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Björn Kafsack

@kafsacklab.bsky.social
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Working at Weill Cornell in New York City at the intersection of chromatin, metabolism, and differentiation in apicomplexan parasites.

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Björn Kafsack @kafsacklab.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
After 10 years, my position at Weill Cornell has officially come to an end at the begging of the month. I am so grateful for the amazing people who spend time in my lab during the last decade and extremely proud of their work. 🧵 1/n
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Björn Kafsack @kafsacklab.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I came to the US as an exchange student when I was 16 and have been here ever since. Finally got my citizenship earlier this year, so at age 47, I got to vote for the first time today.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
He's right. "Nothing short of devastating" By @holdenthorp.bsky.social @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Björn Kafsack @kafsacklab.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Came across this gem from @fad1.bsky.social while packing up my office.
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Björn Kafsack @kafsacklab.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
As standard screens for new antimalarials yield diminishing new targets and chemotypes, GSK Tres Cantos used media that mimics nutrients in serum & found many new hits. We then id'ed the targets and, amazingly, every one of the 29 new chemotypes found blocks PSAC!🤯 shorturl.at/dCCO8
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Björn Kafsack @kafsacklab.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
The end of the Joe Visone era at WCM is upon us! It's been an absolute delight! 😍
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Björn Kafsack @kafsacklab.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Just substituted "transgenic" for "genetically modified" and "diverse/diversity" for "varied/variation" in all parts of my R01 submission. 🤯
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Björn Kafsack @kafsacklab.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The NIH just pulled all the F31 Diversity fellowship applications from the study section I'm on ...
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Björn Kafsack @kafsacklab.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Exciting pre-print from the Soares Lab at the Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine showing that increased bilirubin is protective in humans, mice and in vitro. 👏👏👏 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... www.youtube.com/watch?v=McV4...
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
“Two-thirds of the staff of the President’s Malaria Initiative…the largest donor to anti-malaria programs…worldwide, have been fired…incl some of the most senior and respected scientists working on malaria control in the world.”
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