Theodore G. Drivas 🏳️🌈
@TDrivas
Physician Scientist, Adult Medicine-Trained Clinical Geneticist, and Cilium Enthusiast at the University of Pennsylvania. Moving to @tdrivas.bsky.social
Well, twitter friends, it's official: I'm staying in academia and in Philly, starting as a #newPI on the tenure track in @PennMedicine's Department of Medicine, Division of Translational #Medicine and Human #Genetics 😃🍾🧬
For anyone who hasn’t made the jump yet, leave this truth- and decency-forsaken platform behind and join me (@tdrivas.bsky.social) at @bluesky!
MTSS1 may have a cardioprotective effect against diabetic cardiomyopathy in women, but not men, suggesting a biological basis for sex dimorphism in cardiac remodelling @PennCardiology @MGLevin @sday_hcm @damrauer @TDrivas ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.11…
New paper ALERT!! @MaraCowen discovered and defined how conserved autism-associated genes modify a 'social' behavior in C. elegans!! So proud of her work in the lab! nature.com/articles/s4146…
21 yo with no PMH develops acute heart failure, progresses to transplant. Post-transplant has new skeletal myopathy, now wheelchair-bound. We recommend exome+mito. Denied. Peer-to-peer: "this isn't an unusual presentation." Just another day in the US healthcare system.