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Blood cancer translational scientist with a special love for #myeloma, animals and nature friend | Opinions are my own #MyelomaSky #HemeSky
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Lung-MAP 3.0. Adding NGS screening options for patient recruitment ascopost.com/issues/febru...

The time relegated to being data clerks among US physicians is increasing jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Pitt to pause PhD admissions, following Vanderbilt and USC, because of uncertainty of NIH funding to academic universities. Who will teach and train US scientists for pharma and biotech? Should we import them from countries that do? www.wesa.fm/health-scien...

One of many similar stories to come out in the last week. A sad state of affairs.

Turmoil at FDA and fears it might impact new drug approvals www.biospace.com/fda/fda-reel...

Illumina unveils its novel spatial transcriptomics platform www.illumina.com/company/news...

US researchers are in shock. What to expect next. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Genetic disruption of Blimp-1 drastically augments the antitumor efficacy of BCMA-targeting CAR T cells #MyelomaSky ashpublications.org/bloodadvance...

NIH reportedly loses two top leaders in two days www.qcnews.com/nexstar-medi...

Congrats, and happy to see your labor of love coming to fruitions Jonathan @pedalheadphx.bsky.social #MyelomaSky

go.bsky.app/BtBs6xj Still slowly building a myeloma research oriented starter pack, let me know if you are missing.

Characterization of plasma cell-free DNA variants as of tumor- or clonal hematopoiesis-origin in 16,812 advanced cancer patients aacrjournals.org/clincancerre...

Mass General Brigham announces largest layoff in its history amid ongoing restructuring - via @bostonglobe.com www.statnews.com/2025/02/10/m...

A federal judge issued a nationwide temporary pause on plans by the NIH to substantially slash research overhead payments www.statnews.com/2025/02/11/j...

Bold editorial by the Lancet today American chaos: standing up for health and medicine

This STAT article hits the nail on the head www.statnews.com/2025/02/08/n...

#MyelomaSky #HemeSky

Congrats for this important work. CEPHEUS study of Dara+VRd vs. VRd: MRD-negativity 60.9% for quad vs. 39.4% w/ VRd; ≥CR rates 81.2% vs. 61.6%; sustained MRD negativity (≥12 mos) 48.7% vs. 26.3%, 43% lower progression or death risk #MyelomaSky @szusmani.bsky.social pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39910273/

#BREAKING - NIH plans to slash support for indirect research costs, sending shockwaves through science

This is big, and not a good way, for academic research and labs.

IL-27 elicits a cytotoxic CD8+ T cell program to enforce tumor control @nature.com nature.com/articles/s41...

The promise of a personalized (neoantigen) vaccine for treating cancer, as seen by immune response bolstering against renal cell carcinoma in a Phase 1 trial nature.com/articles/d41... nature.com/articles/s41...

There's widespread confusion and fear among scientists and doctors on the sprawling National Institutes of Health campus and at institutions dependent on the agency's funding.

NIH resumes grant reviews after 2 weeks pause www.statnews.com/2025/02/04/t...

T-cell immune cluster analysis using CyTOF identifies unique subgroups of patients with acute myeloid leukemia #HemeSky ashpublications.org/bloodadvance...

#WorldCancerDay coincides with my dad’s birthday whom I lost to DLBCL. Great hope with new tools (immune & cell therapies, degraders, molecular glues, etc.). Cancer cells are smart, we still have lot to learn about biology & get better at early #detection #interception Keep fighting and innovating!

Agree with @scaltritilab.bsky.social on the importance of reverse translation medicine. We need to learn from what is happening in patients in order to better accelerate new cancer discoveries and therapies #HemeSky #MedSky www.nature.com/articles/s43...

A long-awaited nonopioid pain drug has won approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat moderate to severe short-term pain.

On #NationalWomenPhysiciansDay remembering Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, US first female doctor. After dozens of rejections, she finally got into GMCNY in 1847, her acceptance having been put to vote before the medical class. Legend has it they thought it was a joke healthmatters.nyp.org/happened-dr-...

CAR trogocytosis transfers antitumor immunity between T cells and is dictated by their transmembrane domain @sciimmunology.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The current landscape and emerging challenges of benchmarking single-cell methods www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t... Story by @ericboodman.bsky.social

In HCC patients treated with anti-PD-1 and lenvatinib, a circulating effector memory CD8+ T cell population is critical for treatment efficacy www.cell.com/cancer-cell/... www.cell.com/cancer-cell/... preview by @meganburgerphd.bsky.social @cp-cancercell.bsky.social

The T cell receptor sequence influences the likelihood of T cell memory formation www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Single-cell multiomics reveal divergent effects of DNMT3A- and TET2-mutant clonal hematopoiesis in inflammatory response #HemeSky ashpublications.org/bloodadvance...

From the UChicago Kline Lab in @bloodjournal.bsky.social: multi-omic characterization of 4 'immune quadrants' in DLBCL, with better response to bispecifics (but not CAR-T) in "GCB Hot" versus "GCB Cold." #lymsm #tcellrx https://ashpublications.org/blood/article/doi/10.1182/blood.2024025355/535294/I…

International myeloma working group immunotherapy committee recommendation on sequencing immunotherapy for treatment of multiple myeloma #MyelomaSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Perspective from @ireneghobrial.bsky.social and Omar Nadeem on early intervention with daratumumab for HR-SMM #MyelomaSky #HemeSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Boosting B cells in blood-derived organoids www.nature.com/articles/s41... #HemeSky #MedSky

Architects of immunity: How dendritic cells shape CD8+ T cell fate in cancer www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

ashpublications.org/blood/articl... Props to the Finnish team for the amazing idea to assess the ex vivo sensitivity of Ven in AML patients, both de novo and relapsed. This approach can be quickly integrated to all large hospitals' labs and inform the best tx approach for elderly AML patients!

Life expectancy in the US —by educational attainment, by county www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @ihmeuw.bsky.social —the growing inequalities abcnews.go.com/Health/growi... @amymaxmen.bsky.social @kffhealthnews.bsky.social

A new mechanism for cancer-induced immune evasion. We knew about cancer cells hijacking mitochondria. Now we learn about how their mitochondrial transfer to T cells impairs the tumor immune response. www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

AURIGA study results: - D-R maintenance improved MRD-conversion rate in NDMM patients who were MRD+ after transplant vs R maintenance. - PFS favored D-R maintenance, with an improved 30-month PFS rate vs R alone; D-R was well tolerated #MyelomaSky #HemeSky ashpublications.org/blood/articl...

More than 40% of postdoctoral researchers leave academia, according to a study of some 45,500 researchers’ careers https://go.nature.com/3EdzX56

Congrats to all 2025 @ash.hematology.org ASH Scholar Award recipients!

#REVIEW 🚨 @christian-kratz.bsky.social highlights the genetics of cancer in children, examining cancer predisposition syndromes + genes, embryonic mosaicisms & polygenic risk scores, focusing on their role in cancer prediction, prevention, surveillance & therapy response. 📖👇 bit.ly/3ZHhZAA

Depth of response is important in predicting better outcome not only in myeloma active disease (which led to MRD as an IE in ‘24) but also in precursor high-risk smoldering. Results of the I-PRISM phase II trial @ireneghobrial.bsky.social #MyelomaSky #HemeSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An epigenetic pathway regulates MHC-II expression and function in B cell lymphoma models #HemeSky www.jci.org/articles/vie...