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Ran Blekhman

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Ran Blekhman

@blekhman

Professor of Medicine at @UChicago. Decoding the human microbiome. BlekhmanLab.org

Chicago

Joined November 2012

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Ran Blekhman
@blekhman
Feb 20, 2025
These are challenging times for science, but I'm happy to share a bright moment: our work is on the cover of Cell today! We built a compendium of human gut microbiomes integrating 168K worldwide samples, revealing patterns of microbiome variation across the globe
Cell
@CellCellPress
Feb 20, 2025
The new issue is out👉cell.com/cell/current Featuring an engineered Newcastle disease virus that selectively and safely lysed tumors in refractory cancer patients, the identification of rhodoquinone as a mammal mitochondrial electron carrier, and a metagenome-informed
Ran Blekhman
@blekhman
May 15, 2024
still the best example of how AI works
Massimo
@Rainmaker1973
Sep 5, 2020
The story of Nigel Richards, the man from New Zealand who memorized every French word in the French scrabble dictionary and won the French Scrabble Championship without speaking any French buff.ly/2rK5wi4
Ran Blekhman
@blekhman
Jul 22, 2024
Kamala's mother immigrated from India to pursue a PhD & stayed to work as a cancer researcher Kamala's father immigrated from Jamaica to pursue a PhD & stayed to work as a professor Immigrant scientists contribute not only to science but to society at large -- for generations
Ran Blekhman
@blekhman
Jan 8, 2019
Congratulations, you invented taxes and public education
The New York Times
@nytimes
Jan 8, 2019
Silicon Valley is backing a novel idea: Instead of charging students tuition, students go to school for free and are required to pay back a percentage of their income after graduation, but only if they get a job with a good salary nyti.ms/2FeBUOp
Ran Blekhman
@blekhman
Nov 13, 2020
Elon Musk
Abeba Birhane
@Abebab
Nov 13, 2020
What's something that seems scientific but isn't?
Ran Blekhman
@blekhman
Jun 23, 2020
Do US citizens understand how stressful it is to be an immigrant scientist in the US? Far from family/friends, never ending visa bureaucracy & payments, constant fear of not being allowed back in the US, or being forced to leave your home/job/PhD due to some ban
Ran Blekhman
@blekhman
Jul 10, 2020
As a professor at a public university, my job is 60% research, 20% teaching, 20% service, 20% paperwork, 20% grant writing, 20% mentoring, 10% reviewing, 5% organizing, and 5% letter writing, so there's really not a lot of time for radical left indoctrination
Ran Blekhman
@blekhman
Mar 13, 2020
Stuck at home with small kids due to #COVID19? Here are some fun activities you can enjoy together: - Write a research paper - Teach a class via zoom - Write a grant proposal - Email
Ran Blekhman
@blekhman
Mar 7, 2021
My biologist origin story is that when I was a young child I found out I was fascinated by grant applications
Ran Blekhman
@blekhman
Aug 24, 2021
reading about people taking ivermectin for covid and the stories are really heartworming
Ran Blekhman
@blekhman
Jan 26, 2022
telling students in my class about the history of genomics
Ran Blekhman
@blekhman
Mar 16, 2020
Just got an email that one of my grants got an automatic 1 year no-cost extension, without even requesting it, due to #COVID19 Grant admins and funding agencies: this is a great way to support your investigators during this crisis
Ran Blekhman
@blekhman
Sep 6, 2020
Basically how machine learning works
Massimo
@Rainmaker1973
Sep 5, 2020
The story of Nigel Richards, the man from New Zealand who memorized every French word in the French scrabble dictionary and won the French Scrabble Championship without speaking any French buff.ly/2rK5wi4
Ran Blekhman
@blekhman
Mar 9, 2017
There's no cure for polio. There's a highly effective vaccine. This vaccine, by the way, was developed by a son of immigrants.
Ambassador Mike Huckabee
@GovMikeHuckabee
Mar 8, 2017
Take on 4 big diseases that cost the BULK of $$: Cancer, heart disease, Alzheimers, diabetes; find CURES like we did with polio in 50's.