Nima Mosammaparast
@nimamlab.bsky.social
Professor of Pathology at WashU, St. Louis, Co-Director DNA Repair Program @Siteman Cancer Center. Father, husband, immigrant.
A giant will be missed here at WashU. His laboratory was directly above mine.
internalmedicine.wustl.edu/obituary-stu...
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Obituary: Stuart Arthur Kornfeld, MD - John T. Milliken Department of Medicine
October 4, 1936 – August 17, 2025 It is with deep sadness that I share the news that Dr. Stuart Arthur Kornfeld, Professor Emeritus, passed away on Sunday, August 17, 2025, from complications of Parki...
internalmedicine.wustl.edu
August 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
A giant will be missed here at WashU. His laboratory was directly above mine.
internalmedicine.wustl.edu/obituary-stu...
internalmedicine.wustl.edu/obituary-stu...
Reposted by Nima Mosammaparast
"I think we have a bias as people coming from the tech industry where we worked at companies, you know, such as Google, Facebook, these companies that have plenty of money, are funded by investors and have lots of people kind of sitting around doing nothing." www.npr.org/2025/06/02/n...
Former DOGE engineer says federal waste and fraud were 'relatively nonexistent'
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sahil Lavingia, who worked for the Department of Government Efficiency as a software engineer assigned to the Department of Veterans Affairs, about his experience.
www.npr.org
June 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
"I think we have a bias as people coming from the tech industry where we worked at companies, you know, such as Google, Facebook, these companies that have plenty of money, are funded by investors and have lots of people kind of sitting around doing nothing." www.npr.org/2025/06/02/n...
Unbelievable.
Grant freezes versus terminations feel different, but they have the same practical effect.
We should start treating freezes as terminations, both of which can be undone by HHS / NIH whenever they want—or by court order if they refuse. They’re all illegal.
We should start treating freezes as terminations, both of which can be undone by HHS / NIH whenever they want—or by court order if they refuse. They’re all illegal.
Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025
May 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Unbelievable.
Yum!!! 😂
Trump Informs Nation They Better Start Liking Those Little Canned Wieners
WASHINGTON—Saying that Americans should anticipate certain lifestyle changes as a result of his newly announced tariffs, President Donald Trump informed the nation Thursday that they better start liki...
theonion.com
April 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Yum!!! 😂
It was forty years ago today that I came to the US with my family to escape war and repression in Iran. I remain thankful and amazed at where life has led me. #freedom
March 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
It was forty years ago today that I came to the US with my family to escape war and repression in Iran. I remain thankful and amazed at where life has led me. #freedom
This is why we need science.
Emily Whitehead's life was saved by an "academic" team at Penn Medicine - this yielded an approved therapy, Kymriah, since used by Novartius to treat ~20,000 patients with cancer.
= science at research universities saves lives.
Pls read second subunit below.
www.cnn.com/2025/03/07/h...
= science at research universities saves lives.
Pls read second subunit below.
www.cnn.com/2025/03/07/h...
Cancer survivor warns against threats to health funding | CNN
Emily Whitehead and Tom Whitehead join The Lead
www.cnn.com
March 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
This is why we need science.
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Sign the Petition
Petition to Reverse the NIH Indirect Cost Cap (NOT-OD-25-068)
www.change.org
March 6, 2025 at 7:00 AM
A great pleasure to share our newest paper out this morning @cp-molcell.bsky.social. We show that damage to nascent RNAs should not be ignored, and under certain conditions, these can turn into DNA breaks. We call this phenomena RDIBs (RNA Damage Induced Breaks). www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
YTHDC1 cooperates with the THO complex to prevent RNA-damage-induced DNA breaks
Tsao et al. uncover a novel pathway for genotoxicity, termed RNA-damage-induced DNA
breaks (RDIBs). The mechanism for preventing RDIBs is orchestrated by YTHDC1 along
with the THO complex, which funct...
www.cell.com
March 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
A great pleasure to share our newest paper out this morning @cp-molcell.bsky.social. We show that damage to nascent RNAs should not be ignored, and under certain conditions, these can turn into DNA breaks. We call this phenomena RDIBs (RNA Damage Induced Breaks). www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
Rudolf the white nosed pancake, had a very shiny nose…
January 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Rudolf the white nosed pancake, had a very shiny nose…
So tonight I'm going to sketch a plan about my next grant using worms as a model system.
November 14, 2024 at 10:28 PM
So tonight I'm going to sketch a plan about my next grant using worms as a model system.
If it wasn't clear already, I hope my first post here makes it clear what I do and love.
RNA Damage Responses in Cellular Homeostasis, Genome Stability, and Disease | Annual Reviews
All cells are exposed to chemicals that can damage their nucleic acids. Cells must protect these polymers because they code for key factors or complexes essential for life. Much of the work on nucleic...
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November 14, 2024 at 3:04 PM
If it wasn't clear already, I hope my first post here makes it clear what I do and love.