Claire Hill
Senior Researh Fellow interested in healthy ageing and kidney health 》Bioinformatics 》Omics 》Working towards a healthy world 🌎
📍North Coast of N. Ireland
🔗 orcid.org/0000-0002-2481-5162
- Reposted by Claire HillThe time of day for cancer immunotherapy is associated with major outcomes. Early is better. Results from a randomized trial of lung cancer, backs up the importance of our circadian rhythm and immune system www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- 💗 Love Your Kidneys – They’ll Love You Back! 💗 📍 Part of Love Your Health at QUB WWIEM for NI Science Festival 🔗 lnkd.in/ethSwjpK 💙 Thanks to our funders: @vivensa.bsky.social • @lifearc.bsky.social • @kidneyresearchuk.org • lnkd.in/eJkEMSvH @aj-mcknight.bsky.social
- Get crafty with kidney‑themed Valentine’s cards, enjoy fun colouring, and try our hands‑on kidney demos for all ages!
- Meet our researchers and discover how we’re tackling kidney disease, diabetic kidney disease, rare conditions, and the role of genetics & life‑long exposures — all alongside amazing partners at NI Kidney Research Fund.
- Reposted by Claire HillYour safety and wellbeing are our top priority. That's why the University campus will be closed tomorrow, Tuesday 27 January, due to the amber weather warning across Northern Ireland. See you back on campus soon!
- Love this: 'science is our attempt to become less wrong over time' What an excellent way to phrase it!
- Science is our attempt to become less wrong over time. And in honor of Crash Course Scientific Thinking, we put it on a shirt! Get yours at complexly.info/ccsci
- Great to share some of the research and plans as part of my @vivensa.bsky.social Fellowship with colleagues at the Centre for Public Health yesterday. Nice way to start the new year!
- Thanks to @claire-hill.bsky.social & Dr Grace McMacken showcasing their research in our @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social Molecular Epidemiology & Public Health team-packed RVH room today. #Ageing #RareDiseaseNI #RareDisease #ClinicalTrials #RenalResearchNI #RARDTAC #Neuromuscular #kidney.
- Thank you to the many people who make the work possible - participants, funders, fellow researchers, lab technicians, support teams, data managers, supervisors...the list goes on!
- ** #PhD opportunity ** Come & work with our team within the @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social Centre for Public Health. An exciting project bringing together molecular, bioinformatic & big data opportunities, focusing on aging, sex inequalities & kidney disease. #epidemiology #aging #ageing #kidney
- Had an amazing day at the @vivensa.bsky.social Early Career Researcher Event! Incredible work on display and such a supportive environment. Honoured to share a bit about our journey toward sustainable science 🌱🌎 @aj-mcknight.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
- Great talk by @claire-hill.bsky.social about environmental sustainability in research at our #ECREvent - sharing learning from The Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework.
- Delighted to be at the @vivensa.bsky.social Early Careers Researcher Event today in London. Looking forward to taking part in the panel event to share some of our experience of environmental sustainability in research! @aj-mcknight.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
- Reposted by Claire Hilllibrary(ggplot2) ggplot() + geom_density(data=data.frame(x=rnorm(1e5)),aes(x))+ geom_line(data=data.frame(x =-5:5,y=cos(-5:5)/100),aes(x,y))+ annotate("point",x=c(-.3,0,.3),y=c(.3,.25,.3),size=3) + ggtitle("Happy Halloween")+ theme_void(base_family="Rubik Wet Paint") #RStats #ggplot2
- Reposted by Claire HillCovid in England is definitely on the way down, but Flu is on the way up - and over a month early. My latest substack open.substack.com/pub/christin...
- 🧬 PhD Opportunity | Using Molecular Biomarkers of Aging to Decode Health Inequalities 🧬 📅 Deadline - 8th December 2025 🔗 Apply now or learn more: lnkd.in/eWhnyVQg @vivensa.bsky.social @aj-mcknight.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
- Are you interested in aging research? Are you keen to explore the molecular basis of kidney disease? Do you want to be part of research aimed at understanding and tackling health disparities?
- Join us at Queen’s University Belfast for a fully funded PhD project exploring molecular biomarkers of aging, such as DNA methylation and telomere length. This interdisciplinary project combines: ✅ Molecular biology ✅ Epidemiology ✅ Public health ✅ Data science
- Come and work with us. You'll work with a collaborative team of researchers and have access to rich datasets and advanced lab techniques.
- Today is #InternationalDayOfOlderPersons, a day to reflect on the health challenges faced by older adults and the research that supports healthy aging.
- In May I began my @vivensa.bsky.social proleptic Fellowship on aging and CKD. I am grateful to all who supported this work! PhD opportunity hopefully coming soon! 👀 Keep your eyes peeled. #CKD #HealthyAging #PhD @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @aj-mcknight.bsky.social
- Great to be at the Kidney Research UK Driving Discoveries meeting in Bristol this week. Lots of wonderful research and work on show so far. Looking forward to the Early Careers Forum this afternoon!
- 🎂 Data, but make it delicious 🍰 As a joke, I searched for a dataset about The Great British Bake Off… and guess what? There’s an R package called `bakeoff`. So naturally, I baked up a quick analysis. Here’s what I found: --- #GBBO #GreatBritishBakeOff #DataScience
- 🥇 Technical challenges matter Series winners had a significantly higher median technical ranking across the series. 📊 p = 8.143x10-5 - a pretty strong signal! 🌟 Star Baker status? The number of times a baker was crowned Star Baker didn’t significantly differ between winners and non-winners.
- 🧁 Week 1 technical rankings? Not the be-all-and-end-all Turns out, your first impression in the tent doesn’t say much about your final fate. TL;DR: Consistency in technical challenges might be the secret ingredient to winning Bake Off — not flashy showstoppers or early success.
- Enjoying some downtime at the moment. Reading. Running between shade. Melting in the heat. All good stuff. Here's a snap from our day trip to Castell de Santa Bàrbera.
- Reposted by Claire Hill#RenalResearchNI opportunity to sign your name to an open letter highlighting the importance of #KidneyDisease to the UK government and NHS. Time for Action to support kidney disease! @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social www.ukkidney.org/prime-minist...
- Beautiful spot for the summer solstice. 📍Portstewart Cliff Path
- 10.40pm last night and still light.
- Flight delayed back from UK Kidney Week but I picked up some excellent reading in the airport!!
- Congratulations to @aj-mcknight.bsky.social on her Osman Award at UK Kidney Week 2025! Her award lecture was a fantastic overview of her work explorong kidney disease determinants - including genetic, epigenetic and environmental - and her impacts on rare disease research/care in NI and beyond. 🎊 👏
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- Reposted by Claire HillIt was great to present our #multiomics work on #DKD at the #UKKW25! And wonderful to meet with the UK colleagues
- Landed at UK Kidney Week 2025 in Bournemouth! A great day 1. Looking forward to day 2 tomorrow. I'll be co-chairing the session 'Beyond the Blueprint: Multiomics in Kidney Disease Research'
- Excellent plenary sessions from Prof John Feehally and Prof Sir Stephen Powis, offering thoughtful reflections on the UK’s renal history and future directions.
- Also appreciated the O'Donoghue Award Lecture by Prof David Wheeler, highlighting impactful work in improving kidney care. Looking forward to the rest of the week’s discussions and developments. #UKKW2025 #Nephrology #KidneyCare #RenalMedicine
- Reposted by Claire Hill@ukkidney.org Trustees meeting tomorrow & then roll on #UKKW25 in Bournemouth. Looking forward to excellent conversations, catching up with colleagues, & exciting science! #KidneyDisease #RenalResearchNI
- Gilmore Girls Fraiser Friends The Office (USA version) Schitt's Creek Close calls: Dawson's Creek Everybody Loves Raymond Derry Girls Seinfeld
- Hometime! We had a great time in Amsterdam. Coming home with a new friend.
- It was an honour to present at EDNSG 2025 and I was delighted to receive this award! 😀 such a great meeting! Thanks to all the wonderful scientists who contributed to the work 👏
- Many congratulations to @claire-hill.bsky.social winning EDNSG conference Best Communication Award for 2025! #RenalResearchNI #diabetes #kidney @vivensa.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
- A great Day 1 at EDNSG yesterday. So much wonderful research on diabetic kidney disease on display, topped off with a fab boat tour and dinner. Lovely to meet and chat with collaborators and make some new friends! 😀 #diabetes #DKD #DiabeticKidneyDisease
- Reposted by Claire HillWell done @claire-hill.bsky.social presenting accelerated biological ageing with #diabetes and further diabetic #kidney disease in Amsterdam. #RenalResearchNI @finndiane.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
- Loving Amsterdam XXX Time for the science tomorrow! Looking forward to presenting some of our work on epigenetic ageing in diabetic kidney disease.
- Exploring beautiful Amsterdam before EDNSG annual meeting this Friday-Saturday! EDNSG -The European Diabetic Nephropathy Study Group
- Reposted by Claire Hill🌍 Keen to make kidney care more sustainable? 🌍 Kidney care has the largest carbon footprint across our healthcare system but we can make a difference! 🌱The #SustainabilityKidneyChampion Information Pack has everything you need to get started.🌱 Be the change!💚 sustainablehealthcar...
- Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Duit! A few snaps since last year. We are making more of an effort to explore this beautiful island we are lucky to call home ☘️💚
- Dia dhuit (Hello) It's Seachtain na Gaeilge - Week of the Irish Language (which technically runs for more than a week)! Tá mé ag foghlaim Gaeilge (I am learning Irish). I still have a long way to go but... Is breá liom é (I love it)! #SNAG25
- It's World Kidney Day today! What a beautiful morning it is. I'm looking forward to taking part in the NI Kidney Research Fund event today! 🗓 Thurs, 13th March 📍 Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast Foyer ⏰ 10AM-4PM 💡 Learn about kidney health, organ donation, & disease prevention. #WorldKidneyDay
- It was brilliant to be part of this exciting workshop and publication, 'Research recommendations from the 2024 Breakthrough T1D, Diabetes UK and Kidney Research UK, diabetes and kidney disease expert workshop' onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Some key future research areas identified: 🔍 Understanding diabetic kidney disease mechanisms 🛑 Preventing diabetic kidney disease ⚖️ Tackling health inequalities 🔬 Enhancing diagnosis 🩺 Improving care 💪 Supporting self-management #Diabetes #KidneyDisease #Kidney #DiabeticKidneyDisease
- When it's pancake Tuesday and your birthday 🎂 🥞
