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Akshat Sharma, MS, PhD.
@akshatsharma.bsky.social
Immunologist who leapfrogged from the private sector back to academia. Still hunting down TCRs for TCR-T therapy for cancer and autoimmunity.

Actor by night.

Lifter, also by night.


GO BADGERS!
Also writing a chapter. Also at risk of being committed. However, will clearly be in exalted company in the grippy socks room.
Typing a chapter. Pause to think of how I want to phrase something. Look out the window for a bit. Stand up from the desk, turn around after a few steps and stop. Stand there for a minute, nodding to myself. Sit back down and type the line out.

If anyone saw that, they'd have me committed.
July 1, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Back in business! Let's hope it was temporary! Phew!
Uh, gang, is PubMed working for y'all?
July 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Uh, gang, is PubMed working for y'all?
July 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Immunodominant epitope.
May 18, 2025 at 9:18 AM
BUT I DID ALL THE STEPS! WTF!

I was home for 5 days! 5 days; 5 steps!

What do you mean "non-linear?" Can repeat? CAN REPEAT? Are you shitting me?!
May 15, 2025 at 11:26 PM
What's an NK cell's cocktail of choice?

A KIR Royale.
May 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Happy Mental Health Awareness Month.
May 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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April 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
تمہاری بے رخی اک دن ہماری جان لے لے گی۔ قسم تم کو زرا سوچو کے دستور وفا کیا ہے۔ غم دنیا سے گھبرا کر تمہے دل نے پکارا ہے۔ کہاں ہو تم۔۔۔؟
April 26, 2025 at 12:11 AM
But I was so looking forward to the inevitable documentary...
April 23, 2025 at 11:58 PM
But, truly, a lovely paper with interesting implications for the role of the CHAC1-Notch axis in health and disease.
April 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I just stared long and hard at the word "homogenous" in a grant I'm very slowly working on

You never know these days: it could come back with "Dear Dr. Sharma: no homo."
April 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Friends, if you or your colleagues are working on innate-like T cells, please consider submitting a manuscript or review to this special issue of Cells that I'm guest-editing:

www.mdpi.com/journal/cell...
www.mdpi.com
April 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The one sempiternal thing about scientists is that we always come with receipts. You'll typically find them under a section titled "References."
It has quotes from Senators talking about the value of research.

2/n
April 22, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Sadboi hours, empty weight room, Rockpile Athletics.
April 22, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Meal prep pump. Evidently aggressive stirring will do it.
April 20, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I curled 40lbs and am parched for attention.
April 20, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Such an improvement over Kr*st*e N**m's macabre selfies.
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
April 18, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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“It’s amazing that others in this room underwrote electing a man who, in the last week, single-handedly destroyed all of American science. It’s amazing how much good science you can destroy with $320 million and RFK Jr, very fast.”

— Seth Rogen’s censored remarks presenting the Breakthrough Prize
April 16, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Guys, I just want to do LFA-1 things and pull out TCRs. But it's, like, hard with, you know, everything...
April 15, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Hilarious, obviously, but apparently Chef Sanjeev Kapoor has a restaurant in Palo Alto!
Another (presumably AI-generated) message from Elon Musk in Palo Alto via TikTok.

There’s another video from a different user on Twitter, suggesting this isn’t just some prank by the TikTok creator.
April 13, 2025 at 3:19 AM
I'm viscerally disgusted by how many "self portraits" I produce. But, hey, man, the lighting was good...

There's an urgency these days to get it all done. Get the grant, write the novella, find the fella, LFA-1...
I'm worried I'm gonna die young.

And, hey, man, the lighting was good...
April 13, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Biomedical research. No-one's doing it like America.
Would be cool if everyone said one good thing about America.
April 11, 2025 at 3:27 AM
A friend told me to try Scruff and also another app that had a militaristic name, and it was very upsetting. Why? I'll tell you why...
April 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM