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Puja Mehta 🧩 🌻

@drpujamehta1.bsky.social
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Physician-Scientist MD PhD Rheumatologist investigating immune mechanisms of ILD 🖐️ 🫁 Cross-speciality Rheum-Pulm 🤝 All the -omics! 🥼 👩‍🔬 🧬 Science Communication 🗣️ Leadership 💪🏼 U.K.-USA 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Opinions are my own 😊

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Puja Mehta 🧩 🌻 @drpujamehta1.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Pleased to share our message in The Lancet: "Protect Early Career Researchers through fair authorship governance" co-authored with Carola Garcia de Vinuesa www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Protecting early-career researchers through fair authorship governance
In academia, authorship symbolises both currency and trust. Authorship buys credibility, funding, promotion, visibility, mobility, and opportunity. For early-career researchers, manuscript authorship ...
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Puja Mehta 🧩 🌻 @drpujamehta1.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Gollum, Goldilocks and Pinnochio have no place in academia. The 'Gollum Effect' www.nature.com/articles/d41... 44% had experienced it. Of these, 18% had experienced it many times. In 46% the perpetrator was a high-profile researcher, and 35% said it was their supervisor. My slide below:
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Puja Mehta 🧩 🌻 @drpujamehta1.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Brilliant 😂 @pwgtennant.bsky.social @rheumcat.bsky.social @killianhurley.bsky.social Only someone famous like @kaminskimed.bsky.social could do this tho!! youtube.com/shorts/zPqGq...
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The best scientific abstract ever?
YouTube video by Recreational Science
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Puja Mehta 🧩 🌻 @drpujamehta1.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Ok, I’m prepared…come at me! 😂 @thanh-neville.bsky.social @kaminskimed.bsky.social @kaminskimed.bsky.social @rheumcat.bsky.social @profmarciniak.bsky.social @pwgtennant.bsky.social @killianhurley.bsky.social @profjdchalmers.bsky.social #BritishBrunch
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Puja Mehta 🧩 🌻 @drpujamehta1.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
New Haven is so pretty! 🤩
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Puja Mehta 🧩 🌻 @drpujamehta1.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
@thanhneville.medsky.social is a magician!!! 🪄 I cannot believe that I can now get 2 uses out of spring onions. Every day is a school day!
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Puja Mehta 🧩 🌻 @drpujamehta1.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Maybe in the future….but not just yet!
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Puja Mehta 🧩 🌻 @drpujamehta1.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science / STEM 🧬 Science is stronger when everyone has a 🪑 Seat AND a 🗣️ Voice at the table! #ThisisYale #IWDGS
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Puja Mehta 🧩 🌻 @drpujamehta1.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
I choose YALE! Excited to share I’ve started my first faculty position: Assistant Professor Physician–Scientist Yale School of Medicine My research focuses on immune mechanisms in Systemic Autoimmune Rheumatic Disease (SARD)-ILD, supported by an amazing mentorship team. Reach out to collaborate!
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KaminskiMed @kaminskimed.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Is MIF the missing link between AT2 & macrophages in Pulmonary Fibrosis? See "Dysregulated Alveolar type 2 epithelial cell proteostasis promotes fibrogenic macrophage migration inhibitory factor–CD74 signaling" Kudos Drs Kim, Sauler & team! #CurePF4All www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Dysregulated alveolar type 2 epithelial cell proteostasis promotes fibrogenic macrophage migration inhibitory factor–CD74 signaling
Impaired proteostasis amplifies alveolar epithelial MIF signaling to macrophages, increasing profibrotic macrophages and driving lung fibrosis.
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Puja Mehta 🧩 🌻 @drpujamehta1.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
An incredible honour to be included in this Nature Reviews Rheumatology feature - a 20-year reflection on women in rheumatology. 💜💜💜 Huge thanks to the wonderful @ashira-md.bsky.social & Dr. Grace Wright for co-authoring such an inspiring piece. 🤩. #WomeninRheum www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A 20-year reflection on women in rheumatology - Nature Reviews Rheumatology
The collective priorities of the rheumatology field represent the lived experience, and therefore diversity of its members. The ‘mould’ of rheumatology, that is, its culture, structures and expectations, was not created for or by women, but women have slowly changed this mould to make space for diverse perspectives.
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Puja Mehta 🧩 🌻 @drpujamehta1.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
PhD-done ✅ 🙌 Huge thanks to my examiners @profmarciniak.bsky.social from University of Cambridge and Dr. James Harker from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social for such a thorough & engaging viva voce - a journey thru immune mechanisms of fibrotic lung disease Grateful & excited for what’s next! 🎓✨
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Puja Mehta 🧩 🌻 @drpujamehta1.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Brilliant use of AI!
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Puja Mehta 🧩 🌻 @drpujamehta1.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
An important day of remembrance — not just for the USA 🇺🇸 but for all of us around the world 🌍. I was at Yale last year on 9/11 and was deeply moved by how they marked the occasion. #911Memorial reminds us of the value of unity, resilience, and compassion in the face of tragedy
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Puja Mehta 🧩 🌻 @drpujamehta1.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Really pleased to hear that our #EULAR2025 symposium was covered by the European Medical Journal (EMJ) A Podcast with all the speakers in the session, including Prof Gerd Burmester covering mechanisms of methotrexate use wrt vaccines and me covering the Lungs 🫁! lnkd.in/en6vw26j
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Puja Mehta 🧩 🌻 @drpujamehta1.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Forgot to post this! Shout out to my awesome friends, colleagues, collaborators at #EULAR2025 Very pleased to have delivered 2 talks and caught up with amazing people from all over the world!
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KaminskiMed @kaminskimed.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Finally out! The first AI regenerative model applied to IPF & PCLS single nuclear sequencing data is out & it works!! See 🧵 below and paper here www.nature.com/articles/s41... #CureIPF #ScienceMatters
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A deep generative model for deciphering cellular dynamics and in silico drug discovery in complex diseases - Nature Biomedical Engineering
UNAGI deciphers cellular dynamics from human disease time-series single-cell data and facilitates in silico drug perturbations to discover drugs potentially active against complex human diseases.
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Puja Mehta 🧩 🌻 @drpujamehta1.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Can’t wait to read!
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Puja Mehta 🧩 🌻 @drpujamehta1.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
It was so cool to present at the #ACR Challenging Cases in #ILD Webinar!! Great discussion and highlights how much work we need to do!!
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Puja Mehta 🧩 🌻 @drpujamehta1.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Delighted to be a small part of this effort led by @epirheum.bsky.social !
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Puja Mehta 🧩 🌻 @drpujamehta1.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
⏰ It’s Today! 3:15, Charter 3 🗣️ BSR SARD-ILD Guidelines working group! 👋🏽 me - management 👋🏽 Muhammad Nisar - monitoring 👋🏽 Nazia Chaudari - screening 🪑 Clive Kelly @cliveryton Come join us!! #ILD 🫁 🖐️!! #BSR2025
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Puja Mehta 🧩 🌻 @drpujamehta1.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Day2 #BSR2025 Join us! ⏰ 1740 Exchange 9! 🗣️ Me - Lungs 🫁 and Liver Fibrosis 🗣️ @synovialjoints Prof Antoni Chan Optimising conventional treatment 🪑 Nicola Wood See you later!! ✌️
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Puja Mehta 🧩 🌻 @drpujamehta1.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Day 1 : Rheum-Haem 🩸 🗣️ #Castlemans Disease: Relevance in Rheumatology ⏰ Today 5:55pm, Exchange 11 🤝 Join @MarkBishton (cons Haematologist, Nottingham) and I See you later!! ✌️ #BSR2025
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Puja Mehta 🧩 🌻 @drpujamehta1.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Nearly there! #BSR2025 #WILD Women in ILD 🙌
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Puja Mehta 🧩 🌻 @drpujamehta1.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
All set for #BSR25 in Manchester?? Looking forward to 3⃣Days 3⃣Talks, covering 4⃣ Specialities! - Rheum-Pulm-Haem-Liver 🖐️🫁🩸 1⃣ common thread... Cross-speciality Immunology :) Holler if you're there...and Come say hi!👋 @rheumatologyuk.bsky.social
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Nature @nature.com · 08/03/2025
Six award-winning female scientists highlight women who have inspired them by pushing innovative research and creating opportunities for others #IWD #InternationalWomensDay go.nature.com/43w9Voe
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Behind every great woman in science, there’s another great woman in science
Nature - To mark International Women’s Day on 8 March, six award-winning female scientists highlight women who have inspired them by pushing innovative research and creating opportunities for others.
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Puja Mehta 🧩 🌻 @drpujamehta1.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Totally right!!!
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Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
How to do differential expression with scRNAseq data? State of the art is "pseudo-bulk" analysis with RNA-seq methods like edgeR or DESeq2, where "cell type" is encoded as discrete categories. Biologically, discrete categories are not always the most appropriate concept.(1/3) doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Analysis of multi-condition single-cell data with latent embedding multivariate regression - Nature Genetics
Latent embedding multivariate regression models multi-condition single-cell RNA-seq using a continuous latent space, enabling data integration, per-cell gene expression prediction and clustering-free ...
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Puja Mehta 🧩 🌻 @drpujamehta1.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Love this
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Puja Mehta 🧩 🌻 @drpujamehta1.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
@nisreenalwan.bsky.social so pleased to find you here
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Puja Mehta 🧩 🌻 @drpujamehta1.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Heidelberg is indeed beautiful - I did a bioinformatics secondment in GSK Heidelberg during my PhD - lovely people and the Philosopher's walk was enchanting!
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Puja Mehta 🧩 🌻 @drpujamehta1.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Really enjoyed chairing the spoken posters ‘Call of the ILD’ at #BTSWinter2024 with Joe Ball. Two hours, 12 posters of great scientific and clinical data!
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Dr Lisa Griffiths @neurogriffin.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
This is completely astonishing and will hopefully generate many potential targets for new therapies…. Atlas of cells transforms understanding of human body www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Human Cell Atlas project transforms understanding of human body
Scientists are mapping out the 37 trillion cells of the human body and changing what we thought we knew
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Rheum Cat @rheumcat.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
And the global networking continues. If you are attending an international conference, you can use that time to have a meal with your colleagues from around the world. This is part of rheumatology. #ACR24
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Puja Mehta 🧩 🌻 @drpujamehta1.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Very cool lecture by @KaminskiMed - an odyssey through the lung using scRNAseq!! It really is a skill to present such complex data with effortless flair...! #MasterClassInSingleCellILD
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Puja Mehta 🧩 🌻 @drpujamehta1.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Hello Rheumatology, Pulmonology, ILD peeps. Hit me up and I’ll follow you back xxx
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