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US man goes for a 3 week hike, forgets phone is in airplane mode

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California man, UCLA, UCSD grad - 

Dr Ramsdell, whose phone had been on airplane mode when the Nobel committee tried to call him, told the BBC's Newshour Programme that his first response when his wife said, "You've won the Nobel prize" was: "I did not." To which Ms O'Neill replied that she had 200 text messages that suggested he had. 

While the committee was trying to reach him, he "was living his best life and was off the grid on a preplanned hiking trip," a spokesperson for his lab, Sonoma Biotherapeutics, said.

 

7 minutes ago, Chopper said:

"was living his best life and was off the grid on a preplanned hiking trip,"

bowl housewife GIF

(Jk, I just remember that South Carolina governor was "hiking" and he was caught cheating) 

Edited by Js1

This dude is living life right. That's a hella of a humble brag. I got awarded a Nobel prize while on a 3 week through hike.

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2 minutes ago, Js1 said:

bowl housewife GIF

(Jk, I just remember that South Carolina governor was "hiking" and he was caught cheating) 

Yeah I was going there but then I saw his wife was with him on the hike. 

5 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

This dude is living life right. That's a hella of a humble brag. I got awarded a Nobel prize while on a 3 week through hike.

That would be my ultimate "introduce yourself with a fun fact about you" 

Literal winning of the ice breaker

Parks And Recreation Mic Drop GIF by PeacockTV

Hey that’s great. The only thing my wife told me when I went on a thru hike was to get a job. 

2 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Hey that’s great. The only thing my wife told me when I went on a thru hike was to get a job. 

Did you say, "I did. By a trail fairy. But thanks for your concern."

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corporate press release:

The discoveries of Dr. Ramsdell and others have deepened our understanding of autoimmune diseases and the important role of Tregs, which prevent immune cells from attacking a patient’s own body

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO & SEATTLE – October 6, 2025 – Sonoma Biotherapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing engineered regulatory T cell (Treg) therapies for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, is honored to announce that Fred Ramsdell, PhD, Sonoma Biotherapeutics co-founder, past Chief Scientific Officer (CSO), and current chair of the Scientific Advisory Board, was named a winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

“Congratulations to Fred Ramsdell, co-founder of SonomaBio, and a valued friend and colleague. Like many great scientists, Fred spent years working behind the scenes to identify the gene that caused devastating systemic autoimmune diseases in a little-known strain of mice,” said Jeff Bluestone, PhD, Chief Executive Officer and President. “The discovery of the gene, FOXP3, changed our understanding of peripheral tolerance and led to a new field of immunotherapy.”

“SonomaBio is proud to have had Fred as our previous Chief Scientific Officer and current advisor. His seminal work—together with Alexander Rudensky, PhD, co-founder and scientific advisor to SonomaBio—have been the guiding light for our development of Treg cell therapies that we are confident will change the world of immunotherapy to treat the most difficult autoimmune diseases,” continued Bluestone.

Dr. Fred Ramsdell’s work in the discovery of the gene, FOXP3, and its role in Treg development changed the field of immunology. He is a veteran biotechnology leader in immunology with nearly three decades of experience and was named along with Dr. Rudensky, the 2017 Crafoord Prize – Polyarthritis.

A co-founder of Sonoma Biotherapeutics, Dr. Ramsdell was the former CSO and current Scientific Advisory Board Chair of the Company.

Dr. Ramsdell earned his doctoral degree in microbiology and immunology from the University of California, Los Angeles and holds a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry and cell biology from the University of California, San Diego.

Following a fellowship at the NIH, Dr. Ramsdell joined Immunex studying T cell activation and tolerance, with a focus on gene discovery and functional characterization. He later joined Darwin Molecular (which was later acquired by Celltech R&D) to establish the immunology program. Amongst other programs, he led the team that discovered and characterized FOXP3, a gene critical to the function of regulatory T cells. Dr. Ramsdell joined ZymoGenetics in 2004, where he led teams studying novel proteins with potential regulatory activity in lymphoid cells. In 2008, Novo Nordisk brought on Dr. Ramsdell to help establish the company’s new Inflammation Research Center in Seattle and lead the Immunobiology group.

Prior to SonomaBio, Dr. Ramsdell was the CSO at the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy (PICI) where he helped to build and advance multiple research programs from the inception of the Institute.

About Sonoma Biotherapeutics
Sonoma Biotherapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing engineered regulatory T cell (Treg) therapies to treat serious autoimmune and inflammatory diseases by restoring balance to the immune system. Founded by pioneers in Treg biology and cell therapy, the company is employing proprietary platform technologies and approaches to develop a new generation of targeted and durable Treg cell therapies. 

 

I like that dude won a prize for figuring out how we are poisoning our own bodies with bad environmental chemicals....then, since he spent 3 weeks escaping these self caused environmental harms....he did not know he won the prize.

 

pics of the wife?  I have spent time with thru hiker girls - they are hot and like to fuck in the woods.

25 minutes ago, Doug A said:

pics of the wife?  I have spent time with thru hiker girls - they are hot and like to fuck in the woods.

No. And thru hiker chicks are also hairy and smelly. 

1 hour ago, Biff Tannen said:

Hey that’s great. The only thing my wife told me when I went on a thru hike was to get a job. 

Thats just the way it is… 

15 minutes ago, Doug A said:

OK, boomer - I should clarify that my girls are 25 and they stay that age....so they were hot - here check out these images then look at your wife.

EDIT TO ADD - DUDE IS MARRIED TO HIS ORIGINAL WIFE - SHE IS OVER 60 AND IS NOT FUCKABLE.  you should have been out there in Cali and oregon when I was - lots of hot women who needed men for a few weeks at a time as they passed through....

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=1e7dfcb5e01aab5a&sxsrf=AE3TifPzeVUvAiQsju6RHIAalfkSVO5S1A:1759955524579&udm=2&fbs=AIIjpHxU7SXXniUZfeShr2fp4giZ1Y6MJ25_tmWITc7uy4KIeoJTKjrFjVxydQWqI2NcOha3O1YqG67F0QIhAOFN_ob1yXos5K_Qo9Tq-0cVPzex8YVosMX4HbDUrR7LivhWnk2ZcNYXURQRTKuLwUDZcysHJuCMqO9OSYKbqSCXIu76gK_dgCrH0SNPncudhM-Hcr0kkgKzMIPALhyUyJEZNqw1AbhMMA&q=hot+girls+pct+thru+hiker&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjlv_OeuZWQAxXSMdAFHRB_OS8QtKgLegQIGxAB&biw=1214&bih=580&dpr=1.25

 

47 minutes ago, Doug A said:

 

Quotes himself to edit a post like a boomer after calling someone else a boomer. 

17 minutes ago, B00M said:

Quotes himself to edit a post like a boomer after calling someone else a boomer. 

I thought that the url was much more of a tell.

Something like that happened to me one time, only instead of the Nobel committee calling me to tell me I had won, it was my wife calling to tell me that the check engine light was on.  

On 10/8/2025 at 1:48 PM, Chopper said:

The discoveries of Dr. Ramsdell and others have deepened our understanding of autoimmune diseases and the important role of Tregs, which prevent immune cells from attacking a patient’s own body

 

That would be a most welcomed advancement for me.

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