Immunologist who leapfrogged from the private sector back to academia. Still hunting down TCRs for TCR-T therapy for cancer and autoimmunity. Actor by night. Lifter, also by night. GO BADGERS!https://bsky.app/profile/akshatsharma.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/akshatsharma.bsky.social/post/3lsw2xm3jcs2oAlso writing a chapter. Also at risk of being committed. However, will clearly be in exalted company in the grippy socks room. [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Jul 2025 15:59 +0000at://did:plc:mnhya73jqfk5yvomv7vmljhp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsw2xm3jcs2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/akshatsharma.bsky.social/post/3lsw2vhvf6s2oBack in business! Let's hope it was temporary! Phew! [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Jul 2025 15:58 +0000at://did:plc:mnhya73jqfk5yvomv7vmljhp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsw2vhvf6s2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/akshatsharma.bsky.social/post/3lsw2hvb5pk2oUh, gang, is PubMed working for y'all?01 Jul 2025 15:50 +0000at://did:plc:mnhya73jqfk5yvomv7vmljhp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsw2hvb5pk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/akshatsharma.bsky.social/post/3lpgpxq2mmc2qImmunodominant epitope.18 May 2025 09:17 +0000at://did:plc:mnhya73jqfk5yvomv7vmljhp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpgpxq2mmc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/akshatsharma.bsky.social/post/3lpanzkwdrc23BUT I DID ALL THE STEPS! WTF! I was home for 5 days! 5 days; 5 steps! What do you mean "non-linear?" Can repeat? CAN REPEAT? Are you shitting me?!15 May 2025 23:26 +0000at://did:plc:mnhya73jqfk5yvomv7vmljhp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpanzkwdrc23https://bsky.app/profile/akshatsharma.bsky.social/post/3lp2gdj4ycc2wWhat's an NK cell's cocktail of choice? A KIR Royale.13 May 2025 11:52 +0000at://did:plc:mnhya73jqfk5yvomv7vmljhp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp2gdj4ycc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/akshatsharma.bsky.social/post/3lo4xhlwdxs2zHappy Mental Health Awareness Month.01 May 2025 18:39 +0000at://did:plc:mnhya73jqfk5yvomv7vmljhp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lo4xhlwdxs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/akshatsharma.bsky.social/post/3lnoh6qo7ks2uتمہاری بے رخی اک دن ہماری جان لے لے گی۔ قسم تم کو زرا سوچو کے دستور وفا کیا ہے۔ غم دنیا سے گھبرا کر تمہے دل نے پکارا ہے۔ کہاں ہو تم۔۔۔؟26 Apr 2025 00:11 +0000at://did:plc:mnhya73jqfk5yvomv7vmljhp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnoh6qo7ks2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/akshatsharma.bsky.social/post/3lnjfkhzmcc2eBut I was so looking forward to the inevitable documentary... [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Apr 2025 23:58 +0000at://did:plc:mnhya73jqfk5yvomv7vmljhp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnjfkhzmcc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/akshatsharma.bsky.social/post/3lniwzm7p7226But, truly, a lovely paper with interesting implications for the role of the CHAC1-Notch axis in health and disease. [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Apr 2025 19:38 +0000at://did:plc:mnhya73jqfk5yvomv7vmljhp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lniwzm7p7226https://bsky.app/profile/akshatsharma.bsky.social/post/3lnirtzja4226I just stared long and hard at the word "homogenous" in a grant I'm very slowly working on You never know these days: it could come back with "Dear Dr. Sharma: no homo."23 Apr 2025 18:05 +0000at://did:plc:mnhya73jqfk5yvomv7vmljhp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnirtzja4226https://bsky.app/profile/akshatsharma.bsky.social/post/3lninwit5bs26Friends, if you or your colleagues are working on innate-like T cells, please consider submitting a manuscript or review to this special issue of Cells that I'm guest-editing: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/cells/special_issues/VHE3GJV7Z123 Apr 2025 16:55 +0000at://did:plc:mnhya73jqfk5yvomv7vmljhp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lninwit5bs26https://bsky.app/profile/akshatsharma.bsky.social/post/3lngtbu3yys2sThe one sempiternal thing about scientists is that we always come with receipts. You'll typically find them under a section titled "References." [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Apr 2025 23:26 +0000at://did:plc:mnhya73jqfk5yvomv7vmljhp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lngtbu3yys2shttps://bsky.app/profile/akshatsharma.bsky.social/post/3lnep5jodz22mSadboi hours, empty weight room, Rockpile Athletics.22 Apr 2025 03:06 +0000at://did:plc:mnhya73jqfk5yvomv7vmljhp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnep5jodz22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/akshatsharma.bsky.social/post/3lnbs5wg3is22Meal prep pump. Evidently aggressive stirring will do it.20 Apr 2025 23:22 +0000at://did:plc:mnhya73jqfk5yvomv7vmljhp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnbs5wg3is22https://bsky.app/profile/akshatsharma.bsky.social/post/3ln7lumffec22I curled 40lbs and am parched for attention.20 Apr 2025 02:24 +0000at://did:plc:mnhya73jqfk5yvomv7vmljhp/app.bsky.feed.post/3ln7lumffec22https://bsky.app/profile/akshatsharma.bsky.social/post/3ln6spahjfk2phttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/business/trump-harvard-letter-mistake.html?unlocked_article_code=1.A08.V6o1.DiwEqtIZ022e&smid=url-share https://media.tenor.com/SUpvzd7GEE8AAAAC/oprah-shrug.gif?hh=200&ww=35019 Apr 2025 18:54 +0000at://did:plc:mnhya73jqfk5yvomv7vmljhp/app.bsky.feed.post/3ln6spahjfk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/akshatsharma.bsky.social/post/3ln2lwohz6c2xSuch an improvement over Kr*st*e N**m's macabre selfies. [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Apr 2025 02:42 +0000at://did:plc:mnhya73jqfk5yvomv7vmljhp/app.bsky.feed.post/3ln2lwohz6c2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/akshatsharma.bsky.social/post/3lmtaf2magk2lGuys, I just want to do LFA-1 things and pull out TCRs. But it's, like, hard with, you know, everything...15 Apr 2025 04:27 +0000at://did:plc:mnhya73jqfk5yvomv7vmljhp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmtaf2magk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/akshatsharma.bsky.social/post/3lmo3n5cknc2sHilarious, obviously, but apparently Chef Sanjeev Kapoor has a restaurant in Palo Alto! [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Apr 2025 03:19 +0000at://did:plc:mnhya73jqfk5yvomv7vmljhp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmo3n5cknc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/akshatsharma.bsky.social/post/3lmo3bce4qk2sI'm viscerally disgusted by how many "self portraits" I produce. But, hey, man, the lighting was good... There's an urgency these days to get it all done. Get the grant, write the novella, find the fella, LFA-1... I'm worried I'm gonna die young. And, hey, man, the lighting was good...13 Apr 2025 03:12 +0000at://did:plc:mnhya73jqfk5yvomv7vmljhp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmo3bce4qk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/akshatsharma.bsky.social/post/3lmj3665uy22eBiomedical research. No-one's doing it like America. [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Apr 2025 03:27 +0000at://did:plc:mnhya73jqfk5yvomv7vmljhp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmj3665uy22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/akshatsharma.bsky.social/post/3lmigweupw22iA friend told me to try Scruff and also another app that had a militaristic name, and it was very upsetting. Why? I'll tell you why...10 Apr 2025 21:25 +0000at://did:plc:mnhya73jqfk5yvomv7vmljhp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmigweupw22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/akshatsharma.bsky.social/post/3lmig2ah2sk2iWhat will it take for y'all to acknowledge that influencers* are not journalists or medical professionals or therapists or scientists or economists or lawyers? *without the requisite training.10 Apr 2025 21:09 +0000at://did:plc:mnhya73jqfk5yvomv7vmljhp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmig2ah2sk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/akshatsharma.bsky.social/post/3lmienjwbf22iBobby baby, Bobby bube, Robert darling, there's work out there to show that both mono- and multivalent COVID-19 vaccines elicited lovely, comparable T cell responses. Lots of evidence of this in the flu vaccine world, too. Why are you like this? Here: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9970654/ [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Apr 2025 20:44 +0000at://did:plc:mnhya73jqfk5yvomv7vmljhp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmienjwbf22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/akshatsharma.bsky.social/post/3lmie24xbcs2iChat, what was it like planning your first senior author paper?10 Apr 2025 20:33 +0000at://did:plc:mnhya73jqfk5yvomv7vmljhp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmie24xbcs2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/akshatsharma.bsky.social/post/3lmhxcaaxfk2i [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Apr 2025 16:45 +0000at://did:plc:mnhya73jqfk5yvomv7vmljhp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmhxcaaxfk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/akshatsharma.bsky.social/post/3lmhqtwxvjs2iComes with a 12-well-plate (tissue culture-treated for his pleasure), pipettes, pens,a flow cytometer, "Hateway's" Immunobiology (good try, I guess), 45 lb dumbbells (respectable, sorta), workout clothes, another flow cytometer and I think a tea cosy. Would you buy it, buy it, buy it?10 Apr 2025 14:50 +0000at://did:plc:mnhya73jqfk5yvomv7vmljhp/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmhqtwxvjs2i