Alex Silver
@AlexSilverMSTP
https://t.co/eV5HOgV0d0 | MD/PhD student in Savona Lab at @VanderbiltMSTP | #ClonalHematopoiesis #DoubleDocs #HeForShe #BLM | he/him | Views are my own
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Looking forward to the many new faculty colleagues we will recruit to Vanderbilt University & Vanderbilt University Medical Center with support from NIH Common Fund's FIRST initiative in the years ahead!
Thank you Consuelo H. Wilkins, Alyssa Hasty & VU Provost Office for your leadership.
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NEW: 6 Practical Strategies to #Mentor & #Sponsor #WomenInMedicine
Updating our definitions of #mentorship & #sponsorship to capture what is really happening in academic medicine👩🏽⚕️👩🏿🔬👩🏼⚕️⚕️🩺
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Introducing Dr. Nowrin Chowdhury! 🎉
Dr. Chowdury is a Vanderbilt MSTP student in the Newcomb Lab who recently defended her dissertation titled, 'Androgen Receptor Signaling Reprograms CD4+ T Cell Metabolism.'
Recurring somatic mutations are uncommon and inconsequential right? Nope!
Out today in Science Advances, our work led by Josh Weinstock disproves these widely held assumptions, discovering a new class of non-coding somatic mutations in blood with phenotypic impact. 🧵👇
Out in nature today, we describe a new method 'PACER' to estimate clonal expansion rate and use it to identify that aberrant TCL1A activation as a cause of #CHIP expansion and potential therapeutic target Josh Weinstock Jk Gopakumar Siddhartha Jaiswal nature.com/articles/s4158…
Fatty liver dz is v common but our understanding of who progresses to inflammation & fibrosis is limited.
In nature, we discover clonal hematopoiesis as a modifiable risk factor for precision liver dz prevention.
nature.com/articles/s4158… Waihay Wong Connor Emdin B Ebert
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Ryan Millager presented his recently published work on 'Behavioral and cognitive-affective features of stuttering in preschool-age children' and won first prize!! 😍👏👏👏 Check out the publication here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jflu…
Excited to share the last part of my PhD work, where we track co-receptor signaling dynamics during B cell activation! Great collaboration with Marian Kalocsay biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Please join us in welcoming our new @YalePathology resident announced on #MatchDay23 . Matthew Madden, MD, PhD - Matt Madden - is from @VUMedicine. Dr. Madden is one of 10 new #pathology residents joining Yale New Haven Hosp and Yale School of Medicine bit.ly/3lqdcSy
Congrats to Vanderbilt PSTP/Harrison Society Harrison Scholar and Vanderbilt Cardiology Fellowship fellow Brett Heimlich on receiving an EvansMDS Young Investigator Award from The Edward P. Evans Foundation! Alex Bick Jane Freedman MD Kimryn Rathmell
Join us Tues 3/28 at 10am in 214 LH for Andrew Boal's Andrew Boal Dissertation Defense 'Retinal Ganglion Cell Excitability and Adaptations to Ionic Stress in Glaucomatous Optic Neuropathy' completed in Dr. David Calkins lab in the Neuro Grad Program Vanderbilt Brain Institute and Vanderbilt Eye!
So proud of M4 Ayesha Muhammad @[email protected] for winning the Michael Fowler Educational Excellence Award!!
Ever wanted to do #tractography but didn't have #diffusion #MRI ? Check out our preprint using #AI to propagate streamlines directly on T1w MRI, no diffusion needed! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Big thanks to Graham W. Johnson Daniel Moyer kurt.schilling Francois Rheault (8$™) & Bennett Landman (Vanderbilt MASI Lab) team!
Great Medicine Grand Rounds by Amy Oxentenko MD on Equity and Allyship! I’ve been fortunate to have amazing mentors and sponsors including David G Harrison but not everyone is so lucky. #PromoteHer