Kerry Breen

Pharmacology PhD Candidate | F31 NRSA Fellow @PharmBU @BU_CTE

[Morgane Butler @mo_but]

Excited to share that my thesis work in now published! @Nature @bu_cte

We investigated the earliest responses following repeated head trauma in athletes and found significant neuronal loss, microglial inflammation, and vascular damage.

https://t.co/YdMcRnwd1k

[nature @Nature]

Repetitive head impacts trigger neuronal loss and disrupt blood vessels and immune cells long before the accumulation of neurotoxic tau protein

https://t.co/oFi3VVb7jr

[Boston University CTE Center @bu_cte]

CTE Center PhD student Kerry Breen is presenting her abstract “Aberrant DNA Methylation Associated with Repetitive Head Impacts” today at Keystone Symposia: Neurodegeneration: Linking Cellular Pathways to Therapeutic Strategies. 

Learn more here: https://t.co/qviQ9oOsAB

#KSNeuroDegen25
@KeystoneSymp

[Boston University CTE Center @bu_cte]

Congratulations to Samantha Calderazzo, an MD/PhD student in the McKee and Huber labs, who successfully defended her dissertation on Thursday! We are proud of all your achievements and look forward to seeing what you accomplish next.

Congrats, Dr. Calderazzo! @SamCalderazzo

[Boston University CTE Center @bu_cte]

Congratulations to Katharine Babcock (@kjbabcock9), a PhD student in the McKee Lab, who successfully defended her dissertation yesterday! We are proud of all she has accomplished and look forward to continuing to work with her as a postdoc at BU CTE.

Congrats, Dr. Babcock!

[Kerry Breen @kerry_breen]

Boarding a flight to Sweden now 🫡 look at this girl go!!! @Sabrina_Kistler 🦅✨@BUMedicine

[Boston University @BU_Tweets]

NEW REPORT: According to its latest study, the #CTE Center (@bu_cte) has diagnosed 345 former NFL players with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, out of 376 former players who were studied, a rate of 91.7%.

Keep reading ⬇️
https://t.co/F1DsKvZL1Z

[Brain @Brain1878]

In one of the largest studies of its kind, Morrison et al. show that antemortem plasma phosphorylated-tau181 concentrations accurately differentiate brain donors with and without autopsy-confirmed Alzheimer's disease. https://t.co/XeqpAr898X

[Nature Reviews Genetics @NatureRevGenet]

DNA methylation-based predictors of health: applications and statistical considerations https://t.co/w1o73SbVX5 #Review by @PaulYousefi, @mathsuderman, @RyanLangdon19, Oliver Whitehurst, @mendel_random & @carolinerelton @MRC_IEU @BrisCancerEpi @BrisPopHealth

[Kerry Breen @kerry_breen]

@AnderDorken @PittSurgery @UPMCnews @hayfarani @TraumaMGH Congrats Ander!!!!!!!!! 🎉🥳

[SURGERY Journal @SurgJournal]

Chitosan-based lifefoam improves survival in lethal noncompressible abdominal bleeding in swine

@leon_naar @kerry_breen @MGHSurgery @TraumaMGH @traumadoctors @EAST_TRAUMA @WesternTrauma @Me4Trauma #SoMe4Surgery

https://t.co/Me9v1fpuq1

[Maha Farhat @MahaFarhat]

Incredibly proud of this JAMA surgery paper and the wonderful collaboration. Proves that you can apply pop-gen/eco-evo across systems relatively easily and generate novel insights. In addition to the GWAS associations, we quantified the heritability of appendicitis at 30%!

[JAMA Surgery @JAMASurgery]

A genome-wide association study identified a new genetic locus within the NEDD4L gene to be associated with acute appendicitis. NEDD4L was also among the top differentially-expressed appendiceal genes between appendicitis patients and controls https://t.co/7Q3rbyeCwD

[Apostolos Gaitanidis @Apogait]

Check out our new paper identifying a new genetic locus associated with the development of acute appendicitis. These results shed light into the mysterious pathogenesis of a very common disease.

@MahaFarhat @hayfarani @mathiasac @kerry_breen @MGHSurgery

[D. Dante Yeh @DanteYeh]

Do you still NOT know the difference between a superiority vs a non-inferiority trial? Fear not…read this!! @SurgInfxSoc

[Haytham Kaafarani @hayfarani]

Mixed feelings each year. However, seeing this year a prior fellow become a @TraumaMGH partner, 2 becoming @MGHSurgery fellows & many changing the surgery world everywhere makes me feel better about the ever changing but always diverse & most productive team.
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[Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery @JTraumAcuteSurg]

Resolution of Organ Dysfunction as a Predictor of Long-Term Survival in Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections: Analysis of the ACCUTE Trial and a Retrospective Claims-Linked Database Study. #EmergSurg https://t.co/SIecL3C2gl

[Leon Naar @leon_naar]

Check out the results of our study published in @JTraumAcuteSurg focusing on immune cell clusters that are associated with outcomes in trauma patients!
@majedhechi @TraumaMGH

[Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery @JTraumAcuteSurg]

Deep Immune Profiling of Whole Blood to Identify Early Immune Signatures that Correlate to Patient Outcome after Major Trauma. #TraumaSurg https://t.co/EQMrZzvupN

[Surgical Infection Society @SurgInfxSoc]

.Interesting Cases from the Frontlines of COVID-19--register for our free webinar of experts in the field including @PedsTraumaMan @SurgEdMD @PhilipBarie and Dr. April Mendoza from @TraumaMGH, moderated by @CJHunter18! Join us on Feb 4, 2021 5pm EST!
https://t.co/x7wtA5Zvtd