OGA @OGA_Community Community with a primary goal of increasing the availability and use of high-performance antibodies.
Joined June 2023
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✍️🚨Check out this *new #blog* from the #NIHRLeicesterBRC's @Harvin_Der_Virk “New protocol will drive a shared roadmap towards more reliable and cost-effective use of #antibodies in biomedical research.” including links to papers published in @natureprotocols this month. @OGA_Community leicesterbrc.nihr.ac.uk/harv…
ALT Dr Harvinder Virk
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FUNDED 💰 PHD 🎓 OPPORTUNITY 🙋♀️ . Starts Sept 2025, apply via University of Leicester, funded via BBSRC MIBTP.
If you are interested, please contact me!
This project will work towards the discovery and validation of immune ageing biomarkers.
le.ac.uk/study/research-degr…
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It’s very encouraging that funders support projects like YCharOS, which does not address hypotheses, but rather does the foundational, but not sexy, work of testing and characterizing reagent antibodies in order to make everyone else’s science more robust and reproducible.
CQDM is proud to announce the funding of a collaborative research project made possible through a grant of nearly Can$1.49M from the Government of Quebec (@economie_quebec). A project of @YCharOS1 in partnership with @mcgillu.
👉cqdm.org/en/news-and-events/…
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Non-animal derived antibodies and affinity reagents are part of the solution. We are working to accelerate their uptake as alternatives to traditional antibodies that are more reproducible and replace animal use.
nc3rs.org.uk/news/recommenda….
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We are working with the OGA to raise awareness of the importance of improving reproducibility of research involving antibodies, for better science that is more efficient, reliable and reduces or replaces the use of animals.
nc3rs.org.uk/news/improving-…
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Fantastic to see our work with the @OGA_Community
highlighted in this article. Poor antibodies waste research funding and time, delay scientific progress and drug development, and lead to unnecessary animal use where in vivo experiments or animal-derived products are involved.
Poorly performing antibodies have plagued biomedical sciences for decades. Several fresh initiatives hope to change this go.nature.com/3NYdY42
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Fantastic to see this Nature feature article promoting our work with @OGA_Community and @YCharOS1.
We aim to promote a change in biomedical research culture and #openscience practices with a specific focus on antibody validation.
Thank you to @Nature and Diana Kwon for featuring @YCharOS1 and our community - and showing the progress we are making!
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Poorly performing antibodies have plagued biomedical sciences for decades. Several fresh initiatives hope to change this go.nature.com/3NYdY42
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Thank you @DianaMKwon for the great news feature in Nature about the public good YCharOS effort
Thrilled to see our own @CarlLaflamme4 and Riham Ayoubi featured in this Nature article for their fantastic antibody characterization work!
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Neuroscientist Carl Laflamme describes @YCharOS1, an initiative testing commercial antibodies to determine if they work as advertised, and making findings open to improve research efficiency and reproducibility. via @Nature
buff.ly/40AgsNn
#OpenScience
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@Harvin_Der_Virk #EMIRA speaking to the challenges of progressing drug development & research alongside MDT assessment delays... strategies afoot including YCHARUS better antibodies better science better patient outcomes @amandatatler @bedoctored @ild_inn
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🎉Celebrating a new milestone: Over 100 antibody characterization reports #openly available on our Zenodo community, with several converted to peer-reviewed F1000 publications!
➡️zenodo.org/communities/ychar…
➡️f1000research.com/gateways/y…
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Excited to share our @eLife review about the ongoing “antibody characterization crisis”
and potential solutions. Nice effort by @Harvin_Der_Virk, @CarlLaflamme4, Jim
Trimmer, Meghan Rego, IPI’s Rob Meijers and others. Read the paper here:
bit.ly/472uUiB
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Special thank you to those involved at the @OGA_Community and @uniofleicester for piloting the addition of flow cyt to our platform and for your unwavering dedication to increasing accessibility of reproducible data.
🎯Target of the week: Synaptotagmin-1. We are pleased to share this publication as it marks the first target for which we have included flow cytometry to our procedure ➡️doi.org/10.12688/f1000resear…
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@Harvin_Der_Virk inspiring the @uniofleicester @iph-uk #InnovationForHealthcare summit with his work creating an awesome network of interest to create a robust quality-assured landscape of antibody tools for biomedical research - a big but vital mission.
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Proud to support initiatives such as the Probe Hackathon! Hosted by @Boehringer #gradstudents will collaborate with experts and evaluate #chemicalprobes to determine the most and least effective compounds for use in #biologicalresearch.
Excited to announce the 3rd Probe Hackathon! 🎉 Big thanks to @boehringer for hosting us in Biberach. Registration is open for 30 students to join us on June 17th. Don’t miss out! 👉chemprobes.org/hackathon
#ProbeHackathon #Innovation #TechEvent
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And we start with Susanne's introduction to a full room of students, thanks to #EUFEPS for hosting us!
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🔬Target of the week: Slit-2 homolog protein (slit-2). Ten #slit2 antibodies were evaluated by #westernblot and #immunoprecipitation and the resulting characterization data is available on Zenodo! doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10823…
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