Ashani Weeraratna

I have this t-shirt.

RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.

Was just going to ask the same!

😡 not pleased about the sunburn part. Floppy hats, man, floppy hats!

A better journey - Georgetown Today Photo: Lisa Helfert Cancer survivorship research initiative studies life after diagnosis and treatment When Georgetown family medicine physician Sarah Kureshi felt a strange mass in her toddler daught...

Our daughter Nusayba has officially graduated to long-term follow-up care, marking 5.5 years cancer-free.

Georgetown Health Magazine recently featured her story, which captures some of the challenges and hope that defined these years for us.

today.advancement.georgetown.edu/health-magaz...

Just delighted to see this pre-print out!

Take a look and share widely!

Emmie too before she passed 🥺

Among the incredible speakers I heard this weekend was @santoshvardhana.bsky.social Awesome science, amazing speaker, funny and brilliant and poignant all at once. His fellow speakers (not on bluesky) were also awesome. These are the minds we stand to lose in the current climate. 💔

Soooo many.

An incredible and inspiring weekend of science, brainstorming and fundraising at the V foundation followed by some long awaited family time.

Congrats to my friend James DeGregori and his partner Mercedes Rincon and everyone involved on this beautiful study!

NIH wants to hear from you. No really.

Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Conservation and divergence of metabolic phenotypes between patient tumours and matched xenografts - Nature Metabolism Rao and Cai et al. perform a detailed metabolic comparison between primary tumours from patients and their matching xenografts, which identify conserved as well as divergent metabolic patterns.

1/Patient-derived xenografts (PDXs) are used in preclinical testing of cancer therapies, including metabolic therapies. We determined which metabolic properties are retained, and which are lost, when melanomas from patients are implanted and passaged as PDXs in mice.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Me too. But my tea will need something stronger in it!

Sending a big hug. 🤗 I’m sorry :(

Just discussed it with my inner self and we call bs.

Lol accidentally posted an inspo board. 4th one is not mine!

I may have outdone myself with this board. Includes tandoori shrimp and fresh grilled baby artichokes. Posting past boards for comparison.

The saying is you only notice public health efforts when things go wrong- good public health efforts are invisible, but their impact is huge. Proud to be at a School of Public Health. #Istandwithpublichealth

I literally use (gestures wildly)!!!! 😂

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Yup. Just didn’t think it would be for biomedical research funding 🤦🏾‍♀️

😂😢😢😳

Oy. So sorry

I love Lisbon, but the home of my heart is Cascais💕

If you’re explaining this to folks, also relevant to point out that not just anybody can apply. You have to be at an institution that does research, like a university, and have demonstrated your qualifications to run a lab.

So that’s not 4% of all comers. It’s 4% of established cancer researchers

I worry about this indeed. For those just past ESI status this will be devastating.

May the odds be ever in your favor.
4% payline at the NCI.

www.cancer.gov/grants-train...

Posting for @patrickhwumd.bsky.social
Sautéed scallops with olive bruschetta

So proud of Dr. Carey!! What joy it has been having her in lab. Congrats Alexis!!! 💕