chemical biology and medicine | dermatology resident @harvardmed | via @BrighamWomens @HopkinsMedicine @DukeU
Boston, MA
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My wildest dream, come true. Beyond excited to join my future co-residents @HarvardDerm
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Beyond grateful to be named a STAT Wunderkind!
I feel incredibly fortunate to be working alongside such wonderful friends, colleagues, and mentors @harvardmed and @MassGenBrigham to better understand and treat the itch and pain that so often accompany disease.
#STATWunderkinds
This year, as in past years, we’ve found inspiring stories and innovative research. All are blazing new trails as they attempt to answer some of the biggest questions in science and medicine.
Meet the 2026 #STATWunderkinds!
statnews.com/wunderkinds/
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The dermMentors’ Resident of Distinction Awards Program recently celebrated its 15th anniversary at the @MauiDerm Hawaii conference. Meet the Class of 2026 and get to know more about their award-winning research and their aspirations. thedermdigest.com/residents-…
It was a privilege to care for her and to work alongside the incredible multidisciplinary team at @BostonChildrens
She once told me that she hoped sharing her story might help others like her receive timely diagnosis and care, and I hope this case brings us closer to that goal
An adolescent female presented with 3 days of progressive abdominal pain and reported that a rash first appeared nearly 1 year earlier on her left wrist and gradually spread over several weeks.
What is your diagnosis? ja.ma/49J3nWa
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An adolescent female presented with 3 days of progressive abdominal pain and reported that a rash first appeared nearly 1 year earlier on her left wrist and gradually spread over several weeks.
What is your diagnosis? ja.ma/49J3nWa
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New year, newly released data! This release includes our first PGS for prurigo nodularis (from @c_vasavda @drshawnkwatra @EugeneSemenovMD @SashaGusevPosts) 👉pgscatalog.org/score/PGS0043….
See pgscatalog.org for all the data, and pgscatalog.org/submit to submit your PGS!
Excited to share our discovery of genetic susceptibility to prurigo nodularis w a measure of polygenic risk! So grateful for the incredible mentorship and collaborative spirit of @drshawnkwatra @EugeneSemenovMD @SashaGusevPosts
jidonline.org/article/S0022-… @theJIDJournal #dermtwitter
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Check out our study published today in @NEJM on #nemolizumab for #prurigo nodularis bitly.ws/YxfA. The rapidity of itch reduction is a seismic finding that will send shockwaves reverberating throughout all of the itch & dermatology worlds. A huge win for itch patients!
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This morning, I spoke at my alma mater to @BrighamWomens residents and faculty to talk all things medicine and public health. I wouldn’t be where I am today without the extraordinary mentors and colleagues at BWH—will always be grateful for them.
ALT U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy in conversation.
ALT U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy standing with a member of the Brigham and Women's Hospital community.
ALT U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy taking a group photo with residents and faculty of Brigham and Women's Hospital.
ALT U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy taking a group photo with residents and faculty of Brigham and Women's Hospital.
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Sometimes my work puts me in touch with exceptional individuals. One of those, whom I had the pleasure of interviewing this week, is neuroscientist/psychiatrist Solomon Snyder. One of his colleagues described him to me as a "f*cking genius" and I was not disappointed 1/6
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Congrats to SOCS leader + 2022 Career Development Award winner @drshawnkwatra + team on the publication of their groundbreaking work in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, A polygenic risk score for predicting racial and genetic susceptibilit...sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Please check our latest paper nature.com/articles/s41593-0…. LSD and psilocin are high-affinity ligands of TrkB, sensitizing TrkB to BDNF, promoting plasticity, but not hallucinations. Huge thanks to all the co-authors, especially @RafaelMoliner, @p_casarotto and Ilpo Vattulainen.
Excited to share our discovery of genetic susceptibility to prurigo nodularis w a measure of polygenic risk! So grateful for the incredible mentorship and collaborative spirit of @drshawnkwatra @EugeneSemenovMD @SashaGusevPosts
jidonline.org/article/S0022-… @theJIDJournal #dermtwitter
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Check out our recent study showing a nearly two-fold increased risk of incident aortic valve calcification among those with elevated lipoprotein(a) and hsCRP. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
#ACCprev #ACC #CardioTwitter #JACCIMG #AorticDisease @rblument1
Eternally grateful to @HopkinsMDPhD and @HopkinsMedicine for the most fulfilling 20s I could have asked for
Chirag Vasavda (@c_vasavda) will be @MGHMedicine for Dermatology residency @HarvardDerm with a preliminary year @BrighamWomens @BrighamMedRes! Congratulations Chirag!
bilirubin demonstrating some hormesis with NMDA neurotransmission - attenuating NMDA redox signaling as we've shown vs potentiating excitotoxicity at pathologic concentrations as reported here.
another awesome case study in tight control of metabolism
cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S08…
whereas bilirubin activates TRPM2 above, we find that it also modulates superoxide redox signaling
cell.com/cell-chemical-biolo…
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Excited to share our work on an improved method for detecting off-target CRISPR-Cas genome editing, published in @naturemethods! A fun and collaborative study from my time @taekjip lab, building on seminal work on off-target detection @jcornlab, a 🧵:
nature.com/articles/s41592-0…
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1/ Do anti-anxiety
drugs influence cancer patient survival? To find out, read the new @TheFeiginLab
@medrxivpreprint, “Lorazepam stimulates IL-6 production and is associated with
poor survival outcomes in pancreatic cancer.” buff.ly/3TPw0Yp. Summary thread below (1/12):
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Can two males have a baby? A @nature paper published today shows how cells from mature male mice can be made into oocytes that can then be fertilized by another mouse. The result? Live, healthy mouse babies with two daddies nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Our recent review on the MRGPRs is out! In this review we discussed the structual, functional and pharmacogical advances of the highly diversed MRGPR receptors that may contribute the future drug discovery. Many thanks to @TrendsinPharma for inviting us to write this review :)
New review #GPCR
@CanCao_Natural congrats!!
The structure, function, and pharmacology of MRGPRs sciencedirect.com/science/ar…