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A new review paper from our group at @BowenLi_Lab! In this ADDR paper, we dive deep into the clinical delivery of circular RNA and what we've learned to so far. If you don't have access, ADDR is providing 50 day free, so no excuses! Check it out! authors.elsevier.com/a/1h080…

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I found NSERC's letter for my PhD fellowship in 1980! I got $8500/year. To keep up with inflation, NSERC would have needed to raise fellowships to $20,572 by 2003, which they did! Good job! But notice what has happened since 2003... @SupportOurSci
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For those unfamiliar with #SupportOurScience - a protest against exploiting academic trainees. @ontariotech_u what are you doing to change this? Currently, your PhD students study >5 years full time plus work 10 hrs/week to survive on about 10K/year (post tuition). Livable?
#SupportOurScience science & scientists in Canada need to be supported. Scientists can’t afford living here and Canada can’t afford to keep losing its talented people to better opportunities outside of Canada. Grad students & post docs struggle in Canada.
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So proud to share the exciting work completed by my supervisor during his time at MIT! A game-changer for gene editing in the lungs. I feel so lucky to have been part of this work and look forward to building upon the research!
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Glad to share that one of my projects with Dan Anderson and Bob Langer @kochinstitute @MIT is in print @NatureBiotech! Alongside @UMassChan, we developed a high-throughput chemical strategy to create and test 720 unique ionizable LNPs for gene delivery to lung epithelium. 1/3
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Cell explodes after getting bitten: #biology
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Flooding, species protection, and water quality are all major reasons why we need to protect the #Greenbelt. There's a reason why it's protected.
If @fordnation gets his way, a new 4-6 lane highway will be paved through the world's largest protected Greenbelt. But @s_guilbeault has the power to stop it. Tell the feds to STOP HIGHWAY 413 by signing here bit.ly/3FgEqCq #HandsOffTheGreenbelt
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Breaking: ONA has received Justice Koehnen’s decision declaring Bill 124 unconstitutional & contrary to s 2(d) of the Charter. As a result of this decision, Bill 124 is void & of no effect. Nurses are demanding the government respect the court’s decision. #RepealBill124 #ONpoli
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Just left my multivalent vaccine development meeting to go get a #multivlent #rnavaccine.
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Thanks to everyone who made the #PRiMESympsium2022 a reality! Too many to name. I had an amazing time learning, sharing, and networking!
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@UofTPRiME Fellows Lightening Talks at #PRiMESymposium2022. 3 min talks - challenge successfully accomplished! 👏👏👏#newprojects #newideas #innovation #BestFellows
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#UofT ranked 18th in the world – & second among North American public universities – by @TimesHigherEd 🏫 uoft.me/8o7
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New report on myocarditis after mRNA Covid vaccines w/verification of cases acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/… @AnnalsofIM Overall incidence ages 5-39 1st dose: 1 in 200,000 2nd dose: 1 in 30,000 3rd dose: 1 in 50,000 "the benefits of mRNA vaccination greatly outweigh the risk"
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Proud of my old lab mate making a name for herself while supporting expression in science! Not to mention making super cool photodynamic siRNA conjugates along the way! #siRNA #photodynamictherapy #womeninscience
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I’m also naming my poster princess pink 🤪 If Disney made a real science poster this is how it would look like 💕 I choose this colour scheme to encourage younger girls to join science and let them know we can be girly and real scientists at the same time.👸🏻
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Mucosal vaccines are the future! Throw circular RNA and advanced lipid nanoparticle into that recipe and you've got a PRiME platform for next gen respiratory vaccines! #COVID19 #rnavaccines #circularrna
The next PRiME 2022 Fellow Spotlight is @RNAVarley, a Postdoctoral Fellow in @BowenLIi_Lab and co-supervised by @Jengommerman and Prof. Scott Gray-Owen. He is working on creating the next generation #Covid19 #Vaccine!
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It was great to meet many of the faces of @UofTPRiME yesterday and see some amazing work from @WAH_Canada about mitochondrial proteases! Can't wait to see more of what the research rounds have to offer. #uoft #PrimeFellow #precisionmedicine
PRiME Scientific Director @PardeeLab says: Research rounds are great place & opportunity to bring community together, learn about other persons research & initiate new collaborations! In coming months you will hear about research coming from our Felllowship program and PRiME PIs!
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Busy weekend working with a grad student to get our preliminary data together in time for grants and fellowship applications! Felt like the firefly, Gaussia, Lucia, and SEAP assays would never end. This would never have been possible without the teamwork.
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Congratulations to @UofTPRiME Fellowship winners, I couldn't be more excited to be among such talent! Looking forward to turns ideas into precision medicines with such meaningful co-supervisors! @UofTPharmacy @BowenLi_Lab @JenGommerman @GrayOwenLab
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Excited to share a recent publication from the @DesaulniersLab at @ontariotech_u Great collaborations bearing fruit here!
Check out our latest publication in collaboration with exchange student Dr. Kouta Tsubaki from Prof.Tatsuo Okauchi's group in Japan @kyutech University. siRNAs with Neutral Phosphate Triester Hydrocarbon Tails Exhibit Carrier-Free Gene-Silencing Activity pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
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The wastewater team @ontariotech_u is growing! PDF and technician positions available, take a look!
We have positions available for 3 PDFs and a technician for April 1 2022 start, working on exciting projects in molecular biology and mass spec on our Wastewater Monitoring program at Ontario Tech University. Please see link for details and RT! tinyurl.com/4azp36c6
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