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

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
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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/)…

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…

📍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!

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…

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

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 🥹🙏🏼

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I hope everybody had a wonderful nurse’s week

Long awaited! 🌈: FDA Ends Ban on Blood Donations From Gay and Bisexual Men - The New York Times nytimes.com/2023/05/11/hea…

Nature research paper: Generation of functional oocytes from male mice in vitro go.nature.com/3FpBcw0

One of my young gay scientific dreams has come true!

The COVID-19 pandemic is now more challenging due to the Omicron variants. Robust public health measures, research and global cooperation are critical in addressing this crisis. Our recent Science Translational Medicine study is particularly important for countries relying on CoronaVac vaccines👇👇

It's a privilege to be vaccinated against COVID-19 at this time. The only way we can be worthy of this privilege is by paying it forward and vociferously advocating for global vaccine equity.

There is so much misinformation and fear-mongering around #COVID19 vaccines for pregnant and nursing women. A brilliant Yale MSTP student @Aliceluculligan and I wrote this OpEd to dispel these myths, and provide relevant facts. Please share widely.

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Another great review from ⁦Prof. Akiko Iwasaki⁩ Sex differences in immune responses | Science science.sciencemag.org/content/371/65…

Proud of Wilfredo F. Garcia-Beltran, MD, PhD and Evan Lam for their amazing effort to get this story out quickly. #antibody neutralization potency plays an important role in #COVID19 . But don't miss our second point about D614G variant still being neutralized well compared to pre-pandemic WIV1-CoV!

New UK variant 'may be more deadly' bbc.in/3occxPU