Taha Azad Lab
@TahaAzad2
Synthetic Biology For Translational Research
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The Israeli Authorities are starving civilians in #Gaza. Among them are 1 million children. Lift the siege: allow UNRWA to bring in food and medicines.
🔊Meet @TahaAzad2: He’s bringing his expertise in RNA therapeutics, oncolytic viruses, and biosensor development to @USherbrooke with support from D2R’s New Faculty Start-Up program 🔗Learn more: mcgill.ca/dna-to-rna/fun… #ResearcherSpotlight #RNAtherapeutics #RNAResearch
Researchers have developed a novel approach to create tiny “mobile pharmacies” that can get inside tumours and dispense anti-cancer drugs. ohri.ca/newsroom/story…
The funding disparity for research trainees is even worse in Quebec, where students face greater financial struggles, as highlighted in @LP_LaPresse. nature.com/articles/d4158… read more: lapresse.ca/actualites/edu… @FRQS1 @CIHR_IRSC
Celebrating the end of 2024 with our new publication led by @SuiyangLiao: we investigate the role of empty LNPs on transfection efficiency of mRNA- turns out they’re not just silent bystanders, and there’s a balance in how loaded you want your particles: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…
Happy to share our new paper in Nature Biomedical Engineering! Special congratulations to the first author, Dr. Reza Rezaei, and our amazing collaborators. @Rezaeir75 @Tai_ImmunoLab @TommyAlain3 rdcu.be/d1MzQ nature.com/articles/s4155…
Super excited to finally post about our RNA foundation model, led by our very own Ali Saberi (not on Twitter), with @genophoria , @AminMEmad , and @vram142. LoRNA-SH is splice-aware, takes as input the entire pre-mRNA, and models isoform diversity biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/n
Check out this exciting work by @genophoria and the team! Codon usage never disappoints!
Check out our latest research by @MNaghipourfar and others in our team on building language models of coding sequence. In this preprint, we introduce cdsFM, a suite of codon-resolution language models!👇 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Great opportunity!
📢 We have an opening for a postdoctoral researcher, working on statistical and ML models in (transcript)omics. If you're interested in gene regulation and its role in determining cell identity and function, check out our job posting: bioinformatics.ca/jobs/postdocto…
What is the best strategy to quantify mRNA isoforms? Short-read RNA-seq to achieve high depth? Or long reads to get unambiguous read-isoform assignments? In our latest work with @genophoria, we show that what we really need is to combine both! (1/n) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
The registration is open for the 12th Symposium of the RRCancer and MOH-Q! The meeting will be held in the Pierre-Péladeau amphitheatre at the CHUM on September 26th-27th, 2024 We invite you to register for the Symposium by clicking on the following link: event.fourwaves.com/rrcancer2024/p…
Great lab ! Great opportunity!
We are looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join our lab at @BCCancer_GSC. Apply here:bcgsc.ca/careers/postdo…. Read more about our work on our new lab website! evginlab.com
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We are looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join our lab at @BCCancer_GSC. Apply here:bcgsc.ca/careers/postdo…. Read more about our work on our new lab website! evginlab.com
Congratulations Nika for your Vanier scholarship! usherbrooke.ca/ircus/fr/actua…
Shocked, saddened and so sorry to hear this news. 😢💔Even though we crossed paths only briefly, Wei made a huge impression on me. He is a super kind person and an exceptional scientist. Please consider donating to support his loved ones: gofund.me/99b4ad4f
We are looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join our lab at @BCCancer_GSC. Apply here:bcgsc.ca/careers/postdo…. Read more about our work on our new lab website! evginlab.com
Je tiens à remercier les @FRQS1 de soutenir ma carrière en recherche. C’est un honneur de faire partie de la #communautéFRQ et de participer à l’avancement de la recherche au Québec et à l’étranger. Joignez votre voix à la mienne et propulsons ensemble la recherche !
Check out our new review on topical vaccination strategies led by @petyagpopova @sunnyc996 and @SuiyangLiao with @manishs_! Why aren't we administering more vaccines via our immune cell-rich skin?! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
All cholangiocarcinoma patients deserve hope….for those with an FGF2R translocation/fusion, pemigatinib provides that hope.
We've responded to @ArndtVogel and Dr. Jennifer Knox's call and sent a letter to Ontario Health Ministers and MPs from C3's co-founder @auer_r 📢 Our voice NEEDS to be heard! Lives depend on it. Join together for cholangiocarcinoma 💚🤝 @ONThealth
So grateful to @cancersociety for funding and showcasing our research @USherbrooke on a therapeutic vaccine for triple negative breast cancer. It's a privilege to contribute to cancer research and strive for breakthroughs that can change lives.
Dr Tai’s work is a perfect example of what it takes to take on cancer: all of us. After all, nothing big gets solved by one person or one organization. And something that’s deeply true about cancer is that it’s big and endlessly complex. So here’s to taking it on together. 💛…