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Anna Vardapetyan

@annavardapetyan.bsky.social

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Research Technician @Doudna Lab & @Urnov Lab

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Carolyn Johnson @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

In case you needed a smile this Tuesday: 10-month-old baby KJ, who received a bespoke gene-editing therapy after a six month scientific sprint - "graduated" from the hospital @childrensphila.bsky.social today and went HOME! YAY SCIENCE! Here's his story: wapo.st/451ZQjT

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21/04/2025

Breaking News: Harvard sued the Trump administration, fighting back against its threats to slash billions of dollars from the school’s research funding. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...

A headline over a photo of a school building reads: "Harvard University Sues Trump Administration." Photo by Tony Luong for The New York Times.

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Anna Vardapetyan @annavardapetyan.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

5 years into Covid's impact, phenomenal review by @dwallacewells.bsky.social gift link www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Opinion | How Covid Remade Our America, Five Years Later (Gift Article)

It feels as if the pandemic is behind us. But we’re living in the world it made.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

That's right

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Innovative Genomics Institute @innovativegenomics.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

We were proud to host Reps. @replsimon.bsky.social and @reptedlieu.bsky.social for a tour of the IGI and discussions on the #BiomedicalResearch we're doing with the support of funding from NIH! Here's a great article on the visit from the @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social news room: bit.ly/4gWtlpD 🧪🧬

Rep. Ted Lieu (left) and Rep. Lateefah Simon (center) got a tour of the Innovative Genomics Institute from institute founder Jennifer Doudna (second from left) during a morning briefing on Feb. 21 about the importance of NIH funding to the development of new treatments for disease.

Graduate student Brigette Manohar, who is from Trinidad and Tobago, described for the representatives her fear that reduced NIH funding will derail her career. She currently is developing ways to get CRISPR therapies into into the brain to treat neurological diseases.

Kathy Yelick, UC Berkeley’s vice chancellor for research and professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences, explains how the current federal freeze on research funds is already impacting campus planning.

Jennifer Doudna, who shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of CRISPR gene editing, discusses the biomedical research underway in the Innovative Genomics Institute with Los Angeles Rep. Ted Lieu during his visit to the campus on Feb. 21.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

How insurance companies degrade the patient-doctor relationship, by Helen Ouyang, my friend and exceptional physician-author gift link www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/o... @nytopinion.nytimes.com

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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 09/12/2024

I joined 75+ @nobelprize.bsky.social laureates urging US Senators to oppose RFK Jr.'s confirmation as DHHS Secretary. If you’re in a state with GOP senators, PLEASE reach out to them! I’d deeply appreciate it if you amplified this post! 🙏 www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/h...

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Anna Vardapetyan @annavardapetyan.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Grad school panel event for the @innovativegenomics.bsky.social undergrad and tech journal club!

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