Healing the heart! jci.org/articles/view/… Eduardo Marban, MD, PhD Ke Liao & team Cedars-Sinai discover the long non-coding RNA BCYRN1 contained in extracellular vesicles from cardiosphere-derived cells modulates Tregs and reduces damage in a mouse heart-attack model.

This week, I had the privilege of traveling to Washington, D.C., to meet with senators, representatives, and their dedicated staff. Our discussions centered around promoting Duke Health's missions of research, patient care, education, and community partnership. I am deeply

Promoting regenerative responses in a pulmonary fibrosis model! Victor J. Thannickal & team Tulane Medicine discover blocking CTLA4 in immune cells induced regeneration and reduce fibrosis in a mouse model of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: jci.org/articles/view/…

Congratulations to Peter Chen on receiving the Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award from the American Thoracic Society for his extraordinary research

Losing the Y chromosome seems to make cancer cells more aggressive in men and the phenomenon may even spread between cells go.nature.com/4jwznP7

The loss of Y-chromosome in men affects the immune system's T cells and helps explain higher risk cancer mortality nature.com/articles/d4158…

Nature research paper: Concurrent loss of the Y chromosome in cancer and T cells impacts outcome go.nature.com/3TbikHo

ASCI member Saar Gill et al. Penn Medicine show that obliterative bronchiolitis after lung or hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is characterized by an expansion of activated tissue resident memory T cells, macrophage chemotaxis and proliferation, and dysfunctional stromal

1/ Following 1st IBD GWAS 2005 at University of Oxford implicated TNFSF15 in CD - huge effort with colleagues at IBD at Cedars-Sinai & Prometheus Bio ➡️novel Rx in CD. Has been my passion to deliver benefits of genomic advances to improve lives of people with IBD 🌍 thelancet.com/journals/langa…

Congratulations to Zoltan Arany appointed Chair of the Department of Physiology, Perelman School of Medicine!

In this day and age, academic researchers can’t put all their eggs in the NIH basket and survive. In today’s ACG Clinical Research Leadership Program, Dr. Chris Almario discusses the importance of diversifying a research portfolio.

Beautiful views today for my #850challenge 🏃‍♀️ to #sockittokidneydisease - & also 🏃‍♀️ to help raise awareness for the 🥶 on lifesaving NIH funds ⁦Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine⁩ ⁦Northwestern Kidney⁩ - we can’t give up on finding #cures

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Alexandra Gangi as our new Division Director of Surgical Oncology in the Jim and Eleanor Randall Department of Surgery! 🎉👏👏👏 Alexandra Gangi, MD Cristina Ferrone Cancer at Cedars-Sinai

ICYMI: Bolstering the antibiotic arsenal! This issue’s cover features work by Victor Nizet & team on the unexpected potent activity of colistin against multidrug-resistant, mcr+, Gram negative bacterial pathogens including E. coli and Salmonella enterica.

Remarkable trip to speak at the 41st meeting of the Society of Atlantic Rheumatologists on lung fibrosis and autoimmunity in Prince Edward Island Canada. Great talk by Dr. Marie Hudson. Great memories 🙏

☀️ Summer’s here and so is the momentum for our 2025 Biomarkers of Aging Conference! Our Conference team is in the midst of finalizing two full days of high-impact programming, spotlighting cutting-edge progress in aging biomarkers and offering insights into how these

So excited for my new book, PULL, to publish in October. It's about how gravity, which was here long before we were and will persist long after we're gone, shapes your body, mind & health. Thx to Ethan Kross for this early review! Book info/preorder link: amazon.com/Pull-Gravity-S…

Psilocybin treatment extends cellular lifespan and improves survival of aged mice 👉 “We provide the first experimental evidence that psilocin (the active metabolite of psilocybin) treatment extends cellular lifespan and psilocybin treatment promotes increased longevity in aged

Super excited to share our recent publication in PNAS by Rui Zhang et al. describing how using CRISPR to remove pH sensitivity of NCX1 helps maintain its function during acidosis, which is cardioprotective during ischemia/reperfusion. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Rey Rampolla, MD Keerthana Sankar, MD UCSF Health Nicholas Kolaitis, MD MAS Cedars-Sinai Academic Medicine CSPCCM Fellowship 🫁 JHLT Thank you, Dr. Rampolla. I am 2 years post double lung transplant. 1-22-23. My wife just had hers on 6-22-25. We both had it at Baylor St. Lukes in Houston, TX. She has PCD and Alpha-1 Antitrypsin deficiency. Thank you for being such an amazing doctor to me!!