Celebrity sighting in London. Very cool, Michael Baym

"We're the National Institutes of Health, not the National Institutes of Not Dying," said Dr. Keith Jerome of Fred Hutch, who explained how community advocacy has elevated the importance of #HSV #cure research at the NIH and other federal funding sources. bit.ly/3U42C1y

News from earlier this Fall from Assembly Bio. Thanks to Luis M Schang for this write up! herpescureadvocacy.com/2024/09/24/ear…

Excited to be involved in this study led by Helen Chu as part of the CDC's CHARM network tracking the spread of respiratory viruses across the US.

Virology now offers the H5 influenza test - testguide.labmed.uw.edu/view/FLUH5 ! Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center @uwmedicine and HutchIDSciences UW Dept. of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology 🔬

1/ How has H5N1 affected this year’s flu season in Seattle? Despite ongoing outbreaks in birds & cattle nationally, we detected zero H5N1 cases in 675 influenza A-positive specimens tested at UW Medicine.

6/ Read more in our manuscript from the Greninger Lab at UW Virology: medrxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…. Many people contributed to this work, including Margaret Mills, Ailyn Perez-Osorio, and Pavitra Roychoudhury.

Helen Chu is one of the ousted #ACIP members. She spoke to me today about her grave concerns for future vaccination policy and vaccine access in the United States. statnews.com/2025/06/10/cdc…

New preprint led by Jennifer Lund: analysis of 232 participants shows that during HSV-2 shedding, T cells and dendritic cells form clusters in the cervicovaginal epithelia — helping maintain viral surveillance and limit damage. #GenitalHerpes #HSV2 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…