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Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers)
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Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers)
@SaraThomasy
A veterinary ophthalmologist @ucdavis, @ohiostate grad, 👁 scientist, & mom looking to make the 🌎 clearer for people & animals. Views are my own. 🐴🦜🥰
- 💔 for so many incredibly talented scientists. This will set biomedical research back decades.Today, along with 2,000 other NIH employees, I had to clear out my office 😭 It was truly the honor of my life to work with such incredibly passionate people focused on improving human health.
- My favorite tree in the neighborhood. I am officially obsessed!
- Is this for real @RompolasLab? 😱 We are going to have so much fun studying corneal endothelial regeneration!!!
- Standing up for Science in #Sacramento! Great representation by @ucdavis led by Dr. Theanne Griffith with a speech by @RogersLabUCD.
- A great example of how hexagons have the most efficient packing geometry just like my favorite cells - the corneal endothelium! #ophthalmology #AcademicTwitter #sciencetwitter
- Super thrilled to be part of this amazing team and to receive an @NIH award during this challenging time. 😮💨I am pleased to share that myself, Mark Greiner (University of Iowa) and Sara Thomasy (UC Davis) have been awarded a new National Institutes of Health (National Eye Institute) R01 grant for $2.85 million focused on "Modulating Ferroptosis in Fuchs Endothelial Corneal Dystrophy".
- Happy, happy, joy, joy!!! I can’t wait to develop this🐒 model of autosomal dominant optic atrophy to advance therapies for optic neuropathies! Kudos to the MRLT lab esp. @bcleonard for all their time & effort! After 3 NDs (including this 1st submission), it feels great!
- Best Thanksgiving gift ever! A NOA for a full budget for our Comparative Medicine T32 to support DVMs getting their PhD. So excited to expand the program to support 6 trainees. vetmed.ucdavis.edu/research/cmstp 🤩
- Postdoc in 👁 using 🐒 & other animal models @ucdavis. We do translational, collaborative, interdisciplinary, team science in an anti-racist lab. A 🧵. vetmed.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/… #sciencejobs #AcademicTwitter #postdocjobs #science #Academia #PhD #AcademicJobs
- We are changing our lab hours for the safety of our trainees so that now one is there past dark. Other @ucdavis PIs, consider doing the same. @ucdavisvetmed @GGIPstudentsThis is Karim Abou-Najim. He is the victim in the deadly stabbing at Sycamore Park in Davis. Family friends tell us he was riding his bike home from his award ceremony for his research work. The 20-year-old was graduating in just 10 days from UC Davis. @CBSSacramento
- Manuscript accepted!!! 🥳🎉🍾 R01 not discussed. 😢☹️😞 Oh, the highs and lows of academia!
- I feel privileged to lead this 🤩 team!New: UC Davis researchers awarded 3.5 million to study a disease that causes vision loss in children. cnprc.ucdavis.edu/uc-davis-resea…
- I am thrilled to receive this @NatEyeInstitute NOA for our 🐒 model of autosomal dominant optic atrophy! So excited to work with @CNPRCresearch @eblissmoreau, @ucd_eyecenter Ala Moshiri, @BCMFromtheLabs Rui Chen, and @OurLegacyHealth Brad Fortune.
