Cell Design Institute @UCSF
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Official Account of the Cell Design Institute @UCSF. Bringing a unique foundational approach to cell therapies.
San Francisco, California
Joined January 2021
Please RT! We are hiring Junior Specialists (pre-PhD level) for variety of cell engineering and synthetic biology projects. Our trainees have gone on to PhD, MD, and industry positions at @UCSF, @Harvard, @sonomabio, @genentech, @ArsenalBio, @UCSD, etc!.
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Congratulations Adam!!.
I am excited to announce that in March, I will start my lab in the Department of Cancer Biology (@Penn_CBIO) at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine (@PennMedicine).
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RT @ImmunoPodcast: New from Drs. @NishRReddy, Wendell Lim, and others at @CDI_UCSF!. They engineered human T cells to make a synthetic rece….
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RT @DrMilosSimic: Check out our latest work on building “smart cells” with a tissue GPS to precisely treat some of the most challenging dis….
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Congratulations to all collaborators and thank you to our funders: @stevenschem @OphirKlein @benoitbruneau @PetrKaspareksci @jbrunger @NIH @NIGMS @Yini_Xiao.
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Toshi and Coralie engineered synthetic organizer cells that programmably send signals to developing embryos in vitro. They observe highly ordered beating heart like structures, and show how organizer cells can direct sophisticated developmental assemblies!.
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The latest from Lim Lab at CDI out today in @CellCellPress! "Synthetic organizer cells guide development via spatial and biochemical instructions" led by star postdocs Toshi Yamada (@ToshimichiY) and Coralie Trentesaux.
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RT @NeurosurgUCSF: .@UCSF scientists have developed a “molecular GPS” system that makes it so that T cells can target and attack brain tumo….
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RT @MaachiHasna: Thrilled to share our latest collaborative work with the Lim Lab, it has been an incredible journey that wouldn’t have bee….
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RT @HershBhargava: HUGE congratulations to my labmates @NishRReddy and @DrMilosSimic!! Making waves so big we almost had a tsunami today 🌊.
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RT @ScienceMagazine: An engineered T cell (center) is designed to deliver therapies to the brain. This T cell displays orange synthetic rec….
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RT @UCSF: Bravo to Wendell Lim, PhD, and team for making the cover of @ScienceMagazine! The team armed immune cells with “molecular GPS” to….
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This work wouldn't be possible without the support of our funders and institutions including @AtUcsf @parkerici @UCSF @NIH @NIDDKgov @HIRN_CC @theNCI @NINDSfunding @ARPAHealth @ValhallaFound @UCSFCancer et al!.
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Huge congratulations to all authors, including @NishRReddy @DrMilosSimic @HebrokLab @AParent_lab @MaachiHasna @Yini_Xiao @OkadaLabUCSF1 @OlgaTroyanskaya @AllenLabAtUCSF @Yuweiba2 et al!.
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Paper 2 led by Lim Lab postdoc Dr. Milos Simic and Okada Lab postdoc Dr. Payal Watchmaker describes T cells engineered to deliver therapeutic payloads to the brain 🧠 – both for treating cancer and neuroinflammation, such as in multiple sclerosis.
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Paper 1 led by recently graduated Lim Lab PhD student Dr. Nish Reddy (@NishRReddy) (now a postdoc in @zhangf lab at @broadinstitute) involves T cells engineered to home in on and suppress inflammation, including in organ transplant models.
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Big news today: 2 papers and the cover of @ScienceMagazine!. @NishRReddy et al. built T cells that suppress inflammation in specific tissues @DrMilosSimic, Payal Watchmaker et al. built T cells that deliver therapies to the brain
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RT @NishRReddy: We explored exciting new directions for cell engineering @CDI_UCSF out now in Science:. 🎯 Synthetic immune cells that suppr….
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RT @HershBhargava: With PhD admissions season in full swing I'm reposting the application writing guide @fraser_lab and I wrote. We discuss….
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