Rufika Shari Abidin

Biotechnology. VLPs. Vaccine & Protein Engineering (PhD) ~ Immunoinformatics. Medical Microbiology (Masters) ~ Tweets -on other topics too- are my own.

[Rufika Shari Abidin @rufikashari]

The top universities in the best countries for scientific research | Nature Index https://t.co/ReRjniHPAE

Special mention @AIBNatUQ

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It's that time of the year again! Excited to listen to interesting talks and amazing speakers!

#FestivalofGenomics2022

https://t.co/UyJus7BV6x

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I wonder if there is an increase in stroke hospitalization this time of the year in comparison to around the same time in previous years?

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This beautiful glove is now protecting me in Winter. Thank you.

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5/n
... prior to vaccine authorization.

This is especially important, not only for COVID-19 vaccines, but also all other vaccines that have been authorized in these last few months.

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(1/n) The following guidelines have been issued by both the FDA and EMA (even prior to the pandemic) regarding the safety aspects of the immunogenicity of protein therapeutics:
1. Guideline on Immunogenicity Assessment of Biotechnology-Derived Therapeutic Proteins (EMA - 2008)

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4/n
Vaccines are basically protein antigens or nucleic acids encoding these proteins. So, I wonder if the scientific considerations in the above guidelines, including the recommended pre-clinical and clinical assays, have been adapted into vaccine authorization procedures...

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I do think that someone who plays the most decisive role in the health sector during a pandemic should be someone with sufficient background in biomedicine, molecular biology, biochemistry, and ideally, infectious disease.

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Forgot to tag #COVID19

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My master's research at the @JCSMR aimed to identify conserved Tc epitopes for potential use as broadly cross-protective influenza vaccine.

To ensure safety, identified epitopes were matched with human epitopes and human proteome to assess possible autoimmune provocation....

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Just out of curiosity, could someone please point out to me any report regarding matching both the sequence of the amino acid and the nucleic acid components of the currently approved COVID-19 vaccines with the human proteome or genome?

Been on hiatus lolz...

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Fantastic presentations, interesting discussions, amazing and humbling experience overall!

[Prof. Shane Crotty @profshanecrotty]

1/ This paper is the first significant evidence that recent infection with a common cold coronavirus could have a functional cross protective effect against severe COVID-19. “Recent endemic coronavirus infection is associated with less severe COVID-19"
https://t.co/kYC3Tpc57x

[PLOS Biology @PLOSBiology]

More secrets from the jellyfish that yielded GFP, transforming the study of living cells. @LABrechaun @NathanShaner &co reveal that A. victoria and its Aussie cousin encode a diverse set of fluorescent proteins, incl the brightest yet described PLOSBiology https://t.co/khmrpY7cLt

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@AbraarKaran @washingtonpost @cshea4 Agree

[Steffen Seibert @RegSprecherStS]

Kanzlerin #Merkel zu einer Modellrechnung, die zeigt, warum es jetzt so wichtig ist, den Anstieg der Infektionszahlen einzudämmen. #Corona

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@ShabanaMir1 @WebMD Lolz.

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@SmallRedOne @onisillos @MackayIM Lolz... good one 🤣🤣🤣

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@KindrachukJason @cshperspectives Oh, well 🤦‍♀️