Dr. Andrew Varley

Director of UBC’s RNA & Formulation Core.
Building RNA workflows and analytical knowledge for global health and next generation medicines.

[Dr. Andrew Varley @RNAVarley]

A new review paper from our group at @BowenLi_Lab! In this ADDR paper, we dive deep into the clinical delivery of circular RNA and what we've learned to so far. If you don't have access, ADDR is providing 50 day free, so no excuses! Check it out! https://t.co/f0zXCn82l0

[Wayne Maddison @WayneMaddison]

I found NSERC's letter for my PhD fellowship in 1980! I got $8500/year. To keep up with inflation, NSERC would have needed to raise fellowships to $20,572 by 2003, which they did! Good job!

But notice what has happened since 2003...

@SupportOurSci

[Dr. Andrew Varley @RNAVarley]

For those unfamiliar with #SupportOurScience - a protest against exploiting academic trainees. @ontariotech_u what are you doing to change this? Currently, your PhD students study >5 years full time plus work 10 hrs/week to survive on about 10K/year (post tuition). Livable?

[Ifrodet @IfrodetGiorgees]

#SupportOurScience science & scientists in Canada need to be supported. Scientists can’t afford living here and Canada can’t afford to keep losing its talented people to better opportunities outside of Canada.

Grad students & post docs struggle in Canada.

[Dr. Andrew Varley @RNAVarley]

So proud to share the exciting work completed by my supervisor during his time at MIT!

A game-changer for gene editing in the lungs. I feel so lucky to have been part of this work and look forward to building upon the research!

[Bowen LI @BowenLi_Lab]

Glad to share that one of my projects with Dan Anderson and Bob Langer @kochinstitute @MIT is in print @NatureBiotech! Alongside @UMassChan, we developed a high-throughput chemical strategy to create and test 720 unique ionizable LNPs for gene delivery to lung epithelium. 1/3

[Slava Bobrov @slava__bobrov]

Cell explodes after getting bitten:

#biology

[Dr. Andrew Varley @RNAVarley]

@plasmidsaurus @nanopore Congrats on the progress! Definitely an important improvement and step towards, dare I say, sequencing a poly A tail? A man can dream!

[Mark Lewis, MD, FASCO @marklewismd]

The text in a Word document when I try to move a table

[Dr. Andrew Varley @RNAVarley]

Flooding, species protection, and water quality are all major reasons why we need to protect the #Greenbelt. There's a reason why it's protected.

[David Suzuki FDN @DavidSuzukiFDN]

If @fordnation gets his way, a new 4-6 lane highway will be paved through the world's largest protected Greenbelt. But @s_guilbeault has the power to stop it.

Tell the feds to STOP HIGHWAY 413 by signing here https://t.co/whkm5ui1TT

#HandsOffTheGreenbelt

[Ontario Nurses' Association @ontarionurses]

Breaking: ONA has received Justice Koehnen’s decision declaring Bill 124 unconstitutional & contrary to s 2(d) of the Charter. As a result of this decision, Bill 124 is void & of no effect.

Nurses are demanding the government respect the court’s decision. #RepealBill124 #ONpoli

[Dr. Andrew Varley @RNAVarley]

Just left my multivalent vaccine development meeting to go get a #multivlent #rnavaccine.

[Dr. Andrew Varley @RNAVarley]

Thanks to everyone who made the #PRiMESympsium2022 a reality! Too many to name. I had an amazing time learning, sharing, and networking!

[Milica Vukmirovic @mivukmiro]

@UofTPRiME Fellows Lightening Talks at #PRiMESymposium2022. 3 min talks - challenge successfully accomplished! 👏👏👏#newprojects #newideas #innovation #BestFellows

[University of Toronto @UofT]

#UofT ranked 18th in the world – & second among North American public universities – by @TimesHigherEd 🏫 https://t.co/jcNzshS6jx

[Dr. Andrew Varley @RNAVarley]

@Proflage @SamanthaLWilson @AcademicChatter @OpenAcademics I actually misrepresented an important part. Both those applying to a PhD and Fellowship get 2 pages for their proposal. However, the PhD applications get 5 pages for their citations, while the fellowship gets zero extra space and instead has to jam them in the proposal. Crazy!

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

New report on myocarditis after mRNA Covid vaccines w/verification of cases https://t.co/XXQbyeLiSP @AnnalsofIM
Overall incidence ages 5-39
1st dose: 1 in 200,000
2nd dose: 1 in 30,000
3rd dose: 1 in 50,000
"the benefits of mRNA vaccination greatly outweigh the risk"

[Dr. Andrew Varley @RNAVarley]

Proud of my old lab mate making a name for herself while supporting expression in science! Not to mention making super cool photodynamic siRNA conjugates along the way!

#siRNA #photodynamictherapy #womeninscience

[Ifrodet @IfrodetGiorgees]

I’m also naming my poster princess pink 🤪 If Disney made a real science poster this is how it would look like 💕

I choose this colour scheme to encourage younger girls to join science and let them know we can be girly and real scientists at the same time.👸🏻

[Dr. Andrew Varley @RNAVarley]

@IfrodetGiorgees Now that's a good looking poster!

[Dr. Andrew Varley @RNAVarley]

@DANorDNA @OTSociety Congratulations Dan!

[Dr. Andrew Varley @RNAVarley]

Mucosal vaccines are the future! Throw circular RNA and advanced lipid nanoparticle into that recipe and you've got a PRiME platform for next gen respiratory vaccines!

#COVID19 #rnavaccines #circularrna

[PRiME - Precision Medicine Initiative at UofT @UofTPRiME]

The next PRiME 2022 Fellow Spotlight is @RNAVarley, a Postdoctoral Fellow in @BowenLIi_Lab and co-supervised by @Jengommerman and Prof. Scott Gray-Owen. He is working on creating the next generation #Covid19 #Vaccine!

[Dr. Andrew Varley @RNAVarley]

@laschuk_ @wiley Congrats! Sounds like an exciting move!