I never post politically. But yesterday, in central London and across the U.K., thousands of people shouted thinly veiled genocidal chants against the Jews, with police standing by. So today, I will say : I am a Londoner. And I am not afraid to be a Jew in my city.

D-1 before Early bird ! Come in person or join online to hear greatest speakers from 🇬🇧🇧🇪🇫🇷🇩🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 in 💂‍♂️London. Key note lecture by Olivier Aubert from Paris Transplant Group Talks available online for a month after the event. ESOTtransplant YNP of ERA BTS European Kidney Transplant Association

Thanks to awesome examiner team of Emilie Cornec-Le Gall and Aroon Hingorani, and congratulations Omid Omid S. Alavijeh PhD! Well done on your fantastic work and very well-deserved PhD. Looking forward to your next chapter…

Delighted to say I’ve been awarded a Kidney Research UK Fellowship to study genomics and B cell immunology of idiopathic #nephrotic syndrome #INS, in a collaboration with Prof Danny Gale UCL Renal Genomics , Carola Vinuesa Vinuesa Lab and JelenaBezbradicaLab. Thank you KRUK!! Let’s go!

An incredible 2 days of learning at RSM frontiers in glomerulonephritis. Highlights include exceptional rare disease data from the fantastic Prof Danny Gale

Mindblowing work by our collaborator Achilleas Frangakis and colleagues - one of the body's most complex structures has just become a little less enigmatic!

Deeply disturbed and saddened by news of the death of Alexei Navalny. Putin fears nothing more than dissent from his own people. A grim reminder of what Putin and his regime are all about. Let's unite in our fight to safeguard the freedom and safety of those who dare to

OK Go recorded this music video shot in near-zero gravity aboard a parabolic airliner without using CGI, wires or green screen: the video was cut from one take filmed over 45 minutes of continuous flight.

The use of the phrase “ancestry-specific variant” is increasing, particularly to describe rare Single-nucleotide variants (SNVs). But these alleles are not ancestry-specific. They have not yet been found elsewhere, but they will be. 1/n

Beating #KidneyFailure needs #RareDisease cures. @RenalRaDaR data out today reveals a staggering 28x higher 5-year kidney failure risk in 28k people with #RareKidney diseases c/w 2.8 million with #CKD. Trajectories in 28 diseases included for reference tinyurl.com/yvybsvx2

Fantastic work by group members Katie Wong and David Pitcher working at RaDaR, with many others in the U.K. renal community. Outcomes for 27285 patients in 28 rare disease group, showing outsize contribution to prevalence of endstage kidney disease tinyurl.com/yvybsvx2

New grant success 🎉 Dr Gabriel Doctor from @UCL has received a Kidney Research UK clinical training fellowship award of £300,000 to investigate the genetic causes of idiopathic nephrotic syndrome (INS). Read more below 👇 bit.ly/48Y6I03

Fantastic work Melanie Chan - I can’t wait to see you answer these mysteries over the next few years!

The primary piece from my PhD on cystic kidney disease is out today in Journal of Clinical Investigation! jci.org/articles/view/… The full thread discussing the paper is linked in the tweet below. As always many thanks to Medical Research Council and Genomics England, UCL Renal Genomics and many more!