NicolasAvilaLab
nicolasavilalab.bsky.social
NicolasAvilaLab
@nicolasavilalab.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at #CVRI @UCSF studying immune-parenchymal cell crosstalk and its impact on tissue function, with special focus in the ❤.
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A new model of #TumorNecrosis👹

Tumor CXCL1➡️myeloid skewing➡️
Ly6C-low Neutrophil forms intravascular #NeutrophilExtracellularTrap➡️
Intratumoral vascular occlusion➡️
Pleomorphic Necrosis-to-Metastasis

a role of TGFβ
@adrover.bsky.social @megeblad.bsky.social Nature 2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
September 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Blocking interleukin-6 to prevent the inflammation underpinning cardiovascular disease, genetically informed, without increased risk of infection
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
August 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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The basic sciences are HIRING at UCSF: open recruitment in the Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics. Please share and please apply! aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF05702
Ladder Rank Faculty Position – Assistant Professor
University of California, San Francisco is hiring. Apply now!
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August 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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I’m happy to share our latest work on tumour necrosis! During my time in the @megeblad.bsky.social lab, we found that tumour necrosis is not a passive phenomenon secondary to tumour growth, but an active phenomenon driven by neutrophils and NETs! Thread below: (1/13)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Neutrophils drive vascular occlusion, tumour necrosis and metastasis - Nature
Neutrophils actively induce tumour necrosis, driving vascular occlusion, pleomorphic necrosis and metastasis.
www.nature.com
July 17, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Inflammatory mischief managed: How retinoic acid calms heart attacks at the (marrow) source | Science Immunology www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Inflammatory mischief managed: How retinoic acid calms heart attacks at the (marrow) source
Targeting vitamin A metabolism limits emergency hematopoiesis and promotes resolution of inflammation in myocardial infarction.
www.science.org
June 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
This is crazy!
June 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Here we study the origin of the cardiac cell lineages in the mouse embryo. Separate but coordinated lineages independently specified at gastrulation generate the myocardium and endocardium. Credits: Miquel Sendra & coll: Jorge Dominguez, K. McDole and L. Guinard
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ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.
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May 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Congratulations to Pilar Alcaide for a great presentation and the Presidents Award from #ISHR! 🙌
May 14, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Great opening ceremony of the #ISHR2025 XXV World Congress in Nara. Excited to discuss science with colleagues of the Cardiovascular field during this ISHR meeting.
May 11, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Great experience this week participating in the recently launched @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social Clinically Inspired Discovery Program. Many interesting talks and stimulating discussions with students.
April 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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I had a wonderful time! Great conference and speakers! Thanks @casanova-acebes.bsky.social @sancholab.bsky.social and Carlos Silvestre for the great work organizing such an amazing meeting!
@adrover.bsky.social rocking on a fantastic new and vascular-damaging Ly6Clo neutrophils, he will now investigate deeper in his #brandnewlab #EPW2025
March 30, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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@adrover.bsky.social rocking on a fantastic new and vascular-damaging Ly6Clo neutrophils, he will now investigate deeper in his #brandnewlab #EPW2025
March 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Hey @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social students! On April 10, I will be participating in #UREKA, a new program aiming to identify current challenges in the clinic and come up with novel approaches to tackle them. #5k$ prices for proposals presented by attendants to the event. Sign up! ucsfureka.com
March 29, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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#immunosky #epw2025 Fantastic meeting starting! Thx to the wonderful co-organizers @mcasanova.bsky.social & @silvestreroiglab.bsky.social
Thx to support by #SEI (Spanish society for immunology), Inmunotek @miltenyibiotec.bsky.social @embo.org @efis-immunology.bsky.social @eurjimmunol.bsky.social
March 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Meet @plosbiology.org’s great microbiology and immunology editor ⬇️⬇️
She’s wise, a joy and has been such an asset to the team.

You can book office hours with her at the link Mel posted, and with all the other lovely editors. Find the links here:

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
March 26, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Last contribution to the understanding of #neutrophil biology. Superb work from Tommaso, @alazozcan.bsky.social, and Jackson that I had the pleasure to contribute to and see growing during my time at @drusqui.bsky.social lab.
March 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Finally making the transition from Twitter/X to Bluesky! Excited to keep up with the amazing work of friends and fellow scientists here. Also, follow this account for future updates on our lab work. #blueskyforscience.
March 22, 2025 at 10:03 PM