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Miriam Merad, MD, PhD

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Miriam Merad, MD, PhD

@MiriamMerad

Director, Immunology Institute @SinaiImmunol @IcahnMountSinai | Harnessing the innate immune system for novel therapies against cancer & inflammatory diseases.

Manhattan, NY

icahn.mssm.edu/research/immun…

Joined November 2016

Miriam Merad, MD, PhD
@MiriamMerad
Mar 14, 2025
Very sad to hear that UMass is rescinding all PhD admissions for Fall 2025. This means there will be no new PhD cohort, and UMass will not have a graduating class that year. This is just unprecedented and I am so very sorry for all the affected students.
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This is incorrect. UMass is NOT rescinding all PhD admissions for Fall 2025. Only the Morningside Graduate School has done this. Other UMass programs have not. Read here for details: masslive.com/worcester/2025… “applicants to UMass other graduate schools …. are not impacted” boston.com/news/health/20…
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Miriam Merad, MD, PhD
@MiriamMerad
May 21, 2018
Congratulations to Magdalena Skipper for being the first Woman editor- in chief at Nature- what a great statement for all women scientists !! Nature announces new editor-in-chief
Nature announces new editor-in-chief
From nature.com
Miriam Merad, MD, PhD
@MiriamMerad
Jun 21, 2019
Beautiful picture with all my fellows’ babies born in the lab recently and one on the way ! Scientists don’t hesitate to have kids if you want one ! parenthood often increases productivity, focus and happiness !
Miriam Merad, MD, PhD
@MiriamMerad
Apr 29, 2022
Very proud to be inducted today along incredible scientists @theNASciences and very grateful to many people and institutions that led me here. Starting with my Med school mentors in Algiers including my parents who taught me intellectual engagement , discipline & rigor (1/x)
Miriam Merad, MD, PhD
@MiriamMerad
May 26, 2025
25 years ago, I came to Stanford on a J1 visa and worked so hard to be worthy of that privilege. Today, I lead Immunology at Mount Sinai and I am the one who feel privileged when brilliant international students chose to join us.
Miriam Merad, MD, PhD
@MiriamMerad
Jun 14, 2021
Replying to @MiriamMerad
One family spent their entire vacation budget on these tests. On my way back I saw that in Paris’ airport, antigen tests were free! Antigen tests cost max 15$! @JFKairport should forbid test centers that make disgraceful profits out of people misfortune!
Miriam Merad, MD, PhD
@MiriamMerad
Dec 10, 2023
Very excited by our results @Nature showing that IL4R signaling is strongly enriched in myeloid cells that infiltrate mice and lung cancer lesions nature.com/articles/s4158…
Miriam Merad, MD, PhD
@MiriamMerad
Apr 20, 2023
Excited to share our new paper in @NatImmunol on how TREM2+ monocyte-derived macrophages in lung cancer reduce activity of natural killer cells that fight tumors. We provide potential dual targeting strategies to improve antitumor immunity. Read here: rdcu.be/damS8
Miriam Merad, MD, PhD
@MiriamMerad
Jul 10, 2020
Our lab picnic home country cooking competition today : 16 nationalities, 5 religions , extraordinary food & fantastic debates : the american’s lab spirit we all emigrated for ! why would someone want to destroy that ?
Miriam Merad, MD, PhD
@MiriamMerad
Aug 22, 2019
Our paper on the effect of fasting on innate immunity was published today alongside a beautiful study on the role of fasting on memory T cells by my very close friend and compatriote Yasmine Belkaid ! hate chauvinism but a bit happier than usual today !
Dietary Intake Regulates the Circulating Inflammatory Monocyte Pool
From cell.com
Miriam Merad, MD, PhD
@MiriamMerad
Mar 22, 2020
We started a large effort to review all COVID19 studies posted BioRxiv. Our goal help highlight relevant new data . Trainees screen and write short reviews and faculty review and post on BioRxiv. Thank you very much Sinai Immunol for the effort. @SinaiImmunol #COVID19
Lipschultz Precision Immunology Institute
@SinaiImmunol
Mar 22, 2020
Given the accumulation of #COVID19 literature posted in preprint servers, we have started an institutional effort to provide critical reviews on articles posted on @biorxivpreprint and @medrxivpreprint. Direct links to these reviews will be updated in this thread ⬇️
Miriam Merad, MD, PhD
@MiriamMerad
Oct 6, 2025
Immunology takes center stage again at the #NobelPrize! Congratulations to Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell & Shimon Sakaguchi for uncovering how regulatory T cells maintain immune tolerance—a discovery that transformed our understanding of autoimmunity and cancer immunotherapy
Miriam Merad, MD, PhD
@MiriamMerad
Jun 14, 2021
I travelled this week to paris from @JFKairport . @Delta did not ask for vaccine passports but I saw several families in tears because they were forced to get an antigen test before boarding regardless of vaccine history-cost of the tests were 200$ per person ( adult& kids)
Miriam Merad, MD, PhD
@MiriamMerad
Sep 18, 2020
Our letter opposing the nonimmigrant Visa Ban is out in @CellCellPress. Our goal: articulate arguments about the danger of the"american first" strategy to US Science & Medicine . #Immigrants #StopTheVisaBan
“America First” Will Destroy U.S. Science
From cell.com