Sallie Permar, MD, PhD

Sallie Permar, MD, PhD

@salliepermar.bsky.social

Chairwoman and Nancy C. Paduano Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatrician in Chief at NewYork Presbyterian Komansky Children's Hospital. Lab research goal: Develop vaccines to prevent neonatal viral infections such as #HIV and #CMV

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1 year ago

This bottleneck in research funding threatens research that took decades to build, as well as the cures of tomorrow. Publicly-funded research is the highest economic yield there is, with 2.5X of economic gains for every $.

Call your Senator and Rep to ask them to protect federal research!

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1 year ago
The New England Journal of Medicine 
Blinatumomab in Standard-Risk B-Cell ALL in Children 
A Research Summary based on Gupta S et al. | 10.1056/NEJMoa2411680 | Published on December 7, 2024 

Visual representations of the patients in the trial and the treatments they were assigned.    

Read the full Research Summary at NEJM.org.

The addition of blinatumomab after induction chemotherapy in children with standard-risk disease of average or higher risk of relapse significantly improved disease-free survival. Full AALL1731 phase 3 trial results: nej.md/49CVkc1

#MedSky #PedSky #Hematology

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1 year ago
JCI - A vaccine against cytomegalovirus: how close are we?

Thrilled to author this article with two renowned pediatrician scientists, vaccinologists and friends, Drs. Stanley Plotkin and Mark Schleiss, as we await results of the 1st phase 3 trial of a #CMV vaccine!

JCI - A vaccine against cytomegalovirus: how close are we? www.jci.org/articles/vie...

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