Miriam Merad, MD, PhD

@MiriamMerad

Director, Immunology Institute @SinaiImmunol @IcahnMountSinai | Harnessing the innate immune system for novel therapies against cancer & inflammatory diseases.

Manhattan, NY icahn.mssm.edu/research/immun… Joined November 2016

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Miriam Merad, MD, PhD @MiriamMerad Oct 28

Great example of how scientists approach a problem! Thanks to @zmallat for sharing data showing that the number of Nobel laureates correlates with investment in R&D. The question now is what will happen to the number of US Nobel laureates if we continue to cut research funding?

Miriam Merad, MD, PhD @MiriamMerad Oct 28

Arabs contributed immensely to knowledge from the 9- 14th centuries, not because they were smarter but because research was valued and funded. If the US continues to defund research, Americans will also stop winning Prizes. History is our best guide,if we interpret it correctly.

Bulwark Clips Verified account @BulwarkClips Oct 26

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Novel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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Miriam Merad, MD, PhD @MiriamMerad Oct 15

Great summary of studies linking vaccination to reduced dementia risk with 2 messages: 1/Peripheral inflammation contribute to neuroinflammation, cognitive decline & dementia. Controlling systemic inflammation may be key to healthy brain aging (1/2) pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

www.pnas.org Vaccine data suggest immunity could mitigate dementia. What’s the biology behind these apparent... Vaccine data suggest immunity could mitigate dementia. What’s the biology behind these apparent effects?

Miriam Merad, MD, PhD @MiriamMerad Oct 15

Congratulations @ScottRussoPhD ! you are going to be a fantastic chair ! and I look forward to bringing neuroscience and Immunology even closer together

Eric J. Nestler, MD, PhD @EricJNestler Oct 14

This appointment is especially meaningful to me since @ScottRussoPhD first joined my lab then at UT Southwestern at Dallas as a postdoc in 2003 and was my first faculty hire when I moved to @IcahnMountSinai in 2008.
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Miriam Merad, MD, PhD @MiriamMerad Aug 10

In this article, I argue that pandemics, antimicrobial resistance, cancer, inflammatory diseases & aging are among the greatest threats to our societies. Yet biomedical research receives a fraction of military spending, when in fact the #NIH is also a “Department of Defense”.

Nature Rev Immunol @NatRevImmunol Aug 6

Academic biomedical research is national defence dlvr.it/TTtvVc
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