Ash Uruchurtu

Had a bit of fun with my tote bag from Congress 🎨🖌️

A lovely surprise! Hugely grateful to my lab family for celebrating and supporting me as I prepare to welcome my baby girl 💕

You said HIV doesn't cause AIDS You said Covid was a race based bioweapon You said HPV vaccines causes cancer You said polio killed more than saved You and science don't mix You're anti vax

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

Vaccines save lives. Period.

Excited to share some of my illustrations for Live Forever, my second collaboration with dear colleague @DrTregoning. Many thanks to @britsocimm for their communicating immunology grant!

A lifelong collaboration! Dylan and Ash, 21st September 2024

White British 🇬🇧people have asked me “why is it Americans are so preoccupied with race?” I refuse to answer that phony question. They can read my book about how the denial of race is a European pastime by those who invented racism, centuries of colonial gaslighting. #Brexit

Pleased to share our published review article from @BrownMedicine @BrownUniversity @BrownUCancer Targeting apoptotic pathways for cancer therapy jci.org/articles/view/… @jclinicalinvest @tian_xiaobing @tajiknia @AshDoesResearch @bcarneiro7 @PinhoSchwermann @andrewgeorge00 @frandicris @shengliang15 @LanlanZhou @YiqunZhang7 @Dina_rys #LegorretaCancerCenter #eldeirylab

Gave my second talk at the @DAVAOnc 3rd Global Thoracic Malignancies Summit this morning before heading to airport to return to Rhode Island. I had 30 slides that I went through in 9 minutes. Thanks to Dr. Christopher Azzoli @JerryAzzoli for introducing me and #eldeirylab to Lurbinectedin. Lurbinectedin is an analogue of trabectedin isolated from the Sea Squirt. It was fun to tell the audience about the Sea Squirt, a bottom dweller that filters the sea water for food, is eaten by many fish and is also a delicacy in some Asian countries. It is rich in alanine and glycine, has a strong sea flavor and some bitterness (I won’t be eating them any time soon). Ma-hoya has a stronger flavor, while Aka-hoya is milder. My talk was 2 mins over probably due to the detour to discuss the Sea Squirt but I kept their attention. I shared our preclinical data on rescue of radiation pneumonitis and dermatitis by TRAIL pathway agonists. This is an important area for the lung cancer community in addition to therapeutic development. We are looking at rescue of pneumonitis caused by radiation, ICB or combos of the two. #LegorretaCancerCenter @BrownUCancer @BrownMedicine @BrownUniversity #eldeirylab

Can we all agree that it’s super rude to take photos of someone’s poster without asking? 👀 Especially if you then completely ignore the presenter when they try to start a conversation about the research… #AACR2024

@nicole_jensenv @LeadershipAllia @carlsen_lindsey @weldeiry @BrownUCancer Congratulations! 🥳

Delighted to announce the publication of our research conducted during the summer of 2023 by @LeadershipAllia with the amazing guidance of @carlsen_lindsey and @weldeiry. Our paper is now available: [micropublication.org/journals/biolo…] Grateful with Brown University. 🌟📚 @BrownUCancer

In new work @JIDJournal we show that @CCPUKstudy patients that will succumb to #Covid fail to mount a mucosal interferon response in the first days of infection academic.oup.com/jid/advance-ar… 🧵

Pleased to share the latest publication from my immunology days: Early mucosal events promote distinct mucosal and systemic antibody responses to live attenuated influenza vaccine @InThwaiteImmune @MECole101 @p_openshaw nature.com/articles/s4146…

@madina_immuno @p_openshaw @DrTregoning Oh no! Sorry I missed you 😅 yeah haha I’m hoping I’ll be back sooner next time!

Happy to have been able to visit my old campus at St Mary’s after such a long time away, and even more to catch up with @p_openshaw and @DrTregoning

@ianywonglab Thanks! It’s already much less sore than yesterday :)

@AshDoesResearch yikes. hope you recover soon!

Tour de Rhody update: dreams of glory dashed by nasty tumble 3 miles in 🫡 no serious injuries but I’ll be on crutches for a few days. Well done to my fellow Legorreta Cancer Center riders and thanks to our supporters! There’s still time to donate 🚴🏼 pledgereg.com/4654/Team/23178

This weekend I’ll be undertaking the @TourDeRhody to fundraise for cancer research in Rhode Island, with fellow members of @BrownUCancer 🚴🏼 any and all support is greatly appreciated! pledgereg.com/4654/ashleyuru…

Thank you @CliftonLeaf for a fascinating talk, insightful conversations about scientific journalism, and the lovely words of encouragement!

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