BLOG UPDATE
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Don’t forget to log on to our Blog for a fascinating insight into daily life at our world-renowned research centre. Students from the pioneering medical team will chat about everything from the latest cutting-edge research and how the department operates, to less glamorous aspects such as the daily gossip and news about life as a research fellow. 
From time to time our top experts also voice their opinions, keeping us in touch with their projects and commenting on asthma, allergy and respiratory stories in the news.
The four talented young scientists are working on their 4yr PhD research projects at the state-of-the-art laboratories in Southampton, studying conditions affecting the respiratory system to help develop treatments and gain further in-depth knowledge of these illnesses in the future.

 
AAIR – Your Facebook friend

If you like to keep in touch on-line you can catch up with AAIR’s latest news and events via Facebook. Members can simply log on then search ‘aair charity’. 

Twittering on about AAIR

By PhD Respiratory Medicine student and Gemma Campbell Harding 
“I have recently started using Twitter (similar to a blog but each message can be no more than 140 characters in length) and often see famous people "retweeting" (a tweet is what each blog entry is called so retweeting is when they repeat it on your behalf to get the message out to more people) about worthy causes. 
So I thought I would give it a go on World Asthma Day. Jason Bradbury, from the gadget show, is a big fan of twitter so I sent him a message asking if he could retweet AAIR’s address and much to my surprise he did!!! It was very exciting! And it seems to be working as I have now seen many others also reposting the message. Lets hope it will help raise money. I have also sent the same message to a few other celebs on twitter so will have to see if they do too.
Anyway - I hope that it works as the more money that goes into the research the better - last thing we want is for the credit crunch to slow down the development of new treatments for asthma. 
 

On-line Blog
Click here to read the Blog.

For the first time ever you can now gain a fascinating insight into daily life at our world-renowned research centre. Students from the pioneering medical team supported by AAIR will be writing a weekly on-line blog – revealing everything from the latest cutting-edge research and how the department operates, to less glamorous aspects such as the daily gossip and news about life as a research fellow. From time to time our top experts will also voice their opinions, keeping us in touch with their projects and commenting on asthma, allergy and respiratory stories in the news.

The blog team are Gemma Campbell Harding, Shelley Davis, Claire Heath and Victor Paky Bondanese. All four have won prestigious studentships in Respiratory Medicine funded jointly by AAIR and the Medical Research Council.

The four talented young scientists are working on their 4yr PhD research projects at the state-of-the-art laboratories in Southampton, studying conditions affecting the respiratory system to help develop treatments and gain further in-depth knowledge of these illnesses in the future.