Bruce D. Walker
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Director of Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard. Infectious Disease physician. Immunologist. Co-leader of @MassCPR. Birder. Mountain biker. Ice cream maker.
Cambridge, MA
Joined January 2020
The view from my current office of a corner of the new home of the @ragoninstitute—to be open and recruiting for early 2024. Can’t wait!
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Toured our new building @ragoninstitute with the chairs of our SAB David Baltimore and John Wherry and our Scientific Director Facundo Batista. One year to opening!
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Let the holidays begin! Spectacular performance by the @ragoninstitute choir at our Winter Holiday Party. Kudos to Choirmaster and NK cell maven Wilfredo Garcia-Beltran and the rest of the harmonious members!
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Congrats to @YuLabAtRagon @ragoninstitute for a great opinion piece on #hivcure in @TrendsImmuno this month-- time to reassess "latency" with real implications for cure strategies.
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Future home of @ragoninstitute in the heart of Kendall Square and @MIT! Can’t wait for Q1 of 2024!
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And also @ragoninstitute Associate Member @duane_wesemann !
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Story in @BostonGlobe today highlighting @ragoninstitute physician-scientist @GaihaGaurav. We need universal COVID vaccines! Scientists say we need universal coronavirus vaccines, but will they arrive in time? https://t.co/aEKZMswLAc via @BostonGlobe
bostonglobe.com
Next-generation vaccines could protect against future variants, but they will take longer to design than the original COVID shots.
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Great meeting @ragoninstitute with @aaas CEO Sudip Parikh and Terry Ragon. Thanks for all @aaas does to promote science, MMed now as much as ever
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Paul Farmer, THE person who made health into a human right and inspired legions to take action, has died. The world weeps.
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The Evavold lab is hiring a #postdoc. Come join us @ragoninstitute and @harvardmed to add your diverse experiences to our goals of discovering new regulation in #metabolism, innate #immunity, and cell #death through #synbio and unbiased screens. https://t.co/XwhzgGcmb3
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Wastewater data in Massachusetts from the MWRA looks like maybe the worst is passing, incredible increase and now drop in concentration of COVID RNA:
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Congrats to our talented technician Angela Zhang (and her mentor Xiaolong Li) on her first first-author publication on a new way to crystalize TCR! https://t.co/QwAXeaepmz. .
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Booster needed to neutralize the fast-spreading variant https://t.co/QrLVNizOqm via @wef Congrats to @ragoninstitute investigators @BalazsLab and @wilfredo_nk on their cell paper showing that booster really helps against omicron!
weforum.org
Individuals who received three doses of the mRNA vaccine had very significant neutralization against the Omicron variant, as opposed to those with two doses.
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Congrats to Xu Yu, Mathias Lictherfeld and the rest of the @ragoninstitute and broader team on their Cell publication on a roadmap for potential HIV cure!
science.org
Long-term antiretrovirals may corner viral genomes in inactive regions of DNA
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Great recognition for Xu Yu @ragoninstitute, and her international team, from Annals of Internal Medicine-- their report characterizing an HIV cure was named one of the most influential papers of 2021! t
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Ragon Member Gaurav Gaiha used his structure-based network analysis to help identify SARS-CoV-2 epitopes that may be good candidates for a T cell vaccine. @CellCellPress
https://t.co/KHeDQGxPOA
cell.com
Structure-based network analyses identify regions in the SARS-CoV-2 proteome that are mutationally constrained and bear CD8+ T cell epitopes that are also conserved in emerging variants as well as...
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Lots of possibilities for assaying live cells in/ex situ - track spatiotemporal dynamics in situ, measure biophysical and/or omic cellular features, link to functional outputs, and more! @mit_hst @broadinstitute @ChemistryMIT @MIT_IMES @ragoninstitute @kochinstitute @harvardmed
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Are you registered for the 2021 AIDS Walk & Run Boston? Here's an AIDS Walk Boston fundraising tip: Lead by example! Make a self-donation to your fundraising goal to show your commitment, and share with your friends and family. Register today at https://t.co/jVWsCZdipL!
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