@TahaAzad2

Synthetic Biology For Translational Research

 Sherbrooke, Quebec
azadlab.org
Joined January 2018
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Moving Brain Cancer Research Forward, One Kilometre at a Time: This Sunday, Noah Lee will run 70km from the University of Toronto to McMaster University to raise $70K for life-saving brain cancer research, in honour of his mother Sejin Lee braincancercanada.akaraisin.… @braincancercan
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Congratulations, Abril Muñoz Zúñiga! We are very proud of you and excited to see what comes next. D2R | DNA to RNA mcgill.ca/dna-to-rna/article… via @D2RMcGill

Trainee Spotlight: Abril Muñoz Zúñiga

Hi Abril, you are currently completing your Master’s at the Université de Sherbrooke supervised by Prof. Taha Azad. Can you describe your journey that brought you from Mexico to Taha’s lab? Yes, I am

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Sébastien This@SebastienThisAug 7
I'm excited to announce my new position as Assistant Professor at the Université de Sherbrooke. I'm incredibly grateful to all who have helped me get here. The lab is now hiring! If you're interested please reach out. Looking forward to this next chapter! sthis-lab.ca

Home | Sébastien This' Lab

Visit Sébastien This' Lab website to learn more about our research on T cell heterogeneity, Immunophotonics and immune signalling

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@elonmusk Dear Elon, In these critical days, the people of Iran need internet access. Please help them stay connected as they struggle to reclaim their country from the rule of the mullahs. Stand with the Iranian people. Iran will not forget its friends. – at McNair, VA
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D2R | DNA to RNA@D2RMcGillJan 20
#D2RProjectSpotlight: Transient CAR-T Cell engineering🧬Led by Taha Azad (@USherbrooke) this project aims to produce safe & effective CAR-Ts, and help accelerate RNA-based cell therapy development buff.ly/Tsz4eBD
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My 2025 Duolingo stats are in! How did you do? #Duolingo365
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Oncopole@oncopole9 Sep 2025
Découvrez les travaux de recherche de l’équipe de @TahaAzad2 de @USherbrooke qui mettent en lumière une nouvelle approche qui repose sur l'ARN autoamplifiant (ARNaa) utilisée pour le traitement de certains cancers. 👉usherbrooke.ca/actualites/no…

L’ingénierie de l’ARN autoamplifiant : une nouvelle arme contre le cancer

L’ingénierie moléculaire de l’ARN permet de concevoir ou de modifier des molécules d’ARN afin qu’elles ...

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🔊Meet @TahaAzad2: He’s bringing his expertise in RNA therapeutics, oncolytic viruses, and biosensor development to @USherbrooke with support from D2R’s New Faculty Start-Up program 🔗Learn more: mcgill.ca/dna-to-rna/funded-… #ResearcherSpotlight #RNAtherapeutics #RNAResearch
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Researchers have developed a novel approach to create tiny “mobile pharmacies” that can get inside tumours and dispense anti-cancer drugs. ohri.ca/newsroom/story/view/…
“Every patient’s cancer is unique, so if we want to cure every cancer, we may need to customize our therapies for each patient,” said Dr. John Bell. “Our novel approach provides a rapid way to do this.”

ALT “Every patient’s cancer is unique, so if we want to cure every cancer, we may need to customize our therapies for each patient,” said Dr. John Bell. “Our novel approach provides a rapid way to do this.”

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The funding disparity for research trainees is even worse in Quebec, where students face greater financial struggles, as highlighted in @LP_LaPresse. nature.com/articles/d41586-0… read more: lapresse.ca/actualites/educa… @FRQS1 @CIHR_IRSC

Canada’s postgraduate funding gap is still yawning even after budget increases

Nature - Letter to the Editor

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Anna Blakney@AnnaBlakney31 Dec 2024
Celebrating the end of 2024 with our new publication led by @SuiyangLiao: we investigate the role of empty LNPs on transfection efficiency of mRNA- turns out they’re not just silent bystanders, and there’s a balance in how loaded you want your particles: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…

Transfection Potency of Lipid Nanoparticles Containing mRNA Depends on Relative Loading Levels

Abstract. When formulating mRNA into lipid nanoparticles (LNP), various copy numbers of mRNA are encapsulated, leading to a distribution of mRNA loading le

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Look what I learned on Duolingo in 2024! 😁#Duolingo365
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Happy to share our new paper in Nature Biomedical Engineering! Special congratulations to the first author, Dr. Reza Rezaei, and our amazing collaborators. @Rezaeir75 @Tai_ImmunoLab @TommyAlain3 rdcu.be/d1MzQ nature.com/articles/s41551-0…
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Super excited to finally post about our RNA foundation model, led by our very own Ali Saberi (not on Twitter), with @genophoria , @AminMEmad , and @vram142. LoRNA-SH is splice-aware, takes as input the entire pre-mRNA, and models isoform diversity biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… 1/n

A long-context RNA foundation model for predicting transcriptome architecture

Linking DNA sequence to genomic function remains one of the grand challenges in genetics and genomics. Here, we combine large-scale single-molecule transcriptome sequencing of diverse cancer cell...

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Check out this exciting work by @genophoria and the team! Codon usage never disappoints!
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@genophoria14 Oct 2024
Check out our latest research by @MNaghipourfar and others in our team on building language models of coding sequence. In this preprint, we introduce cdsFM, a suite of codon-resolution language models!👇 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

A Suite of Foundation Models Captures the Contextual Interplay Between Codons

In the canonical genetic code, many amino acids are assigned more than one codon. Work by us and others has shown that the choice of these synonymous codon is not random, and carries regulatory and...

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Great opportunity!
Hamed Najafabadi@hsnajafabadi27 Aug 2024
📢 We have an opening for a postdoctoral researcher, working on statistical and ML models in (transcript)omics. If you're interested in gene regulation and its role in determining cell identity and function, check out our job posting: bioinformatics.ca/jobs/postd…

Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Biology - Bioinformatics.ca

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What is the best strategy to quantify mRNA isoforms? Short-read RNA-seq to achieve high depth? Or long reads to get unambiguous read-isoform assignments? In our latest work with @genophoria, we show that what we really need is to combine both! (1/n) biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Accurate isoform quantification by joint short- and long-read RNA-sequencing

Accurate quantification of transcript isoforms is crucial for understanding gene regulation, functional diversity, and cellular behavior. Existing RNA sequencing methods have significant limitations:...

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The registration is open for the 12th Symposium of the RRCancer and MOH-Q! The meeting will be held in the Pierre-Péladeau amphitheatre at the CHUM on September 26th-27th, 2024 We invite you to register for the Symposium by clicking on the following link: event.fourwaves.com/rrcancer…
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Great lab ! Great opportunity!
Laura Evgin@EvginLab28 Jun 2024
We are looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join our lab at @BCCancer_GSC. Apply here:bcgsc.ca/careers/postdoctora…. Read more about our work on our new lab website! evginlab.com
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