Hey friends. I’m looking for a postdoc interested in studying host-pathogen interactions and immunology of tuberculosis. Send me some good people! We have a great group here! Email me joanne@pitt.edu. Thanks!

The NIH ordered me to stop my ‘dangerous’ gain-of-function research. It isn’t dangerous at all Safe gain-of-function research is necessary to identify new treatments for diseases like for tuberculosis — but the NIH has imposed unfounded stops.

Ditto. Thanks for this Sarah. www.statnews.com/2025/10/06/g...

Congratulations to the new doctors and to you on your first graduates!

Attended two (2) stellar thesis defenses virtually today and am so grateful for a hybrid format that enables support even when you can’t be there in person!

‘This looks bad.’ A Harvard infectious disease researcher is targeted in Trump’s review. - The Boston Globe Sarah Fortune’s tuberculosis research was the number one project on a list of threatened funding.

Tuberculosis is not going away. If the cutting edge research goes away, #TB will rage on. Harvard is being targeted including the TB Immunology contract and that trickles down to all of us working on these studies. Progress will be halted. And TB will flourish. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/08/m...

Trans flag.

Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility.

Measles is preventable with just two doses of measles vaccine.

The #measles vaccine has saved an estimated 5 lives every second since 2000.

👉Prevent measles by getting vaccinated with two doses of the measles vaccine.

Proud to be a woman in science today and everyday!

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THIS ONE’S FOR YOU PHILLY!