Innate Immunologist and Cytokine biologist 🇮🇪 UMass Chan Medical School. Opinions are my own.
Worcester, MA
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What accomplishments and collaborations will UMass Chan Medical School faculty, students and staff have to celebrate in 2026? We will find out together! Happy New Year!
#HappyNewYear2026 #UMass @UMass @UMassMDPhD @UMass_Medicine @ForHealthCnsltg @UMassChanGiving @UMassDiabetes
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Congratulations @Mucus_Man !
🚨While the world is burning down around us, I'm happy to share that I've been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. Though this is considered a personal achievement, it was only possible due to the wonderful trainees in the lab, who carried me here❤️.
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So cool ! Congrats @Nikita2106 & @PitarresiLab
Congrats to postdoc @Nikita2106 for winning the Margaret Foti (@AACR_CEO) Scholar-in-Training Award for next month's Pancreatic AACR conference!
If you see her at the conference, be sure to ask her about her work on PDAC cachexia, bioRxiv link below!
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Cannot imagine a more exciting set of recruits ! Congratulations @CFI_UMN @carlarothlin
We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Carla Rothlin(@carlarothlin) as our new Director of the Center for Immunology and Dr. Sourav Ghosh as CFI Program director, Immunology of Tissue Resolution, Repair, & Regeneration at UMN! Both join us from Yale and officially start in August 2025.
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Congratulations @futianmin
Activation of Retron-Septu for antiphage defense. Congrats @futianmin and all co-authors!
science.org/doi/full/10.1126…
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Activation of Retron-Septu for antiphage defense. Congrats @futianmin and all co-authors!
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Terrific spotlight by @UMassChan on PhD candidate @FavourFavvycool highlighting Favour’s outstanding accomplishments and work on #sarcoma & #GIST, and well-deserved accolades for her research and presentations!
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With our RTI colleagues Xiaobin Ling and @WenwenFang2, we report cryo-EM structures of enigmatic bacterial RNA nanocages made of long-noncoding ROOL RNAs. Octamers are held by "A-minor staples" and other interactions. Congrats Xiaobin, Dima et al!
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Kate Fitzgerald retweeted
Important story in @people about patient with Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB). Features Dr. Diana Reusch, a faculty member that I recruited to my department @UMassChan who directs the EB clinic, the only one in New England that cares for these patients.
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Kate Fitzgerald retweeted
I discuss the urgent crisis from the loss of federal support of science in the US and recent clinical gene editing breakthroughs with @WalterIsaacson & @amanpour on @AmanpourCoPBS, airing on @PBS tonight at 11 pm ET, and on @cnni earlier today. Pls share!
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Kate Fitzgerald retweeted
Many congratulations to the new class of BWF PATH investigators. Extra kudos to the superlative Megan Orzalli, whose work continues to redefine our understanding of host defense.
@VirulentMind @UMassChan
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Kate Fitzgerald retweeted
Two years at @UMassChan @UMassChanNeuro My sincere gratitude to all faculty and staff colleagues in the department ! It has been an amazing journey! Thanks a lot to our team members ! Raquel, Bianca and Natalia ! 🎉Special thanks to our dear friend @SchaferLabUMass 🙏
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Congratulations Celia @UMassChan_BMB
Congratulations Celia Anne Schiffer of @UMassChan, newly inducted #NASmember! #NAS162 #biophysics #biology
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Save the NIH and enable the future cures that will benefit humanity as they do now and have before. #NIHsaveslives
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Kate Fitzgerald retweeted
Gov Healey in Worcester to talk about threat of NIH funding cuts. @telegramdotcom @UMassChan
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Kate Fitzgerald retweeted
Jessica Spinelli, PhD, identifies rhodoquinone, a metabolite in bacteria and worms, as a fundamental electron transporter in the mammalian electron transport chain. Research could have clinical potential for protecting cells from hypoxia: direc.to/nb84 @CellCellPress
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Congratulations @qingyuhms !! @UMassChan
It’s an incredible honor to receive the ASMS Research Award. I’m thankful to the selection committee and humbled to be alongside with so many brilliant scientists. This recognition is a reflection of the amazing collaborators and mentors I’ve had the privilege to work with.
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Congratulations @davidliu
Last night I was honored to receive the 2025 #BreakthroughPrize in the Life Sciences, reflecting the efforts of many students, collaborators, doctors, and patients in labs around the world. I hope this 4-minute excerpt can inspire when science needs public support more than ever.
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