Hey friends, my postdoc and data science ninja, Diana Kitka, PhD is now on Substack! Subscribe for great content on data science and her postdoc life here: open.substack.com/pub/kitkadiana…

Happy to see Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai cardiologist Eli Friedman quoted prominently in the The New York Times story (link below).

Stellar #labmeeting by Junlang Li on #EVs from #iPSCs as a source of novel bioactive #ncRNA compounds. Fast track to #IND? 👍👏 Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai

Take homes: -shared decision making based on honesty, humility, transparency -disqualification from sports is the exception, not the rule -learn all you can from family history, genetics, imaging -we are open for business in #sportscardiology Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai ! LA28 The Olympic Games

Thank you Cath for your support! #Duchenne #cardiomyopathy #deramiocel Coalition Duchenne Cedars-Sinai.org/DISCOVERIES

Jane Goodall was an exceptional human being. She was the manifestation of the intuitive harmony between nature and humanity, spirituality and science, and the individual and the collective. Her voice will continue to teach, inform, and inspire.

This week's #journalclub dissected two papers on #circularRNA (Jessica and Ke Liao, relevant to #MI and #Alzheimer’s) and another on #tRNA halves and how they are formed (Jonah). Great presentations and lively discussion!

Brilliant!! Thank you Anand Mayakonda 🕉️ 🙏🙏

We’re trying! In Journal of Clinical Investigation recently, Ke Liao reported the first approach to increase #Tregs acutely by in vivo #genetransfer. No need for ex vivo expansion. Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai jci.org/articles/view/…

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPrize in Physics to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.”

As I ponder on the #NobelPeacePrize, I believe a posthumous award to #JaneGoodall is the most fitting and meaningful choice.

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.”

Well done Alessandra Ciullo, what a privilege to work with you ☺️🙏

Come work with Prachee Avasthi and me! We're hiring an EA to the CSO at Arcadia Science. Great job for for scrappy, ambitious folks who love biotech or looking for the exposure. Ideal candidates are attentive to detail, organized, fast-paced, and tech savvy. More info below.

Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com

Pleased to be invited as keynote speaker American Society for Intercellular Communication organized by Shilpa Buch of University of Nebraska Medical Center. This 5 yo society includes #EVs but also #biocondensates and other unconventional agents of intercellular communication. Looking forward to new concepts!

Thanks for the rapt attention and great questions! 🙏👍 Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai Ahmed Ibrahim Alessandra Ciullo Russell Rogers, Ph.D. Ke Liao Junlang Li Salwa Soussi

At today’s Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai #research seminar, Tom Vondriska taught us about #chromatin and its unexpected roles in #mechanotransduction in the #heart. Who’d have guessed that #histones would be dynamically regulated by cardiac stressors?

Pleased to participate in Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children's retreat kicked off by its director, superstar Ophir Klein. Exciting opportunity to create a great children’s health program, building on legacy areas of strength in #pediatrics, all leveraging our established excellence in adult care.

Inspiring keynote by Shlomo Melmed and now a roundtable with Eugene Kim, Dr. David Skaggs, Ophir, Sarah J. Kilpatrick MD, PhD and other Cedars Sinai luminaries.