Ani Deshpande

I’m excited to share that as of July 1, I’ve been promoted to Full Professor. I am immensely grateful for the support of my trainees, mentors, letter writers and colleagues who supported me in reaching this milestone and for those who made this journey meaningful and worthwhile.

I’ll be speaking at IGIB in Delhi on 11 July at 3 PM about “The Microbial Century” and India’s role in microbial science. If you’re in Delhi and curious about where microbes are taking us next, come join: bit.ly/Microbial-Quor…

Under-appreciated fact: in low-transparency, low-objectivity areas like geopolitics or self help, confidence is a signal of phoniness. In high-transparency high-objectivity areas like math, confidence signals authority because in these areas anyone bullshitting is caught and…

ASH has made an unprecedented investment of more than $12 million. Including ~$9 million increase in award funding. Total awards commitment of more than $20 million over the next 12 months....providing support for an additional 600+ awardees at all career stages. @ASH_hematology

ASH Bridge Award direct cost floor was already raised to $500K/yr. Now the number of applications funded is dramatically increasing, with a rapid turn around...and a brand new additional cycle this year. @ASH_hematology

Always a bittersweet moment when a PhD student from the lab graduates.Terrific work and what a thesis defense talk Rema Iyer ! Congratulations on your degree!

In case you needed a smile this Tuesday: 10-month-old baby KJ, who received a bespoke gene-editing therapy after a six month scientific sprint - "graduated" from the hospital today and went HOME! YAY SCIENCE! Here's his story: wapo.st/451ZQjT

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Love my UofU, CU, and OHSU colleagues who all made this super special ❤️

WHAT A CONFERENCE! This was the brain child of @Dorrance_Lab and executed to perfection by an army of people including the amazing folks at @SundanceResort. Thank you to all our incredible attendees, speakers, and sponsors. We couldn’t have done this without all of you! #WBC2025

I discuss the urgent crisis from the loss of federal support of science in the US and recent clinical gene editing breakthroughs with @WalterIsaacson & @amanpour on @AmanpourCoPBS, airing on @PBS tonight at 11 pm ET, and on @cnni earlier today. Pls share! youtube.com/watch?v=8YhJM6…

In 2001, the University Grants Commission of India decided to introduce astrology as a science course in India. Back then, Indian scientists still used to protest this sort of thing and JV Narlikar was one of most vocal. Perhaps this event motivated JVN and his friends to run…