Happy Birthday Davidgp

Happy Birthday David

 

Happy B'day!! Let's do it again.

 

Thanks all for the Birthday wishes.
Just having a relaxing weekend as was a busy one lasy week.

Cake is always good as well as a few glasses of wine.
@Eldon - thats a good representation of my actual car!

 

You are not suprisingly belated as its today 15th Jan, unless you are ahead of me timezone wise.

 

Yes Joffa will be a day ahead of me.

Thanks for asking, the research is going really well, and a very busy time for us over the past 5yrs and not going to slow down going forward. I'm down to 1 clinic 2 times a week, but this one can be done virtually as its a monitoring clinic for HCQ patients to check for retinotoxicity, so we only need retinal scans.

Rest of research is very mixed which I like a mix.

• Wet AMD project ongoing, which is looking for biomarkers in the change from no disease or Dry AMD to Wet AMD
  
• Wet AMD project, which is trialling again (old idea) of directed radiation treatment for patients in which other treatments (anti-vegF) have not worked
• Diabetic QA assessment on a setup of a screening program

Then its some interesting stuff for me and tech in a few projects in AI/ML to have computers review imaging and diagnose specific eye conditions, 2 of these projects are with a large Pharma, early results are very promising.
We have about 4 more projects being setup currently using AI/ML computer applications we have designed, and 4 more drug trials to start this year.
Been also trying to move away from using Excel alot for data analysis from our Access databases, to using PowerBI, which is alot more automatic that Excel, but I'm very novice at it so far.

I need to clone myself.

Hope you are well and keeping busy?

 

Yeah its well worth keeping away from those outside your family bubble at present, easpecially with respiratory challenges and this virus still at a level it will cause some issues, hopefully the new anitvirals will be promising.

Thats the thing with jobs these days, many are getting stressed as workloads keep getting tougher, which is why we do have extra staff, need 1 more person, and I'm not pushing myself past what I feel is ok. Indeed part time is a good option.

Keep well & safe

 

Hey David! Happy birthday! A nice relaxing weekend is the perfect birthday! Enjoy your glass(es) of wine!

 

Thanks Laura, yeah was relaxing, the wine helped. Just found a bottle of mulled wine so thats going to be on the go later.

@plodr thanks so much.
Agree in 2020 with places laying folk off and work from home being more used, I think many have as you say thought, dont need the stress and maybe hybrid working is the way forward. I did some work from home in 2020/2021 but not fully due to covid (though work in a hospital so pox central) but more that the work I'm currently doing, I can do remotely and my home PC is much more powerul that the work PCs, though do have 2 new HP Workstations with Xenon CPUs coming anytime in next month for the office.

Totally 100% with the jobs market now being on the employee side, as you say you can trial a job and see if you like it, until you find a pefect one for you.

@Eldon Good informant!