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Extremely honored to be named a 2021 STAT Wunderkind for my PhD work identifying cellular metabolism as a determinant of whether or not a stem cell can initiate a neoplasm @statnews 1/
Sanjee Baksh
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Sanjee Baksh
@S__Baksh
@PennPulmonary fellow via @MGHMedicine, @TriIMDPhD • Aspiring intensivist/trophy husband • he/him 🏳️🌈🇹🇹🇱🇰
Boston, MA
Joined October 2017
- JFK was wrong please start asking what your country can do for you
- my parents are both doctors & because of that i was doing molecular biology when i was 15 and learned about md-phd programs when i was 16 if you think nepo babies don't get ahead in medicine you are not very bright
- My building has a gym that I use pretty regularly. This morning a white resident told me that staff aren’t allowed to use the gym, didn’t believe me when I told her I live here, and then called the manager on me. Being a POC in America is exhausting.
- ok so everyone loves science when it's looking at pretty pictures of space but when i talk about the krebs cycle suddenly it's "shut up nerd" ????
- my favorite story about my PhD advisor is that when she was applying to grad school instead of taking the GRE she submitted a 3 page essay to programs on why the GRE was useless
- If you are a person of color in a predominantly white lab, or a queer person in a predominantly straight lab, or a woman in a predominantly male lab ..…. An anonymous lab survey is not anonymous ………
- Someone in clinic just asked me if my PhD took a year or two and when I said no it took 4 they said “oh that’s a long time maybe you’re not that smart” I —
- Was walking into my building in scrubs, hospital ID and stethoscope on, and a white lady in front of me kept looking over her shoulder at me. We got to the elevator bay and she turned around and demanded to know why I was following her — truly, I hate it here
- Neutrophils sacrificing themselves to help fight infections... idk to me, that's really hematopoetic
- Shout out to the person who told me I only got a perfect score on my F31 because it was the “minority grant so the bar is lower” who earlier this week posted a black square on Instagram.
- My kidneys after 36 hours of me consuming only coffee, wine, and ibuprofen
- Before you call AIDS “long HIV” might I interest you in thinking for one (1) minute
