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M. Fiona Shortt de Hernandez

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PhD, MBA | Associate Director @BioNTech | Technology Profiling | Formulation and Delivery Technologies | Biotech | Personal Account. Views mine. #ChemSky #RNASky #MedSky #ImmunoSky #ChemInclusion @cheminclusion.bsky.social

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 06/10/2025
BREAKING: Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi win the Nobel Prize in medicine for work on peripheral immune tolerance.
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The Nobel Prize in medicine goes to 3 scientists for work on peripheral immune tolerance
Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for their discoveries about peripheral immune tolerance.
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M. Fiona Shortt de Hernandez @mfshortt.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Visiting family in Berlin after working in Halle this week. The beauty of the Brandenburger Tor never fails to amaze me! #Berlin
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DER SPIEGEL @spiegel.de · 12/06/2025
Das Pharmaunternehmen Biontech will den deutschen Konkurrenten Curevac übernehmen. Es gebe ein öffentliches Umtauschangebot für alle Aktien von Curevac, teilte Biontech in Mainz mit.
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Biontech will Konkurrenten Curevac übernehmen
Das Pharmaunternehmen Biontech will den deutschen Konkurrenten Curevac übernehmen. Es gebe ein öffentliches Umtauschangebot für alle Aktien von Curevac, teilte Biontech in Mainz mit.
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M. Fiona Shortt de Hernandez @mfshortt.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Great to be learning about the exciting new developments in AI for pharma at the Digital-Tech Pharma & AI conference in London this week!
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M. Fiona Shortt de Hernandez @mfshortt.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
It rained and poured this morning but what a day to run through VfB’s home stadium during the Stuttgart-Lauf 2025! #dfb #vfbstuttgart #stuttgartlauf #10K
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WirtschaftsWoche @wirtschaftswoche.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
2026 will Biontech sein erstes Krebsmedikament auf den Markt bringen. Jetzt wird klar, wie die Mainzer dabei vorgehen.
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Biontech: Neue Medikamente, neuer Vorstand
2026 will Biontech sein erstes Krebsmedikament auf den Markt bringen. Jetzt wird klar, wie die Mainzer dabei vorgehen.
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Tagesschau Bot @tagesschau.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Ehrung für BioNTech-Mitgründer Türeci und Sahin #Nationalpreis #BioNTech
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Ehrung für BioNTech-Mitgründer Türeci und Sahin
Jurychef der Deutschen Nationalstiftung, Mirow, sprach von einem "leuchtenden Beispiel".
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Skeptical Raptor @skepticalraptor.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Newly published data from a phase 1 clinical trial on a #PancreaticCancer #mRNA #vaccine shows that patients whose cancer went into remission after receiving the vaccine remained cancer-free after three years.
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Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine — exciting clinical trial results
BioNTech's pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine candidate, cevumeran, has shown promising results in a phase 1 trial.
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IUPAC @iupac.org · 08/03/2025
Happy #InternationalWomensDay 🎉 #IUPAC 2025 Awards for Distinguished Women in #Chemistry 👩‍🔬 #ChemicalEngineering Yu-Ju Chen Stefanie Dehnen Hemda Garelick Marie-Claude Heuzey Young-Shin Jun Tanja Junkers Zhang Lin Zhimin Liu Jane Catherine Ngila Ah-Hyung Alissa Park Vivian W.W. Yam Xuehua Zhang
Awardees of the IUPAC 2025 Distinguished Women In Chemistry or Chemical Engineering
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ChemInclusion @cheminclusion.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Happy #InternationalWomensDay! Today, we celebrate the brilliant women shaping the future of #chemistry. From research to mentorship, their impact is undeniable. Let’s break barriers, amplify voices, and create a more inclusive STEM community! Who inspires you? Tag them! #IWD #ChemInclusion
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Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) @imbmainz.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The summer call of our International PhD programme is open! 📢 Ready to advance your scientific career? If you're passionate about #RNAbiology, #Bioinformatics, or #Immunology, apply to our open calls and join our global community of over 200 #PhD students! 🌍 www.imb.de/phd
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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Immunologie e.V. (DGfI) @dgfi-org.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Robert-Koch-Postdoktorandenpreis für den Themenbereich Immunologie (€ 5.000) / Bewerbungsschluss: 14. März 2025 Die DGfI hat ein Vorschlagsrecht für den Robert-Koch-Postdoktorandenpreis im Bereich Immunologie. Mehr Informationen unter: dgfi.org/preise/koch-...
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M. Fiona Shortt de Hernandez @mfshortt.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Exciting results from BioNTech in collaboration with Genentech for the treatment of pancreatic cancer using an mRNA-lipoplex vaccine. #RNASky rdcu.be/eb4Lj
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RNA neoantigen vaccines prime long-lived CD8+ T cells in pancreatic cancer
Nature - In a phase 1 trial, patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma who were treated with surgery and bespoke neoantigen mRNA vaccines combined with anti-PD-L1 and chemotherapy exhibited...
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M. Fiona Shortt de Hernandez @mfshortt.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Ran the annual London Winter Run 10K @WinterRunUK for Cancer Research UK @CR_UK yesterday! An amazing experience as always & this time together with 25,000 other participants! A record number!!!🏃‍♀️🏃🏃‍♂️
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ChemInclusion @cheminclusion.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
From breaking barriers to building the future - women and girls are shaping our world with discovery, innovation and courage. Let’s celebrate their brilliance and inspire the next generation!#WomenInScience #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience #ChemInclusion
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Seth Cheetham @sethcheetham.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Interested in undertaking a PhD in the transformative field #mRNA cancer vaccines? I have an earmarked #PhD scholarship available for an outstanding domestic student to join our team at UQ and @basemrna.bsky.social. If this sounds like you, get in touch. study.uq.edu.au/study-option...
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M. Fiona Shortt de Hernandez @mfshortt.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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Bill Gates in Mainz: Star-Unternehmer besucht BioNTech
Microsoft-Gründer Bill Gates war in dieser Woche in Mainz: Er besuchte das Unternehmen BioNTech.
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Abby Knight @abbyknight.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
We are looking for a postdoc to join the Knight Group! Interested in the interface of peptide and polymer chemistry with applications in therapeutics and nanomaterials? Send questions or an application with a cover letter, CV, and statement of previous research. #chempostdoc www.knightgroupunc.org
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The Knight Group - UNC
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Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · 14/01/2025
Nanocarrier imaging at single-cell resolution across entire mouse bodies with deep learning - @erturklab.bsky.social @hendrikdietz.bsky.social go.nature.com/4gNLjeC
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Nanocarrier imaging at single-cell resolution across entire mouse bodies with deep learning - Nature Biotechnology
An integrated experimental and deep learning pipeline reveals cell-level targeting of nanocarriers in whole bodies.
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DER SPIEGEL @spiegel.de · 04/02/2024
Mit dem Covid-Impfstoff hat das Mainzer Unternehmen Biontech Milliarden Euro verdient. Nun setzen seine Gründer Uğur Şahin und Özlem Türeci dieses Geld ein, um an ihrem eigentlichen Lebenswerk zu arbeiten: den Krebs endgültig zu besiegen. Kann es dem Paar gelingen?
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Mit KI gegen Krebs: Wie Biontech zum zweiten Mal Medizingeschichte schreiben will
Mit dem Covid-Impfstoff hat das Mainzer Unternehmen Biontech Milliarden Euro verdient. Nun setzen seine Gründer Uğur Şahin und Özlem Türeci dieses Geld ein, um an ihrem eigentlichen Lebenswerk zu arbeiten: den Krebs endgültig zu besiegen. Kann es dem Paar…
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Nature Reviews Clean Technology @natrevcleantech.nature.com · 15/01/2025
Happy launch day everyone! We're really excited to share our first issue, which is now available to read online here www.nature.com/nrct/
A picture of the journal's front cover
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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I could not be more thrilled to announce the Nature Methods @naturemethods.bsky.social Method of the Year is Spatial Proteomics! Please see our editorial as a roadmap to the fantastic content in this special issue! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Method of the Year 2024: spatial proteomics - Nature Methods
Approaches for profiling the spatial proteome in tissues are the basis of atlas-scale projects that are delivering on their promise for understanding biological complexity in health and disease.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 15/01/2025
The blood-brain barrier can prevent therapeutic drugs from reaching the brain. Researchers in #ScienceAdvances have identified a peptide that increases the barrier’s permeability, showing potential for more effective drug delivery to treat brain diseases. scim.ag/4jhnWf6
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A claudin5-binding peptide enhances the permeability of the blood-brain barrier in vitro
A claudin5 binding peptide enhances transport across the blood-brain barrier by transiently permeabilizing tight junctions.
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Seth Cheetham @sethcheetham.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I made a starter pack for interesting people in the mRNA vaccines and therapeutics space. Message me if you want to be added. #RNAsky go.bsky.app/VSHfBce
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