Afreen Haider

#womeninscience, passionate about drug discovery to fight rare, metabolic diseases and cancer. Ex-postdoc fellow @MRL_Cam, University of Cambridge

[Afreen Haider @Afreenhaider]

Excited to be able to share our detailed review from the Savage lab @MRL_Cam. Lipodystrophy: A paradigm for understanding the consequences of "overloading" adipose tissue | Physiological Reviews https://t.co/2lt9mp7Zca

[Afreen Haider @Afreenhaider]

@preetiblogs @vfsglobalcare Cleary their system is ridden with too many glitches! Makes us go through the entire process of adding applicants, otp verification and then either the appointment slot disappears or seems to be available but get an error to select another date for payment 😒

[Afreen Haider @Afreenhaider]

@vfsglobalcare Why do you suggest connecting via DMs when you don’t even reply

[Mert Kıral @MertKra88515747]

We believe that Schengen country consulates in the United Kingdom have a vital role and responsibility to ensure that individuals have fair access to appointment slots for UK Residents. Please read this #openletter #SchengenVisa
#VisaAppointment #TLSContact #VFSGlobal

[Afreen Haider @Afreenhaider]

@88nicost @EdMochi @SwissEmbassyUK @FranceintheUK @UkWatchdog I got a quote from a London based agent for 450£ pp to get a schengen visa appointment. How are agents securing vfs appointments from backend??

[Afreen Haider @Afreenhaider]

@vfsglobalcare @EdMochi All schengen visa applications ask for hotel and flight bookings. And conferences also have registration fees which are paid months in advance. All of this money will go to waste as we aren’t getting an appointment forget about getting the visa.

[Afreen Haider @Afreenhaider]

@jakepmann Happy birthday Anna! ❤️

[Afreen Haider @Afreenhaider]

@svaradarajan Also why no conversation in Indian media about what vaccination will be offered as a booster by GOI, esp following Dr. Jameel’s comments about potential inefficacy of covisheild booster in covisheild double vaxed? Debates on calling it precaution vs booster dose-NOT important

[Afreen Haider @Afreenhaider]

@AntoniaHufi @Cambridge_Uni @ozannelab Well done Antonia! 🥳

[Afreen Haider @Afreenhaider]

@joedwardlewis Congratulations Jo!

[Afreen Haider @Afreenhaider]

@tarankhanam @JohnRouse101 @LabWeiland @Imunozfont Superb piece of work showing exciting new biology in DNA damage response 👏🏼

[Afreen Haider @Afreenhaider]

@Neurochauhan Haha wait till you get bumped down when renting or buying a house as the owner would rather it goes to a family #Discrimination

[Afreen Haider @Afreenhaider]

@Ella_Maru The most heart dropping one will always be- ran agarose gel upside-down

[stephen o'rahilly (its pronounced O-RA-hill-EEE) @StephenORahilly]

Nice to see this is now online https://t.co/GCV8ysAtEt Over the past ~30 years, the function of the central melanocortin system in receiving and responding to signals of nutritional state, including leptin and insulin, has progressively been unveiled/

[Sarah Finer @Sarah_Finer]

I am delighted to share this paper on the role of MC3R in regulating growth, lean mass & pubertal timing in response to nutritional signals. Our findings may explain why, with rising obesity rates, humans are getting taller and entering puberty earlier

https://t.co/qH0QSTKdC9

[Inst Metabolic Science-Metabolic Research Labs @IMS_MRL]

A @nejm Quick Take video summarising a recent study on how obesity-associated GNAS mutations disrupt MC4R signalling from @Farooqi_Lab.
Great if you’re too busy to read the whole paper, or would like a quick summary before diving in
https://t.co/nu4Ok42BmB

[MRC PPU @mrcppu]

Landmark study by MRC PPU researchers reveals role for the #CDKL5 kinase in transcription-coupled #DNAdamage responses https://t.co/jaquvnjtbx

[TVPLab @TVPLab]

The process of making #fat matters more than the fat you make, at least in alternatively activated #macrophage! Congrats to Guillaume on his new @TheBHF funded paper in @NatMetabolism from the @TVPLab. @MRL_Cam @Cambridge_Uni @MRC_LMB #immunometabolism https://t.co/V0IbH7tIu2

[stephen o'rahilly (its pronounced O-RA-hill-EEE) @StephenORahilly]

It is strange to read that “obesity researchers are blindly following a failed paradigm” when, for the first time, effective and safe anti obesity drugs are emerging and being licensed. With the mechanism of those drugs being entirely based on that paradigm. I’m truly baffled.

[Afreen Haider @Afreenhaider]

@stuartcantrill Might be some confused immigrant like me who saw Brits hacking away at their 🍔 🍕 with a knife & fork, so think that’s generally expected 😄

[Nature Portfolio @NaturePortfolio]

The effect of thousands of rare protein-coding genetic variants on disease is elucidated in a study of data from over 280,000 UK Biobank participants that is published in @Nature. The research may lead to the development of new therapeutic agents. https://t.co/UQQDzCp37V