blairmerrick | 17th January 2023
Programme available at the following link: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/know-your-st-inside-our-guts/on-demand/73111-001 (Feature 37:15 – 41:25) Article available at the following link: https://metro.co.uk/2023/01/17/know-your-st-channel-4-documentary-explores-perfect-poos-18114399/
simongoldenberg | 9th October 2022
Dr Blair Merrick is a Clinical Research Fellow at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust who specialises in infectious diseases and general medicine. He is currently coordinating the FERARO study that is looking at the feasibility of eliminating of antibiotic resistant bacteria from the guts of affected patients using fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT). Blair […]
ania | 9th May 2022
Do you know what a Faecal Microbiota Transplant (FMT) is? If you’re thinking it is the transfer of poo from a donor with healthy gut bacteria to someone else, you’d be right! But why? In this online seminar organised by NIHR Guy’s and St Thomas’ Biomedical Research Centre, we explore the PROMISE clinical trial led […]
ania | 5th May 2022
On Tuesday 22nd March, King’s hosted the event Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance in Liver Disease in the Churchill Rooms at the Houses of Parliament. The event was held in partnership with The British Liver Trust (BLT) and The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Liver Disease and Liver Cancer and was funded by the National Institute of Health Research. […]
blairmerrick | 24th January 2019
“Some of my friends think it is a bit weird or disgusting, but it doesn’t worry me. It’s very easy to donate and I just want to help with medical research. I’m glad to contribute.” Her faeces, teeming with “good” bugs, will be put into the bowel of a sick patient to help their poorly […]
