Relatedly - there really is *so much* to be optimistic about, regularly inspired by folks like Jett who will improve the way we care for people everywhere
07.05.2025 22:14 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@vanallenlab.bsky.social
Clinical Computational Oncology @DanaFarber @harvardmed @broadinstitute | Chief - Population Sciences | Prev.: @Stanford @UCLA @UCSF | Discl.: http://bit.ly/2kF9C7B
Relatedly - there really is *so much* to be optimistic about, regularly inspired by folks like Jett who will improve the way we care for people everywhere
07.05.2025 22:14 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thinking about the way of the world, a chat ~25 years ago about a new camp for kids whose parents have cancer, and (soon-to-be) Dr. Jett Crowdis today
He shares his motivations in medicine, the link to Camp Kesem, and our science in @harvard.edu Gazette
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
In this perspective, we examined the present and future interface of AI & translational cancer research for @cp-cancercell.bsky.social - led by the stellar Dr. Josephine Yates! @danafarber.bsky.social @broadinstitute.org www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
15.04.2025 15:10 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Thanks @danafarber.bsky.social @broadinstitute.org for the uniquely supportive + collaborative environments to pursue this work, NIH / NCI / PICI / Novartis + more for the research funding, & most importantly to the patients who continue to inspire by agreeing to these research programs...
10.02.2025 23:38 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Here's our latest - jointly with @rhaq1.bsky.social lab & co-lead by Drs. Schiantarelli, Benamar, Park et al - studying why some tumors stop responding to immunotherapy. This continues to be a tough puzzle to solve, but important for science & patients alike...
10.02.2025 23:38 β π 18 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0While on clinical service recently, I saw many children who were severely ill due to cancer, flu, and other causes. Sadly this move will mean that healthcare access for many children will be lost, as our institutions suffer from the loss of this critical support:
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
Thank you for the kind and thoughtful work!
03.01.2025 13:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Tons of team science here, based on data from heroic kids + their families...
Also...check out Riaz's new lab (website): gillanilab.dana-farber.org
+ Ryan's original tweetorial on the preprint:
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+ @danafarbernews.bsky.social press release: www.dana-farber.org/newsroom/new...
Here's our latest, led by Drs. Riaz Gillani & Ryan Collins - we studied a type of inherited genetic event (structural variants) + risk of developing certain cancers in kids:
@danafarber.bsky.social @bostonchildrens.bsky.social @broadinstitute.org @science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random.
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for β¦ sleep apnea
Our December knowledge base release is now out! With these two recent FDA approvals, we now have curated over 1,000 recordsπ₯³
Explore through our browser at moalmanac.org
Congrats to Larry, Aram et al on latest prostate cancer immunology effort, now out in @natureportfolio.bsky.social - fun collaboration + more to come! @danafarber.bsky.social @ucsfcancer.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
04.12.2024 20:38 β π 22 π 4 π¬ 0 π 1Hello world! We're a paired knowledge base and algorithm for precision cancer medicine, based out of the @vanallenlab.bsky.social within @danafarber.bsky.social in #Boston #MA. You can learn more about us at moalmanac.org!
25.11.2024 20:20 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0I wrote about the National Institutes of Health and the various serious and unserious proposals for NIH reform that have been floating around. It is important to understand how this agency actually functions and point criticism at the right problems. A short π§΅:
24.11.2024 15:33 β π 144 π 68 π¬ 6 π 9Great panel on AI in cancer research at the US Senate, led by Ned Sharpless and organized by Senators Rounds, Schumer, Heinrich, and Young - key engagement & thoughts from the organizers and other Senators, and a chance to share our exciting work at Dana-Farber and beyond!
20.10.2023 13:16 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Here, we built biologically interpretable computer vision models for H&E + mIF images to learn key tumor and immune microenvironmental states in kidney cancer that also inform immunotherapy response - congrats Drs. Nyman, Signoretti, Choueiri et al! www.cell.com/cell-reports...
22.09.2023 14:55 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Rarely are my LA childhood/living experiences helpful around here, but I just talked someone starting a lab in Children's Hospital LA out of "living by the beach and commuting to that part of Sunset"
Feels like I did something important, still shook by the potential catastrophe
hello world.
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