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Director of Blood Engineering Lab. Synthetic immunology. eLife reviewing editor #NewPI @HKUniversity rios @hku .hk

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Rio Sugimura
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Our new preprint by undergrad Billy and star PhD candidate @chao_yiming . Cool Yiming is corresponding! They data mined and defined senescent and lipidic TAM. aPD-L1 reprograms them to FOLR2+ TAM is responder hallmark @biorxivpreprint
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Proudest PI moment. Date back my first month as a PI, interviewed a great PhD applicant from under represented country. Though I tried to get him hard, barriered by GPA and QS nonsense. He continued his job in his country, I offered online tutoring in hematology, stem cells, 1/
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We repeated this for two year cycles. Finally he got a PhD program offer at his dream school🇺🇲 Today heard him working with a great mentor 😃 End/
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2 years
Our review on how to vascularize and immunize organoids is out @KargerPublisher
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and single-cell technologies. He always chose his 3AM because he had to work daytime 😢. We continued this online teaching for a year. He wanted to apply grad schools. I kept writing letters. Wrote, wrote, wrote. Sent. Sent. Sent. Whoever wanted phane call, I received calls. 2/
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Woke up with an international grant funded🎉 Call for a new position in my lab will follow soon. #LiverDisease
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Ready for long haul ✈️
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Our lab turns 3 yrs old🎂 3rd Lab Retreat. Productive year with 5 papers, 8 reviews, 1 preprint, 2 grants, 2 awards, 5 trainees poster awards👏 Congrats Theo Aurich for winning the bold idea chalk talk. It is a really great year to host you from Heidelberg
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Packing for my incoming long haul✈️ multiple destinations. Sharing our recent human Yolk sac organoid @sigtrans_sttt , newest works on mitochondria variant barcoding in human embryonic hematopoiesis, CAR macrophages from hPSC 1/2
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2 years
Granted! Our lab is opening a fully funded postdoc position for modeling and perturb-seqing tumor-associated macrophages soon. More detail will follow.
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500 followers 🥳🎉🎊 Let me reintroduce myself I am a #NewPI @hkumed Hong Kong 🇭🇰 Our lab #THEBEL exploits stem cell technology, cell engineering, #scRNAseq to invent ⬇️⬇️⬇️ 🔥Cancer #immunotherapy in #organoids 🔥 for #precision medicine of #liver cancer
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Welcoming Haruto Sugimura, our newest member🎊🎉🎂
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Finally found the famous Cell coloring book for my kids 😂 #KSCancerImmuno23
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Moved to a better office view
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1000 followers🥳🎉 I am #NewPI @HKUMed 🇭🇰 Our team is expert of #stem cell engineering & #organoids We pursue 1⃣Remodeling tumor microenvironment with #CAR -T 2⃣Lineage trajectory of #innate immune cells & something #COVID19 THE BEL est 2020
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Vascular organoid kudos to Alex Chau in our lab. It will be my Zoom BG while😁
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✅Grant submitted ✅Ready to welcome a new baby tomorrow 👶 #Academicdad #38weeks #planned
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📢We are recruiting 🔥❗ The Centre for Translational Stem Cell Biology #CTSCB in University Hong Kong🇭🇰 patner with 🤝 Cambridge University 🇬🇧 My group in the Centre studies human immune cell development in single-cell level for advancement of #CAR -T technology
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Elated to be selected as a recipient of @GileadSciences Liver Disease Scholar 2022 #LiverDisease #Senolytic
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@OdedRechavi I survived third postdoc🤣🤣🤣 Will never recommend to anyone 😤
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Thrilled to announce that our lab is funded more! 🎉💰🎊 The money will help us a lot to understand how #immune cells behave in #tumor #microenvironment
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2nd lab annual retreat 🎂 Celebrating everyone's progress Intense science and good food
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The morning starts with cool news. New funding awarded to our lab 💰
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3 years
Academic pedigree I am from a family of no one with PhD or MD, single mom, family bank balance never exceeded 50k JPY (500 USD) till I flew to🇺🇸 for PhD study where I can get over 1500 USD salary. I could not economically afford PhD programs in🇯🇵
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Slides from my seminar "Faculty hiring and changing representation in academia," today at Berkeley CTEG, connecting work with @alliecmorgan @samfway @laberge_nick @arbesman Mirta Galesic & @DanLarremore to questions of equity in academia
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Last year of today, I opened my lab #THEBEL @hkusbms @hkumed From scratch, the lab expanded, gained external funding, published a paper, and established collaborations internationally
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Two grant results a week. Got one. Glass half full🍷 #PILife
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Delighted to introduce our 2mm-long newest lab member 🤣🤣🤣 #Organoids
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900 followers🎉🥳 Late for #FluorescentFriday 😅 #Organoids #HappyMonday
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Novel epigenetic modification😂
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Thanks @unipv Department of Molecular Medicine hosting my seminar. It has been 3 years since I did a seminar here. Finally came back.
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How I do meetings today😂 #AcademicChatter #PILife
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Reached 550 followers 🎉🥳 Our 5-months old lab got 6 summer students 😅 #Organoids generating our FAVE cells😎 #NewPI
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Wow, another grant just got funded too🥳 Quite symbolic one like R01 in Hk 👉Will post a job opening in our lab soon
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In the last lab meeting, I introduced our lab policy. In our lab, we believe in the value of - Preprint💻 - Protocol sharing🧪 - To have fun outside of lab🍻 #NewPI
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If you are interested in immunotherapy and stem cell engineering, watch the video me demonstrating how to make NK cells from human expanded potential stem cells @JoVEJournal
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Excellent recap of @chao_yiming @hkusbms @CTSCB_HK study @sigtrans_sttt on single-cell & spatial gene landscape of human embryonic organoids Here is 🧵
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Our lab #THEBEL expands Now moving to a bigger space 1 bay ➡️ 2 bays Dedicated TC hood & incubator More storages The lab will turn 1 year old 🎂 Thanks supports from @hkusbms @hkumed
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Rising-star seminar series. We are hosting e-seminar of John Hickey @johnhickey22 Immune-mediated Tissue Restructuring: A spatial-omics perspective March 28, 9am Singapore/Beijing/Hong Kong time Zoom:
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Always my greatest pleasure to see #Organoids growing👶. Kudos to @DavidXIANG2021 #LovelyOrganoids
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📍Rising-Star Journal Club Discuss the coolest paper with the 1st author Feb 1, 9pm EST / Feb 2, 10am HKT Zoom @JuliaJoung @WhiteheadInst will present the hot of the press paper #TFome @CellCellPress
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One of the top joy of being a PI is that I can listen the exciting discovery from my lab first in the world #NewPI #Organoids
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Feeling humbled to join @eLife Reviewing Editor. Thanks to nomination. I will serve stem cells & immunology branches
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Farewell to Theo. Wonderful year to host him from Heidelberg. He strengthened both science and the spinoff from our lab Best of luck in Berlin!
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Reached 450 followers🥳🎉 We are recruiting PhD students and Postdoctoral fellows. #THEBEL @hkumed #Organoids #scRNAseq #Cancer #immunotherapy
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Fully vaccinated 💪💉 #HKTwitterGetsVaxxed
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Rio Sugimura
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Next New PI Cell & Developmental Biology eSeminar is Lucia Borriello @luciaborriell @FoxChaseCancer @TempleUniv "Do the inflammation-induced treatments affect dormant disseminated tumor cells?" 11am EST, March 1st Zoom
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📢I am giving a seminar @NEWPICELLDEV @hkumed #NewPI #Cell #Developmental #Biology Blood from petri dish - Development of Human Immune Cells and the Road to Cancer Immunotherapy Friday 23rd April, 3pm BST (10pm HK time) Link:
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Half of my lab is attending. Looking forward to exciting science and 10 F temperatures 🥶 at Banff🇨🇦 #KSCancerImmuno23
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Our first contribution to #cancer #immunology is accepted 🥳🎉 More will come 💪💪💪 #Liver #Cancer
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Our postdoc Yuan Wang's review on "ex vivo expansion of hematopoietic stem cells" came out Experimental Cell Research @CTSCB_HK @HKUMed We discussed polymers, small molecules and other factors applied in HSC expansion Quick 🧵 /1
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Happy Holiday from my daughter 🎄🎂
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Enjoyed Christmas BBQ @hkusbms . Meanwhile, Undergrads prepping exams... 😂 Will bring them next week lab treat 😉
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Our first lab retreat #THEBEL The day of science and great food🥳 More than elated that our 1-year old🎂 lab is so productive #ProudPI #NewPI
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Can't move for next a few hours 😅 #Academicdad #Academicparenting
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Rio Sugimura
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Finishing #NYE2021 Preparing The State of the Lab Talk for the lab retreat in next week. Our 1-year old lab @hkusbms @HKUMed @CTSCB_HK progressed in publication, funding, staffing, and collaborations. This is most striking progress to me #ProudPI
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Arrived 🇺🇲 Found my postdoc memory cake😂 It was my morning ritual
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Today's read 124 #Organoids #Gastruloids #SyntheticEmbryos #EmbryoidBodies #Trunk #embryonic #organoid Am I missing any more names?😅 @ScienceMagazine Mouse embryonic stem cells self-organize into trunk-like structures with neural tube and somites
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1 year
Ready for the long haul ✈️🚂 My reading list
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First @biorxivpreprint from our lab. @chao_yiming is an excellent informatics scientist. Last year today she joined us. She made a strong team, paired near single-cell level #SpatialTranscriptomics + #scRNAseq 🧵
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Yiming Chao 巢怡茗
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Excited to share the first work during my PhD on spatiotemporal gene expression of human embryonic development and hematopoiesis in an organoid platform. We used #scRNAseq and 10x Visium #SpatialTranscriptomics to define the development process. 1/
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3 years
Honored to serve as an editorial board of @Diff_Journal 👉
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Richard Behringer
3 years
Here is the new Editorial Board for Differentiation recruited by Drs. Loydie Jerome-Majewska, Crystal Rogers, & Rosa Uribe. Great diversity! @RogersLabUCD @uribelabrice @lamsciworld @___SDB___
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If you are looking for a postdoc position at Hong Kong with CAR-macropjage and synthetic immunology, our lab is looking for a postdoc! Application 👉
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Our first lab gathering! I gave a state of the lab talk on - scientific goals, - strategy, - grants/finances, - manuscripts in pipeline Our lab has hit the road strongly💪 #NewPI during #Covid19
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Happy new year 2023. Our lab turns 2 years old. A lot of setup and staffing of the two labs was done. We are in production mode.
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Today's read 126 #Organoids Measuring mechano-sensing in #organoid #tumoroids #mechanobiology @NatureProtocols Measuring the elastic modulus of soft culture surfaces and three-dimensional hydrogels using atomic force…
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Really cool👏 Two students from our lab, Twitter-less Sophronia and Yiming @chao_yiming got appointed as grad student rep in our School @hkusbms #SummerAchivement
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We appreciate reviewers' comments
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10 year ago, I got bad fortune cookies twice on a day, two paper/grant rejected on same day. Traumatized and avoided cookies 10 years Today I overcome it💪💪💪 #ChineseNewYear
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Great piece with our former Laidlaw scholar Echo Luo @Echo_YongqiLuo in Journal of Neuroinflammation @BioMedCentral Taming microglia: the promise of engineered microglia in treating neurological diseases
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Under such a wonderful sky, I should write multiple grants😂 #PILife #AcademicChatter
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Our first journal club paper of 2024. Excited to see scFv-based synthetic receptors enhanced CAR-T infiltration into various types solid tumors including pancreatic cancer
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Denis Wirtz
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CART therapy has seen little success in patients with solid tumors thanks to poor infiltration. Here, we engineered self-propelled CART cells that readily penetrate solid tumors by expressing synthetic velocity receptors (VELOCIREPTORS!) V2 posted here:
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It is really nice afternoon to watch ultrasound of a full month baby and get acceptance email of a manuscript. Next few months will be crazy busy #Academicdad 👶👶 #FatherofTwo
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Really cool work!
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Ali Shariati علی شریعتی
5 months
In our new preprint, we show that CRISPR activation of of just two endogenous regulatory elements is sufficient to self-organize embryonic stem cells into spatially-ordered embryonic patterns. #crispr
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850 followers🥳🎉 #Organoids join #FluorescenceFriday 🔬 ("nearly" Friday here🇭🇰😅)
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Another manuscript accepted 🎊 Great work @chao_yiming
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Unlocked #NewPI moment Crashing with 5 grant deadlines while WFH with my toddler😂 Home is mess. Proposal is mess😂
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#Relocation , relocation, relocation. Is Relocating Necessary in #Academia ? Here is my career move since 2008. 1 ➡️Kansas🇺🇸 2008 2 ➡️Boston🇺🇸 2014 3 ➡️Kyoto🇯🇵 2018 4 ➡️Pavia🇮🇹 2020 5 ➡️HK🇭🇰 2020
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The venue for our lab retreat #SciencePark 😎 Cannot wait for January 🎉 Exciting day of full of science 💪 #LabRetreat #THEBEL
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Lunar new year🎉
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Reached 150 followers🥳🥁 My lab @hkumed recruits. PhD-trained staffs with hPSC, CAR-T, organoid culture, or innate immune cell expert are super-welcomed💪 #THEBEL #NewPI #Organoid #immunotherapy
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#Organoids Coolest image I saw for years😆 Kudos to twitter-less Alex
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Tenure track
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1300 followers🥳🎉 At each 100 followers, I spotlight on our member Handi Cao @cao_handi our postdoc @hkusbms @hkumed @CTSCB_HK Dynamo💪💪 of #THEBEL 1/
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274 #Organoids #minigut #enteroids #Organchip @Nature Homeostatic mini-intestines through scaffold-guided organoid morphogenesis
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Woke up with an accepted MS email at 12:20am🌃😂 #PILife
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3 years
Organoid, Spheroid, Organ-on-a-chip, Embryoid body
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Rio Sugimura
3 years
Thanks @the_Node for interviewing me👍 #NewPIinPandemic
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the Node
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New on the Node: #NewPI in a global pandemic: a view from Hong Kong @rio_sugimura ( @HKUniversity ) shares his experiences of starting a lab during the pandemic & his search to find a home to do science, and makes an appeal to⬆️ exposure of HK scientists
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Rio Sugimura
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Elated to be awarded the Healthy Longevity Catalyst @theNAMedicine
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Rio Sugimura
6 months
Long haul ✈️ reading list Our lab members 🔥 choice and BEL's hottest take of the week
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