Pia Johansson

Scientific coordinator of the "Cell and Gene Therapy Core" at Lund University. Views are my own.

[Pia Johansson @Alifeinscience]

Me talking about the magic!

[Lluís Camprubí Ferrer @lluis_camprubi]

Did you miss the last episodes of "Meet Our Scientists" from @MultiparkL ?
In "Episode 8 - Gene and Cellular Magic", I talked with @Alifeinscience who works with IPS cells, CRISPR and more. How do these technologies work? Why are they useful?

[Pia Johansson @Alifeinscience]

@Lund_Stem Yes, come and join!!

[Pia Johansson @Alifeinscience]

Registration for our April iPSC course is now open!!
@lunduniversity @MultiparkL @medfak_LU
https://t.co/Ba9n9ees8o

[Fyodor Urnov @UrnovFyodor]

Bad news, then good news - in that order.
https://t.co/G6Mpxw1Nkw
1. 500 inborn errors of immunity, zero #CRISPR gene editing trials for them. TRP THR PHE?!!?
2. @igisci @UCBerkeley @UCSF @UCLA team up with @DanaherCorp in a Beacon for CRISPR Cures - as @JessicaKimCohen lucidly explains, this first-of-its-kind partnership will write, and FDA/clinic-test, a cookbook for such cures - The Joy of CRISPR - for all to use.

[Pia Johansson @Alifeinscience]

Registration for our April iPSC course is now open!!
https://t.co/Ba9n9ees8o

[CRISPR News 🧬 @CRISPR_News]

European Commission approves the first CRISPR/Cas9 gene-edited therapy, CASGEVY. It’s a new dawn for treatment of Sickle Cell Disease and Transfusion-Dependent Beta Thalassemia. More healing, less suffering for patients! 🙌 #CRISPR https://t.co/HJxBTtY9LG

[Pia Johansson @Alifeinscience]

Come to Lund!! Great lab and PI.

[Christopher Douse @ch_douse]

Open position(s) in my group @Lund_Stem to investigate genomic repeats in human brain development and degeneration.

There's just so much cool biology to discover here and we now have the tools to get started...

Thank you to @cziscience for funding!

[Pia Johansson @Alifeinscience]

@mohlinlab Of course you did! Since you're a badas!. Congratulations!

[Pia Johansson @Alifeinscience]

@JakobssonLab Congratulations!

[Lund Stem Cell Center @Lund_Stem]

👏Congratulations to @Lund_Stem Prof Anna Falk for being appointed the director of the new Center for Advanced Therapies at @lunduniversity, LU-ATMP!

Read about her vision for advancing #ATMP research in @Lund from project seeds to effective therapies🌱👇
https://t.co/rjJCO4Rve7

[Pia Johansson @Alifeinscience]

CAGT Core is back after the summer break with some good news! It looks like we have succeeded in making GFP mRNA. Shout-out to @MagdalenaMadej7 that got this first step to work! Many steps and tests to go before we can offer this as a service, but happy to see this! @Lund_Stem

[Pia Johansson @Alifeinscience]

Come to Lund! Chris is great!

[Christopher Douse @ch_douse]

Finally, we are hiring! If you are interested in the repetitive genome/ transposons/ epigenetics/ chromatin/ brain development and fancy living in Scandinavia, get in touch! We are a friendly bunch and Lund even has a transposon-themed running club open for new members. [7/7]

[Pia Johansson @Alifeinscience]

Very happy to have been invited to this fun and interesting event this afternoon. #CRISPR round table discussion. One can register here: https://t.co/7TLTcQLFMJ

[Pia Johansson @Alifeinscience]

Thank you for organising and for having me as a speaker! It was a great event! See you again next year?

[Fredrik Wermeling @Wermeling_lab]

Thanks everyone involved for making our CRISPR symposium such a success! 151 participants and fantastic presentations. @tuuliel, @JohnDoench, @nevillesanjana, @Alifeinscience, @jcornlab, @randall_platt, @JennaPersson, Douglas Ross Thriepland, Erik Shifrut, Yumeng Mao.

[Pia Johansson @Alifeinscience]

@Wermeling_lab @tuuliel @JohnDoench @nevillesanjana @jcornlab @randall_platt @JennaPersson Thank you for organising and for having me as a speaker! It was a great event! See you again next year?

[Fyodor Urnov @UrnovFyodor]

What. A. WEEK for gene editing clinical trial data!!
Intellia goes 2 for 2 with another - pick your sports metaphor (hole in one/nothin' but net/out of the ballpark) - disease indication, this time HAE, falling to the power of CRISPR!
Bravi, @intelliatx + @editasmed + @CRISPRTX !

[Pia Johansson @Alifeinscience]

@Canals_Lab @AhleniusHenrik Congratulations!

[Pia Johansson @Alifeinscience]

Welcome to the latest installment of the "Cell and Gene Therapy Tools" seminar series. Next Thursday, here at the BMC. Hope to see you there!

[Pia Johansson @Alifeinscience]

Awesome few days! And awesome action!

[Inês Figueira @ines_figueira88]

More than the discussions on #CoreFacilities🇪🇺 it is the people that make @CorEuStem COST Action BIG! @CCUzebrafish @lbatllemorera @Mariaste65 @mluisosca @JacopoZa @_Rubisco_ @SebastianDiecke @OlePless @KAalto_Setala @Tamer_Onder @mehrnaz26187135 @Alifeinscience & so much more!

[Pia Johansson @Alifeinscience]

Yes this was really good. Keeping our cores state if the art!

[CorEuStem @CorEuStem]

The #CorEuStem Core Group Meeting & Symposium on #CoreFacilities on 26-28 April 2023 at the @ChampalimaudF in Lisbon was a great success thanks to the excellent Speakers from all over the world, our Sponsors and all participants on the spot and on Zoom.