Dr Steven Hall
Lecturer in PharmacologyResearch Overview
Snakebite affects millions of people every year and is estimated to cause >100,000 deaths and 400,000 life-altering injuries annually. Conventional antivenoms are the current mainstay treatment but are associated with many issues including high cost, poor stability, being snake species-specific, the need to be delivered intravenously, and poor efficacy against local tissue necrosis caused by cytotoxic snake venoms. Dr Hall’s research is therefore focused on (i) the pharmacological determination of synergistic drug combinations with multi-species efficacy, and (ii) the development of local drug administration methods that could be exploited to better treat the devastating effects of snakebite-induced tissue necrosis.
Web Links
1) summarising our research and goals.
2) article discussing snakebite and mentioning our work.
3) for the Royal Society of Biology's A to Z of the Biosciences.
4) [1h02m, 2017] summarising the snakebite issue.
Selected Publications
Clare, R.H., Hall, S.R., Patel, R.N., Casewell, N.R. 31/05/2021
Review article
Hall, S.R., Rasmussen, S.A., Crittenden, E., Dawson, C.A., Bartlett, K.E., Westhorpe, A.P., Albulescu, L., Kool, J., Gutiérrez, J.M., Casewell, N.R. 14/12/2023 In: Nature Communications. 14, 1, p. 1-15. 15 p.
Journal article
Du, T.Y., Hall, S.R., Chung, F., Kurdyukov, S., Crittenden, E., Patel, K., Dawson, C.A., Westhorpe, A.P., Bartlett, K.E., Rasmussen, S.A., Moreno, C.L., Denes, C.E., Albulescu, L., Marriott, A.E., Mackay, J.P., Wilkinson, M.C., Gutiérrez, J.M., Casewell, N.R., Neely, G.G. 17/07/2024 In: Science Translational Medicine. 16, 756
Journal article
Bartlett, K.E., Hall, S., Rasmussen, S.A., Crittenden, E., Dawson, C.A., Albulescu, L., Laprade, W., Harrison, R.A., Saviola, A.J., Modahl, C., Jenkins, T.P., Wilkinson, M.C., Gutiérrez, J.M., Casewell, N.R. 7/05/2024 In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 121, 19, p. 1-12. 12 p.
Journal article
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01/10/2024 → 30/09/2025
Research
01/10/2024 → 30/09/2025
Research
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Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition
- Microbes, Pathogens and Immunity