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Michael King

@profmikeking.bsky.social
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President of AIMBE. E.D. Butcher Professor of Bioengineering at Rice University. Associate Vice President for Research. Special Advisor to the Provost. Okinawan-American. “…one of the novelists of our time…”

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Michael King @profmikeking.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
First time I’ve ever published a paper (preprint) in 8 different languages! Turns out that non-English prompts are a cheap and easy way to generate reference and hypothesis diversity in AI scientific ideation… engrxiv.org/preprint/vie...
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Michael King @profmikeking.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Submit a comment using this link to the comment builder tool: takeaction.aps.org/lp/n301wnzw #AIMBE, #OMBrule, #StandUpforScience @aimbe-official.bsky.social
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Michael King @profmikeking.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I am excited to give a webinar next week on the topic of “AI in Science and Research,” sponsored by the Controlled Release Society and organized by their Women in Science committee! Thank you Chiara Mancino for the invitation!
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Michael King @profmikeking.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I’m excited to be a Keynote Speaker at next Monday’s Lehigh Materials Symposium! Looking forward to seeing old friends and making new ones.
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Michael King @profmikeking.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Drs. Mike King (AIMBE President), Lola Eniola-Adefeso (AIMBE Immediate Past-President), and Dawn Beraud (AIMBE Executive Director) met with staff representatives from the BIOTech Caucus, as well as majority staff from the Senate Appropriations Committee… @aimbe-official.bsky.social
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Michael King @profmikeking.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Great news story about our new paper in Advanced Healthcare Materials, about a new cell culture system for studying metaststic cancer… congrats to Alex Carter and team!! #OpenAccess news.rice.edu/news/2026/sc... t.co/ODQTaku8WM
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Michael King @profmikeking.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
act.fightcancer.org/a/tx-cprit-p... @aimbe-official.bsky.social @americancancersoc.bsky.social
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Michael King @profmikeking.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
🚨new GBM paper alert!🚨 What if I told you… that there was a safe, approved, BBB-accessible drug that can prime glioblastoma cells for apoptosis? #OpenAccess Fun fact: co-1st author Shanay Desai was a King Lab undergrad, now in grad studies at Penn! doi.org/10.1021/acso...
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Michael King @profmikeking.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Wake up babe, new BMES podcast just dropped! Had a great time talking about the value of professional societies with my friend @lizwaynephd.bsky.social … Liz is the best in the biz and I was honored to share my experiences with BMES… give it a listen! 🎧🎙️🗣️ www.bmes.org/podcast/offi...
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Michael King @profmikeking.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
As a Guest Editor for JoVE, I am organizing a Topical Collection titled “Techniques for the Control of Immune Cell Function Using Physical Forces.” Interested in contributing? Please submit an abstract here: app.jove.com/methods-coll...
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Michael King @profmikeking.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Some good news: Prolactin sensitizes HT29 cells to TRAIL-mediated apoptosis. We tested the efficacy of our next generation dual affinity liposomes, based on immune cell delivery! #nanomedicine
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Michael King @profmikeking.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
We built a computational model of the JAK2/STAT3 signaling pathway in response to late-pregnancy PRL levels! Freely available at: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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Michael King @profmikeking.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Cancer stem-associated markers and EMT increase with prolactin treatments.
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Michael King @profmikeking.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
We found that pregnancy prolactin levels cause biphasic STAT3 phosphorylation and increased JAG1 and NICD expression.
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Michael King @profmikeking.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Pregnant colorectal cancer patients have larger tumors yet fewer options exist for anticancer interventions compared to non-pregnant colorectal cancer patients.
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Michael King @profmikeking.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Before we get into the science, this was my first opportunity to publish a second, “native language” abstract with the paper… so we were able to include a Spanish language version in lead author @MariaLCavestany ‘s mother tongue, muy bien! 🇪🇸
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Michael King @profmikeking.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
¿Qué pasa? 🚨new paper alert!🚨 I am excited to share our new paper, an important collaboration with Dr. Cathy Eng and VUMC: Increased prolactin levels in pregnancy affect colorectal cancer aggressiveness #OpenAccess 🧵👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Michael King @profmikeking.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
It’s finally BMES week! The King Lab is giving 6 oral and 12 poster presentations, with a delegation that includes high school student, undergrad, PhD students, postdocs, research professor and… moi! Check out our work, and also visit the Rice BIOE booth and reception!
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Michael King @profmikeking.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT! 🚨 Our new review on “Cellular mechanoactivation of antigen-presenting cells and T cells for cancer immunotherapy” in Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering! Free #OpenAccess download for all readers! #immunoengineering #mechanobiology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Michael King @profmikeking.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Amazing! Friend and fellow mechanobiologist Nadeen Chahine was in San Diego and caught a Padres game… and it was Michael King bobblehead night! Thank you so much Nadeen, this is going to look great in my office! 👑⚾️
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Michael King @profmikeking.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
I'm pleased to share this nicely done video that captures how special the Rice partnership with the Texas Medical Center is for biomedical researchers... 🔬 🧪 🏙️
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Michael King @profmikeking.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Join us at the "Health Innovations in the Rice-TMC Ecosystem" symposium for a series of presentations on Innovations in Cancer Research April 24-25 Helix Park's TMC3 Collaborative Building Tickets: bit.ly/3DaBGrR About the event: bit.ly/4kcZP1I
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Michael King @profmikeking.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Congratulations to King Lab PhD student Natalie Curry, who won a poster prize at the NCI Tissue Engineering Collaborative Annual Investigators Meeting, for her study on the effect of fluid shear stress on macrophage polarization! Outdoor session in Miami, fun! 🔬☀️
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Michael King @profmikeking.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Late to the party… start me up, my Bleeps!
A beer koozie that says: “Shell We Drink?” With a picture of a shell.
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