Alex Silver

I recently set up an account on the microblogging site joinmastodon.org and am looking for people to follow, especially in the #science and #medicine communities. Who here is on #Mastodon? If yes, drop your handle in the replies! You can find me @alexsilver@mastodon.online

@AmyKathrynStark @VandyPharm @VUMCEye Congratulations! 🎉

I’m beyond thrilled to announce that my NRSA F31 grant is funded!! To go from an undiscussed first submission to a 4th % resubmission is a dream. I can’t thank my support network enough, especially my mentor Dr. Penn and the rest of my Vanderbilt family. @VandyPharm @VUMCEye

Looking forward to the many new faculty colleagues we will recruit to @VanderbiltU & @VUMCDiscoveries with support from @NIH_CommonFund's FIRST initiative in the years ahead! Thank you @DrCHWilkins, @ahasty4 & @VU_Provost for your leadership. news.vumc.org/2023/06/21/van…

The published version of our study on the association between clonal hematopoiesis and Alzheimer's disease (AD) is now available. Thread below! nature.com/articles/s4159…

NEW: 6 Practical Strategies to #Mentor & #Sponsor #WomenInMedicine Updating our definitions of #mentorship & #sponsorship to capture what is really happening in academic medicine👩🏽‍⚕️👩🏿‍🔬👩🏼‍⚕️⚕️🩺 A🧵for #MedTwitter with link to the free article: tinyurl.com/vtsfpb7e #HeForShe 👨🏻‍⚕️👨🏾‍⚕️

We studied one of the most prestigious prizes in medicine: Lasker Awards🏆 We found less than: ✅8% women ✅5% non-white people We also found: ✅only 1 to a non-white woman ✅no change in proportion to women in more than 70 years bit.ly/43a9ay5 @bmj_latest #MedTwitter

The proportion of women among Lasker Award recipients has not changed in more than 70 years, finds study bmj.com/content/381/bm…

Recurring somatic mutations are uncommon and inconsequential right? Nope! Out today in @ScienceAdvances, our work led by @J__Stock disproves these widely held assumptions, discovering a new class of non-coding somatic mutations in blood with phenotypic impact. 🧵👇

Out in @Nature today, we describe a new method "PACER" to estimate clonal expansion rate and use it to identify that aberrant TCL1A activation as a cause of #CHIP expansion and potential therapeutic target @J__Stock @Jk_Gopakumar @jaiswalmdphd nature.com/articles/s4158…

Fatty liver dz is v common but our understanding of who progresses to inflammation & fibrosis is limited. In @Nature, we discover clonal hematopoiesis as a modifiable risk factor for precision liver dz prevention. nature.com/articles/s4158… @waihaywong @connoremdin B Ebert [1/19]

Clonal hematopoiesis is an expansion of blood stem cell clones caused by mutations in a recurrent set of genes. Our paper on factors mediating expansion of these mutant clones is published today. nature.com/articles/s4158… Thread below...

@RAMillager presented his recently published work on "Behavioral and cognitive-affective features of stuttering in preschool-age children" and won first prize!! 😍👏👏👏 Check out the publication here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jflu…

Excited to share the last part of my PhD work, where we track co-receptor signaling dynamics during B cell activation! Great collaboration with @KalocsayMarian biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Please join us in welcoming our new @YalePathology resident announced on #MatchDay23. Matthew Madden, MD, PhD - @madden_mz - is from @VUMedicine. Dr. Madden is one of 10 new #pathology residents joining @YNHH and @YaleMed bit.ly/3lqdcSy

Join us Tues 3/28 at 10am in 214 LH for Andrew Boal's @EyeBoal Dissertation Defense "Retinal Ganglion Cell Excitability and Adaptations to Ionic Stress in Glaucomatous Optic Neuropathy" completed in Dr. David Calkins lab in the Neuro Grad Program @VanderbiltBrain and @VUMCEye!

Thanks to the @AABB for highlighting our work on patient demographics in blood donation & transfusion clinical trials. We hope these findings will continue to drive conversations & actions on equitable representation. rb.gy/xvp0zh

So proud of M4 @Ayeshamyar for winning the Michael Fowler Educational Excellence Award!!

@cjbeebout @ucsdim @VanderbiltMSTP Congratulations!

@BReinfeld @uclaimchiefs @IntMedAbel @MichaelR21 @DemetraHufnagel @skinnyfatPhD Congrats, Brad!

Can’t take the LA out of the boy nor the boy out of LA. Looks like another perfect day, I Love LA. @uclaimchiefs @IntMedAbel @MichaelR21 @DemetraHufnagel @skinnyfatPhD #Match2023

@MargaretAxelrod @AkersAkers2 @wusm_pathology Congrats, Maggie!

Ever wanted to do #tractography but didn't have #diffusion #MRI? Check out our preprint using #AI to propagate streamlines directly on T1w MRI, no diffusion needed! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Big thanks to @grahamwjohnson @dc_moyer @kurtschilling5 @FrancoisRheault & @MASI_Lab team!