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Porterhouse Medical Group is delighted to announce that Tim Greaves has been promoted to the role of Digital Designer within the creative team. Tim joined Porterhouse in September 2020, having recently graduated with a BA (Hons) in graphic communication from the University of Reading, with a focus on digital design. Since then, he has been …

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  Porterhouse Medical Group is delighted to announce that Jack Bollins has been promoted to the role of Medical Writer within our global scientific services team. Jack joined our scientific services team earlier this year in February, having graduated from the University of Bristol in 2017 with a BSc and a PhD in biochemistry. In …

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  September is World Alzheimer’s Month. [1] Although this has been an annual campaign since 2012, [2] awareness of Alzheimer’s disease is especially important at present because people with Alzheimer’s disease may be acutely affected by COVID-19, not only in terms of managing the symptoms of dementia in a changing healthcare environment but also with …

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  Porterhouse Medical Group is delighted to welcome Megan Cole, as we continue to expand our global healthcare communications group. Megan joins our client services team as an Account Executive, working flexibly based both remotely and in our Reading office. Since graduating with a BSc in biomedical sciences from the University of Warwick in 2017, …

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Porterhouse Medical Group is delighted to welcome Sahrish Bashir to our global client services team. Sahrish is highly qualified for her new role as an Account Executive, having recently graduated from the University of Reading with an MSc in pharmacy. During her academic studies, Sahrish gained valuable experience in both hospital and community pharmacy and worked across a …

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  Porterhouse Medical Group is delighted to welcome the latest member of our globally acclaimed Scientific Services team, Kimiko the Chowski. Also joining our growing team of much-loved Porterhouse Pups, Kimiko will be mainly working from home but with the flexibility to visit the office for training and to provide emotional support to colleagues as …

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As part of our fundraising activity to raise money for our charity partner YoungMinds, the Porterhouse charity team has been running a fun, company wide Olympics sweepstake. The event kicked off in line with the opening ceremony and Porterhouse Beer O’Clock on Friday 23 July, and included a draw of the countries taking part in …

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Porterhouse Medical Group is delighted to congratulate Jack Gibbons on his successful ‘bungee’ into scientific services and his new role as an Associate Medical Writer. Jack joined Porterhouse’s meticulous editorial team in February 2020 with a BSc (Hons) in anatomy and human biology and an MRes in biomedical sciences and translational medicine from the University …

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  Are you finishing a PhD and wondering what to do next? Or are you approaching the end of a postdoc and growing tired of the lab? Healthcare communications or medical communications (commonly referred to as med comms) may not be an industry you are aware of, but it might give you an opportunity to …

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  Porterhouse Medical Group is delighted to announce that Clara Utley has been promoted to the role of Senior Account Executive within our growing client services team. Clara joined Porterhouse in October 2020 with a BSc in biological sciences from the University of Exeter as well as sales and marketing experience from her time at Menarini Diagnostics. Clara’s scientific expertise …

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  According to Sarcoma UK, 15 people are diagnosed with sarcoma each day in the UK. Despite this, awareness of sarcoma is low in the UK, with approximately three quarters of people not knowing or being unsure of what sarcoma is. [1] In the UK, July is Sarcoma Awareness Month. In support of this initiative …

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Each year, 19 June marks World Sickle Cell Day – an event established in 2008 by the United Nations General Assembly to raise awareness of sickle cell disease at a national and international level. Sickle cell disease (of which a common form is sickle cell anaemia) is a devastating inherited blood disorder. People suffering from …

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