Innate Immunologist and Cytokine biologist 🇮🇪 UMass Chan Medical School. Opinions are my own.
Worcester, MA
Joined October 2011
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Kate Fitzgerald retweeted
What accomplishments and collaborations will UMass Chan Medical School faculty, students and staff have to celebrate in 2026? We will find out together! Happy New Year!
#HappyNewYear2026 #UMass @UMass @UMassMDPhD @UMass_Medicine @ForHealthCnsltg @UMassChanGiving @UMassDiabetes
Kate Fitzgerald retweeted
Activation of Retron-Septu for antiphage defense. Congrats @futianmin and all co-authors!
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Kate Fitzgerald retweeted
Terrific spotlight by @UMassChan on PhD candidate @FavourFavvycool highlighting Favour’s outstanding accomplishments and work on #sarcoma & #GIST, and well-deserved accolades for her research and presentations!
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Kate Fitzgerald retweeted
With our RTI colleagues Xiaobin Ling and @WenwenFang2, we report cryo-EM structures of enigmatic bacterial RNA nanocages made of long-noncoding ROOL RNAs. Octamers are held by "A-minor staples" and other interactions. Congrats Xiaobin, Dima et al!
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Kate Fitzgerald retweeted
Important story in @people about patient with Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB). Features Dr. Diana Reusch, a faculty member that I recruited to my department @UMassChan who directs the EB clinic, the only one in New England that cares for these patients.
people.com/butterfly-disease…
Kate Fitzgerald retweeted
I discuss the urgent crisis from the loss of federal support of science in the US and recent clinical gene editing breakthroughs with @WalterIsaacson & @amanpour on @AmanpourCoPBS, airing on @PBS tonight at 11 pm ET, and on @cnni earlier today. Pls share!
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Kate Fitzgerald retweeted
Many congratulations to the new class of BWF PATH investigators. Extra kudos to the superlative Megan Orzalli, whose work continues to redefine our understanding of host defense.
@VirulentMind @UMassChan
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Kate Fitzgerald retweeted
Two years at @UMassChan @UMassChanNeuro My sincere gratitude to all faculty and staff colleagues in the department ! It has been an amazing journey! Thanks a lot to our team members ! Raquel, Bianca and Natalia ! 🎉Special thanks to our dear friend @SchaferLabUMass 🙏
Kate Fitzgerald retweeted
Gov Healey in Worcester to talk about threat of NIH funding cuts. @telegramdotcom @UMassChan
Kate Fitzgerald retweeted
Jessica Spinelli, PhD, identifies rhodoquinone, a metabolite in bacteria and worms, as a fundamental electron transporter in the mammalian electron transport chain. Research could have clinical potential for protecting cells from hypoxia: direc.to/nb84 @CellCellPress
Kate Fitzgerald retweeted
Anastasia Khvorova, PhD, plans to use the #EKFS prize money to develop #RNA molecules that can prevent the production of toxic proteins in the brain. Such abnormal proteins are behind aging and many neurodegenerative diseases: direc.to/nac1 @EKFStiftung @RTI_UMassChan
RNA researcher Anastasia Khvorova, PhD, professor of RNA therapeutics at UMass Chan Medical School, receives the Else Kröner Fresenius Prize for Medical Research 2025! Congratulations! 🎉 @UMassChan
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Kate Fitzgerald retweeted
“My hope is that during the coming years, the unprecedented assault on scientific truth that has adversely impacted public health in our nation comes to an end so that the citizens of our country can fully benefit from the breadth of advances in medical science.”
—Peter Marks, who was forced to resign from FDA yesterday.
Kate Fitzgerald retweeted
Thanks for all the congrats and well wishes on my upcoming role at the @UChicago and @UCCancerCenter. Now is the time to lean into basic science cancer research & support junior faculty and trainees. I'm grateful & excited to get started!
biologicalsciences.uchicago.…
Kate Fitzgerald retweeted
Happy to share our back-to-back papers in @Nature, presenting a new framework for understanding metabolism - using genomics rather than traditional biochemistry! This led to a systems-level understanding of both metabolic wiring and rewiring. @UMassChan
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Kate Fitzgerald retweeted
Two papers published today in @Nature describe a significant advance in understanding the complex functions of the metabolic network. Read about new research from the lab of Marian Walhout, PhD: direc.to/mNpc
#metabolic #metabolism
Kate Fitzgerald retweeted
President Trump and Elon Musk’s funding cuts to groundbreaking medical research do NOT Make America Great. That’s why I’m on the Senate floor introducing a resolution pledging support for NIH & asking for immediate passage. Watch. nitter.gq/i/broadcasts/1lDxLzWgw…
Kate Fitzgerald retweeted
Donald Trump is going against a court order to freeze funding for medical research — including cures and treatments for cancer, Lyme disease, heat disease, Alzheimer's and more.
This won't just cost people their jobs. It'll cost people their lives.
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