ANCA UPDATE

“A shortage of sample over the winter and Spring (Alabama rot is a seasonal condition) has necessitated a delay to performing the experiments involved in this project. More samples are expected over the summer; however this means that we won’t have enough samples to justify the study until potentially the end of the year and so we won’t have data until January 2022. In addition, we are sourcing other healthy controls, since further case information later supplied has revealed some of the previous controls were investigated for immune diseases, which may affect ANCA levels. We want to make the study as powerful as possible, so feel this is a prudent move.” – Dr Diane Lee