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Devin Teichrow
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Epidemiologist, amateur historian, and science communicator • theedgeofepidemiology.substack.com
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Somehow The Edge of Epidemiology just cracked Substack’s Top 50 in science. Huge thanks to everyone reading, sharing, and nerding out about the history of disease with me.

New post: Humanity’s Deadliest Companions

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#EpiSky #History #MedSky #IDSky
October 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Cool little accomplishment! Thanks to everyone who has read, subscribed, and shared!
#EpiSky #MedSky

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August 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Hello! Our Neuroinformatics lab at UCI is recruiting for our study on migraine and cognition! If you wouldn’t mind bumping this so we can reach our goal of 200 participants, we’d greatly appreciate it! Our screening survey can be found here.
uci.questionpro.com/a/TakeSurvey...
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June 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Excited to share that I’ll be joining UC Irvine as an Assistant Specialist in the Department of Neurology, working at the intersection of machine learning and epidemiology to study migraine disorders! Looking forward to contributing to research that advances our understanding of neurological health.
February 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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From my new post on phages (full intro is in the alt text of the image). Preliminary studies have shown combinations of phages and antibiotics can restore the efficacy of drugs that bacteria had previously resisted.

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#MedSky #Virology #Phages #IDSky
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is proving to be one of the greatest public health challenges of our time. In the Western Pacific region alone, AMR is projected to be the cause of 5.2 million deaths by the start of the next decade1. This has the potential to completely outpace public health interventions and investments into cures. Routine treatments for infections are becoming increasingly ineffective, with the urgency to find alternatives having never been greater.. One contender to fill this gap is bacteriophages. Bacteriophages (phages for short) are viruses that specifically infect and destroy bacteria. Phages were once hailed as a miracle cure during their heyday in the early 20th century. They treated infections ranging from dysentery to septic wounds, and apparently with remarkable precision, especially when compared to antibiotics broad-spectrum actions 2. But another miracle cure stole the spotlight with the rise of penicillin and other antibiotic therapies in the 1940’s, completely overshadowing phage therapy and relegating it to niche applications in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union3 As AMR accelerates and the development of new antibiotics somewhat lags behind, phage therapy is making a cautious but compelling comeback. Scientists in genomics and synthetic biology tools to the table that have equipped phages with incredible precision to combat drug-resistant bacteria4. Success stories, including patients being saved from near-fatal infections by tailored phage cocktails, hint at their ability to revolutionize the treatment of infectious diseases. However, significant challenges remain. Some studies have found bacteria becoming resistant to phages in a way that is eerily reminiscent of antibiotic resistance. Regulatory hurdles make the research a bit difficult to get done. And scalability is always an issue to consider with new drugs.
January 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Some thoughts on the LA fires. vectorsofinquiry.substack.com/p/los-angele...
January 12, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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December 24, 2024 at 5:16 AM
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Canine Transmissible Venereal Tumor
#IDSky #Veterinarian #Epidemiology open.substack.com/pub/vectorso...
December 19, 2024 at 9:06 PM
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MSc in epidemiology from UCLA complete #episky
June 15, 2024 at 5:36 PM
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Stats/epi/causal inference book stack #statssky #episky
June 10, 2024 at 10:08 PM
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Showing my advisor the results from my models that no longer have convergence issues but still lack the power to detect an effect. Episky Statssky
October 3, 2023 at 4:22 PM