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Organic Chemist (Drug Discovery & Glycobiology) at CSIR, Earlier at CSIR-IIIM Jammu as Director, Piramal Healthcare Mumbai, NII New Delhi & Cambridge University

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Ram Vishwakarma
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N-glycans in a new role and, perhaps, another glyco-checkpoint !N-glycans on glycosylated RNAs hide self-RNA from endosomal Toll like receptors promoting silent clearance of dead cells | Nature.
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Why does RNA undergo glycosylation? Excited to have our new paper out. We in collab w/ Ryan Flynn show N-glycans on glycoRNAs hide self-RNA from endosomal TLRs promoting ‘silent’ clearance of dead cells. @uconnhealth @UConnResearch
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US-FDA grants accelerated approval to a new oral drug for diffuse midline glioma (brain tumor) in adults and children
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On August 6, 2025, the Food and Drug Administration granted accelerated approval to dordaviprone.
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RT @Nature: Replenishing the brain’s natural stores of lithium can protect against and even reverse Alzheimer’s disease. .
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Nature - Studies in rodents and humans suggest that low levels of the metal contribute to cognitive decline.
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RT @salonium: In the chart below, you can see this decline across age groups. Across all ages, the risk of death from cardiovascular diseas….
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Ram Vishwakarma
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Great article: The progress in surgery, drugs, prevention, and emergency response has driven down death rates from heart disease and stroke dramatically — what led to this revolution saving millions of lives?
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Over a century of progress in surgery, drugs, prevention, and emergency response has driven down death rates from heart disease and stroke.
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Ram Vishwakarma
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Resolution enhancement by sequential imaging with metabolic labelling, enabling the visualization of individual sugars within glycans on the cell surface: Images of the glycocalyx with resolution down to 9 Å in an optical microscope. Nature Nanotechnology
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Nature Nanotechnology - By combining bioorthogonal metabolic labelling and resolution enhancement through sequential imaging of DNA barcodes, the molecular organization of individual sugars in the...
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Ram Vishwakarma
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RT @yaireinhorn: 1/Here’s an excellent Financial Times article which accurately describes the problematic situation which many big Pharma c….
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Ram Vishwakarma
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RT @CEPIvaccines: Nipah virus kills up to 75% of those infected, yet there are no approved vaccines to defend against it. CEPI is a lead f….
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Scientists are racing to combat one of the world’s deadliest viruses with two groundbreaking new vaccines. 
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“Could a current second-line therapy, methotrexate, be equally effective as steroids, perhaps with fewer adverse events for pulmonary sarcoidosis” | NEJM
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Prednisone is currently recommended as the first-line treatment for pulmonary sarcoidosis but is associated with many side effects. Methotrexate, which is recommended as a second-line treatment, ap...
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Ram Vishwakarma
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RT @mvaduganathan: 🚨 Finerenone Approved by US FDA in HF based on #FINEARTSHF. Finerenone (Kerendia) is a non-steroidal.MRA indicated to re….
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RT @DeepaHRajan: Our paper on single-cell learning is now published in @CurrentBiology! .@WallaceUcsf .
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RT @MazDivangahi: Thrilled to share our study @ImmunityCP how a TB-vaccine (BCG) and a fungi fragment (b-glucan) synergistically train neu….
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The chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy for cancers impaired cognitive function and induced a persistent CNS immune response characterized by microglial reactivity, chemokine expression, and elevated CSF cytokines and chemokines : Cell
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CAR T cell therapy can cause cognitive impairment in mouse models with central nervous system (CNS) and non-CNS cancers by inducing persistent neuroinflammation, thereby disrupting oligodendroglial...
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RT @JaviGBermudez: My lab's first paper is out in @Nature. We show that lipoprotein uptake protects tumors from ferroptosis by delivering t….
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Nature - Lipoprotein uptake dependent on sulfated glycosaminoglycans linked to cell-surface proteoglycans is a key determinant of ferroptosis sensitivity in cancer.
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RT @davidasinclair: NEW STUDY: More than twice as many diabetic patients exposed to GLP-1 RAs (Ozempic, Wagovy, Mounjaro) developed age-rel….
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In ER-positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer, vepdegestrant was associated with significantly longer progression-free survival than fulvestrant in the subgroup with ESR1 mutations but not in the full patient population | NEJM
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Vepdegestrant is an oral proteolysis-targeting chimera (PROTAC) estrogen receptor (ER) degrader that directly harnesses the ubiquitin–proteasome system. In this phase 3, open-label, randomized tria...
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AbSet: This data set provides a comprehensive data set composed of standardized experimental structures of antibody–antigen complexes extracted from the RCSB PDB and represented through molecular descriptors at the residue level
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Machine learning algorithms have played a fundamental role in the development of therapeutic antibodies by being trained on data sets of sequences and/or structures. However, structural data sets...
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