Sa university, pag marami kang absent, kick out ka na. Dapat si BBM ganun din. #BBMduwag #LetLeniLead

2021 is the year of Filipina champions... First gold medal in the Olympics and now first Nobel Peace Prize. I think this foreshadows that a female President will be victorious in 2022. And I'm not pertaining to the one from Davao...

The pandemic will end. Current cases/deaths spike is the result of naive immune systems meeting SARS-CoV-2. Once enough # of people have gained immunity through vaccination or infection, virus will be endemic. It won’t be eliminated, but it won’t be as devastating as it is now.

Ang tahimik ng mga DDS sa COA issue... Nag-iisip pa kung ano ang script?

COVID variants based on geographic origin: ALPHA-UK OCT 2020 BETA-S Africa DEC 2020 GAMMA-Japan JAN 2021 DELTA-India OCT 2020 ETA-UK, Nigeria DEC 2020 IOTA-USA NOV 2020 KAPPA-India DEC 2020 LAMBDA-Peru AUG 2020 EPSILON-USA JUL 2020 ZETA-Brazil APR 2020 THETA-Philippines FEB 2021

Less than 0.001% of people fully vaccinated against COVID-19 experienced a breakthrough case resulting in death, based on CDC data.

The Spanish Flu pandemic paved the way to the Roaring 20s: great advances in music, literature and art. Though brief, the pandemic ushered in a new era of prosperity, social mobility, and change. I believe something like this will happen after we recover from COVID-19.

BREAKING: The Philippine’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contracted by 9.5% in 2020, worse than the 7% in 1984. This is now the steepest post-war slump in Philippine history using available data dating back to 1947.

First ever 3D images of SARS-CoV-2 by the Nanographics company from frozen samples of the virus. nanographics.at/projects/cor…

Thank you Ateneo de Manila University, Department of Chemistry for honoring your outstanding alumni...

The South African variant of SARS-CoV-2 where the spike protein carry mutations K147N and E484K is resistant to neutralizing antibodies. People infected by the original COVID strain may no longer be protected from being re-infected by the new variant. nicd.ac.za/can-i-be-re-infec…

I’m officially appointed as member of @ChemEurope Early-Career Advisory Board...

Good news, but let's NOT SQUANDER this opportunity. The novel virus has limited genetic diversity, prob bec it may have just one source, but also bec it's new. Keep the pressure on the virus. Let's not give it a home to diversify and evolve... nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…

Almost 8 years later, my findings on HIV drug resistance have been found to be consistent with a HIV protease mutant that is resistant to the antiviral drug, Darunavir. Simple joys of a scientist. 😊 References: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article… ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article…

A follow up to one of my previous projects at Scripps Research has just been published in the American Chemical Society journal, J Med Chem. Here, 12 compounds have been assessed for binding to a drug target for Parkinson’s/Alzheimer’s called Nurr1. Link: bit.ly/3m8nf9n

I thought this is the year I’ll achieve all my goals and dreams. Instead, 2020 taught me to appreciate everything I have, most especially my loving family. HAPPY THANKSGIVING, everyone! Let’s thank God for the lesson in humility.

On my work anniversary at SLU School of Medicine, it’s about time to update my default photo here and on my lab’s website.

De Vera Drug Discovery and Molecular Biophysics Research Lab, Department of Pharmacology & Physiology, SLU School of Medicine, Fall 2020. From left to right: Uday, myself, Chris, Andrew, Ricky and Anya. Photo c/o Dr. Anutosh Chakraborty.

Happy 1st birthday, COVID! 🎂