We have an exciting opportunity in the lab and are looking to hire a staff scientist with a background in bioinformatics, scRNAseq, and data analysis/modeling. Please apply here
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Exclusive: NIH to suspend funds for research abroad as it overhauls policy Move by US biomedical agency threatens thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more.

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NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.

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BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

CDC censors papers submitted to journals. "Researchers instructed to remove references to forbidden terms [including] transgender, LGBT, non-binary, assigned [fe]male at birth" insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

The KP.2-adapted COVID-19 vaccine improves neutralising activity against the XEC variant The rapid spread and emergence of immune-evasive SARS-CoV-2 variants has led to a 2024 update of the COVID-19 vaccine. These variants include BA.2.86-lineage variants comprising more than 30 mutations...

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🚨New from the Suthar Lab! 🚨
Our study, published today in Lancet Infectious Diseases, shows that the updated KP.2 COVID-19 vaccine enhances neutralization against emerging JN.1-lineage variants, including XEC.

WHO Coronavirus Network The WHO Coronavirus Network (CoViNet) aims to bring together surveillance programs and reference laboratories to support enhanced epidemiological monitoring and laboratory (phenotypic and genotypic) a...

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A Global Collaborative Comparison of SARS-CoV-2 Antigenicity Across 15 Laboratories Setting up a global SARS-CoV-2 surveillance system requires an understanding of how virus isolation and propagation practices, use of animal or human sera, and different neutralisation assay platforms...

How do labs worldwide assess SARS-CoV-2 antigenicity consistently? Our collaborative study with WHO & 15 labs reveals insights into neutralization assays, aiding global variant tracking & vaccine updates. Findings support lab networks like WHO CoViNet.

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We are looking to immediately fill a postdoctoral fellow position with a research emphasis on mRNA technologies in the context of emerging viruses. Looking for enthusiastic recent graduates with a background in virology or immunology. If interested, please email me your CV.

Louisiana reports a human H5N1 infection after exposure to wild birds. Genetic details and confirmation of H5N1 is needed but this person is hospitalized. ldh.la.gov/news/H5N1-2024

The Suthar Lab has officially joined Bluesky!