A great day and lots of interesting discussion, wrapped up with a delicious dinner. Thanks to Norio Suzuki and the #hypoxia crowd at Tohoku University 東北大学

Terrific talk from Kenji Osafune on the use of human iPSCs in chronic kidney disease and polycystic kidneys at the HypoxJP meeting …tion-of-hypoxia-biology.jimdosite.com/english/

Thanks to the japanese hypoxia research community, HypoxJP, Dr Ox, The Baker Company for a terrific conference and a great night out in Tokyo.

1/16) We are excited to share our recent paper “ADAMTS12 promotes fibrosis by restructuring extracellular matrix to enable activation of injury-responsive fibroblasts” published today @Jclinicalinvest led by Konrad Hoeft and Lars Koch jci.org/articles/view/…

Guinness-Bailey’s chocolate birthday cake from Irina for her birthday. Difficult to find the layer of the cake without alcohol but nevermind. The cake was delicious. Thanks and happy birthday Irina.

Thanks to Joao Paulo Figueiro Longo from the University of Brazilian João Paulo Longo for visiting the lab and giving a seminar on recent advances in nanomedicine. Have a safe trip back to 🇧🇷.

Looking forward to the 7th International Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease Symposium ( cgvhd-symposium.com) in lovely Vancouver 🇨🇦 #CGVHD2024

A very inspiring symposium on how to manage #fibrosis as a major complication in chronic Graft-versus-Host disease. Novel treatment approaches desperately needed. #CGVHD2024

In ⁦nature⁩ we use single cell multiomics, fibroblast fate tracing, and in vivo models to characterize immune fibroblast crosstalk in heart failure with ⁦Lavine Lab⁩ ⁦WashU Medicine⁩, ⁦⁦Amgen 🧪🔬🧬⁩ , and ⁦ImmunoFibHF⁩ nature.com/articles/s4158…

Check out our latest publication. We tested prophylactic and therapeutic vaccination against ADAM12 in pancreatic cancer #PDAC, and observed delayed tumor growth along with a reduction in tumor desmoplasia. Congrats to Jing Chen&the team. EMBO Mol. Medicine 🔗 bit.ly/3C6389v

Christian’ birthday dinner at the cosy “Ziegelhütte” in Zurich. A fantastic evening and lots of fun with the lab crowd. 🎂🥳

Multiscale drug screening for cardiac fibrosis identifies MD2 as a therapeutic target: Cell cell.com/cell/abstract/…

Impressions from the Institute’s Christmas party with ice skating and for some people even figure skating (not the guys on the picture, though😉) and a delicious dinner at the Adlishof.

An example of the more talented ones in the lab. 👏👏👏👍🏻

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