Scientific Director@GSK. Opinions personal. Interests: computational models, B cells, vaccines, pharmacology, non-fiction & fantasy, coffee, humour, sport. Antifascist+Left-of-centre https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=41FXFRgAAAAJ&view_op=lishttps://bsky.app/profile/rajatdesikan.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/rajatdesikan.bsky.social/post/3lxo253r3tc24Just finished an ARC of #BabysBreath - delicious roller coaster ride. How ‘unputdownable’ you ask - a sleep deprived toddler’s dad who’s normally in bed at 11 pm had to stay up till 3 am to finish it. Get your paws on it folks, this is the good stuff! Kudos @russincheshire.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]31 Aug 2025 02:29 +0000at://did:plc:7ogdcslpckrhzffsgx5ok7xb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxo253r3tc24https://bsky.app/profile/rajatdesikan.bsky.social/post/3luynnoinhc2aHello, I’m a scientist in a superhero film and a sidekick to the hero. I graduated from MIT with 14 PhDs and understand the bleeding edge of quantum mechanics, genetic editing, analytical chemistry, cryptography, cybersecurity … all of which I use from forensic analysis to opening multiverse portals [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Jul 2025 03:29 +0000at://did:plc:7ogdcslpckrhzffsgx5ok7xb/app.bsky.feed.post/3luynnoinhc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/rajatdesikan.bsky.social/post/3lsf6s3sy7c2wWow! [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Jun 2025 22:52 +0000at://did:plc:7ogdcslpckrhzffsgx5ok7xb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsf6s3sy7c2whttps://bsky.app/profile/rajatdesikan.bsky.social/post/3lrdmtljqms2kThe news reporting gets to me sometimes - the angle is always to find something negative about any decision rather than a balanced pro-con analysis. If the government had focused on investments in London, the narrative would have been how the govt is London centric + the deprived North. [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Jun 2025 14:33 +0000at://did:plc:7ogdcslpckrhzffsgx5ok7xb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrdmtljqms2khttps://bsky.app/profile/rajatdesikan.bsky.social/post/3lr77fxnkz22zKudos to the UK Labour government for this large investment into science and R&D. The UK is a global scientific leader and this investment will turbocharge innovation. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/transformative-86-billion-boost-to-science-and-tech-to-turbocharge-economy-with-regions-backed-to-take-cutting-edge-research-into-own-hands09 Jun 2025 20:22 +0000at://did:plc:7ogdcslpckrhzffsgx5ok7xb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lr77fxnkz22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/rajatdesikan.bsky.social/post/3lqssql2iws2mHot off the press – we are incredibly excited to announce the publication of our mechanistic fit-for-purpose Hepatitis B virus (HBV) QSP model and in silico trial teamwork in CPT, a top tier clinical pharmacology journal! https://doi.org/10.1002/cpt.371804 Jun 2025 22:04 +0000at://did:plc:7ogdcslpckrhzffsgx5ok7xb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqssql2iws2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/rajatdesikan.bsky.social/post/3lpadn5qi6k2lAgree, mRNA vaccines are a ‘quantum leap’ esp with next gen liposomes that can selectively target specific organs/tissues Adding to list of stuff to be investigated and improved apart from reacto, I would add durability of responses and subtype switch to IgG4 seen in some studies with repeated Vx [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 May 2025 20:20 +0000at://did:plc:7ogdcslpckrhzffsgx5ok7xb/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpadn5qi6k2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/rajatdesikan.bsky.social/post/3loatwamytc2xExcellent! [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 May 2025 07:46 +0000at://did:plc:7ogdcslpckrhzffsgx5ok7xb/app.bsky.feed.post/3loatwamytc2x