Now Med by Cell Press: The history of Bacillus Calmette-Guérin's development - the only approved vaccine against #tuberculosis. The authors discuss current evidence of its protective effects and the possible immunological mechanisms contributing to its efficacy. Valerie Koeken

Looking forward to present here on trained immunity and its potential for #tuberculosis prevention. Hope to see you all on the 23rd! #PreECCMID

A night to remember!

Looking forward to join the hybrid Research Reboot of #Tuberculosis on Keystone Symposia 50th Anniversary! Hope to see you all in Breckenridge next week. #KSTBReboot22

Ready for day 2! #KSTBReboot22

Just came back from my trip to Breckenridge to join the #KSTBReboot22. Enjoyed it tremendously, both the science as well as this little town! Many thanks to the organizers who made this happen.

Our paper is now online! We compared the RNA and TCR signatures of type-2 and type-3 inflammatory diseases on a single-cell level. Many thanks to Thomas Werfel's team, Bowen Zhang_ciim, Chengjian Xu, & Yang Li for this great collaboration! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/al…

Happy to see our latest paper on the 300BCG study online!👇 Slowly getting closer to answering the question: what drives the variation in BCG-induced immune responses? CiiM & Radboudumc

The variable efficacy of BCG vaccination: can our metabolome solve a piece of the puzzle? Radboudumc wetenschap CiiM radboudumc.nl/en/news/2022/t…

Are you looking for a #PhD, in which you'll study tuberculous meningitis and combine translational research, immunology and data science? We have an opening in our #TB research team Radboudumc! Feel free to reach out if you have any questions radboudumc.nl/en/vacancies/1…

I’m a sucker for making end-of-the-year lists. Here are some of my favorite non-fiction books I’ve read in 2022: 🌍The culture map Erin Meyer 📈Outliers Malcolm Gladwell 🧪A taste for poison by Neil Bradbury 🙋Eigen welzijn eerst Roxane van Iperen Any recommendations for 2023?

“Although we expected women to be under-represented, we certainly didn’t expect the percentage of women on editorial boards to be as low as 14% for editors and 8% for editors-in-chief” 👇 nature.com/articles/d4158…

A short summary of our findings on (epi)genetic regulators of severe COVID-19 (in 🇬🇧 and 🇩🇪)👇 resist-cluster.de/was-fuehrt-zu-… Bowen Zhang_ciim Zhenhua-Zhang CiiM

📢It's here! Our new paper about the capacity of dimethyl itaconate to induce long-term innate immune responses is out in Cell Reports Cell Press 🧪#immunometabolism 🔬#trainedimmunity cell.com/cell-reports/f… A small thread⬇️