To find new drugs to treat severely ill #COVID19 patients, researchers from the Amsterdam UMC set up an in vitro screening assay, which identified promising candidates Jeroen den Dunnen life-science-alliance.org/content/6/11/e…

Severe #COVID19 is induced by pathogenic anti-Spike antibodies inducing hyper-inflammation, endotheliopathy, and thrombosis. Chiara Geyer & Hung-Jen Chen (Oliver), MD. PhD. NerD. set up human in vitro models of this to screen for candidate drugs. Best one: endospletinib. LifeScienceAlliance doi.org/10.26508/lsa.2…

Great to see a dedicated #LongCovid conference in Europe (Madrid, Spain). Presenters include Resia Pretorius, Brent Appelman, and Annemarie Wensing. Our lab's work will be presented by Hung-Jen Chen (Oliver), MD. PhD. NerD.. academicmedicaleducation.com/meeting/demyst…

Big advancement for the field to finally have an international dedicated scientific #longcovid meeting. Combining all different types of expertise already seems to be connecting different pieces of the puzzle. Big thanks to organizers Keystone Symposia Resia Pretorius. #KSLongCoVID24

It feels special to see that my former Master student Tomasz Wypych is now a PI himself! Big thanks for the warm welcome Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology PAS and for the opportunity to share our latest findings on #MultipleSclerosis #COVID19 and #LongCovid .

ME/CFS has been a neglected disease for so long. I’m thrilled that today the means become available via ZonMw for biomedical research, to find cause(s), diagnostics, and hopefully treatments. #MECFSresearch
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Dear editors of scientific journals, please stop asking for animal experiments when there is no good in vivo model for the studied disease. You are forcing scientists to burn resources and sacrifice animals for window dressing. As a gatekeeper, you can make a difference here.

In humans, IgA antibodies come in in 2 flavors: IgA1 and IgA2. In our latest publication in Frontiers in Immunology PhD student Lynn Mes shows that IgA2 particularly activates immune cells in the intestine: frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…. Powered by ZonMw @AmsterdamUMC Amsterdam institute for Infection and Immunity Hung-Jen Chen (Oliver), MD. PhD. NerD.

And I just have to add a picture of the poster, love it! 'New Horizons' also refers to the new location of the Symposium: after decades in Lunteren, we now move to #Tiel . #SpringSymposium NVVI Dutch Society for Immunology

Registration has opened for the NVVI Dutch Society for Immunology Spring Symposium 2023! With phenomenal speakers such as The Colonna Lab Schultze Lab Petter Brodin Asya Rolls stefan uderhardt 🔬🧫💉📷 Seth Coffelt José Borghans Hermelijn Smits Johannes Textor and more: nvvi-dsi.nl/events2/sring-…