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Cesc Bertran-Cobo
@cescualito.bsky.social
Enthusiastic, non-conformist researcher
🦟 Health Data Scientist & Project Manager @isglobal.org
🧠 PhD in Paediatrics @uct-fhs-research.bsky.social
🏳️‍🌈 They/Them
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#InauguralLecture by Prof Alfred Ngwa: Parasites on Wings - Malaria & River Blindness.

From pioneering #Cameroon River Blindness vaccine research to leading #Malaria parasites at #MRCG, a journey of science & impact for #GlobalHealth.

📆 26 Nov 2025
🕦17:15 GMT

Read more 👉 tinyurl.com/4rc9vwj2
November 7, 2025 at 9:29 AM
🫵 Science needs you! 🫵

Hi there, we’re contacting you from the International Travel Clinic at Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. We’re developing an antibody sensor to measure how well our patients respond to vaccines against hepatitis A, measles and dengue (1/3)
November 4, 2025 at 12:56 PM
🫵 La ciència et necessita! 🫵

Bon dia, us escrivim des del Servei d'Atenció al Viatger Internacional de l'Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. Estem desenvolupant un sensor d'anticossos en consulta per a detectar la immunogenicitat dels nostres pacients envers hepatitis A, xarampió i dengue (1/3)
November 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Reposted by Cesc Bertran-Cobo
"South Africa has become the first African country... to register the revolutionary twice-a-year anti-HIV jab, #lenacapavir" via @news24southafrica.bsky.social
SA becomes first African country to register twice-a-year anti-HIV jab... at record speed | News24
South Africa has become the first African country – and our medicines regulator the third worldwide – to register the revolutionary twice-a-year anti-HIV jab, lenacapavir (LEN), that could bring an en...
www.news24.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Reposted by Cesc Bertran-Cobo
🆕Film by LSHTM explores 'Hidden Malaria' in #India

It goes inside a research project looking at why #malaria persists in regions like Odisha despite declining rates across the country, & hidden reservoirs of #infection that show no symptoms.🦟

🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP88...
Hidden Malaria: The hunt for an invisible enemy
YouTube video by LSHTM
www.youtube.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Reposted by Cesc Bertran-Cobo
Researchers at EMBL Barcelona highlight malaria-induced disruption of pericytes, bringing us a step closer to understanding how cerebral malaria damages the brain, and how these damages could be prevented or reversed.

www.embl.org/news/science...
October 24, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Reposted by Cesc Bertran-Cobo
Europe is the only region of the globe that saw more deaths due to HIV in 2022 than it did in 2010.
An @aidsmap.bsky.social report from #EACS2025.
www.aidsmap.com/news/oct-202...
More Europeans are dying from HIV now than 15 years ago
Europe, taken as a whole, is losing some of the gains it has made in tackling the burden of HIV, the 20th European AIDS Conference (EACS 2025) heard in Paris. Teymur Noori of the European C...
www.aidsmap.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Hello, Bluesky 👋 I’m Cesc (they/them), an enthusiastic scientist who finds it essential to conceive research as indivisible from its social context.
I recently joined this platform. Wanna know a bit more about me? 🧵
October 21, 2025 at 10:13 AM