Pedro Ventura-Aguiar
@PVentura_Aguiar
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Transplant Nephrologist MD, PhD @hospitalclinic, Researcher @IDIBAPS. Fellow @LVRiella lab 🇺🇲. Born 🇵🇹, based in Barcelona 🇪🇸! Views are my own.
Barcelona, Spain
Joined April 2018
🙋♂️Quieres saber mas sobre la Enfermedad Renal Cronica Avanzada (ERCA) en el paciente con Diabetes Mellitus (DM) y las alternativas de Tratamiento de Sustitución Renal (incluyendo el Trasplante Renal y Páncreas)? 👇Mira estos videos🎥 https://t.co/RcDmDsPwdg
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Join GlomCon in its Kidney Transplantation Series this Sunday Pancreas Transplantation by Dr. Pedro Ventura Aguiar ID: 817 4374 4653 Passcode 202122 sign up 👉 https://t.co/fxh2CVuWhy
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BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 It started from my frustration with the depressing effect that the current publishing system has
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⏳Time to refine induction therapy in SPKT? 💊Basiliximab vs thymo in low immunological risk patients: ➡️Similar patient and graft survival🎯 ➡️Similar rejection rate⚡️ ⬇️CMV infections📉 ⬇️BKV infection📉 https://t.co/t32LbdNyR3
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Happy to be the next @CRGenomica director. The CRG always stood out to me for its excellence in decoding life’s principles & its collaborative, open and innovative way of doing science. Thrilled to follow L Serrano footsteps & join its amazing community! https://t.co/JCoLBYmKxM
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🧬 New immunotherapy for atherosclerosis @CircRes 🔬Type 1 dendritic cells (cDC1s) promote #atherogenic #immunity & can be targeted with #tolerogenic #nanoparticles (NPs). 🔗 https://t.co/jqXSdwxX6I
#Immunotherapy #Cardiovascular #Atherosclerosis #Nanomedicine
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📢New tools for diagnosing pancreas rejection?⚡️ In SPKT, Trugraf demonstrated: ⬆️correlation with TCMR 📈83% NPV, 85% Specificity (higher with per cause biopsies) ⬆️ correlation with graft immune transcripts. @PVentura_Aguiar presents promising results at #IPITA2025
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🎯Basiliximab vs Thymo in low immune risk SPKT: ✅Similar recipient survival ✅Similar graft survival ✅No increased risk of graft rejection 📣Lower risk of CMV and BK infection Sharing new insights in pancreas induction therapy at #IPITA2025! @PVentura_Aguiar
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Planning your #ESOT2025 agenda? 🗓️ Don't miss this important discussion! On July 1, hear from Dr. John Friedewald (@jfriedo), Dr. Pedro Ventura (@PVentura_Aguiar), and Dr. Gregor Bond (@BondGregor) as they delve into the post-transplant testing landscape. #Eurofins
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A really nice paper out today from the Wang lab describing OmiCLIP, a visual–omics foundation model linking H&E images and transcriptomics, and the associated Loki analysis toolkit. https://t.co/LSe29Ll2gQ
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One of the most terrifying monster reveals in cinema history.
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He’s thriving nearly 4 months after receiving a gene-edited pig kidney at @mgh_transplant @MGHSurgery @MGHKidneys @harvardmed. “He was tired of just surviving. A pig kidney gave him a shot at living.” @CNN 🔗
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Tim Andrews knew that he needed dialysis to manage his end-stage kidney disease, but over months of treatment, he started to wonder whether it was worth it. Desperate for another option, he found a...
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📡We are looking for a post-doc interested in bioinformatics 🧬💻 🎯Explore role of innate immune cells in transplant rejection 🗒️Integrate layers of tissue molecular profile - microarray - bulk RNAseq - scRNAseq - Spatial transcriptomics 📨Contact for more info⬇️
📣Do you want to participate in the upcoming MSCA Postdoc Fellowship Call? IDIBAPS's PIs offer opportunities in their labs Application form before 18/5👉 https://t.co/pIMmim5RQg Registration to the Infoday 12/5👉 https://t.co/cEApXd5htS More information👉 https://t.co/mnTQ4eMM70
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🚨 Our new study in @SciTranslMed identified the inhibitory receptor Siglec-E as a critical brake on dendritic cell activation and T cell–mediated transplant rejection. 1/5 https://t.co/Z4FqTvFE8X
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Siglec-E negatively regulates innate immune responses and acute T cell–mediated transplant rejection in mice, offering a potential therapeutic target.
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Foxp3+CD8+ regulatory T cells: bona fide Tregs with cytotoxic function https://t.co/ASVQDz6dWW
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Just out in @ScienceMagazine! What if you could chart cells' regulatory programs at unprecedented resolution? In my work w/ #AlexisCaulier from the @bloodgenes lab, Perturb-multiome dissects genome’s circuits & finds where key genetic variation hides https://t.co/3Umks8fWJR 🧵👇
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🔥New Night Science paper!! Discovery happens when your initial plans fall apart but it requires you to have a particular mindset: it's not extraverted, orderly, neurotic or agreeable that's the most important – discovery requires an OPENNESS to new ideas and unexpected insights.
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The lab’s first @biorxivpreprint of 2025 is out! @jaimevquiroga turned the CAR Treg concept on its head and engineered Tregs that recognize and suppress allo-reactive B cells in HLA sensitized patients! #immunologymatters
#changingwhatspossible #CHARTreg
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BIG NEWS! Major paper out by Hongzhen Hu and @JacksonLab_HMS. Thanks to @NIH @AllenInstitute @AllenFrontiers @PGAFamilyFdn for support! Enteric neuronal Piezo1 maintains mechanical and immunological homeostasis by sensing force: Cell
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Spotiphy enables single-cell spatial whole transcriptomics across an entire section👍 https://t.co/c6kXfRr8D7
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Nature Methods - Spotiphy (spot imager with pseudo-single-cell-resolution histology) is a computational toolkit that transforms sequencing-based spatially resolved transcriptomics data into...
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