I am so grateful for the interview by David Cox The Guardian in which I share my thoughts on the pandemic, #longCOVID, #MECFS, bullying in academia, and issues faced by #WomenInSTEM. The outpouring of support in response has been overwhelming 🥹🙏🏼 theguardian.com/society/2023/m…

At today’s ceremony in Frankfurt Yale Professor Akiko Iwasaki receives the 2.5 million euros Else Kröner Fresenius Prize for Medical Research for her research on post-acute infectious syndromes (PAIS) like long COVID and others. Congratulations! Prof. Akiko Iwasaki Yale School of Medicine

50 years ago today, Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes, a tennis match watched by 90 million people worldwide. This victory advanced women’s right to equal pay not just in the sports world, but in all sectors. We still have much work to do, but today

📍UPENN needs to apologize to #NobelPrize2023 winner Dr. Kariko: "UPenn told me that they’d had a meeting and concluded that I was not of faculty quality. When I told them I was leaving, they laughed at me and said, ‘BioNTech doesn’t even have a website.’” Penn -- apologize!

In this prospective observational study, we examined changes in symptoms & immune phenotypes in vaccine-naïve people with #LongCovid after COVID-19 vaccination. Due to the timing of the initiation of this study, we were only able to recruit 16 people. However, the insights we

A new, very good review on #LongCovid's cardiovascular effects nature.com/articles/s4416… Erin Goerlich Allison G. Hays, MD Johns Hopkins Cardiology Nature Cardiovascular Research

Delighted to share our latest work on #longCOVID - sex differences in symptoms and immune signatures. Led by Julio Silva Takehiro Takahashi, MD, PhD Jamie Wood et al. with Leying (Lexi) Guan & Putrino Lab. We find a striking inverse correlation btw testosterone levels and symptom burden👇🏼 (1/)

La sintomatología y perfil inmunológico en la long COVID es diferente en mujeres y hombres. Ellas sufren síntomas específicos como el dolor de cabeza y muscular. A mayores niveles de testosterona menor sintomatología. Un gran trabajo de Prof. Akiko Iwasaki medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

So excited to be hosting rockstar Carolina Lucas Carolina Lucas for Institute for Immunology and Immune Health (I3H) Immunology Colloquium today!! Can’t wait to hear about the most recent work from her lab!! 🤩

TIME's list of the 100 Most Influential People in the world is out. I'm honored, delighted, and grateful to be a part of this incredible group #TIME100 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 TIME time.com/6964230/akiko-…

Sharing our new study by keyla sá, Julio Silva, Rafael Bayarri Olmos et al (with T. Horvath & Putrino Lab) showing that a passive transfer of IgG from patients with #longCOVID into mice recapitulates ⬆️ pain and other symptoms 🧵 (1/) medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

This important #LongCovid study was both independently replicated and extended by a report today by Prof. Akiko Iwasaki keyla sá Putrino Lab Julio Silva and colleagues medrxiv.org/content/10.110… Thread 👇 x.com/VirusesImmunit…

So grateful for this Science Magazine piece by J Couzin-Frankel highlighting 2 studies - Jeroen den Dunnen's and our's by keyla sá et al (with Putrino Lab) showing that IgG from people with #longCOVID can transfer patients' symptoms in mice👇🏽 science.org/content/articl…

We are delighted to announce the upcoming launch of the Ragon Child Care Center at our new building. Operated by Bright Horizons, the Ragon Child Care Center will offer early childhood education and care right at the heart of our community. #Childcare #CommunitySupport

Thrilled to share the first publication of my Ph.D. thesis today in @naturemicrobiol with @wilenlab and @virusesimmunity. Here we synthesized, recovered, and studied two of the closest known relatives of SARS-CoV-2 from bats that were recently discovered in Laos to assess their

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Our new study published today nature uncovers that Transgelin 2 preserves T cell lipid metabolism and anti-tumor activity. Transgelin 2 is silenced in dysfunctional TILs, and restoring its expression enhances CAR-T cell therapy in #OvarianCancer 👇nature.com/articles/s4158…

“Starting now, we are going to need brave people, people willing to push back, protect the vulnerable, and do what’s right over what’s easy… We do have to remember what’s right. And what’s right is protecting public health and the environment.”

Can the cold weather actually increase your chances of catching a cold? In the latest “Rose Walk and Talk,” Yale immunobiologist Akiko Iwasaki addresses — in less than a minute — a common question about the common cold. #Yale

I've been on low-dose rapamycin(6mg) for ~17 weeks now The PEM feels like it has largely gone away However, I did start testosterone in February which has helped tremendously too Was able to go to the gym 4x last week. Absolutely no soul-crushing PEM, just small flares/pain