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akshatsharma.bsky.social
Immunologist who leapfrogged from the private sector back to academia. Still hunting down TCRs for TCR-T therapy for cancer and autoimmunity. Actor by night. Lifter, also by night. GO BADGERS!
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Immunodominant epitope.

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BUT I DID ALL THE STEPS! WTF! I was home for 5 days! 5 days; 5 steps! What do you mean "non-linear?" Can repeat? CAN REPEAT? Are you shitting me?!

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

What's an NK cell's cocktail of choice? A KIR Royale.

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Happy Mental Health Awareness Month.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

تمہاری بے رخی اک دن ہماری جان لے لے گی۔ قسم تم کو زرا سوچو کے دستور وفا کیا ہے۔ غم دنیا سے گھبرا کر تمہے دل نے پکارا ہے۔ کہاں ہو تم۔۔۔؟

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

But I was so looking forward to the inevitable documentary...

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

But, truly, a lovely paper with interesting implications for the role of the CHAC1-Notch axis in health and disease.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

I just stared long and hard at the word "homogenous" in a grant I'm very slowly working on You never know these days: it could come back with "Dear Dr. Sharma: no homo."

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Friends, if you or your colleagues are working on innate-like T cells, please consider submitting a manuscript or review to this special issue of Cells that I'm guest-editing: www.mdpi.com/journal/cell...

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

The one sempiternal thing about scientists is that we always come with receipts. You'll typically find them under a section titled "References."

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Sadboi hours, empty weight room, Rockpile Athletics.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Meal prep pump. Evidently aggressive stirring will do it.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

I curled 40lbs and am parched for attention.

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Such an improvement over Kr*st*e N**m's macabre selfies.

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

“It’s amazing that others in this room underwrote electing a man who, in the last week, single-handedly destroyed all of American science. It’s amazing how much good science you can destroy with $320 million and RFK Jr, very fast.” — Seth Rogen’s censored remarks presenting the Breakthrough Prize

submitted 60 days ago • 267 comments

Guys, I just want to do LFA-1 things and pull out TCRs. But it's, like, hard with, you know, everything...

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Hilarious, obviously, but apparently Chef Sanjeev Kapoor has a restaurant in Palo Alto!

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

I'm viscerally disgusted by how many "self portraits" I produce. But, hey, man, the lighting was good... There's an urgency these days to get it all done. Get the grant, write the novella, find the fella, LFA-1... I'm worried I'm gonna die young. And, hey, man, the lighting was good...

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Biomedical research. No-one's doing it like America.

submitted 65 days ago • 2 comments

A friend told me to try Scruff and also another app that had a militaristic name, and it was very upsetting. Why? I'll tell you why...

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

What will it take for y'all to acknowledge that influencers* are not journalists or medical professionals or therapists or scientists or economists or lawyers? *without the requisite training.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Bobby baby, Bobby bube, Robert darling, there's work out there to show that both mono- and multivalent COVID-19 vaccines elicited lovely, comparable T cell responses. Lots of evidence of this in the flu vaccine world, too. Why are you like this? Here: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Chat, what was it like planning your first senior author paper?

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Comes with a 12-well-plate (tissue culture-treated for his pleasure), pipettes, pens,a flow cytometer, "Hateway's" Immunobiology (good try, I guess), 45 lb dumbbells (respectable, sorta), workout clothes, another flow cytometer and I think a tea cosy. Would you buy it, buy it, buy it?

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

عشق ایک، میر، بھاری پتھر ہے۔ یے کہاں ناتواں سے اٹھتا ہے؟ इश्क़ इक, मीर, भारी पत्थर है. यह कहाँ नातवां से उठता है? Love is a large rock, and unwieldy at that. How do you, feeble as you are, expect to carry it, my guy?

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Anabolic lighting and, as my quads burned, I planned the most boring experiment in the world. BUT, the results will be exciting either way.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

This is the energy I'm bringing to my TCR screen and the R21 that it shall spawn.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Planning an R21 and feeling kinda good about it....? Weird.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

If I immediately started chanting the Hanuman Chalisa (which I have memorised, kinda), would they think I was speaking in tongues?

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments