Björn Kafsack
kafsacklab.bsky.social
Björn Kafsack
@kafsacklab.bsky.social
Working at Weill Cornell in New York City at the intersection of chromatin, metabolism, and differentiation in apicomplexan parasites.
I came to the US as an exchange student when I was 16 and have been here ever since. Finally got my citizenship earlier this year, so at age 47, I got to vote for the first time today.
June 25, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Reposted by Björn Kafsack
He's right. "Nothing short of devastating"
By @holdenthorp.bsky.social @science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
June 5, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Came across this gem from @fad1.bsky.social while packing up my office.
June 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
As standard screens for new antimalarials yield diminishing new targets and chemotypes, GSK Tres Cantos used media that mimics nutrients in serum & found many new hits. We then id'ed the targets and, amazingly, every one of the 29 new chemotypes found blocks PSAC!🤯
shorturl.at/dCCO8
www.sciencedirect.com
May 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The end of the Joe Visone era at WCM is upon us!
It's been an absolute delight! 😍
March 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Just substituted "transgenic" for "genetically modified" and "diverse/diversity" for "varied/variation" in all parts of my R01 submission. 🤯
March 19, 2025 at 3:01 AM
The NIH just pulled all the F31 Diversity fellowship applications from the study section I'm on ...
March 13, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Exciting pre-print from the Soares Lab at the Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine showing that increased bilirubin is protective in humans, mice and in vitro. 👏👏👏
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=McV4...
www.biorxiv.org
February 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Reposted by Björn Kafsack
“Two-thirds of the staff of the President’s Malaria Initiative…the largest donor to anti-malaria programs…worldwide, have been fired…incl some of the most senior and respected scientists working on malaria control in the world.”
February 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM