Elena Winheim
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Elena Winheim
@elenawinheim.bsky.social
🔬 Postdoctoral Researcher | Walter Benjamin Fellow
📍 Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge | @Haniffalab
🧬 Passionate about immunology 🩸, skin biology 🏻🖐🏾, human development 👶, infectious diseases 🦠, and computational analysis 💻
Reposted by Elena Winheim
Scientists have mapped scaffolding cells in skin and show how they go ‘rogue’ in different conditions – including acne, psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis & IBD

They suggest these cells could be universal drug targets in the future 💊
September 25, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Excited to see this study, started during my PhD, now out in @pnas.org with @kruglab.bsky.social and an amazing team.
🦠 Dendritic cells and monocytes rapidly respond to yellow fever vaccine virus
🩸 Interferon-driven activation of APCs correlates with early antibody responses.
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May 20, 2025 at 10:37 AM