Lecturer of Respiratory and Precision Medicine, Division of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester focusing on the pathophysiology of IPF

Joined December 2019
And poster prize winners Phoebe Ross from @cardiffuni and Gunjan Jaiaprasat from @uniofleicester 🎉
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Congratulations @drkatyroach and the team at @uniofleicester for a very successful #BALR26. It’s been a blast! Handing back the account to @MereteLong, it’s been lovely to briefly be back on Comms. See you all next year! @DrManuPlate
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Continuing with one of BALR main aims, ECR support, we now have the Postgraduate Competition. The first speaker is Mathuscha Ratnasingham, from @uniofleicester.
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After a day and a half of hard work, it is time to relax and enjoy some delicious food and lovely music at the #BALR26 conference dinner!
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Next up is Dr Panayiota Stylianou from @uniofleicester, talking about conservation of donor response profiles in cryopreserved lung tissue supported by initial metabolic and secretory cytokine analyses.
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#BALR26 is coming to a close with the winners of the competitions! The early career prize goes to Dr @AmandaTGoodwin from @UniofNottingham, the APF Prize goes to Dr Nancy Gomez, also from Nottingham, and the Mid-career prize goes to Dr Ruth Saunders from @uniofleicester! 🎉
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Now at #BALR26, Three forces shaping lung disease: Genetics. Damage, and Mechanisms of Repair. First up is Prof Martin Tobin from @uniofleicester talking about what we have learnt from 18 years of consortium genome-wide association studies of lung function.
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Next up Prof @LouiseDResp from @ImperialNHLI about Lung damage driving COPD #BALR26
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Supporting and promoting early career respiratory scientists is a major part of our charitable aims. And so we kick off the first of our competitions at #balr2026 the early career researcher competition with dr Rohan Paranjpe from University of Nottingham
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And we’re off! Organiser @drkatyroach is welcoming everyone to Leicester. #BALR26
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Missed the BALR 2026 abstract deadline? There’s still time! ⏰ Submissions are now open until Thursday 30th April. Join us at #BALR2026 at @uniofleicester, hosted by @drkatyroach and team. We’d love to see your work there! #RespiratoryResearch #Science #UniversityofLeicester
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📢The BALR is thrilled to welcome @drkatyroach as our new Secretary and @EmilyRCash as new PhD Rep. Thank U @kyliebelchamber, Chloe Hughes and @DocMoschos who are stepping down from their current committee positions. More about BALR and its committee: balr.co.uk/about
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A really interesting paper released by Prof. Peter Bradding and colleagues highlighting The effects of inhaled corticosteroids on healthy airways. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… #asthma #Respiratory #lungs #UoL
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Dr Katy Roach retweeted
In symposia we have @drkatyroach chairing and @amandatatler speaking in the BTS/BALR session, and @sarah_diver delivering an impressive talk on the microbiome in asthma in the Churchill room. #BTSWinter2023 #Respisbest
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Dr Katy Roach retweeted
The effects of inhaled corticosteroids on healthy airways medrxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #medRxiv
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Exciting to see this paper from Prof. Bradding's group appear in preprint medrxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… Delineating the transcriptional changes caused by inhaled corticosteroids in human airways and allowing a more nuanced analysis of the transcriptome in severe asthma #asthma
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Dr Katy Roach retweeted
Inspiring day @uniofleicester for the launch of #EMIRA, combining lived experience, clinical and scientific expertise #curePF @UniofNottingham @UoLRespSci @LeicesterBRC @NottmBRCLung @Leic_hospital @ActionPFcharity
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Dr Katy Roach retweeted
It’s here! 🙌🏽 🙌🏽 🎉 💥 #EMIRA inaugural research symposium. @UniofNottingham, @uniofleicester, @UoLRespSci @LeicesterBRC @NottmBRCLung @Leic_hospital, @ActionPFcharity, funder & local patient voices!
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Future 100 PhD Scholarship 6/8 Supervised by Dr Katy Roach @drkatyroach apply to study "Functional investigation of a potential novel drug target for progressive lung fibrosis" #findaphd #uolRespSci #uolnews le.ac.uk/study/research-degr…
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Exciting PhD opportunity! “Functional investigation of a potential novel drug target for progressive lung fibrosis” Co-Supervised by @drkatyroach, @LouiseVwain and @rjallen513 at the University of Leicester. Look for project: “RI-LPMI-Roach” ⬇️ le.ac.uk/study/research-degr…