Ramon Sun

thx for the highlight! we aim to double our knowledge in metabolism and produce major breakthroughs in cancer and AD treatments in the next 5 years !

this is so fucking wholesome guy used AI to save his cancer-ridden dog by sequencing its DNA and creating a CUSTOM cure. the tech behind this is fucking awesome (well done @demishassabis and the google team): - used CHATGPT to sequence dogs DNA discovers mutations - ran the mutations through Google’s Alphafold (AI protein sequencer) which CREATED A CUSTOM VACCINE TO TREAT THEM. - treated dog and reduced tumour by 50% in WEEKS. dog is alive and well. - this is the 1st time AI has been used to create a custom vaccine for a dog (and it worked) - dude is now working on similar vaccines for humans using AI! 2026 is definitely the year we see AI change personalised medicine in a HUGE way so sick

Stealing @ishahjain figure to show the power of spatial metabolomics in embryonic research ! We sectioned straight across the skull and negated the need of brain resection and complicate metabolism in post mortem manipulation !

@Hiraselab_KU Beautiful work ! Congratulations. I always wondered what cerebellar glycogen are doing !

New paper. Distribution and functional significance of rodent cerebellar glycogen Huge congrats to Sonam and Ashley, and a big thanks to all our co-authors for the fantastic collaboration! cell.com/iscience/fullt…

@FrancyPolverino haha ! hey u r the queen of COPD !

@RCSunlab How generous lol

thx for the highlight! we aim to double our knowledge in metabolism and produce major breakthroughs in cancer and AD treatments in the next 5 years !

@FrancyPolverino I will help YOU to make that impact on copd haha

@RCSunlab And COPD 🙄

Congratulation @ishahjain, beautiful study, and you are amazing to work /workout with lol!

@ishahjain so cool haha

MALDI-TOF revealed regional (e.g., cortical) defects in serine and 1C levels

Then we changed dietary vitamin B3 levels. Normal diet -> mice live to 5 days of age B3-deficient diet -> in utero lethality High-dose B3 -> dramatic 40x lifespan extension!!! This was particularly exciting because these patients can take B3 immediately without regulatory delay

@TheAlbrecht_Lab @LyssiotisLab @NatMetabolism @UCIrvineHealth Wow beautiful work. Congratulations!!

Excited to share our latest work out today @NatMetabolism @UCIrvineHealth nature.com/articles/s4225…

CS Lewis understood

Tune in to today's #UFMedResearch symposium at 12:40 p.m. to learn more about the work of Ramon Sun, Ph.D., who was named the 2026 @UF College of Medicine Research Innovator and Pioneer. Visit research.med.ufl.edu/events/26324/t… for symposium details and more information.

@may_khanna @KhannaLabUF @LabDale Here is a better photo of me haha

From brain immunotherapy to mobile therapy, breathing, teen suicide prevention, spatial metabolics, spatial transcriptomics, pain therapeutics, we embrace team science and the merge between basic science and clinical science. What a fantastic lineup of researchers and clinicians!! It was an amazing symposium!!! @UF @UFMedResearch @UFHealth @UFBreathe

Excited to share “Orofacial behaviors, not eye movements, govern neural activity in mouse visual cortex” biorxiv.org/content/10.648… Summary below...

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Early bird registration for METPHYS2026 ends January 31st You don't need an abstract at the time of registration! Multiple short talks will be selected from abstracts sablesys.com/metphys-the-me…

@FrancyPolverino @UF Great to have the leading expert in copd visiting UF ! Hope you had a nice time :)

Fantastic visit to PCCM at @UF—great to see the outstanding research infrastructure my colleague and friend @RCSunlab has built, and to interact with fellows and faculty. Until next time.

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@kapahi_pankaj @americanaging @BuckInstitute Great lab ! Highly recommended!

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🌟 Meet the AGE Spotlight 🌟 Today’s focus: Dr. @kapahi_pankaj at the @BuckInstitute — using fly, human & mammalian models to study aging & neurodegeneration. 📢 Kapahi Lab is hiring postdocs now! Interested candidates: pkapahi@buckinstitute.org #AgingResearch #Geroscience

@LocasaleLab Agreed !

One of the most neglected areas at NIH and NIAID has been the basic science of environmental influences on natural immunity - how sleep, diet, exercise, sauna, sunlight, stress, and other everyday exposures shape the immune system and its response to infection. Instead of investing in this foundational biology, the overwhelming share of funding went into molecular biology and gene function. As a result, we still lack even baseline knowledge about how to strengthen natural immunity in people. That gap is a consequence of decades of skewed priorities around genetics. niaid.nih.gov