Weekly Wrap - 22 Jan 25

Opportunities for Graduates and UnderGraduates

🎓 Opportunities for Graduates:

• For MBBS and BDS graduates: PhyscisWallah is hiring Category Manager-Med Skills to join their team at the Noida Office in India. Apply here: Link

• Post for a research assistant in Kannarkat lab. Click here: Link

🎓 Internships/Opportunities for Students:

• For UGs students, Apply by 31st Jan 25. 6-week UG summer training program 2025 at Param Hansa Center for Computational Oncology. Click here

• For UGs students, Apply by 1 Feb. Amgen Scholars program. Check here: Link

• For UGs/PGs. Deadline 7 Feb.

  

• For UGs and PGs. Deadline 10 Feb Summer Research Fellowship Program by JNCASR. Link here:

• Call for abstracts: for Optimus 25 Link

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🆕 New Approval

• AstraZeneca, Daiichi’s Enhertu successor, gets first FDA OK in breast cancer

• FDA approves standalone use of J&J's ketamine-derived depression treatment

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🌎 World

• FDA has proposed to limit the amount of nicotine in cigarettes to curb smoking

• Trump orders US exit from World Health Organization

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🩺 Medical Devices

• FDA clears Nalu peripheral nerve stim tech for whole-body MRI

• CergenX wins FDA breakthrough nod for neonatal brain monitoring tech

  

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🇮🇳 India

• Mysterious Disease In Jammu And Kashmir: 17 Dead And 38 Affected Since December; Home Minister Orders Probe

• 26 Cases Of Guillain-Barre Syndrome Detected In Pune; Know All About This Rare Autoimmune Disorder

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🤖 AI & ML

• Lethal snake venom may be countered by new AI-designed proteins

  

  in the lab, human cells exposed to toxins from black-necked spitting cobra venom typically die off within about an hour and a half (left panel). Dying cells appear to light up like a pink Christmas tree. But treating the cells with designer proteins five minutes after toxin exposure fended off the lethal effects (right panel.)

• Study Finds Limited Evidence to Support More Than 40 Predictive Machine Learning Algorithms Used in Primary Care

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🔍 Research

• Popular weight-loss drugs (Ozempic) linked to new health risks and benefits

Credit: Steve Christo/Corbis via Getty

• Obesity needs a new definition beyond BMI, health experts argue

• More than three decades after misconduct ruling, researcher’s IQ test paper is retracted

  

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