Miriam Merad, MD, PhD
@MiriamMerad
Director, Immunology Institute @SinaiImmunol @IcahnMountSinai | Harnessing the innate immune system for novel therapies against cancer & inflammatory diseases.
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Taking a moment to express immense gratitude for everyone who is fighting for science and its future - from advocacy groups and academic centers to policymakers and scientists. But especially the scientists. Your work and your voice matter.
Outstanding achievement. Kudos to our world class faculty, trainees, and staff.
We’re proud to be recognized among the top global universities by U.S. News & World Report—a testament to our commitment to excellence across education, research, and clinical care. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai also ranked in the top 5 worldwide for both Cardiac…
Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States nytimes.com/interactive/20…
As I step down as @iuis president, I reflect on the achievements of immunology science & challenges ahead, and call on scientists to reclaim the narrative on science and explain with "humility &clarity" science’s contribution to global health & prosperity👉loom.ly/iZseYbQ
A remarkable effort initiated by the NIH Common Fund to map somatic mutations across the human body and understand how these changes influence aging and disease. I hope the NIH will continue to support this effort. rdcu.be/eux92
Gavi has vaccinated over 1 billion children and saved 17 million lives. It helps protect half the world’s most vulnerable. Freezing U.S. funding doesn’t just threaten a program, it literally endangers millions of lives.
Happy to introduce AlphaGenome, @GoogleDeepMind's new AI model for genomics. AlphaGenome offers a comprehensive view of the human non-coding genome by predicting the impact of DNA variations. It will deepen our understanding of disease biology and open new avenues of research.
As a consequence, people will die. And another consequence of the increase of infectious diseases in low income countries is, that more cases of these disease will be imported into the US. This is not ethical and its for sure not smart.
In its zeal to promote universal vaccination, @gavi, the Vaccine Alliance has neglected the key issue of vaccine safety. When vaccine safety issues have come before GAVI, it has treated them not as a patient health problem, but as a public relations problem. During the COVID-19…
2025 Nature Index: Harvard has dropped to No. 2 after the Chinese Academy of Sciences. No. 1 and 3-9 are all Chinese research institutes. Meanwhile, American research institutes are facing a 43% cut in NIH funding and a 50% cut in NSF funding. Please, don’t look up.
"But I am blown away by how much we have learned about Alzheimer’s over the last couple of years."—@BillGates statnews.com/2025/06/17/bil… "This is the moment to spend more money on research, not less." Agree 💯 erictopol.substack.com/p/predicting-a… erictopol.substack.com/p/the-breakthr…
Harvard Dean George Daley inspiring a new generation of PhD scientists at graduation today. The talent of these doctors is as large as their potential impact on the future. #Harvard @harvardmed
Federal science cuts aren’t just halting medical research or disrupting clinical trials. They are already costing us $8.1 billion and 35,000 jobs. The projected loss is $16 billion and 68,000 jobs every year. This reaches every corner of America.
Powerful, bipartisan concern about NIH cuts at today’s Congressional hearing, with thoughtful questions from both sides of the aisle. Thank you @SenCapito, @SenatorBaldwin & @SenatorCollins for standing up for science. youtube.com/live/pNSYfQYux… via @YouTube
NIH scientists go public with criticism over Trump cuts | AP News apnews.com/article/nih-le…
Powerful piece on the dominance of NIH-funded science and its role in drug discovery. Cutting the NIH budget puts all the U.S. has built at risk. We urge @RFKJr_Official & @NIHDirector_Jay to champion U.S. science and defend NIH funding statnews.com/2025/06/06/us-… via @statnews
Excited to see our research led with phenomenal @MatthewD_Park & Tom Marron in @WSJ ! this builds on years studying inflammation in cancer, now redirected to aging. Now we're launching trials to test if modulating inflammation can prevent age-related diseases.@SinaiImmunol
New @WSJ article, covering our recent work @IcahnMountSinai @SinaiImmunol from lab of @MiriamMerad on how an aging immune system promotes cancer and the trials at @MountSinaiNYC that leverage immunotherapies targeting inflammaging to combat cancer: wsj.com/health/inflamm…
If you make scientists feel unwelcome, don’t be surprised when they stop coming.