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Brett Garabedian
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PhD w Jim Paulson at Scripps Research | Building immune therapies aimed at cancer’s sweet spot 🍭 #glycotime | Dabbling in protein degraders #TPD 🎯
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Today in ACS Central Science @pubs.acs.org , we report an anti-PD1 #sialidase conjugate that degrades #SialicAcid on PD1+ T cells, inflaming tumors and controlling their growth beyond SOC PD1 blockade in melanoma models #Glycotime

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Targeting Sialidase to PD1 Enhances T cell Function and Tumor Control
Immune therapies targeting the PD1 axis have transformed outcomes in cancer treatment by enhancing T cell-mediated immune responses. However, many tumors evade immune clearance through orthogonal esca...
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OF COURSE the leaked transcript was an attempt to disrupt damaging US-Russian peace talks, which are extremely dangerous for Europe and Ukraine

www.nbcnews.com/world/russia...
Kremlin says leaked U.S. call is an attempt to disrupt Ukraine peace talks
President Donald Trump, whose envoy Steve Witkoff will visit Moscow next week, said he had no deadline for a deal after earlier pressuring Kyiv to endorse a proposal by Thanksgiving.
www.nbcnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Trump has murdered at least 83 people with extrajudicial military strikes on alleged drug-trafficking boats.

He needs to face consequences for this.

His secretary of DHHS, RFK Jr., will kill several orders of magnitude more with this disinformation.
This is completely disgusting. Today, the CDC updated their vaccine safety page. It now says:

“The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.
November 20, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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The CDC has updated its vaccine safety page to promote long-discredited claims about vaccines—namely that they cause autism.

The page links to a number of studies, including one by anti-vax allies of Robert Kennedy Jr.

www.importantcontext.news/p/cdc-change...
CDC Changes Vaccine Safety Page to Promote Vaccine Misinformation
It is the latest move by Robert Kennedy Jr.’s Department of Health and Human Services to attack vaccines.
www.importantcontext.news
November 20, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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This change is unlikely to provide any significant health benefit.
November 15, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Ms4a7 expression in cDC1s determines cross-presentation and antitumor immunity
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @science.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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In decades to come, we will look back at 2025 - following the most devastating pandemic in a century - as the year we turned back hard-earned progress on combating infectious diseases.

That means the comeback of preventable diseases. And the emergence of new ones.

www.science.org/content/arti...
The Trump administration is dismantling efforts to fight the next pandemic
A retreat from investments in drugs and vaccines leaves U.S. less prepared for the next viral scourge, experts warn
www.science.org
November 13, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.
November 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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I recently gave a talk at Cornell and sat down with Dr. Leifer for her "Immune" podcast. I really enjoyed our wide-ranging conversation, from how I got started in science, how immunity shapes evolution, pandemic risk, and, the current state of US science.

🎧👇

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Virus-immune Tug-of-war with Kristian Andersen
Podcast Episode · Immune · 11/11/2025 · 1h
podcasts.apple.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Excited to share our laboratory's research tools to study Siglecs along with some interesting discoveries with these tools. Lot of help from many group, but @zeinab-jc.bsky.social was the major driver of this work. Please reach out if you would like to try them out. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
An ultrasensitive and modular platform to detect Siglec ligands and control immune cell function
Siglec-liposomes are a multivalent and modular platform for profiling Siglec ligands and modulating immune cell function.
www.science.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:57 PM
“Here, using a CRISPR–Cas9-based genome-wide knockout approach, we identify SIGLEC12 as a key mediator of necroptosis downstream of MLKL at the PMR step.” Non-sialic acid binding #Siglec #glycotime (?)

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
SIGLEC12 mediates plasma membrane rupture during necroptotic cell death - Nature
CRISPR–Cas9-based genome-wide screening shows that SIGLEC12 mediates plasma membrane rupture in cells undergoing necroptosis, possibly through a human-specific mechanism, indicating its potential as a...
www.nature.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
#CD33 …(Fig. 2D)… showed low variability in each individual throughout the longitudinal study, suggesting stable, subject-specific concentrations. “

Therapeutically useful to know one’s #Siglec-3 abundance changes little over time
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A human pan-disease blood atlas of the circulating proteome
The human blood proteome provides a holistic readout of health states through the assessment of thousands of circulating proteins. Here, we present a pan-disease resource to enable the study of divers...
www.science.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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“For those who believe the health system is controlled by a conspiracy, Holmes is a victim of Big Pharma. For biohacking enthusiasts into wearable devices, she was an early adopter. For mothers who see themselves as protectors, she is a mom who is trying to provide the best care for her family”
MAHA Is Embracing Elizabeth Holmes. Here’s Why.
An alliance is building between the Trump-aligned movement and convicted Theranos founder.
www.politico.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Fun for the day ...
Cocktail lecture in my chemistry of cooking class.

Things I'll talk about
Daiquiris (real ones) & riffs on
Liquid Intelligence (Dave Arnold) & entropy
Mindful Mixology (Derek Brown)
Ratatouille
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
#Siglec -9 levels increase on T cells in patients with acute severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (and LCMV) infection relative to levels on healthy controls
#SialicAcid #Glycotime

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Increase of Inhibitory Siglec receptors on T cells mitigates severe immune reactions during acute viral infections
Abstract. Expression of inhibitory Siglec receptors has been described on T cells of patients with viral infection and cancer. However, the exact function
academic.oup.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 12:20 PM
“In this study, we identified integrin α3β1, composed of ITGA3 and ITGB1 subunits, as a sialylated glycoprotein ligand for #Siglec-10, an inhibitory glyco-immune checkpoint receptor highly expressed on TAMs in PDAC” #SialicAcid #Glycotime

aacrjournals.org/cancerres/ar...
Targeting Interactions Between Siglec-10 and α3β1 Integrin Enhances Macrophage-Mediated Phagocytosis of Pancreatic Cancer
AbstractTumor-associated macrophages (TAM) in the pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) tumor microenvironment (TME) exhibit immunosuppressive phenotypes and impaired phagocytic activity, facilitati...
aacrjournals.org
November 6, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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GAGs FTW! Wow #glycotime!! ⤵️🧪 🥳🥳

"Leukocyte recruitment is a key driver of inflammatory diseases, including psoriasis. Here, we found that leukocytes had the glycocalyx component heparan sulfate on their cell surface and that it was lost in response to psoriasis-like skin inflammation"
November 5, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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My sixth literary child is born today (and already a best seller on Amazon). Get your copy: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Notes-...
November 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Amazing #glycotime immune research on display at GIA2025. Come join us at this free hybrid event and watch talk by some of the best in the field. Register here
We’re thrilled to introduce GIA2025 Trainee Invited Speaker Dr. Jim Paulson, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Immunology and Microbiology at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA who’ll talk on the roles of inhibitory Siglecs in regulation of immune responses! #GIA2025 #glycotime
October 29, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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I have a very bad feeling about this...
October 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Fully-automated spectral unmixing pipeline that reduces error up to 9000-fold @biorxiv-immuno.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
October 28, 2025 at 2:52 PM