Ali Khademhosseini
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Academic entrepreneur; Building tissues and materials, CEO/Prof @TerasakiInst; Previously @MIT Ph.D.; @Harvard Prof; Scientist @Amazon
Los Angeles, CA
Joined September 2009
🔥 The Quiet Blacklisting of America’s Scientists. Something disturbing is happening in U.S. science — and too few people are talking about it. Brilliant scientists are being quietly blacklisted. Grants are being killed at the last minute. Labs are losing funding. Startups are
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Reflecting on Independence Day, I'm reminded of the resilience and unity that have always been America's strengths. Yet, today, I see a shift towards division and fear, reminiscent of the McCarthy era. In my experience leading biomedical innovation, I've learned that progress.
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🇺🇸 Celebrating Independence Day: A Time for Reflection. Happy 4th of July to my fellow Americans and friends! 🎆. As we enjoy the festivities, let's take a moment to consider:. • What ideals shaped our nation?.• How can we honor those principles today?.• What legacy do we want
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Big day for stem cell therapy and Parkinson's research!. Two game-changing clinical trials published in Nature. Stem cell-derived dopamine neurons survive and function in human brains. Encouraging early results offer hope for millions with Parkinson's. Here's what we've learned.
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@Rep_Whitesides @BradSherman @SenAdamSchiff @RepThomasMassie @RoKhanna @MartinHeinrich @TedLieu @SenatorCantwell please help with this.
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At the recent National Academy of Inventors (NAI) induction, one truth stood out clearly:. So many of the honorees were immigrants. These are scientists and engineers who came to the United States with ideas, ambition, and a desire to contribute. They built labs, trained the.
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RT @veiseho: Honored to be inducted into the @AcadofInventors today! Especially fun to celebrate with good friends and fellow inductees….
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ICYMI: We’re entering dangerous territory. Right now in the U.S., some scientists are being effectively blacklisted—not for misconduct, not for breaches of law—but simply because they’ve trained or published with students from countries like Iran or China. This is not science.
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We share 60% of our DNA with bananas. Lot of things make sense now.
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Not becoming overcome with fear should be a bipartisan effort and something that each person must strive to do. No point going back to McCarthyism where guilt is by association. We can do better and we must do better.
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RT @SciGuardians: 🚨 BREAKING: The PubPeer Network Mob operation has now been fully exposed—but to truly dismantle it, we must follow the mo….
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Important that there is great support for this.
AIMBE has launched our new Citizen Advocate for Science Letter: We ask the scientific community to share this letter (✍️ <1 min) with friends, family, and other concerned citizens to urge their elected officials to protect biomedical research funding ☝️.
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Funding science is one of the most important things we can do for fostering an innovation ecosystem.
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