Mikey Whittaker
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Mikey Whittaker
@nanomedmikey.bsky.social
Polymer chemist and pretend pharmacologist. I like to build nanoscale tools to study and exploit fundamental biological processes.
@ Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
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Immediately.
July 4, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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A friend of ours is a probationary employee at ARPA-H at NIH. She was not terminated.

It wasn't everybody...

A sliver of good news...
a woman wearing headphones and a black shirt with a korean flag on the sleeve is sitting in a blue chair
ALT: a woman wearing headphones and a black shirt with a korean flag on the sleeve is sitting in a blue chair
media.tenor.com
February 14, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.
February 3, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Our new paper is online...a great collaborative effort.

pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Cholesterol-terminated cationic lipidated oligomers (CLOs) as a new class of antifungals - Journal of Materials Chemistry B (RSC Publishing) DOI:10.1039/D4TB02317J
pubs.rsc.org
January 27, 2025 at 4:05 AM