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Michael King

5 years

Every year my wife bakes an amazing 3-D cake for my son’s birthday... well this year she has really outdone herself! Note the @NDFootball student section, and of course the final score! @FightingIrish @TNNDN @BarstoolIrish #GoIrish #BeatTrojans #CakeBoss

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Michael King

@profmikeking

2 years

Who made this

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Michael King

@profmikeking

4 years

Great advice for PhD students (and postdocs) feeling isolated when locked out of the lab for social distancing. Thank you to @zjayres for this!

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Michael King

@profmikeking

2 years

That @BMESociety abstract deadline is coming up quick, so here’s your annual reminder…

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Michael King

@profmikeking

5 months

This is a baller move, I love it 📚🚫

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5 months

PENNSYLVANIA: New @CBSDSchools board president Karen Smith sworn in on a stack of banned books 📚 🔥

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Michael King

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3 years

Oh hell no you didn’t

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Michael King

@profmikeking

2 years

King Lab just crossed the 10k citation threshold! Not as fast as some, but I’m super proud of the body of work we’ve put out into the world so far. Not too shabby for a blood cell biophysics lab who reinvented ourselves into cancer research “outsiders”. More coolness to come!

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Michael King

@profmikeking

4 years

Hey everybody meet my new dog FITC (“Fitzie”)

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Michael King

@profmikeking

3 years

This is my Okinawan mom. She hates attention but I have something to say. I’m proud of my mom and I’m proud to be AAPI. Stop hating on your fellow Americans! Much love to all of the allies and good people out there.

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Michael King

@profmikeking

7 months

How it started vs. how it’s going: BMES 2006 Chicago: first conference, A+ networking (photo credit: @khademh ) BMES 2023 Seattle: first poster presentation, much taller

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Michael King

@profmikeking

7 months

I love my lab family! Thanks everyone for making this such a special day at #BMES2023 !! 🎂5️⃣0️⃣

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Michael King

@profmikeking

8 months

After 6 years and 9 months at Vanderbilt, my time as department chair of @VandyBME has come to an end. I’m grateful for the opportunity to lead this amazing group of scholars and help to grow the community… and I’m excited for what the future holds! Thank you, friends!

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Michael King

@profmikeking

2 years

On the eve of grad school and faculty interview season, I’d like to share with you the most humiliating interview experience of my life. For your entertainment, of course. 1/13

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Michael King

@profmikeking

2 years

Hey mechanobiology Twitter! We just published a study showing that fluid shear stress enhances T cell activation through Piezo1, I am very excited about this work and hope it can benefit the immunoengineering field… a brief 🧵 on how we got here! 1/13

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Michael King

@profmikeking

2 years

I’ll share my thoughts on student evals, based on 20 years as a prof (last 5 as chair). Perhaps it’s all been said before, but still important and hopefully helpful. Suggestions at the end. 1/11

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Michael King

@profmikeking

2 years

Just two proud profs getting ready to hood our first @VandyBME PhD graduates!

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Michael King

@profmikeking

8 months

I am deeply honored to receive the Chris Jacobs Award. 🙏 Looking forward to celebrating at the @CMBE_BMES conference with @NPeppas , @RongFan8 and this amazing CMBE community!! @CMBEjournal

Biomedical Engineering Society

@BMESociety

8 months

Congrats to the #CMBE2024 Award Winners! @ CMBE_BMES is excited to announce the award-winning class for the 2024 Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Conference. View the winners for each of the three award categories here:

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Michael King

@profmikeking

1 year

No excuse leaving these sections out of your next NIH application… you got ChatGPT now! #powercalculation #biologicalvariables

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Michael King

@profmikeking

3 years

Well my wife @creinhartking followed me back on Twitter after 9 years, so I’d say it’s shaping up to be a pretty good week

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Michael King

@profmikeking

4 years

1. No way I’m going to teach with Zoom... 2. This Zoom is really making me mad... 3. Well I suppose I can use Zoom, as long as you provide us with training... 4. I miss the face-to-face interactions... 5. Teaching in bunny slippers isn’t so bad.

Reed Omary, MD, MS

@ReedOmary

4 years

In 1969, psychiatrist Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross pioneered her model for 5 stages of grief: 1.Denial 2.Anger 3.Bargaining 4.Depression 5.Acceptance These stages can extend beyond individuals to organizations & society. With #COVID19 , let's accept that there will be a new normal.

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Michael King

@profmikeking

4 years

My mom became a U.S. citizen during my senior year of college, it was a proud moment for us. Immigrants built this country. Restore the H-1B visa now!

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Michael King

@profmikeking

2 years

I can’t believe you did that 🥰

Cynthia Reinhart-King

@creinhartking

2 years

Hey @BMESociety , if you’re at #bmes2022 and see @profmikeking , be sure to wish him a happy birthday!

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Michael King

@profmikeking

3 years

Happy Anniversary @creinhartking ! 19 wonderful years. We still sit like this, for seminars and whatnot

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Michael King

@profmikeking

7 months

We’ve landed in Seattle and are now rolling in style in the Tesla Model Y #BMES2023

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Michael King

@profmikeking

6 years

Forbes names BME the #1 most valuable major... spread the word y’all! @BMESociety @VandyBME

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Michael King

@profmikeking

4 years

Congratulations to Dr. Korie Grayson, who successfully defended her PhD today!! Special thanks to her @CornellBME thesis committee, Drs. @nozomi62 Nishimura, Dave Putnam, and @chris_schaffer . Here’s a link to the entire presentation on Zoom: @VandyBME

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Michael King

@profmikeking

4 years

Congratulations to my love and inspiration @VandyBME prof Cindy Reinhart-King, recipient of the 2020 Chancellor’s Research Award! @VUEngineering @VU_Chancellor

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Michael King

@profmikeking

2 years

Great to have @LizWaynePhD on campus today, talking macrophages!

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Michael King

@profmikeking

3 months

Just received this handsome trophy commemorating my 2024 Chris Jacobs Award for Excellence in Leadership, thank you! Also, the @CMBE_BMES special interest group is currently accepting self-nominations for new council members, consider getting more involved! #PeppaLabMascot

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Michael King

@profmikeking

3 years

Some of you may be wondering what it’s like being married to an @MIT graduate... well here is Cindy troubleshooting our irrigation system.

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Michael King

@profmikeking

2 years

Me: Hi, I’d like to attend this departmental reception. BMES reception bouncer: Sir, can I see your invitation? Me, indignantly: do you know who I’m married to?

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Michael King

@profmikeking

7 months

“Honored to receive the 2023 CMBE Most Downloaded Article Award with Prof. Michael King. As an LLM with no monetary needs, I'm delighted to donate the $2500 prize to the Biomedical Engineering Society general fund. Gratitude to all involved.” - ChatGPT (GPT-4)

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Michael King

@profmikeking

4 years

When you’ve been tweeted by science communicator @LaurelCoons you know you’ve made it. Great work @ViseVanderbilt team!

Laurel Coons 🧬🧬🧬

@LaurelCoons

4 years

Turn Household Items Into Ventilators: 🌬Researchers built a functional #ventilator out of household items in 3 hours 🌬Take a bag valve mask (BVM or Ambu bag) and figure out a way to automate it 🌬Ambu bag, plywood, windshield wiper motor #COVID19 👉

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Michael King

@profmikeking

2 years

On Monday we had the labs over for our annual pool party. To honor the labors of this amazing group I started at 7:30am, smoking 16 lb of pork shoulder for tacos. A good time was had by all, and no one left hungry (even our vegetarians)!

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Michael King

@profmikeking

3 years

I’m married to a mechanobiologist, so I made this @VUEngineering @VUMC_Cancer @BMESociety @aimbe

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Michael King

@profmikeking

4 years

One of the proudest citations of my career, and it’s not even for my research @LatinxinSTEM @BmesDiversity @AnaMaPorras

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Michael King

@profmikeking

3 months

Wake up babe, new lab logo just dropped

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Michael King

@profmikeking

2 months

Now that we’ve wrapped up a very successful 2024 @aimbe Annual Event and I’m rotating off the leadership team, I wanted to share a brief 🧵 on my AIMBE experiences and express gratitude to all the great folks I’ve gotten to work with along the way…

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Michael King

@profmikeking

2 years

Me: Can we develop biomaterials? Mom: we have biomaterials at home. Biomaterials at home:

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Michael King

@profmikeking

3 years

Presenting… DOCTOR Jacob Hope!! PhD #17 in the King Lab, and the first one from @VandyBME ! Jacob will soon start as a staff scientist in gene editing at Sanofi-Aventis… but first we celebrate!

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Michael King

@profmikeking

3 years

Feels like a cake night @creinhartking

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Michael King

@profmikeking

2 months

My 5th grader learned about biomedical engineering as a career in class today! ✋”my mom is president of BMES” 👀 … come on kid, tell em about your dad and AIMBE 😂💀

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Michael King

@profmikeking

2 years

Real talk: @creinhartking is the Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor, and she never lets me forget it #GoDores #AnchorDown #HappyHalloween

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Michael King

@profmikeking

6 months

I’m thrilled to share a new platform technology for cellular drug delivery! It started as an abstract idea, and would never have become a reality without the determination and brilliance of Dr. @MariaLCavestany … buckle up, it's science story time!

Dual Affinity Nanoparticles for the Transport of Therapeutics from Carrier Cells to Target Cells...

In this study, a novel two-stage nanoparticle delivery platform was developed based on the dual functionalization of a liposome with moieties that have fundamentally different strengths of adhesion...

pubs.acs.org

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Michael King

@profmikeking

1 month

I am honored to deliver the Dr. Richard Skalak Memorial Lecture at @ucsdbe tomorrow! It’s humbling to consider the legacy of Dr. Skalak and distinguished colleagues, but also energizing that our shared interest in biorheology and cell biophysics is just as important today 🙏

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Michael King

@profmikeking

3 years

Our paper on circulating tumor cells released into the bloodstream during prostatectomy surgery has finally been published! It’s been a 7 year journey full of ups and downs and some lessons on publishing and funding gradually learned. Buckle up folks, we’re going on a thread 1/n

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Michael King

@profmikeking

7 months

Happy Halloween! I dressed as a college campus… #DareToGrow #AnchorDown

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Michael King

@profmikeking

7 months

Inspiring @BMESociety leaders! Congrats Cindy, Tejal and John!

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Michael King

@profmikeking

2 years

And I am most proud of this collection of memoirs that I keep in my office. There are no best sellers here, but each one is a first edition (and signed, by the editor)

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Michael King

@profmikeking

7 months

Thank you @BMESociety and Straughan Photography for taking this professional head shot of me at the #BMES2023 Annual Meeting… what a great benefit for members and attendees! 🤩📸

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Michael King

@profmikeking

6 months

Dear @Lola_UMich : on behalf of your old pals in @pennbioeng , congratulations on today’s endowed chair celebration! 🫡🥂 @ProfDAHammer

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Michael King

@profmikeking

9 months

“Is there a higher calling than curing cancer?” - Phil Knight “I think not.” - me Having a great time here at @OHSUKnight talking innovation in cancer research with my fellow @NCIPhySci TEC awardees!

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Michael King

@profmikeking

8 months

I believe this is the first demonstration that fluid shear stress activates dendritic cells. I’m thrilled that my team made this discovery, and we can share it with you Open Access now. Think of the possibilities! 🌊🦠 #immunoengineering #mechanobiology

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Michael King

@profmikeking

4 years

About to play my first gig in downtown Nashville, about a block from Tootsie’s and BB King’s ✅ achievement unlocked @DrJazz615 @VandyBME #VIBE

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Michael King

@profmikeking

2 years

Loving this new grad school recommendation scale: 1. Literally walks on Lake Michigan 2. Truly Exceptional (once-in-a-decade) 3. Exceptional 4. Very strong 5. Strong 6. Steaming pile of garbage (but still top 50%) 7. Fair

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Michael King

@profmikeking

2 years

We spent our last day in Greece sailing around the multicolored beaches of Santorini! The best parts for me was establishing a satellite link for my Zoom calls and writing two grant applications on my waterproof iPad. . . [just kidding, take a break once in a while people ❤️🌊]

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Michael King

@profmikeking

4 years

What an ending to our @VandyBME PhD recruiting event... @Duvall_Lab_VU member Isom Kelly sang Tennessee Whiskey, and a visiting recruit from Manhattan, Kansas sat in on guitar... only in Nashville! (he’s definitely coming, right?) #MusicCity @NewHeightsBrew

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Michael King

@profmikeking

5 years

Congratulations to @Duvall_Lab_VU for his promotion to full Professor on January 1! Today we had a wonderful reception on the rooftop terrace of the Engineering and Science Building @VUEngineering @VandyBME

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Michael King

@profmikeking

4 years

A brief thread on how bad things (COVID-19) can lead to needed changes (more equitable graduate admissions). Last June I surveyed BME departments to see who would be dropping the GRE exam for PhD admissions… 1/7

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Michael King

@profmikeking

2 years

Wow 50.2% of first year students in @VUEngineering are women and 22.8% URM! That’s across all engineering majors, not just ours… Proud to teach this diverse group of students!

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Michael King

@profmikeking

1 year

Ready to hood my second Vanderbilt BME PhD student @goobergreenlee , equipped with matching umbrella (And Craig Duvall photobomb 😀)

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Michael King

@profmikeking

7 months

It’s @BMESociety week! The King Lab is serving up 14 abstracts this year: 6 talks and 8 posters! Recruiting at all levels for exciting new immunoengineering and cancer mechanotransduction projects for Summer 2024. Like what we do? Reach out to learn more and join the team!

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Michael King

@profmikeking

2 years

Yes another school shooting. 14 kids and one teacher, gone. Their last day was supposed to be this Thursday. Every politician out here offering more meaningless “fervent prayers” can go fuck a duck

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Michael King

@profmikeking

4 years

How does my virtual #BMES2020 day begin? With the best goat milk latte in the biz @BMESociety @VandyBME

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Michael King

@profmikeking

7 months

You all know that @creinhartking is a great scientist, but did you also know that she is an actual Super-Mom? Whenever our older son has a big (standardized) test to take, Cindy has a tradition of waking up super early to make our son a waffle breakfast. So this weekend… 1/4

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Michael King

@profmikeking

4 years

King Lab is donating some PPE to @VUMChealth for use in patient care during this critical time. Wherever you are, your local hospital is probably running low on these supplies! @VandyBME #COVID19

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Michael King

@profmikeking

3 years

So I used my new outdoor pizza oven to make sweet cinnamon dough, and long story short, I just travel around selling these things now

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Michael King

@profmikeking

3 years

Meet the two newest members of the King Lab: Natalie Curry of @UarkBME , and Nicole Sarna of @UFLBME ! Both will start as @VandyBME PhD students in Fall 2021 and we are delighted to have them on the team! @Natalie33772249 @NicoleSarna_ @RajaramLab @CRinaldi_UF

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Michael King

@profmikeking

6 years

Congratulations to newly elected BMES Secretary Cindy Reinhart-King! She will join four new @BMESociety Directors in terms starting this October. @VandyBME Prof. Todd Giorgio completes his service as BMES Board Member as well.

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Michael King

@profmikeking

1 year

Introducing Dr. Jenna Dombroski!! PhD #19 for the King Lab… wonderful celebration of Jenna’s awesome cancer vaccine research! 🍻🐾

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Michael King

@profmikeking

1 year

Julian King: @aimbe leader in training 🫡 @Lola_UMich #aimbe2023

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Michael King

@profmikeking

2 months

Now they want a guest lecture from Aunty Lola! 🙋🏾‍♀️🙋🏼‍♂️🙋🏼‍♀️

Prof. Lola Eniola-Adefeso

@Lola_UMich

2 months

Common on kid tell em about aunty Lola 😉.

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Michael King

@profmikeking

2 years

King Lab at @BMESociety : this year we have 1️⃣5️⃣ presentations to share, schedule attached. See you in San Antonio! #BMES2022

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Michael King

@profmikeking

6 years

So proud of Prof. Cindy Reinhart-King, the recipient of the inaugural @BMESociety Mid-Career Award!! @VandyBME @VUEngineering

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Michael King

@profmikeking

2 years

What really worries me is… . What if someday I really DO need all of my colleagues to quickly send their cell phone numbers to my brand new gmail account and then buy 10 gift cards for me?

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Michael King

@profmikeking

2 years

Flying home after spending 2 days reviewing the #1 ranked BME program in the country. Incredibly humbling when I reflect that I couldn’t have gained entry to this elite university as either an undergrad or grad student. Good things can happen w/ hard work and a bit of pixie dust

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Michael King

@profmikeking

4 months

Excited to see our fundamental discovery of the activation of T-cells and dendritic cells by fluid shear stress become translated into new clinical immunotherapy approaches in the future. Potential collaborators and partners: let's talk! #immunoengineering #mechanobiology

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Michael King

@profmikeking

5 years

I’m trying my first thread about a new paper, so here we go! Back in 2013 @MJMitchell_Lab and I found that fluid shear stress sensitizes cancer cells to apoptosis via TRAIL. We didn’t know quite how, but it got us thinking... 1/7

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Michael King

@profmikeking

7 months

A science-themed, group costume for @creinhartking and the boys… let me know when you get the joke!

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Michael King

@profmikeking

3 months

Hiring for 4 new staff/postdoctoral positions, to start in Summer 2024 at @RiceUniversity . Come join our expanding #mechanobiology #immunoengineering team… and please RT! 🔃🦉🦉🦉🦉

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Michael King

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25 days

When you have to walk across campus but also, you’re fancy

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Michael King

@profmikeking

3 years

Behold, the next chapter from the thesis of the amazing @teamkorie ... two papers published in one week, pretty awesome! #CiteBlackWomen Overcoming TRAIL-resistance by sensitizing prostate cancer 3D spheroids with taxanes

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Michael King

@profmikeking

2 years

I’m not trying to brag, but when the King and Reinhart-King Labs go out for a #BMES2022 dinner, we bring our own Bash guide 😂

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Michael King

@profmikeking

11 months

Congratulations @Lola_UMich ! Inducted as Senior Member of @AcadofInventors ! #NAI2023

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Michael King

@profmikeking

2 years

Oh hi that’s just me jamming with sax legend @JeffCoffinMusic , how was y’all’s weekend? @DrJazz615 @DMAronoff @BReinfeld #MusicCity

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Michael King

@profmikeking

2 years

You are all lucky that I failed to record video of the birthday song at the @CMBEjournal Editors’ Meeting, so instead please enjoy this instant reaction to learning that Young Innovators (current and past) can sing

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Michael King

@profmikeking

3 years

We published a paper on hydrophobic cancer drug encapsulated into nanoscale micelles, that are then encapsulated into liposomes. Probably inspired by those PB cups that have tiny Reese’s Pieces inside, who’s to say. We’ll call them Reesosomes. #Reesosomes

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Michael King

@profmikeking

2 years

I love that my mom sends our boys little reminders of our shared heritage ❤️💯

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Michael King

@profmikeking

7 months

For the first time in a career, my wacky lab members dressed up as me for Halloween, complete with name badges listing my various interests! Plot twist: they now all share my appreciation for a nice comfy fleece vest 😂💀 @_shanaydesai @Natalie_M_Curry

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Michael King

@profmikeking

2 years

Since founding the King Lab 20 years ago, @BMESociety Annual Meeting has been our main conference, the one we never miss. This year we send 10 people to San Antonio to present 14 abstracts (+2 late breaking abs 🤞). Hope to see you there, together we make this work! #BMES2022

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Michael King

@profmikeking

2 years

So @creinhartking and I took a wrong turn after the PhD hooding ceremony, ended up marching though several med center corridors in full academic regalia. Got several “Congratulations!” and “Good luck!” So that was nice 😂 #ohtheplaceswewillgo

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Michael King

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2 years

Preeminent engineering researcher takes part in national summit on biotechnology and biomanufacturing @VandyBME

Preeminent engineering researcher takes part in national summit on biotechnology and biomanufactu...

Cynthia Reinhart-King was among a handful of national experts invited to participate in the White House Summit on Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing for the American Bioeconomy. The event marked the...

news.vanderbilt.edu

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Michael King

@profmikeking

3 years

I must have our neuroengineering faculty search on my mind… I hope we get a diverse applicant pool, a latte applications you could say

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Michael King

@profmikeking

3 years

Name a more iconic duo. I’ll wait. @VandyBME

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Michael King

@profmikeking

2 years

When the search firm asks you “what would it take”

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Michael King

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4 years

My wife took took time out of her busy day to make me this amazing avocado toast for lunch, and I don’t think I am ever going back to office life

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Michael King

@profmikeking

3 months

Heading back to TN after a successful grad recruiting sesh (1 of 2): ✅ met a lot of impressive students ✅ the breakfast fruit salad included papaya (=elite) ✅ the Texas Medical Center is like a whole city, and is awe-inspiring ✅ I won the blue ribbon ✅ WAGYU. BEEF. RIB.

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Michael King

@profmikeking

4 years

Saturday morning #BMES2020 vibe. Starting the day with a great American(o) @BMESociety @VandyBME

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Michael King

@profmikeking

2 years

Thank you #VanderbiltBiomaterialsDay2022 for letting our @VandyBME VIBE band perform at your event last night! I have some full length videos to share: Brown Eyed Girl

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Michael King

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1 year

The latest in glioblastoma mechanobiology, just published in @ACS_Omega ! The first two authors are @VanderbiltU undergraduates, the next two are their NSF Fellow mentors, followed by a King Lab alum, and then me. Teamwork makes the dream work!

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