Kate Lawrenson

Excited to participate in our local conference Advancing Cancer Research for Latinos and All Populations #CancerResearchForAll #ACRLP

AI help in grant proposals tied to higher funding odds at NIH But funding proposals to US agencies also tend to be more similar to previously funded projects if they are written or edited with the help of a chatbot.

Has the rapid and widespread adoption of AI tools changed the type of science that is funded?

go.nature.com/4ctrKcb

Line graph of the annual usage of the PREDICT breast web tool from 2011 to 2025 showing a steady, year-on-year increase to over 600,000 sessions in 2025

The PREDICT breast web tool is now fifteen years old.
breast.v3.predict.cam
It is free to use.
The tool has been used over 4 million times.
If you'd like to sponsor the costs of web site maintenance or ongoing development send me a DM.
#breastcancer

Letter of resignation | Jennifer Troyer Reposting: As many of you know, I recently chose to leave the position I worked hard to achieve, the work that I love, and the team of people that could not have been better to do this work with. It ...

Letter of resignation from @jennifer-troyer.bsky.social former Dir of Extramural Ops at NHGRI

"The NIH is not only no longer the organization that I love but is now an organization that I can no longer be a part of and retain my integrity and self-respect."

www.linkedin.com/posts/jennif...

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Long been a fan of Dr Polyaks work, who gave a superb talk on aging and breast cancer today @sabcs.bsky.social

Excited to participate in the first meeting for Advances in Human Health through #Spatial Omics and #AI
@uthealthsa.bsky.social
@utsaroadrunners.bsky.social

At least paracetamol is easier to say 😅

But don’t you think it’s a step in the right direction? Esp once germline genetics get included.

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Deep cuts erode the foundations of US public health system, end progress, threaten worse to come Americans are losing an array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy.

One thing the MAHA report is seriously missing: connection to reality. You can’t tackle chronic illness while gutting the workforce that prevents it. Health departments hollowed out, $11b of directed federal support pulled, 20k jobs at health agencies eliminated.

zurl.co/QUnUU

Every scientist should discuss the consequences of the NIH and NSF grant terminations and delays and failure to fund at their home institution at the end of a talk or seminar. Even if a scientist’s own funding is not threatened, I GUARANTEE there is someone at their institution affected.

Cutler & Glaser in JAMA: The proposed budgetary cuts to NIH will create a social cost 16 times greater than the savings the administration is attempting to achieve. The Trump administration should recognize that funding science is good economic as well as health policy.

Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...

JAMA Forum on the proposed NIH budget…

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Gender equality in research publishing is a responsibility for everyone A concerted effort is needed to support women in their choice of journal when submitting their manuscript.

Women make up only 16% of corresponding authors who submit to Nature, a new Springer Nature analysis revealed. This is not enough - there are 30-40% #womeninSTEM

We want to change it, through targeted editorial policies & outreach. But change will take everyone!
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Analysis of more than 400,000 women provides case-control evidence for BRCA1 and BRCA2 variant classification - Nature Communications BRCA1 and BRCA2 are well known breast cancer predisposition genes, however, many variants have not yet been classified for their pathogenicity. Here, the authors analyse a large combined cohort to pro...

1/🧬 Excited to share our latest paper in Nature Communications @natcomms.nature.com. We analyzed germline sequencing data from 400,000+ women to strengthen how we classify BRCA1 & BRCA2 variants.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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What a day! Incredible energy & inspiring conversations at the #wce2025 joint WES/WERF #Endometriosis Interdisciplinary Research Directions Workshop. So much momentum - and so much important work ahead

Wrapping up #WCE2025 with a passionate discussion about the value of interdisciplinary care for #endometriosis

Excellent talk from @meaghangriff.bsky.social from Centre for Reproductive Health at University of Edinburgh at #wce2025 presenting her work exploring the biological mechanisms behind endometriosis-associated infertility @edinuni-irr.bsky.social

Genomes, transcriptomes and proteomes, oh my!

Enjoyed participating in this mornings session on advances in molecular analyses of #endometriosis

#wce2025

Informative talk from PhD student Kate Gunther telling us about what works & what you need to give a bit more attention to, when generating #organoids from different types of #endometriosis lesions. #WCE2025

Senior Research Associate Kristie Dickson from my group giving a short poster talk on work on co-culture of #ovariancancer & endometrial stromal cells … driving an inflammatory microenvironment that may be targetable in #endometriosis-related ovarian cancers. #WCE2025

@edge-research.bsky.social

Promising progress in modeling #endometriosis in vitro and in vivo from the Greaves, Rogers, Griffith, Angelsio, McKinnon labs and more

These tools are essential for progressing #translationalresearch but endo is very complex- this work is not for the faint hearted! 💪

#WCE2025

NEW RESEARCH We used smartwatches to track daily symptoms in people with #Endometriosis
📉 More fatigue = less movement
💤 Severe symptoms = worse sleep + rhythm
🔁 Surgery effects showed up in both symptoms & wearable data
@exppect @ENDO1000project

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

🌟 SHROxEd - Congratulations to all presenters at 1st joint Edinburgh/Oxford Reproductive Health Postgraduate Symposium! 🌟

A day of fascinating research & standout presentations. Excited to see how this work shapes the future of reproductive health.

#ReproductiveHealth @edinuni-irr.bsky.social

We show #endometriosis treatments are failing to address fatigue, a key quality-of-life issue
🔹 2,907 responses
🔹 54% say GnRH agonists worsened fatigue
🔹 Most treatments showed little benefit
📄 Read the research: raf.bioscientifica.com/view/journal... @endo1000.bsky.social @edinuni-irr.bsky.social

Amazing talk from Frankie Hearn-Yeates from Centre for Reproductive Health at University of Edinburgh showing that fatigue in #endometriosis is associated with changes in the gut microbiome and metabolome! @edinuni-irr.bsky.social

Inspiring plenary from my friend & colleague Prof Caroline Ford - need to now apply all that we have learnt about precision medicine through oncology to #endometriosis … another disease with tonnes of heterogeneity #WCE2025

Postdoc Amy Sarker from my group at the short talks in the poster session today - 3D modelling of migration of ovarian cancer cells towards endometrial stromal cells using the #RASTRUM 3D bioprinter from #Inventia #WCE2025

First day of the 16th World Congress on Endometriosis listening to Mike Anglesio from Vancouver telling us about challenges working with endometriotic lesions … . Happy to be learning at my first endometriosis conference & in my home town to boot 😊 #WCE2025