Our focus is to understand the mechanisms that allow zoonotic, sylvatic arthropod-borne viruses to jump species boundaries and cause disease. Shared lab account
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Nikos Vasilakis retweeted
Dengue vaccine suspension: clarifying safety signals while strengtheni… sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Em parceria com André Siqueira, discutimos a importância da investigação rigorosa dos sinais de segurança, da transparência e da confiança na vacinação.
doi.org/10.1016/j.lana.2026.…
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Achieving the rank of professor is a crowning achievement of a career in academia. In FY26, UTMB appointed or promoted 17 new professors, and we had the pleasure of celebrating with many of them at last night's Professors' Dinner. Congratulations to all our new professors!
Nikos Vasilakis retweeted
NIAID has awarded $17.9M to re-establish the Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases Network (CREID) program with the highest possible standards for biosafety and biosecurity to protect the public.
Learn more:
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Dr. Scott Weaver’s distinguished career has helped shape the modern understanding of emerging infectious diseases while establishing UTMB as a global leader in this realm.
He will receive the UTMB Lifetime Achievement in Research Award on 9/10! Info: utmb.us/g9v
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Today marks a defining moment for @UTMBHealth and the future of cardiovascular medicine. The Sealy & Smith Foundation has committed $180 million to advance the Sealy Heart & Vascular Institute. This is the largest philanthropic gift in UTMB history and among the largest ever made to a cardiovascular institute at an academic medical center in the United States. 🙏
Let’s get to work and save lives.
@docHJ @utsystem
Nikos Vasilakis retweeted
Conducting real-time epidemiological research during a pandemic demands adaptability. In the AVISA study, we faced recruitment challenges, vaccination shifts, and logistical complexity. Progress relied on flexibility and coordination. resilient research requires rapid adaptation.
Nikos Vasilakis retweeted
In a disruptive environment, delay is the highest-risk strategy. Don’t wait for full clarity.
Another mistake is treating AI, workforce, and strategy as separate conversations. They are one and the same transformation.
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Congratulations to Dr. Shannan L. Rossi on being named the inaugural Associate Dean of Strategic Initiatives, @UTMBGSBS! We are grateful for her leadership as she helps advance the school’s strategic priorities and strengthen the impact of its academic and research programs.
Nikos Vasilakis retweeted
Our new study presents an integrated pipeline for rapid epitope-based pan-alphavirus vaccine design, combining immunoinformatics, structural modeling, and experimental validation to identify broadly immunogenic candidates.
Congratulations to Alice and the entire team @afversiani
Nikos Vasilakis retweeted
We report in Nature Medicine that the single-dose Butantan dengue vaccine showed 65% efficacy against symptomatic dengue and 80.5% protection against severe disease over 5 years, with a favorable safety profile in participants aged 2–59 in Brazil.
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Excellent seminar and motivational talk with Carla Saleh, her love for science radiates from her.
@SalehLabParis
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A new ms is out!
Clinical and laboratory profiles of Oropouche virus disease from the 2024 outbreak in Manaus, Brazilian Amazon
Nice work with our friends from Fundacao Medicina Tropical Manaus
journals.plos.org/plosntds/a…
Nikos Vasilakis retweeted
Time to Re-think Strategies—And Refocus on Team Skills
I’ll explore how to make that shift in the unique context of academic healthcare during my upcoming C-Suite Assembly talk.
It’s time to build organizations where collaboration, adaptability, and shared purpose drive performance and innovation.
Nikos Vasilakis retweeted
It is a pivotal time for global health at UTMB! Today's Global Health Retreat honored our rich legacy in global health and laid the groundwork for the next chapter. We are excited to develop our Global Health Institute and further our work to improve health worldwide! @utmbglobal
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Science is littered with serendipitous findings. Now, a study has put a figure on just how often chance findings happen.
go.nature.com/4gUwQ0x
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“Somebody needs to take away whatever drugs the committee is on”
-Kristian Andersen
“How do I get on this committee which sounds like they do mushrooms while renaming pathogens😂?”
-@Boghuma
“Down with the ever-tightening iron-fisted grip of taxonomic dictators.”
-me
Want to start a fight among virus experts? Ask about HIV’s new name
statnews.com/2025/01/09/viro…
Nikos Vasilakis retweeted
'Prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is, is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.
Rod Serling
Nikos Vasilakis retweeted
BREAKING: This year's #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun. The pair have been recognised "for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation."
Stay tuned for more from @nature
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So kind, but I’m not worthy of the great one @MarkHamill but i appreciate the kind thought
