Jacob Wesley Ulm
Jacob Wesley Ulm | |
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| Born | October 9, 1974 |
| Known for | Author of a novel Echoes of the Mystic Chords |
Jacob Wesley Ulm (born October 9, 1974) is an American physician-researcher, author, and bioinformatician at the National Institutes of Health,[1] best known for his widely published health commentaries and articles for the general public, appearing during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. He has been consulted and published in publications and media including Forbes,[2] Parade,[3] Shape,[4] Verywell Health, Medical News Today,[5] Newsweek,[6] Times of India,[7] Healthline, Eat This, Not That,[8] Yahoo!,[9] MSN,[10] Business Insider,[11] Best Life,[12] Care.com,[13] and a number of other major outlets in the U.S. and overseas.
Early life, education, and career
[edit | edit source]Ulm grew up in Alexandria, Virginia, where he was a National Merit Scholar, Governor's Language Academy Honoree, and state spelling champion at T.C. Williams High School (now Alexandria City High School) before graduating valedictorian in 1992.[14][15][16] He completed a B.S. in chemistry and concentration in biochemistry at Duke University, summa cum laude,[citation needed] followed by an MSTP-supported joint MD and PhD degree from Harvard Medical School and MIT,[citation needed] with a doctoral thesis focusing on retroviral gene therapy.[17][18][19]
He then undertook postdoctoral research and clinical training in Los Angeles and Pittsburgh before specializing in bioinformatics and joining the National Center for Biotechnology Information.[citation needed]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]While in medical school, Ulm became a multi-day champion on the quiz show Jeopardy! and advanced to the 1998 Tournament of Champions.[20][21] He has published poetry and prose works since middle school, including a novel in the visionary and metaphysical fiction genre, and trained formally in the sciences since age 11 in a young researchers mentorship under Dr. George Carruthers at the Naval Research Lab.[22]
A singer and songwriter, he later founded an alternative rock musical collaboration, J. Wes Ulm and Kant's Konundrum, releasing a debut EP and award-winning music video, followed by recognition as a semifinalist in the International Songwriting Competition for subsequent productions.[23][24][25]
Publications and books
[edit | edit source]Selected published health commentaries and articles, COVID-related:
- Updates on the R-1 COVID-19 variant, Shape[4]
- Significance and prospects of COVID becoming endemic, Parade[3]
- COVID booster shots for seniors, Care.com[26]
- Parents and the new COVID-19 variants, Verywell Family
- COVID reinfection concerns, Eat This, Not That[27]
- COVID booster options and mixing-and-matching, Best Life[12]
- Mixing-and-matching of COVID-19 boosters in Thailand and Vietnam, Media Magelang (in Indonesian),[28]
Selected published health commentaries and articles, general health:
- Common flu symptoms to be aware of, Forbes[29]
- Pediatric RSV hospitalization, Business Insider[11]
- Manifestations of congestive heart failure, Eat This, Not That[30]
- ChatGPT and other Chatbot-generated resources for general health, Health Reporter[31]
- Anti-inflammatory prospective therapy for Alzheimer's disease, Medical News Today[32]
- Elevated blood pressure variability and relation to dementia risk, Healthline
- Pharmacokinetics and mechanism of action of benazepril, other ACE inhibitors, and additional blood pressure drugs, SingleCare[33]
- Physiological heat tolerance, Times of India[34]
- Manifestations of frequent beer drinking, The Healthy (A Reader's Digest publication)[35]
Selected specialist biomedical articles:
- Modulation of viral tropism and cellular restriction based on retroviral capsid components, Virology[36]
- Drug repurposing for COVID-19, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases[37]
- Drug repositioning for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology[38]
- Basic foundations of gene therapy, Wiley, Encyclopedia of Genetics[19]
Selected non-health and non-biomedical articles:
- Macroeconomic metrics (including GDP) and significance of non-debt purchasing power, Newsweek,[39] International Policy Digest[40] and The Birmingham News[41]
- Nexus between medicine and music, Harvard Medicine Magazine[42]
- Critique of social Darwinist themes, Democracy Journal[43]
- Adapted and republished in Utne Reader[44]
Awards and recognition
[edit | edit source]- National Merit Scholar[15]
- Second prize, annual Neurofibromatosis Prize for Research Ideas competition, sponsored by National Neurofibromatosis Foundation and the International Neurofibromatosis Association[45]
References
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