
Leanna Troncoso
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RA @ Merad Lab | Tisch Cancer Institute | @Smithcollege‘20 | Posse | She/her
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26-08-2020 18:57:26
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Today I had the chance to visit the research lab and the team led by Miriam Merad, MD, PhD, a Franco-Algerian cancer immunologist. What talent and dynamism in the service of science!


Excited to share our new paper in Nature Immunology on how TREM2+ monocyte-derived macrophages in lung cancer reduce activity of natural killer cells that fight tumors. We provide potential dual targeting strategies to improve antitumor immunity. Read here: rdcu.be/damS8


Happy #DayofImmunology to all immunologists across the world and especially to my relentless lab. Thank you Jessica Le berichel for the beautiful T-shirts - let's bring them all to Cape Town! #immunotherapy #iuis2023 International Union of Immunological Societies


The Miriam Merad, MD, PhD lab is Cell-ebrating the #DayOfImmunology. Lipschultz Precision Immunology Institute #happycells.


I feel honored and privileged to have attended the mind-blowing lecture of Dr. Türeci today at Lipschultz Precision Immunology Institute, invited and introduced by Miriam Merad, MD, PhD. She is outstanding and inspiring with such a thorough vision of vaccination design and distribution to the world! #womeninscience





AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY The real story behind Alice ball is that Working in the early 20th century, she developed a means for injectable treatment for leprosy. However, Arthur Dean's name became attached to the work because Ball was only a graduate student at his university and he was a white male







📢 NEW PAPER 📢 Most cancer patients with solid tumors do not respond to immunotherapy with checkpoint inhibitors. Miriam Merad, MD, PhD's team now report that IL-4 can drive treatment resistance in #LungCancer, and this may be reversed with an allergy medication. medicalxpress.com/news/2023-12-a…
