Kate Fitzgerald
@FitzgeraldKate
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Innate Immunologist and Cytokine biologist 🇮🇪 UMass Chan Medical School. Opinions are my own.
Worcester, MA
Joined October 2011
Congratulations @Mucus_Man !
🚨While the world is burning down around us, I'm happy to share that I've been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. Though this is considered a personal achievement, it was only possible due to the wonderful trainees in the lab, who carried me here❤️.
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So cool ! Congrats @Nikita2106 & @PitarresiLab
Congrats to postdoc @Nikita2106 for winning the Margaret Foti (@AACR_CEO) Scholar-in-Training Award for next month's Pancreatic AACR conference! If you see her at the conference, be sure to ask her about her work on PDAC cachexia, bioRxiv link below! https://t.co/SKsxKkdvog
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Cannot imagine a more exciting set of recruits ! Congratulations @CFI_UMN @carlarothlin
We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Carla Rothlin(@carlarothlin) as our new Director of the Center for Immunology and Dr. Sourav Ghosh as CFI Program director, Immunology of Tissue Resolution, Repair, & Regeneration at UMN! Both join us from Yale and officially start in August 2025.
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Congratulations @futianmin
Activation of Retron-Septu for antiphage defense. Congrats @futianmin and all co-authors! https://t.co/LqPAi2TYC9
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Activation of Retron-Septu for antiphage defense. Congrats @futianmin and all co-authors! https://t.co/LqPAi2TYC9
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Terrific spotlight by @UMassChan on PhD candidate @FavourFavvycool highlighting Favour’s outstanding accomplishments and work on #sarcoma & #GIST, and well-deserved accolades for her research and presentations! https://t.co/bFT0Q3uky6
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PhD candidate Favour Akabogu has earned a scholarship and an award to continue research developing new therapies for GIST, a rare type of cancer.
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With our RTI colleagues Xiaobin Ling and @WenwenFang2, we report cryo-EM structures of enigmatic bacterial RNA nanocages made of long-noncoding ROOL RNAs. Octamers are held by "A-minor staples" and other interactions. Congrats Xiaobin, Dima et al! https://t.co/kThZa5hsMS
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Important story in @people about patient with Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB). Features Dr. Diana Reusch, a faculty member that I recruited to my department @UMassChan who directs the EB clinic, the only one in New England that cares for these patients. https://t.co/kotTNyNVTs
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Tayma, 9, struggles with the most severe version of Epidermolysis Bullosa, a rare, agonizing disorder that causes skin to blister and crack
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I discuss the urgent crisis from the loss of federal support of science in the US and recent clinical gene editing breakthroughs with @WalterIsaacson & @amanpour on @AmanpourCoPBS, airing on @PBS tonight at 11 pm ET, and on @cnni earlier today. Pls share! https://t.co/cyVZpAwJiq
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Many congratulations to the new class of BWF PATH investigators. Extra kudos to the superlative Megan Orzalli, whose work continues to redefine our understanding of host defense. @VirulentMind @UMassChan
https://t.co/3zpLC7b3AK
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DURHAM, N.C. – The Burroughs Wellcome Fund proudly announces the 2025 Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease (PATH) award recipients. This year’s cohort represents a diverse group of...
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Melissa Harris and John Harris, MD, PhD'05, a dermatologist and physician-scientist @UMassChan, have endowed a scholarship at the Medical School to bring more opportunity to aspiring physicians.
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Melissa Harris and John Harris, MD, PhD'05, have endowed a scholarship at UMass Chan Medical School to bring more opportunity to aspiring physicians.
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Two years at @UMassChan @UMassChanNeuro My sincere gratitude to all faculty and staff colleagues in the department ! It has been an amazing journey! Thanks a lot to our team members ! Raquel, Bianca and Natalia ! 🎉Special thanks to our dear friend @SchaferLabUMass 🙏
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Congratulations Celia @UMassChan_BMB
Congratulations Celia Anne Schiffer of @UMassChan, newly inducted #NASmember! #NAS162 #biophysics #biology
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Save the NIH and enable the future cures that will benefit humanity as they do now and have before. #NIHsaveslives
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Gov Healey in Worcester to talk about threat of NIH funding cuts. @telegramdotcom @UMassChan
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Jessica Spinelli, PhD, identifies rhodoquinone, a metabolite in bacteria and worms, as a fundamental electron transporter in the mammalian electron transport chain. Research could have clinical potential for protecting cells from hypoxia: https://t.co/V9spK49ONR
@CellCellPress
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Identification of the metabolite rhodoquinone as the second electron transporter may have clinical applications for treating ischemia.
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Congratulations @qingyuhms !! @UMassChan
It’s an incredible honor to receive the ASMS Research Award. I’m thankful to the selection committee and humbled to be alongside with so many brilliant scientists. This recognition is a reflection of the amazing collaborators and mentors I’ve had the privilege to work with.
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Congratulations @davidliu
Last night I was honored to receive the 2025 #BreakthroughPrize in the Life Sciences, reflecting the efforts of many students, collaborators, doctors, and patients in labs around the world. I hope this 4-minute excerpt can inspire when science needs public support more than ever.
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Anastasia Khvorova, PhD, plans to use the #EKFS prize money to develop #RNA molecules that can prevent the production of toxic proteins in the brain. Such abnormal proteins are behind aging and many neurodegenerative diseases: https://t.co/nzIf2IDmzE
@EKFStiftung @RTI_UMassChan
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Anastasia Khvorova, PhD, has been awarded the 2025 Else Kröner Fresenius Prize for Medical Research.
RNA researcher Anastasia Khvorova, PhD, professor of RNA therapeutics at UMass Chan Medical School, receives the Else Kröner Fresenius Prize for Medical Research 2025! Congratulations! 🎉 @UMassChan
https://t.co/0A04vaNgmY
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