We've got some brilliant panelists with experience stretching across entrepreneurship, science communication, biotechnology, business and more! #AltCareers #BIIW21
@forgedonyx - Dr Danielle Twum's work in a biotech involves talking to lots of people from CEOs, clients, study directors - sharing and explaining science and the potential of her company's technology #AltCareers #BIIW21
@MakedaLRobinson She is presenting her three stages during the COVID-19 pandemic that led her to begin studying what were the factors that governed transmission and severity of disease
Hypothesis: early innate immune responses are crucial for the initial response to SARS-CoV-2 and immature myeloid cell subsets can play a role in disease severity
He is presenting his recent work "Pathogenic neutrophilic drives acute respirator distress syndrome in severe COVID-19 patients" - check out the preprint here! biorxiv.org/node/2149246.f…
On his second slide, he stressed that this whole work was part of a team #teamworkmakesthedreamwork He additionally is grateful to all of the patients and their families who donated samples for the study
#ImmunoEquity we have seen some increases in white and Asian women, but not in #Hispanic, #Black, or #Native women over the last 15 years and how intersectionality plays in this -Dr. @LabFairfax 2/
Get ready for #ImmunoDiversity! Let us know anything you learned from this event! We're so excited and ready to build up this thread! #BIIW21 1/
Do we think #Immunology/#STEM stacks up as a welcoming and inclusive field? The general consensus is that #DEI in society is the same in #STEM, but at least we are having conversations around it even if action is slow 2/
Oh, don't forget to follow: @robclayrivers and @danne_phd as they discuss this important topic. 3/