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Mehul Suthar

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Associate Professor at Emory University. Director of Center for Childhood Infections and Vaccines; Virologist; Immunologist; Emerging Viruses

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Careers | Emory University | Atlanta GA

We have an exciting opportunity in the lab and are looking to hire a staff scientist with a background in bioinformatics, scRNAseq, and data analysis/modeling. Please apply here
staff-emory.icims.com/jobs/147890/...

03.06.2025 21:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Exclusive: NIH to suspend funds for research abroad as it overhauls policy Move by US biomedical agency threatens thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

01.05.2025 01:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.

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13.03.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

CDC censors papers submitted to journals. "Researchers instructed to remove references to forbidden terms [including] transgender, LGBT, non-binary, assigned [fe]male at birth" insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

02.02.2025 12:57 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4
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The KP.2-adapted COVID-19 vaccine improves neutralising activity against the XEC variant The rapid spread and emergence of immune-evasive SARS-CoV-2 variants has led to a 2024 update of the COVID-19 vaccine. These variants include BA.2.86-lineage variants comprising more than 30 mutations...

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
🚨New from the Suthar Lab! 🚨
Our study, published today in Lancet Infectious Diseases, shows that the updated KP.2 COVID-19 vaccine enhances neutralization against emerging JN.1-lineage variants, including XEC.

01.02.2025 01:46 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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WHO Coronavirus Network The WHO Coronavirus Network (CoViNet) aims to bring together surveillance programs and reference laboratories to support enhanced epidemiological monitoring and laboratory (phenotypic and genotypic) a...

WHO Coronavirus Network (CoViNet) who.int/groups/who-c...
#Covid #SARSCoV2 #Science

18.12.2024 23:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Global Collaborative Comparison of SARS-CoV-2 Antigenicity Across 15 Laboratories Setting up a global SARS-CoV-2 surveillance system requires an understanding of how virus isolation and propagation practices, use of animal or human sera, and different neutralisation assay platforms...

How do labs worldwide assess SARS-CoV-2 antigenicity consistently? Our collaborative study with WHO & 15 labs reveals insights into neutralization assays, aiding global variant tracking & vaccine updates. Findings support lab networks like WHO CoViNet.

www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/16...

18.12.2024 23:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We are looking to immediately fill a postdoctoral fellow position with a research emphasis on mRNA technologies in the context of emerging viruses. Looking for enthusiastic recent graduates with a background in virology or immunology. If interested, please email me your CV.

18.12.2024 20:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
LDH detects first presumptive positive human H5N1 case in Louisiana | La Dept. of Health The Louisiana Department of Health protects and promotes health and ensures access to medical, preventive and rehabilitative services for all citizens of the State of Louisiana.

Louisiana reports a human H5N1 infection after exposure to wild birds. Genetic details and confirmation of H5N1 is needed but this person is hospitalized. ldh.la.gov/news/H5N1-2024

14.12.2024 00:44 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Suthar Lab has officially joined Bluesky!

12.12.2024 18:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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