cancer Research Safe travels!

'Major survey reveals rare disease community’s overwhelming support for screening at birth'
Time to end the #DiagnosticOdyssey for individually rare collectively common #RareDiseases
go.eurordis.org/BCvcLA

Two congenitally deaf children due to mutations of the otoferlin gene can now hear for the first time after being treated with Regeneron's investigational AAV gene therapy DB-OTO in CHORD clinical trial according to data presented at #ASGCT2024 . fiercebiotech.com/biotech/little… $REGN

#newborn #screening 🇦🇺 public consultation paper - #NBS should be publicly funded. Healthcare professionals or those with a lived experience of each condition should make decisions about which conditions to include… #RareDisease NI #RareDisease RAiN

Today our ambassador Ella marks her 10th #Kidneyversary , & all thanks to her nanna sharing her spare #kidney with her gorgeous granddaughter, Ella is living the life she loves which quite often involves performing on BGT with Sign along with us or in various musicals...1/3

Looking forward to hearing excellent research & discussions from our early career #RareDisease researchers in Wellcome-Wolfson Institute Experimental Medicine QUB Public Health next week RAiN UCD Research QUB Public Health Postdoctoral Development Centre at Queen's QUB MHLS Faculty #RareDisease NI #RARDTAC #RAiN NIRDP Northern Ireland Kidney Research Fund #RDCASTNI

I have this particular Primary Immunodeficiency disorder (CVID)
I hope this research leads to timely diagnoses
for other patients
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… #immunology Manish Butte

Katherine Forbes, director of #innovation and enterprise at Kidney Research UK, discusses the evolving role of #medicalresearchcharities in facilitating collaborative #partnerships & new ways of working to accelerate #research and improve #patientoutcomes

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A sight I’ve never seen before. Quick break from personal family A&E drama today & we had Stormont Mo Mowlam Play Park all to ourselves. Wet n windy, but hardy folks had fun :). Love this so close to South Eastern Trust UHD hospital! #Play #MentalHealth . All relatively OK-ish.