Sara Nunes Vasconcelos, PhD she/her/hers🇨🇦🇧🇷
@saravasconcelos.bsky.social
Regen. med, blood vessels, cardiovascular disease, tissue engineering, OOAC, diabetes
Senior Scientist UHN. Associate Prof UofT. John Kiston McIvor Endowed Chair in Diabetes Research.
www.vasconceloslab.com
Senior Scientist UHN. Associate Prof UofT. John Kiston McIvor Endowed Chair in Diabetes Research.
www.vasconceloslab.com
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(1/4) In recognition of #HeartMonth, join SCN’s Joanna Valsamis as she chats with biomedical engineering expert Dr. Sara Vasconcelos (University Health Network, Toronto) about cutting-edge stem cell research for heart disease—a leading cause of death and disability in Canada.
Recycling Blood Vessels: A Breakthrough in Organ Regeneration
YouTube video by Stem Cell Network - Réseau de cellules souches
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This one is very personal: I talk about our revascularization therapies and share a bit on how my experience as a #cancersurvivor is influencing my lab’s research. 1/
@uhnresearch.bsky.social @uhntoronto.bsky.social @uoft.bsky.social @bbdc.bsky.social
@uhnresearch.bsky.social @uhntoronto.bsky.social @uoft.bsky.social @bbdc.bsky.social
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Thanks to everyone who joined us for today's Trainee Lab Seminar! We heard insightful presentations from Qiwei Zhang of the Hoon-Ki Sung lab, Safwat Khan from the @saravasconcelos.bsky.social lab and Yihan Luo of the @drprentice.bsky.social lab.
November 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Thanks to everyone who joined us for today's Trainee Lab Seminar! We heard insightful presentations from Qiwei Zhang of the Hoon-Ki Sung lab, Safwat Khan from the @saravasconcelos.bsky.social lab and Yihan Luo of the @drprentice.bsky.social lab.
A few more days to submit your abstract!
‼️ Deadline extension alert ‼️
The new abstract submission deadline for #EMBLCardioBiology is 10 November 👉 https://s.embl.org/ncb26-01-bl
👉 Join experts pushing the frontiers of heart and vascular science
🫀 Share your work and shape the future of cardiobiology
📜 Submit your abstract today!
The new abstract submission deadline for #EMBLCardioBiology is 10 November 👉 https://s.embl.org/ncb26-01-bl
👉 Join experts pushing the frontiers of heart and vascular science
🫀 Share your work and shape the future of cardiobiology
📜 Submit your abstract today!
November 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
A few more days to submit your abstract!
Huge congratulations to my colleague Dr Cristina Nostro for the Till & McCulloch Award at #TMM2025 Such a well deserved recognition! @uhnresearch.ca
@stemcellnetwork.ca
@stemcellnetwork.ca
November 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Huge congratulations to my colleague Dr Cristina Nostro for the Till & McCulloch Award at #TMM2025 Such a well deserved recognition! @uhnresearch.ca
@stemcellnetwork.ca
@stemcellnetwork.ca
The #VasconcelosLab is at #TMM2025
Check out their posters and talks and come say hello if you see us!
Check out their posters and talks and come say hello if you see us!
November 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The #VasconcelosLab is at #TMM2025
Check out their posters and talks and come say hello if you see us!
Check out their posters and talks and come say hello if you see us!
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Join us on Friday, November 14 from 12 - 1 p.m. for our Trainee Lab Seminar, featuring students from the Hoon-Ki Sung, @saravasconcelos.bsky.social and @drprentice.bsky.social labs. Learn more: bbdc.org/events/bbdc-...
October 31, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Join us on Friday, November 14 from 12 - 1 p.m. for our Trainee Lab Seminar, featuring students from the Hoon-Ki Sung, @saravasconcelos.bsky.social and @drprentice.bsky.social labs. Learn more: bbdc.org/events/bbdc-...
Reposted by Sara Nunes Vasconcelos, PhD she/her/hers🇨🇦🇧🇷
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
The deadline for abstract submission has been extended! Make sure to submit yours!
@navbo.bsky.social @mcsociety.bsky.social @appliedcvb.bsky.social
@navbo.bsky.social @mcsociety.bsky.social @appliedcvb.bsky.social
‼️ Deadline extension alert ‼️
The new abstract submission deadline for #EMBLCardioBiology is 10 November 👉 https://s.embl.org/ncb26-01-bl
👉 Join experts pushing the frontiers of heart and vascular science
🫀 Share your work and shape the future of cardiobiology
📜 Submit your abstract today!
The new abstract submission deadline for #EMBLCardioBiology is 10 November 👉 https://s.embl.org/ncb26-01-bl
👉 Join experts pushing the frontiers of heart and vascular science
🫀 Share your work and shape the future of cardiobiology
📜 Submit your abstract today!
October 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The deadline for abstract submission has been extended! Make sure to submit yours!
@navbo.bsky.social @mcsociety.bsky.social @appliedcvb.bsky.social
@navbo.bsky.social @mcsociety.bsky.social @appliedcvb.bsky.social
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We're now recruiting early career group leaders at the Crick to lead ambitious research programmes and explore bold scientific questions.
Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.
Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.
Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
October 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
We're now recruiting early career group leaders at the Crick to lead ambitious research programmes and explore bold scientific questions.
Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.
Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.
Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...
Reposted by Sara Nunes Vasconcelos, PhD she/her/hers🇨🇦🇧🇷
⏰ Don't miss your chance to sign up for #EMBLCardioBiology!
Deadline is 15 Oct
➡️ https://s.embl.org/ncb26-01-bl
Listen to the keynote speakers
✨ James F. Martin (USA) and
✨ Alessandra Moretti (Germany)
as they talk about cardiovascular disease, regeneration and translational breakthroughs.
Deadline is 15 Oct
➡️ https://s.embl.org/ncb26-01-bl
Listen to the keynote speakers
✨ James F. Martin (USA) and
✨ Alessandra Moretti (Germany)
as they talk about cardiovascular disease, regeneration and translational breakthroughs.
October 6, 2025 at 10:19 AM
⏰ Don't miss your chance to sign up for #EMBLCardioBiology!
Deadline is 15 Oct
➡️ https://s.embl.org/ncb26-01-bl
Listen to the keynote speakers
✨ James F. Martin (USA) and
✨ Alessandra Moretti (Germany)
as they talk about cardiovascular disease, regeneration and translational breakthroughs.
Deadline is 15 Oct
➡️ https://s.embl.org/ncb26-01-bl
Listen to the keynote speakers
✨ James F. Martin (USA) and
✨ Alessandra Moretti (Germany)
as they talk about cardiovascular disease, regeneration and translational breakthroughs.
Reposted by Sara Nunes Vasconcelos, PhD she/her/hers🇨🇦🇧🇷
#DBfeature 🐠🫀
Gpnmb promotes the recruitment of macrophages post cardiac cryoinjury in zebrafish, influencing immune and fibrotic responses during regeneration
-S Gupta, GK Bajwa, H El-Sammak, K Mattonet, S Günther, M Looso, D Stainier, R Marín-Juez @rmarinjuez.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/yc7hv5dn
Gpnmb promotes the recruitment of macrophages post cardiac cryoinjury in zebrafish, influencing immune and fibrotic responses during regeneration
-S Gupta, GK Bajwa, H El-Sammak, K Mattonet, S Günther, M Looso, D Stainier, R Marín-Juez @rmarinjuez.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/yc7hv5dn
October 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
#DBfeature 🐠🫀
Gpnmb promotes the recruitment of macrophages post cardiac cryoinjury in zebrafish, influencing immune and fibrotic responses during regeneration
-S Gupta, GK Bajwa, H El-Sammak, K Mattonet, S Günther, M Looso, D Stainier, R Marín-Juez @rmarinjuez.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/yc7hv5dn
Gpnmb promotes the recruitment of macrophages post cardiac cryoinjury in zebrafish, influencing immune and fibrotic responses during regeneration
-S Gupta, GK Bajwa, H El-Sammak, K Mattonet, S Günther, M Looso, D Stainier, R Marín-Juez @rmarinjuez.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/yc7hv5dn
Reposted by Sara Nunes Vasconcelos, PhD she/her/hers🇨🇦🇧🇷
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October 7, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Jane Goodall, the trailblazing naturalist whose intimate observations of chimpanzees in the African wild produced powerful insights that transformed basic conceptions of humankind, has died. She was 91.
Read more about her legacy www.latimes.com/obituaries/s...
Read more about her legacy www.latimes.com/obituaries/s...
October 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
😢💔
Reposted by Sara Nunes Vasconcelos, PhD she/her/hers🇨🇦🇧🇷
We're seeking a motivated postdoc to help us and NovoNordisk generate cutting-edge human cellular models of metabolic disease. For details & to apply (by 6th Oct), see: cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc.... If you think someone in your network might be interested, please share. Thank you!
September 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM
We're seeking a motivated postdoc to help us and NovoNordisk generate cutting-edge human cellular models of metabolic disease. For details & to apply (by 6th Oct), see: cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc.... If you think someone in your network might be interested, please share. Thank you!
No good deed goes unpunished: when you agree to review a grant for European country and their system has you jumping through lots os hoops just to log in! UGH!
a man sitting on a bed with his mouth open and the words i thought this was a good idea above him
ALT: a man sitting on a bed with his mouth open and the words i thought this was a good idea above him
media.tenor.com
September 25, 2025 at 6:39 PM
No good deed goes unpunished: when you agree to review a grant for European country and their system has you jumping through lots os hoops just to log in! UGH!
Reposted by Sara Nunes Vasconcelos, PhD she/her/hers🇨🇦🇧🇷
🚨 Two weeks left to apply for the EMBL-EBI–Sanger Postdoctoral (ESPOD) Programme.
Apply by: 30 September 2025.
Ready to take the next step in your science career?
www.ebi.ac.uk/research/pos...
@sangerinstitute.bsky.social
#postdoc #sciencecareers
Apply by: 30 September 2025.
Ready to take the next step in your science career?
www.ebi.ac.uk/research/pos...
@sangerinstitute.bsky.social
#postdoc #sciencecareers
September 16, 2025 at 9:56 AM
🚨 Two weeks left to apply for the EMBL-EBI–Sanger Postdoctoral (ESPOD) Programme.
Apply by: 30 September 2025.
Ready to take the next step in your science career?
www.ebi.ac.uk/research/pos...
@sangerinstitute.bsky.social
#postdoc #sciencecareers
Apply by: 30 September 2025.
Ready to take the next step in your science career?
www.ebi.ac.uk/research/pos...
@sangerinstitute.bsky.social
#postdoc #sciencecareers
Excited about this cutting-edge, cross-disciplinary conference I'm co-organizing at EMBL Heidelberg bringing together leaders in vascular biology, cardiac research, & bioengineering.
A stellar lineup of speakers w Keynotes:
James Martin & Alessandra Moretti
Opportunities for oral pres from abstracts
A stellar lineup of speakers w Keynotes:
James Martin & Alessandra Moretti
Opportunities for oral pres from abstracts
September 9, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Excited about this cutting-edge, cross-disciplinary conference I'm co-organizing at EMBL Heidelberg bringing together leaders in vascular biology, cardiac research, & bioengineering.
A stellar lineup of speakers w Keynotes:
James Martin & Alessandra Moretti
Opportunities for oral pres from abstracts
A stellar lineup of speakers w Keynotes:
James Martin & Alessandra Moretti
Opportunities for oral pres from abstracts
Reposted by Sara Nunes Vasconcelos, PhD she/her/hers🇨🇦🇧🇷
🚨 We're hiring, please share! The FMI seeks a tenure-track Group Leader (Assistant Prof) in Structural Biology 🔬
Innovative scientists in genome regulation, RNA metabolism, or protein homeostasis—especially using cutting-edge approaches—apply now at www.fmi.ch/education-ca...
Innovative scientists in genome regulation, RNA metabolism, or protein homeostasis—especially using cutting-edge approaches—apply now at www.fmi.ch/education-ca...
September 8, 2025 at 8:15 AM
🚨 We're hiring, please share! The FMI seeks a tenure-track Group Leader (Assistant Prof) in Structural Biology 🔬
Innovative scientists in genome regulation, RNA metabolism, or protein homeostasis—especially using cutting-edge approaches—apply now at www.fmi.ch/education-ca...
Innovative scientists in genome regulation, RNA metabolism, or protein homeostasis—especially using cutting-edge approaches—apply now at www.fmi.ch/education-ca...
Reposted by Sara Nunes Vasconcelos, PhD she/her/hers🇨🇦🇧🇷
Today we celebrated one of my favorite annual traditions—the Institute of #Biomedical Engineering BBQ to mark the start of the academic year. It was a beautiful day and a wonderful opportunity to reconnect with colleagues and meet with students as we look forward to the year ahead.
@uhnresearch.ca
@uhnresearch.ca
September 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Today we celebrated one of my favorite annual traditions—the Institute of #Biomedical Engineering BBQ to mark the start of the academic year. It was a beautiful day and a wonderful opportunity to reconnect with colleagues and meet with students as we look forward to the year ahead.
@uhnresearch.ca
@uhnresearch.ca
Super well deserved! Congrats Angela!
Meet Angela Zhou, a PhD candidate in Dr. @saravasconcelos.bsky.social's lab @uhn.ca and one of the 2025 Vanier Scholars.
Read about her research in #revascularization, what excites her most about being a research trainee at UHN, and her interests. ❤️🩹
🔗: www.uhnresearch.ca/news/angela-...
Read about her research in #revascularization, what excites her most about being a research trainee at UHN, and her interests. ❤️🩹
🔗: www.uhnresearch.ca/news/angela-...
August 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Super well deserved! Congrats Angela!
Reposted by Sara Nunes Vasconcelos, PhD she/her/hers🇨🇦🇧🇷
Introducing our keynote speakers! #VascularBiology2025
Submit your science by the end of today!
Visit NAVBO website to know more
www.navbo.org/vb2025/
Submit your science by the end of today!
Visit NAVBO website to know more
www.navbo.org/vb2025/
August 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Introducing our keynote speakers! #VascularBiology2025
Submit your science by the end of today!
Visit NAVBO website to know more
www.navbo.org/vb2025/
Submit your science by the end of today!
Visit NAVBO website to know more
www.navbo.org/vb2025/
Reposted by Sara Nunes Vasconcelos, PhD she/her/hers🇨🇦🇧🇷
#VascularBiology2025
NAVBO Vascular Biology 2025!
Join us in Cape Cod, Oct 19-23, 2025.
Speaker spotlight series!!
Visit : www.navbo.org/vb2025/
NAVBO Vascular Biology 2025!
Join us in Cape Cod, Oct 19-23, 2025.
Speaker spotlight series!!
Visit : www.navbo.org/vb2025/
August 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM
#VascularBiology2025
NAVBO Vascular Biology 2025!
Join us in Cape Cod, Oct 19-23, 2025.
Speaker spotlight series!!
Visit : www.navbo.org/vb2025/
NAVBO Vascular Biology 2025!
Join us in Cape Cod, Oct 19-23, 2025.
Speaker spotlight series!!
Visit : www.navbo.org/vb2025/
We are hiring a PDF to use state-of-the-art data from single cell & spatial transcriptomics of microvessels to uncover the molecular blueprint of successful vascularization & apply findings to coach hPSC-endothelial cells to successfully vascularize grafts 👇
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/UniversityHe...
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/UniversityHe...
Postdoctoral Researcher
Company Description: UHN is Canada’s #1 hospital and the world’s #1 publicly funded hospital. With 10 sites and more than 44,000 Team UHN members, UHN consists of Toronto General Hospital, Toronto Wes...
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August 21, 2025 at 12:46 AM
We are hiring a PDF to use state-of-the-art data from single cell & spatial transcriptomics of microvessels to uncover the molecular blueprint of successful vascularization & apply findings to coach hPSC-endothelial cells to successfully vascularize grafts 👇
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/UniversityHe...
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/UniversityHe...
To celebrate our undergraduate summer students, the #ProjectMaVen team got together at the pub to hear about what they’ve learnt and to enjoy ourselves. Aisha did a great job on her presentation #ProudPI
August 21, 2025 at 12:20 AM
To celebrate our undergraduate summer students, the #ProjectMaVen team got together at the pub to hear about what they’ve learnt and to enjoy ourselves. Aisha did a great job on her presentation #ProudPI
Yesterday the whole lab went out for lunch to bid Sonia goodbye on her return to Paris soon. You will be missed! #VasconcelosLab @uhnresearch.ca @bbdc-uoft.bsky.social @mcsociety.bsky.social
August 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Yesterday the whole lab went out for lunch to bid Sonia goodbye on her return to Paris soon. You will be missed! #VasconcelosLab @uhnresearch.ca @bbdc-uoft.bsky.social @mcsociety.bsky.social