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Alan Chiu @chiuonscience.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

The Tribeca Film Festival slate was just released and it's absolutely STACKED this year ... so much for being financially responsible this month :p

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Alan Chiu @chiuonscience.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

lol my take that #TheDrama is wildly romantic is going to go over as well as when I argued The Shape of Water was the most beautiful love story of 2017

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Alan Chiu @chiuonscience.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I really don’t understand how the MTA has no effective systems in place so that minor issues like someone needing help on a train doesn’t snarl rush hour trains for hours … genuinely why are we so much worse at this than everyone else

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Alan Chiu @chiuonscience.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

The audible gasp I gave when Ryan Gosling puts two tubes next to each other in the centrifuge in Project Hail Mary lol Hollywood studios!! I’m available as a science consultant!! I’ll even show your actors how to use a pipette!

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Alan Chiu @chiuonscience.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Several BreakthroughT1D funding opportunities available 1) Advancing GRS, especially in non-European backgrounds 2) Early detection in adult-onset T1D 3) Tech for scaling manufactured islets Feel free to reach out with questions. Open to industry and academia #funding #grants #T1D

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Type 1 Diabetes Funding Opportunities - Breakthrough T1D

Explore Breakthrough T1D’s funding opportunities for type 1 diabetes research. Learn how we support innovative projects driving breakthroughs in T1D treatment, prevention, and cures.

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Alejandra Tomas @tomaslab-imperial.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Are you interested in developing a research programme in cell biology of diabetes? Do you work in pancreatic islets and/or other metabolically relevant cells? We have a Lectureship post opening in our Section @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social Apply by 25th March: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

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Alan Chiu @chiuonscience.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Listening to my academic friends tell me all about their plans to write and be productive during their sabbaticals knowing full well that if I was ever given one I’d used it to binge watch all 47 seasons of survivor chronologically

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Alan Chiu @chiuonscience.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Cool advancements! The biggest obstacle for use is still how long it takes to image these things, even using an Operetta it would take me more than a full day to image 96 well plates before with how many stacks were needed for sufficient resolution.

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Alan Chiu @chiuonscience.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Really encouraging results! T1D patients on tirzepatide lost an average of 10% of their bw without an increase in DKA or severe hypoglycemic events … looking forward to future studies with readouts on its effect on CVD www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Effect of Tirzepatide on Body Weight and Diabetes Control in Adults With Type 1 Diabetes and Overweight or Obesity

To determine the effect of tirzepatide on weight, diabetes control, and insulin requirements, and its safety profile in adults with type 1 diabetes (T…

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Alan Chiu @chiuonscience.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Really interesting read! To me, vascularization of grafts is the least developed aspect of islet transplantation and studies like this are helpful for understanding what exactly is it we're trying to build

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Dr. Jeffrey Millman @jeffreymillman.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Stem cell-derived islets engineered to express EGFRt were targeted by CAR-Treg cells to suppress innate and adaptive immune responses, which may prevent immune rejection for #T1D cell therapy. Congrats to the Ferreira and Russ teams! www.cell.com/cell-reports... #regenerativemedicine

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Alan Chiu @chiuonscience.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Really interesting ... maybe it will help with the shaming (often from medical professionals) of women who struggle to produce enough if there is an additional alternative to formula

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Heiko Lickert @heikolickert.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Thrilled to share one of our biggest discoveries: “Inceptor binds to and directs insulin towards lysosomal degradation in beta cells”. doi.org/10.1038/s422... A tremendous collaborative effort led by JohannaSiehler, Sara Bilekova and other members of the Lickert lab @heikolickert.bsky.social

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Inceptor binds to and directs insulin towards lysosomal degradation in β cells - Nature Metabolism

The insulin inhibitory receptor (inceptor) is found to bind to insulin and to regulate insulin stores by directing proinsulin and insulin towards lysosomal degradation.

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Prof Claire Hills @chillslincoln79.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Great to see this update by Kidney Research UK on all things #Diabetic #Kidneydisease in 2024. Special thanks for highlighting the work of our #PhD student Paige on targetting cell senescence in diabetic nephropathy 👩‍🔬🥼🧪..Full details 👇👇 #NephSky #diabetes www.kidneyresearchuk.org/2024/10/24/d...

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Diabetes and kidney disease: progress in 2024 - Kidney Research UK

From research to workshops with the diabetes community, progress is being made to prevent the progress of diabetes to kidney disease

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Alan Chiu @chiuonscience.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Wow not sure if it was just the gays behind us yas-ing every 15 seconds but the Wicked movie was kind of … incredible? Also no one sang along!!! I’m sorry I doubted you Times Square AMC, it just felt like you’d be likely to attract people who wouldn’t be able to contain themselves

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Alan Chiu @chiuonscience.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Actually maybe the sign of mainstreaming is when Greys Anatomy does a CAR T centric episode

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Alan Chiu @chiuonscience.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Cell therapy manufacturing hubs like the one being built on Long Island are going to be huge for access (and economically) as CAR-T and other treatments expand beyond oncology and become more mainstream, especially as the hypoimmune CAR-T efforts seem to be struggling

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Omer Dushek @tcell.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Our new work! We show that T cell cross-reactivity can be reduced without modifying the TCR itself (by dramatically enhancing antigen discrimination). Generation of T cells with reduced off-target cross-reactivities by engineering co-signalling receptors www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Generation of T cells with reduced off-target cross-reactivities by engineering co-signalling receptors

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Alan Chiu @chiuonscience.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

⭐💸 Funding Opps 💸⭐ Two new calls from BreakthroughT1D The first is for advancing technologies that support engraftment of transplants The second looks at common mechanisms for autoimmune disease Feel free to reach out with questions #funding #t1d #grants www.breakthrought1d.org/explore-rese...

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Funding Opportunities - Breakthrough T1D

Grant handbook A comprehensive collection of Breakthrough T1D’s grant mechanisms and descriptions; application guidelines and checklists; administrative resources; terms and conditions (updated July 2...

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Prof Paul E Squires @paulsquires.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Glucagon-like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists: New Evidence of Kidney and Cardiovascular Protection From the FLOW and SELECT Trials 👇👇👨‍🔬🧪🥼 #cardiacsky #nephsky #medsky #cardiovascular #kidneydisease #Type2diabetes #semaglutide www.ajkd.org/article/S027...

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DEFINE_ME

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Alan Chiu @chiuonscience.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

One of my favorite things about these early BlueSky days is getting recommended posts like this and discovering entire fields of science I didn’t even know existed/had a name

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Alan Chiu @chiuonscience.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I set up a calendar reminder to buy I’m Still Here tickets weeks ago but then was too distracted by talks at AHA and forgot to buy them and now they’re sold out 😭😭😭😭

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Alan Chiu @chiuonscience.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Looking forward to reconnecting with the science community (and the nice sections of the film community :p ) on this app I'm also here at #AHA2024 exploring therapies for the T1D community if anyone has insights they'd like to share!

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