Elsa BouGhanem Lab
@elsaawesomepmns.bsky.social
Associate Professor, University at Buffalo. We study immune aging, pulmonary infections, neutrophils, extracellular adenosine signaling & vaccines. Opinions my own.
https://www.boughanemlab.com/
https://www.boughanemlab.com/
New review part of mSphere full circle series: Damage response signaling by the extracellular adenosine pathway: control of infection outcome during host aging | mSphere journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....
Damage response signaling by the extracellular adenosine pathway:
control of infection outcome during host aging | mSphere
Individuals display heterogeneity in overall infection outcomes ranging from
infection resistance all the way to overt disease and death (1–3). Overall infection
outcomes are governed by the ability o...
journals.asm.org
October 31, 2025 at 10:45 PM
New review part of mSphere full circle series: Damage response signaling by the extracellular adenosine pathway: control of infection outcome during host aging | mSphere journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....
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A reminder: 40% of US Nobel prize winners since 2000 have been immigrants.
Nobel prize in physics awarded to three scientists for work on quantum mechanics
Nobel prize in physics awarded to three scientists for work on quantum mechanics
Trio led experiments demonstrating that bizarre properties of quantum world can translate into measurable effects in the everyday
The Nobel prize in physics 2025 has been awarded to British, French and American scientists for their work on quantum mechanics.
John Clarke, a British physicist based at the University of California at Berkeley, Michel Devoret, a French physicist based at Yale University, and John Martinis, of the University of California Santa Barbara, share the 11m Swedish kronor (about £871,400) prize announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
A reminder: 40% of US Nobel prize winners since 2000 have been immigrants.
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The class of immune cells at the centre of Monday’s Nobel prize is showing promise as a treatment for autoimmune diseases, cancer and even organ transplants — but there are still key challenges to overcome before these cells can be used in therapies in the clinic.
go.nature.com/4nGC5V9
go.nature.com/4nGC5V9
These immune cells won Nobel fame — can they solve autoimmune disease?
Regulatory T cells, which help to dampen inflammation, are being used in clinical trials against ailments such as rheumatoid arthritis.
go.nature.com
October 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
The class of immune cells at the centre of Monday’s Nobel prize is showing promise as a treatment for autoimmune diseases, cancer and even organ transplants — but there are still key challenges to overcome before these cells can be used in therapies in the clinic.
go.nature.com/4nGC5V9
go.nature.com/4nGC5V9
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Buffalo peeps! I am hosting a science spooktacular event at the new Third Space venue downtown on Oct 30 at 6PM! Come hear fun stories about science from trainees, all geared towards a non-specialist audience. Check the flyer for all the info! Please RT
October 7, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Buffalo peeps! I am hosting a science spooktacular event at the new Third Space venue downtown on Oct 30 at 6PM! Come hear fun stories about science from trainees, all geared towards a non-specialist audience. Check the flyer for all the info! Please RT
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It’s #MythBustingMonday.
Today’s myth: “Multiple vaccines at once will overload a child’s immune system.”
This idea is popular with anti-vaccine groups and also POTUS. But immunology, decades of research, and real-world data all say the same thing: it’s false. 🧵
Today’s myth: “Multiple vaccines at once will overload a child’s immune system.”
This idea is popular with anti-vaccine groups and also POTUS. But immunology, decades of research, and real-world data all say the same thing: it’s false. 🧵
September 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
It’s #MythBustingMonday.
Today’s myth: “Multiple vaccines at once will overload a child’s immune system.”
This idea is popular with anti-vaccine groups and also POTUS. But immunology, decades of research, and real-world data all say the same thing: it’s false. 🧵
Today’s myth: “Multiple vaccines at once will overload a child’s immune system.”
This idea is popular with anti-vaccine groups and also POTUS. But immunology, decades of research, and real-world data all say the same thing: it’s false. 🧵
Reposted by Elsa BouGhanem Lab
New post on the original culture war: kucharski.substack.com/p/the-origin...
September 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
New post on the original culture war: kucharski.substack.com/p/the-origin...
www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/58737
Our department is hiring!!! We are looking for an immunologist for a tenure-track Assistant or Associate faculty position. Very supportive environment & 100% hard salary. Please spread the word! Details 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
Our department is hiring!!! We are looking for an immunologist for a tenure-track Assistant or Associate faculty position. Very supportive environment & 100% hard salary. Please spread the word! Details 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
Assistant or Associate Professor, Microbiology and Immunology
The Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (JSMBS) at the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB) invites applications for a faculty position in the Department of Microbiology and Immu...
www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu
September 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/58737
Our department is hiring!!! We are looking for an immunologist for a tenure-track Assistant or Associate faculty position. Very supportive environment & 100% hard salary. Please spread the word! Details 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
Our department is hiring!!! We are looking for an immunologist for a tenure-track Assistant or Associate faculty position. Very supportive environment & 100% hard salary. Please spread the word! Details 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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Sterilizing immunity: the latest anti-vaccine rallying cry. A real thing co-opted by anti-vaccine activists to undermine vaccines.
By anti-vax logic, if a vaccine doesn’t doesn’t block all infections, it’s a “failure.”
MOST vaccines don’t elicit sterilizing immunity. No one pretends they do.
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By anti-vax logic, if a vaccine doesn’t doesn’t block all infections, it’s a “failure.”
MOST vaccines don’t elicit sterilizing immunity. No one pretends they do.
1/
August 23, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Sterilizing immunity: the latest anti-vaccine rallying cry. A real thing co-opted by anti-vaccine activists to undermine vaccines.
By anti-vax logic, if a vaccine doesn’t doesn’t block all infections, it’s a “failure.”
MOST vaccines don’t elicit sterilizing immunity. No one pretends they do.
1/
By anti-vax logic, if a vaccine doesn’t doesn’t block all infections, it’s a “failure.”
MOST vaccines don’t elicit sterilizing immunity. No one pretends they do.
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Reposted by Elsa BouGhanem Lab
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Every $1 spent on NIH funding returns nearly $3 to the economy - an almost 200% return on investment💰.
Also 99% of drugs developed 2010-2019 were funded by NIH ‼️🤯
Cutting NIH funding not only hurts the economy but will hurt families and patients 😔💔
Every $1 spent on NIH funding returns nearly $3 to the economy - an almost 200% return on investment💰.
Also 99% of drugs developed 2010-2019 were funded by NIH ‼️🤯
Cutting NIH funding not only hurts the economy but will hurt families and patients 😔💔
NIH indirect cost cuts will affect the economy and employment - Nature Human Behaviour
Nature Human Behaviour - NIH indirect cost cuts will affect the economy and employment
www.nature.com
June 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Every $1 spent on NIH funding returns nearly $3 to the economy - an almost 200% return on investment💰.
Also 99% of drugs developed 2010-2019 were funded by NIH ‼️🤯
Cutting NIH funding not only hurts the economy but will hurt families and patients 😔💔
Every $1 spent on NIH funding returns nearly $3 to the economy - an almost 200% return on investment💰.
Also 99% of drugs developed 2010-2019 were funded by NIH ‼️🤯
Cutting NIH funding not only hurts the economy but will hurt families and patients 😔💔
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ASM maintains the critical need for a budget agreement that supports funding levels that will allow the U.S. to maintain its position as a scientific leader and address the public health needs of the American people. Read our statement: asm.org/press-releas...
ASM Calls on Congress: Reject Drastic Science & Health Cuts
The American Society for Microbiology urges Congress to reject the proposed steep cuts to scientific research and public health in the President’s FY2026 budget.
asm.org
June 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
ASM maintains the critical need for a budget agreement that supports funding levels that will allow the U.S. to maintain its position as a scientific leader and address the public health needs of the American people. Read our statement: asm.org/press-releas...
Reposted by Elsa BouGhanem Lab
Reposted by Elsa BouGhanem Lab
Secretary Kennedy's announcement that COVID-19 vaccines will no longer be recommended for healthy children and pregnant women could reduce vaccine access for millions of Americans.
IDSA urges insurers to maintain coverage for COVID-19 vaccines: bit.ly/4jjmwPV
IDSA urges insurers to maintain coverage for COVID-19 vaccines: bit.ly/4jjmwPV
May 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Secretary Kennedy's announcement that COVID-19 vaccines will no longer be recommended for healthy children and pregnant women could reduce vaccine access for millions of Americans.
IDSA urges insurers to maintain coverage for COVID-19 vaccines: bit.ly/4jjmwPV
IDSA urges insurers to maintain coverage for COVID-19 vaccines: bit.ly/4jjmwPV
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Joyce Wolford is alive today because of a cutting-edge NIH study.
Trump officials cut $2.7 BILLION from NIH funding in the first three months of this year.
The American people do not want us to slash lifesaving research to give tax breaks to billionaires.
Trump officials cut $2.7 BILLION from NIH funding in the first three months of this year.
The American people do not want us to slash lifesaving research to give tax breaks to billionaires.
May 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Joyce Wolford is alive today because of a cutting-edge NIH study.
Trump officials cut $2.7 BILLION from NIH funding in the first three months of this year.
The American people do not want us to slash lifesaving research to give tax breaks to billionaires.
Trump officials cut $2.7 BILLION from NIH funding in the first three months of this year.
The American people do not want us to slash lifesaving research to give tax breaks to billionaires.
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The National Institutes of Health, the largest funder of biomedical research in the world, has fired 1,300 employees and cancelled more than $2 billion in federal research grants. https://cbsn.ws/4daiCrv
How cuts at the National Institutes of Health could impact Americans' health
Cuts and layoffs to the National Institutes of Health threaten medical research around the U.S., agency insiders warn.
cbsn.ws
April 28, 2025 at 12:30 AM
The National Institutes of Health, the largest funder of biomedical research in the world, has fired 1,300 employees and cancelled more than $2 billion in federal research grants. https://cbsn.ws/4daiCrv
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Vacciness have saved > 6 lives/min in the last 50 years, yet their importance & safety is often questioned
“We should not allow misinformation, disinformation, ignorance and defunding to hinder vaccine development, deployment and use”
My latest @plosbiology.org
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
“We should not allow misinformation, disinformation, ignorance and defunding to hinder vaccine development, deployment and use”
My latest @plosbiology.org
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Vaccines work… and do not cause autism
Vaccines have saved millions of lives, yet their importance and safety is repeatedly in question. W e cannot let disinformation campaigns get in the way of global public health – it is not time to def...
journals.plos.org
April 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Vacciness have saved > 6 lives/min in the last 50 years, yet their importance & safety is often questioned
“We should not allow misinformation, disinformation, ignorance and defunding to hinder vaccine development, deployment and use”
My latest @plosbiology.org
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
“We should not allow misinformation, disinformation, ignorance and defunding to hinder vaccine development, deployment and use”
My latest @plosbiology.org
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Scientific research is important. Scientific research saves lives. Scientific research fuels the economy. Scientific research keeps the country safe. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
A call for the United States to continue investing in science | mBio
The U.S. life science research mission is critical not only to human health and understanding the natural world but also to agriculture and food production, technological innovations, socioeconomic progress, and our national defense and leadership worldwide. A 2025 Research!America survey reveals that 92% of Americans want government to actively work to promote medical progress, in part by funding infectious and chronic disease research. Why? Because biomedical research saves lives, prevents suffering, and increases quality of life for not only Americans but for people throughout the world. While less well appreciated, science also drives enormous economic growth. Indeed, historically there has been widespread bipartisan support for biomedical funding by the federal government. Below we discuss the U.S. scientific research enterprise and provide evidence and arguments we hope the ASM community can use to advocate for science.
journals.asm.org
February 27, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Scientific research is important. Scientific research saves lives. Scientific research fuels the economy. Scientific research keeps the country safe. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...