Andy Tager died 9 years ago.
We still miss him.
Yesterday his lebgacy has been crmented in the annals of #CurePF4All when BMS announced that a drug inhibiting LPAR1 met primary endpoint in a phase 3 Pulmonary Fibrosis RCT - the role of LPAR1 in PF was Andy’s discovery!!!!
#AndyWasRight
#BeLikeAndy

Amazing talk at #ICLAF2026 by @kerrijohannson.bsky.social with a rallying call for the ILD community to do better in advocating for all our patients. @kaminskimed.bsky.social would I’m sure approve!

Deeply inspired by Gaza healthcare workers who continue not only to take care of their patients unedr the harshest conditions, but also share their insights with us!!!
Kudos Drs Abu Seir, Sethi, #PAMA and team
#GazaHealthCare
#PeopleIlookUpTo
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fascinating!! Lung-targeted hepatocyte growth factor mRNA restores alveolar structure in cigarette smoke and elastase induced experimental emphysema. Great paper and accompanying editorial . Kudos Drs Chen, Wang and team
#CureCOPD
#RNARocks
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Excited & honored to give my first ever talk at the Hospital of Rimini. I am choosing this place to present the concept we all knew but never had a molecular proof: Early IPF is IPF.
Grateful to the amazing collaborators Profs Poletti, Ravaglia, Tomassetti who made this work possible.
#CurePF4All

Somehow this International Working Group Report saddened me. We actually do not know more about Acute Exacerbations of Pulmonary Fibrosis now than 10 years ago, same for evidence based therapies (NONE).
One must ask why have we not made any progress? academic.oup.com/ajrccm/artic...

The news the current #MAHA administration does not want our patients to hear.
Influenza vaccines continue to reduce risk of severe disease and hospitalization, especially among older adults, infants, children, young adults. No new safety concerns.
#VaccinesWork
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Finally out!!! The first ever single cell compendium of Restrictive allograft syndrome (RAS), a major cause of mortality following lung transplantation due to progressive fibrosis of the lung allograft - 👏👏 Soon to be Dr. Leiber, Prof Schupp & team 👏🏼👏🏼
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OK. Can any of my wise clinician or radiology friends read this and tell me: do you really think you could using a Chest X Ray detect cancer anywhere in the body a year ahead of diagnosis? www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Excited and honored to give my first talk ever at Barcelona at the world renowned IDIBELL research institute! Looking forward to meet researchers, clinicians and trainees, friends and collaborators, make new ones, and learn from all of them!!!
#AcademicNomads
#CurePF4All

Transatlantic Crossing Zen
#AcademicNomads

Rabi Arik Ascherman is a Jewish hero and tzadik. He has been defending Palestinians from settlers for as long as I’ve known him. Today he was injured (again) by settlers.
Listen to what he has to say
#TheRighteousAmongUs
#צדיק
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The two monitor set up on the Queen Mary 2.
#LessonsInWorkLifeBalance
#AcademicNomads

Can you think of a better way to have Rosh Hashanah Dinner than with friends & family (my sister’s 1st visit to US) in the backyard?
We extended honey dipping beyond apples, to pears, chestnuts, gauda, pretzels. Had lots of food including two types of gefilte fish,
#ShanaTova🍎🍯
#DoctorsWhoCook