Daisy Shu (she/her/hers)
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Scientia Senior Lecturer #NewPI @retinalresgroup @unswoptomvs Mitochondria in Macular Degeneration. Podcast co-host @behindourscienc Formerly @harvardmed
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So excited that our
@JoVEJournal
paper is out! A wonderful collaborative effort led by
@JasonMLMiller
with
@leomdphd
@lucidsci
The first device to measure OCR over several weeks while your cells are happily respiring in the incubator! Video to come 😉
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I submitted my PhD thesis today! So thrilled and relieved at the same time! Thanks to my amazing supervisor Frank Lovicu and thanks to my Twitter friends for believing in me and encouraging me! So grateful! Couldn’t have done it without you all!
#scicomm
#phdchat
#thesissubmitted
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The moment your supervisor adds your thesis to his thesis library 🥳
#scicomm
#phdchat
#phdtalk
#thesisdone
#thesis
#missionaccomplished
#woohoo
#phd
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Tied the knot with my longtime conference buddy in our hometown of Sydney 👰🏻♀️
@gammaDave1
Thanks Paul Golbach for the wonderful wedding photos!
@AidanGrosas
@MengluYangMD
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I’m so excited to announce that I’ve been promoted to Investigator in the Department of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School! So grateful to all my mentors, colleagues, friends and family for their support along the way!
@StGeniezLab
@leomdphd
@HMSeye
🤩🎉
#scicomm
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What does a sun lotion and a grant application have in common? Re-application is necessary! 😂🌞
#sciencejokes
#scicomm
#phdlife
#sunscreen
#grant
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Love Biorender! Best tool to make awesome scientist schematics! Won this shirt from the recent virtual background contest 😍🙌🙌🙌
#science
#scicomm
@BioRender
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I am absolutely thrilled to have my first ever grant as head of my own lab
@retinalresgroup
Thank you
@AusMito
for supporting our project on a novel gene editing approach to curing the mitochondrially-inherited eye disease, Leber’s Hereditary Optic Neuropathy! 🥰
@UNSWoptomvsci
Dr D. Shu, A/Prof B. Ksander (
@Harvard
), Prof D. Mackey (
@uwanews
), A/Prof R. Wong (
@EyeResearchAus
), Prof. A. Hewitt (CERA) | Incubator Grant
Project: Enhancing mitochondrial function through epigenetic reprogramming in a stem cell model of LHON
@UNSW
|
@retinalresgroup
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I am so honored to be a recipient of the
@FightForSightNY
Postdoctoral Fellowship
@HMSeye
@MassEyeAndEar
@StGeniezLab
For my fellowship, I will be exploring new mechanisms in the interplay of inflammation and metabolic dysfunction in age-related macular degeneration 😍👁️
#scicomm
Congratulations to
@EyeDaisyShu
on receiving the
@FightForSightNY
Postdoctoral Fellowship!
@MassEyeAndEar
@StGeniezLab
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So excited that my review article is published! This is based on work during my PhD studying BMP signaling in the ocular lens! Thank you to my amazing PhD supervisor Prof Lovicu
@lensresearchlab
for inviting me to contribute
@MDPIOpenAccess
@Cells_MDPI
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For all the times when our experiments don’t work out, there’s always the stress conical flask 😂
#scicomm
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Of course I had to take a photo of me holding a pipette in my PhD graduation gown 😋😋😋
#phdchat
#phdtalk
#scicomm
#WomenInSTEM
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It’s official! My PhD has been accepted! Woohoo! So over the moon!Farewell
@lensresearchlab
Joining the Saint-Geniez lab as a postdoc at Schepens Eye Research Institute of
@masseyeandear
@harvardmed
#phddone
🤙 Studying role of mitochondria in diseases of the retina! 👀
#scicomm
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Excited to announce that I will be joining my alma mater
@UNSWoptomvsci
as Senior Lecturer in the prestigious
#UNSWScientiaFellows
program next month. Thank you to all the wonderful mentors, collaborators & friends that I have made here in Boston! I'll miss you all so very much!
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Celebrating my new publication! The final paper of my PhD! So grateful to my amazing supervisor for helping me make this happen! Explores how growth factors work synergistically in cataract. Free download till Aug 7:
#scicomm
#PhDchat
@lensresearchlab
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I’m starting a fun new project called “Emojifying Research” 👩🔬 I love science communication especially when it’s fun and easy to understand through emojis 👻 Here’s my current postdoc project in Emojis! DM if you want to be part of it!
#scicomm
#emojifyingresearch
#phdchat
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Never too late to publish work from your PhD
@lensresearchlab
😁🙌 Thanks to my PhD supervisor Prof Frank Lovicu for your support during and after my PhD! Hats off to all the co-authors for helping make this paper happen!
@mylifeinthelab
@mylifeinthelab
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Our paper is officially out! This work explores the interplay between retinal inflammation and metabolic dysfunction! Huge thanks to
@StGeniezLab
@tessa_fitch
@leomdphd
@scotty_frank22
@ErikRButcher
@margaretekarg
@NnujiE
for your hard work!
#mitochondria
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So honoured to be a finalist for the
@Proteintech
Best Postdoc Mentor Award! A huge thank you to my summer student
@NnujiE
for the nomination! 🥳🎉🎉🎉 Please vote for me and you can vote again each day! 😍😍✌️✌️
#scicomm
#postdoc
#mentor
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Look what came in the mail today! 😱🥳😍 So proud of my Gibco Cell Culture Hero award! 🦸♀️ I’m going to treasure this award forever ❤️❤️❤️ Couldn’t be more stoked about this! 🧫 Thanks
@gibcolove
@nicolwatson
@GIBCO
#scicomm
#phdchat
#phdtalk
#award
#cellculture
#trophy
#lablife
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My first corresponding author paper 🥳So excited that our metabolomics paper has now been published! Bravo to
@PNgsabrina
on your hard work on this paper - you are truly a bioinformatics wizard! TBig thanks to
@StGeniezLab
@leomdphd
for your help on this paper!
#metabolomics
🆕
#paper
🚨
We identified unique
#metabolomics
signature of ♠️TNFα and ♦️TGFβ2 in retinal EMT-Both profiles induces EMT!
Thank you
@EyeDaisyShu
from
@harvardmed
@MassEyeAndEar
and team for having me. It has been fun, 👀-ing it for a while now.
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Getting excited about imaging mitochondria on our new Leica SP8 confocal 😱😱😱 This confocal is epic!
#confocal
#scicomm
#mitochondrial
@LeicaMicro
#imaging
#microscopy
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Woohoo! I passed my fellowship exam! Say hello to the new fellow of the American Academy of Optometry
@aaopt
#academy19
@WorldCouncilOpt
#wcocongress19
#scicomm
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New sweater, who dis? ❤️💚😍 Loving my new ‘Tis the Science sweater from
@aspirememberprogram
#scicomm
#lablife
#tisthescience
#festive
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Celebrating International Googly Eyes Day by making the lab extra googly 👀
#LabGooglyEyes
Perfect for eye research!
@SigmaAldrich
🥳🔬
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Lab zoom meeting from my luxury apartment! Don’t ask how I can afford this on a postdoc salary 🤣🤣🤣
#aprilfoolsprank
@zoom_us
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Thank you
@bradyajohnston
for making me the coolest hat ever! It’s Transforming growth factor beta 2, an key player in cancer metastasis and wound healing in many cells of the body including the eye 👁
#SciComm
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I’m so honoured to be a recipient of the American Society for Investigative Pathology A.D. Sobel Scholar Award for Outstanding Research in Experimental Pathology
#PISA2020
🥳🥳🥳
@StGeniezLab
@HMSeye
@ASIPath
@WomeninPath
#scicomm
#WomenInSTEM
#postdoc
#lablife
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Honored to be a recipient of the ARVO Emerging Advocate Award! Shoutout to the amazing
@ARVOinfo
#SciCommTF
@NAEVRAdvocacy
@StGeniezLab
@MWindsorPhD
@ErinFHering
for the
#scicomm
training over the years! Excited to join the ranks of the amazing previous recipient
@JCHarmanLSU
!
Congratulations to the winners of
@ARVOinfo
's Advocacy Awards—Achievements in Eye and
#Vision
Advocacy Award: Peter Koulen, PhD, FARVO (
@UMKCmedschool
); —Emerging Advocate Award:
@EyeDaisyShu
, PhD (
@StGeniezLab
,
@harvardmed
)
Read more about the awardees
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So honoured to be a recipient of the 2018 Professor John Irvine Hunter Prize for Research in Anatomical Sciences from
@Sydney_Uni
@syd_health
and listed on the University of Sydney Prizes and Honour Roll:
#scicomm
#phdchat
#phdtalk
#award
#usyd
#phd
#prize
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G’day from Sydney! 🐨 I’m so excited to have started my new position as a Scientia Senior Lecturer at
@UNSWoptomvsci
Thank you for all the support with my move back home as I set up the Shu lab down under! 🇦🇺 If you have any
#NewPI
tips, send them my way! 🥳
#UNSWScientiaFellows
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Happy National Chocolate Day! 🍫 Isn’t this just the most AMAZING chocolate container ever! 😍😍😍 Thank you
@SigmaAldrich
I’ll be keeping this container forever! And the chocolate inside is delicious too! 🤤
@tessa_fitch
#NationalChocolateDay
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This place is now on my bucket list! Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest salt flat, located in Bolivia, resembles the retinal pigment epithelium! 😍
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In 2016, I attended my first ARVO as a PhD student in Seattle
@lensresearchlab
& fast forward to 2024, it was surreal returning to Seattle for ARVO as a PI with my own lab
@retinalresgroup
#arvo2016
#arvo2024
Thanks
@ARVOinfo
for the amazing opportunities over the years
#newPI
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My paper just got published! It's the final paper from my PhD
@lensresearchlab
@sydney_uni
@anh_sydney
@SydneySaveSight
exploring how growth factors work synergistically to exacerbate cataract
#scicomm
#paperpublished
Free access till Aug 7:
#phdchat
#PhD
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So honored to be a recipient of the
@ASIPath
George K. Michalopoulos Junior Faculty Scholar Award at the Tissue, Matrix, and Pathobiology:
Joint Meeting of ASMB, HCS, and ASIP
#slc2023
@amsocmatbio
@JHCnews
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I am so honored to be a recipient of the
@_BrightFocus
Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in Macular Degeneration Research! 🥳This is a dream come true! 😍 I am so grateful for this grant! A special thank you to my amazing PI
@StGeniezLab
@HMSeye
for her ongoing support!
#scicomm
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Baked some eyeball cookies for my eye research buddies this Christmas 👁😋
#cookies
#eye
#research
#lablife
#optometry
#Ophthalmology
#Christmas
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Yay my new business cards arrived from
@moo
😍😱 They’re so fancy! Can’t wait to hand them out! 👁🔬
#SciComm
#phdchat
#businesscards
#ecrchat
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Take a look down the microscope with me! My little cells look so pretty 💚💚💚 Love immunofluorescence!
#scicomm
#confocal
#immunofluorescence
@LeicaMicro
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It’s happening! I’m going to officially have my PhD graduation ceremony! So excited 🥳🙌 Flying back to Sydney soon! ✈️
#SciComm
#phdchat
#graduation
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Wrapping up in the lab this week 😢 Anyone else also stopping experiments? Hope you’re all staying healthy! Take care ❤️❤️❤️
#scicomm
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Fresh off the press! First paper as Dr Shu in
@StGeniezLab
@harvardmed
@HMSeye
We silenced a gene important in mitochondrial health and dramatic changes in the retina unfolded. Check out what we found here:
#scicomm
#phdchat
#ecrchat
#lablife
#research
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You know you’ve made it in life when people draw cartoons of you! 👩🔬Check out this amazing artwork by It Girl Empire! So honoured to be an It Girl 🥳🥳🥳
#scicomm
#phdchat
#phdtalk
#lablife
#womeninstem
#womeninscience
#scientist
#itgirl
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I'm in awe! I asked
#ChatGPT
to write a poem about the retina and this is what I got 😍 Do the retinal researchers agree?
@BWJones
@dr_bjcarr
@LNivisonSmith
@DrLaurenAyton
@JCHarmanLSU
@ChoroidLab
@AMD_histo_lab
@Drusen_Lengyel
@EyeCRO
@ANUClearVision
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Pretty GFP positive cells! First time trying out adenoviruses! 😱💚💚💚
#SciComm
#phdchat
#phdtalk
#adenovirus
#gfp
#fluorescence
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Thank you
@_BrightFocus
for interviewing me about my macular degeneration research and how the funding has made such a huge impact in paving the way for my scientific research career!
@ARVOinfo
#arvo2022
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Game faces on! 😁 So excited to welcome our new research assistant, Tessa to our lab who will be working with me on investigating the role of metabolism in macular degeneration funded by my
@_BrightFocus
Postdoctoral Fellowship 🥳❤️
@StGeniezLab
#scicomm
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Yay to my lab items arriving safely in Sydney all the way from Boston! 🚢Thank you to everyone who helped with packing and moving everything! 🥰💪
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This email made my day! 😍 I am so honored to be a recipient of the
@ASIPath
2021 Experimental Pathologist-in-Training (EPIT) Merit Award! 🥳Thank you so much ASIP for your support of trainees! Excited for the upcoming
@expbio
meeting!
#ExpBio2021
#ASIPVirtual
#scicomm
#postdoc
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Going insane in the membrane! Thanks
@biorender
.io for the cool shirt! Love the back of the shirt too 🧠
#SciComm
#phdchat
#phdtalk
#brain
#insane
#lablife
#AcademicChatter
#AcademicTwitter
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Packing up my lab and life in Boston has become a game of Tetris 😂
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Thank you so much
@HMSeye
for sharing my recent ARVO Advocacy Award! It is truly an honor to be a recipient this award and I will continue to make science advocacy a big part of my scientific research career!
@ARVOinfo
@StGeniezLab
#scicomm
#scienceadvocacy
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Thanks everyone for spoiling me on my birthday by surrounding me with great people and great plants 💚🥰💚
#happybirthday
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Happy International Women’s day everyone! Here’s a photo with the girls from my new lab at Harvard! We’re such a diverse bunch with women from Puerto Rico, China, England, USA and of course, me from Australia! 🌍👩🔬
#scicomm
#phdchat
#phdtalk
#InternationalWomenDay
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Thrilled to announce our paper has been accepted for
#publication
with
@StGeniezLab
@ErikRButcher
@HMSeye
showing metabolic and mitochondrial changes in retinal epithelial-mesenchymal transition! It's all about PGC-1a! Read it here:
#scicomm
@IJMS_MDPI
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Wonderful to have such dedicated summer students in my lab! Keep up the awesome work Linh and Alena! ☺️🙌
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Officially graduated from Hogwarts 🧙♂️
@Sydney_Uni
@syd_health
@Sydney_Science
#scicomm
#phdchat
#phd
#phdone
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I designed a mug using
@BioRender
inspired by my research on the role of mitochondria and metabolism in retinal pigment epithelial cells!
#MyScienceMug
#SciComm
#mitochondria
#metabolism
#retina
#phdchat
#postdoc
#mug
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Woohoo! So thrilled to serve on the
@ARVOinfo
Professional Development and Education Committee! 🥳🚀🥳🚀🥳 Thanks
@arvo_swillie
for the email notification! You made my day! 😁
#scicomm
#careerdevelopment
#research
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Guess what I got! A live cell imaging device! I can’t wait to capture amazing videos of cellular behaviour 😍😍😍 Thank you Anton and Jon for helping me set this up! Keep an eye out for cool videos to come! 👁🎉🎉🎉
#scicomm
#timelapse
@invitrogen
@thermofisher
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Quite possibly the most amazing thing I’ve ever created in my life! Check out my new cursor 🤓 Anything to help motivate me to write my paper 🤣👌
#ishouldbewriting
#scicomm
#pipette
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I’m off to Boston to do my postdoc at Harvard in diseases of the retina 👀 Thank you Mary for making this awesome collage of just some of the many wonderful memories at the
@lensresearchlab
😊💕 It’s coming to Boston with me for sure 🥰
#scicomm
#farewell
#phdchat
#labmates
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Thank you
@MassEyeAndEar
for sharing my recent accomplishment on the e-Forum newsletter! I'm so thrilled to be a recipient of the
#PIS2021
Postdoctoral Award for Outstanding Research!
@ASIPath
@WomeninPath
#scicomm
#postdoc
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Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science 👩🔬🙌
#scicomm
#womenandgirlsinscience
#WomenInScience
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Hello world! Follow my research group
@retinalresgroup
for updates on our research adventures as we explore the exciting world of mitochondria and retinal diseases! Excited to have Fergus and Kelvin in the team!
#NewPI
@UNSWoptomvsci
The Shu lab is open for business and we mean business 😎 We are on a mission to cure retinal blindness one experiment at a time! Follow us to keep updated on our research adventures!
@EyeDaisyShu
#NewPI
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Thank you to everyone for making my birthday extra pink and extra special! Had a blast celebrating with my friends! 🥳🎉🎉🎉💞💓💕💗
@ErikRButcher
@NnujiE
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Happy Lunar New Year! 🥰🧧🐯 Wishing you all good health and prosperity for the new year! 🎇
#LunarNewYear
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Taking my new live cell imaging microscope for a spin! Working on some new angiogenesis projects! Check out the endothelial cells sprouting from my little choroidal explants! 😍 Seriously mesmerising! 👁
#scicomm
#angiogenesis
#cells
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It's been an honor to serve as the ISER Early Career Representative for the past 2 years and I'm excited to step into this new role as VP of
@iserworld
Looking forward to growing the ISER eye research community! Congratulations to Rabia Mobeen, Budd A. Tucker and Nandrot Emeline!
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Look what arrived in the mail today! 🤩🥰🤩🥰🤩 Thank you so much
@ASIPath
@WomeninPath
for the
#PISA2021
Young Investigator Outstanding Research Award!
#scicomm
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So thrilled to be awarded the
@ASIPath
Young Investigator Leadership Award and the Dani and Erik Zander Junior Faculty Scholar Award! Congratulations to all the awardees!
@RamonBossardi
#asip2024
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