@miriammerad
Director, Marc and Jennifer Lipschultz Precision Immunology Institute: https://icahn.mssm.edu/research/immunology Harnessing the innate immune system for novel therapies against cancer & inflammatory diseases: https://www.meradlab.org/
Researching immune aging means playing the long game. Lifespan & healthspan science demands longitudinal human studies to uncover what drives resilience vs decline. Hear how from NIA Scientific Director Luigi Ferrucci at Immunoschool.
Free registration: www.eventbrite.com/e/internatio...
At Immunoschool, @gitlinlabmsk.bsky.social will show how VEXAS syndrome is reshaping our understanding of immune aging, late-onset inflammatory disease & new routes to immunotherapy. A powerful 🔗 between clonal hematopoiesis & systemic inflammation.
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When immune cells go senescent, the whole body may follow. But next generation immunotherapies like CAR-T cells and vaccines targeting senoantigens could help us fight back. Don't be a 🧟♀️ and 😴 on this opportunity to hear how we can target senescence:
FREE sign-up: www.eventbrite.com/e/internatio...
New @cp-cancercell.bsky.social review by @brownlab1.bsky.social & @miriammerad.bsky.social highlights tools to re-engineer the myeloid system—from CAR-Ts to targeted, TME reprogramming LNPs—and turn immunosuppressive tumor macrophages into potent tumor killers 🧐 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
What if aging begins in the youngest immune cells? Emmanuelle Passegué reveals how changes in hematopoietic stem cells drive declining immunity, inflammaging & disease risk, and how restoring them could rebuild resilience.
Program: immunoschool.org
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Guido Kroemer joins the 2026 Immunoschool to highlight the hallmarks of immune aging and how they drive decline. Aging hallmarks—from genomic instability to inflammaging—are interconnected & potentially targetable.
See what's on immunoschool.org
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The immune system profoundly shapes aging as it interacts with every organ. New single-cell & spatial tools now map where this relationship breaks down and where interventions support healthy longevity. More @ Immunoschool
Program: immunoschool.org
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3 days. Global faculty and learners of all career stages. Aging, immunity and translation at the cutting edge.
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Explore the program: immunoschool.org
The second speaker will be Vishwa Deep Dixit of the Yale Univertsity Center for Research on Aging
📣 Immunoschool 2026 is open for registration 📣
Explore how immunotherapy can promote healthy longevity, from targeting senescent cells to rejuvenating exhausted immunity and reducing inflammaging.
FREE, online March 23–25.
Program: immunoschool.org
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I am thrilled to announce that our latest paper is out now in @cp-cancercell.bsky.social! 1/n www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
New **RESOURCE** in @natcancer.nature.com - a landmark single-cell Immune Atlas of multiple myeloma—1.3M+ bone marrow cells from 337 patients. Led by the Immune Atlas Consortium with major contributions from Sacha Gnjatic, @edgargk.bsky.social & HIMC profiling teams 🧐 www.nature.com/articles/s43...
📣 VIRTUAL TOWNHALL 📣
This Friday. Organized by NY-CURES & postdoc unions ✍️ >>> docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Find out how the proposed Empire Biomedical Research Institute can help solve issues NY State is grappling with: affordability, workforce stability and long-term health & economic growth.
A whimsical, vintage-style Christmas illustration shows Santa Claus flying in a sleigh over Albany, New York. Santa wears a vibrant blue-green suit with white fur trim and holds a scroll titled "This Year’s Nice List," featuring items like "New tools for prevention, diagnostics, and therapeutics" and "Supported postdocs and early-career scientists." His sleigh, shaded in coordinating tones of teal and blue-green, is overflowing with scientific lab equipment such as test tubes, microscopes, and conical tubes. Cheerful reindeer, each dressed in tiny white lab coats, pull the sleigh through a snowy, star-filled sky. Below, Albany’s Capitol buildings glow warmly amid a snowy landscape, completing the festive and science-themed scene.
New York’s research ecosystem delivered plenty of “nice list” rewards this year. Now we need Albany to deliver EBRI so we can keep that impact growing. Research is the gift that keeps on giving, so for a healthier and wealthier New Year for all New Yorkers, sign our letter to 🎅 >>> c.org/hwy54dWJDb
Holiday card showing a Christmans tree made up of gift boxes containing very expressive pics of each Miriam Merad lab member, a bit like they're looking out from the windows of a tenement building made of gift boxes - and some shown in gold baubles at the top of card
🎁 Happy holidays from our laboratory to yours. 🎁
Here’s to standing up for science and to a more peaceful and kinder year ahead!
Need more info before signing petition for state-backed research institute? Get the full behind-the-scenes 🎞️ of how the Empire Biomedical Research Institute proposal came to be, what’s needed to move it forward, and how other states can follow suit: keypoint.keystonesymposia.org/home/shruti-...
🗞️ in @gothamist.com from @clewisreports.bsky.social.
Our 2 cents: EBRI doesn’t compete with other urgent needs — it equips NYS to meet them. Not funding it now worsens pressures; funding it grows the economy to help fix them.
State-backed research is a win-win-win-win. gothamist.com/news/ny-medi...
🚨 REVIEW 🚨
Amir Horowitz & Peter Heeger in @natrevneph.nature.com highlight how diverse NK cells in the kidney support immune surveillance but also drive injury in many diseases and contribute to transplant damage, with high-resolution profiling revealing new therapeutic targets. 🧐 rdcu.be/eUgor
Petition for a NY Biomedical Institute. This is a no-brainer to support science in NY, similar to programs in CA/TX.
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Wondering why you should ✍ our petition? c.org/nDnRNSsVcq
In @aai.org, founder @drshrutinaik.bsky.social reveals why the coalition was formed, why NY needs a state-backed research institute, and how scientists should organize for systemic support — here and nationwide.
news.aai.org/2025/11/20/n...
Run a lab? Work in a lab? Wondering where your future research funding will come from?
New York has an unprecedented opportunity on the table — a bold proposal to supercharge biomedical research and innovation across the state.
👉 Sign the petition & share to help make it happen.: c.org/TDMy2H9JTW
We’re in a proud, confident and ambitious Empire State of mind! If you believe in building a better and brighter tomorrow, hustle on over to sign and share the petition for an Empire Biomedical Research Institute to fuel the future and the people like you who power discovery. c.org/hwy54dWJDb
📢 SIGN & SHARE THE PETITION! 📢
New York needs an Empire Biomedical Research Institute to create new statewide funding opportunities for scientists & physician-scientists so that patients and their families get the life-saving and life-changing new therapeutics they're hoping for ✏️ c.org/TDMy2H9JTW
For an expert opinion on the recent report that mRNA COVID vaccines may help immune checkpoint blockade work in patients with advanced lung cancer and metastatic melanoma, read this News & Views in @natrevclinonc.nature.com by Sacha Gnjatic FREE >>> rdcu.be/eQYcu
Taxpayers should not accept cuts in funding for cancer research. Bravo 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 @miriammerad.bsky.social
👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼Sign up to show New York State law makers that you want your tax dollars to fund life saving research www.nycures.org
Our new review in @natbiomedeng.nature.com is out!
RNA-loaded lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) have huge potential—but their strong liver and immune cell uptake has mostly confined them to vaccines and liver therapies. We explore how to move beyond those limits.
free to read 🔗 rdcu.be/eLxGs
Add your name ✍ at www.nycures.org so Albany sees 10,000 scientists calling for the future of biomedical research to be built right here in New York.
Our first email to members goes out soon—introducing the statewide biomedical institute we’re proposing and how you can help power it forward.
Wondering what *exactly* we’re up to?
Our first coalition email is about to go out—introducing the statewide biomedical institute we’re proposing and how you can help power it forward THIS WEEK!
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From patient to scientist: Sergei German beat cancer thanks to clinical trials, inspiring him to leave his career in finance and drive research @nygenome.org
A NY statewide biomedical institute will make more incredible stories like his possible.
Help make this happen, sign up at www.nycures.org/
Scientists—let’s use our agency!
NY-CURES is championing a landmark statewide biomedical institute for New York, built to restore and grow science for all
Working FOR a brighter future gives us hope, purpose, and momentum.
Want to be part of it? Follow us + DM—we’ve got many ways to get involved.
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Add your name to show NY is ready for a statewide biomedical institute.
CA’s CIRM & TX’s CPRIT proved it works—billions returned, jobs created, cures accelerated. Let’s do even better for New York.
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