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dannomura.bsky.social
Professor of Chemical Biology and Molecular Therapeutics at UC Berkeley
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Cool paper from Cravatt lab on an allosteric cyclin E-CDK2 site mapped by paralog hopping with covalent probes www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social from our lab, Maimone lab, and @novartis.bsky.social on a covalent destabilizing degrader of myc that acts through stereoselective targeting of an IDR C203 in MYC! Congrats to first authors Hannah Rosen and Kelvin Li! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Cool paper from Matt Bogyo’s lab: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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Headed to Boston to give a talk about our latest research at MIT Biological Engineering hosted by Angela Koehler and then visit my friends at @novartis.bsky.social ! Look out for a new Biorxiv coming out of our lab imminently on a new covalent MYC degrader! be.mit.edu/our-communit...

After an awesome Targeted Protein Degradation Keystone meeting last week, happy to be back @ethzurich.bsky.social this week to give a talk about our latest work alongside the great @songlin1.bsky.social ! chab.ethz.ch/en/research/...

Thank you @nplb.bsky.social for speaking out in defense of patients, the US economy and our citizenship. Encouraged to see biopharma and investors among patients, health care providers, scientists and policy makers. www.nopatientleftbehind.org/defending-th...

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New York Times article now up on Federal Register stuff. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/s... 1/n

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"Even NIH officers don’t know what will happen next." In our latest @science.org Working Life essay, an assistant professor expresses frustration with stalls at NIH and asks: "Will my grants ever be reviewed?" @vjrp.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

A US Senator Joins the Fray. Thank you @murray.senate.gov ! More of this, please! www.murray.senate.gov/senator-murr...

"These kinds of shocks are going to lead to a mass exodus … for minorities in particular.” For my latest @science.org story, I spoke with early career researchers who have been affected by the federal upheaval and are concerned about what it means for their future. www.science.org/content/arti...

I agree. It seems extremely unlikely that they are trying to get grants flowing again. One of my concerns is that they may be hoping to delay things enough that NIH will not have time to get appropriated funds issued by September 30th, the end of the fiscal year. 1/n

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As @jeremymberg.bsky.social correctly assessed at the time, the NIH memo that slashed overhead rates came from Trump/Musk, not anyone within the organization.

Cool preprint from Ben Cravatt and Phil Baran: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Graduate student admissions paused at Vanderbilt 😟 vanderbilthustler.com/2025/02/15/g...

I’m a standing member on the Chemical Biology and Probes (CBP) NIH study section that was supposed to meet tomorrow. It just got postponed this afternoon with a date yet to be determined….

New @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint from Amgen induced proximity group and @dannomura.bsky.social lab just posted that describes Covalent Destabilizing Degrader of AR and AR-V7 in Androgen-Independent Prostate Cancer Cells. Read on for an overview 1/7 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our latest BioRxiv by @cmzammit.bsky.social, Cory Nadel, @pottslab.bsky.social on a covalent destabilizing degrader against AR & AR-V7 in prostate cancer that targets an IDR C125 to destabilize, inhibit, and degrade TF! Thanks to @amgen.bsky.social, MTI, Berkeley MCB/Chemistry, NCI, TMFCR, and NSF!

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Today in @nature.com we share our back-to-back stories with Ning Zheng’s lab revealing chemical-genetic convergence between a molecular glue degrader & E3 ligase cancer mutations. 1/5

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Honored to be selected as the new editor-in-chief for Molecular Cancer Therapeutics! I look forward to working with the cancer therapeutics community! www.aacr.org/about-the-aa...

It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.

Exciting paper from Xiaoyu Zhang's lab at Northwestern: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

NIH indirects just got capped to 15 %… grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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Great to be back at Yale! Looking forward to my visit tomorrow to the Department of Chemistry and giving a talk about our latest research! Thanks Stacy Malaker for hosting! events.yale.edu/event/chemic...

Awesome to be back at University of Chicago! Excited to see everyone and give a talk about our latest work! Thanks @chembiobryan.bsky.social for hosting!

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Mass spec/proteomics chempostdoc in the Ferguson lab, UCSD, La Jolla, CA chemsky 🧪 ⚗️ jobrxiv.org/job/universi...

New @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social from Lycia TX: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Sunday morning ☕ reading: cool paper from using BioE3 to dissect CRBN targeting. One surprise - pomalidomide doesn't just add neosubstrates, also seems to decrease ubiquitination of CRBN's natural targets. New insight into indirect effects of new modalities. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Cool partnership between Lilly and a16z: www.statnews.com/2025/01/10/e...

Great review on covalent drugging of undruggable targets from Itaru Hamachi: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Reflecting on 20 years of progress Sarah E. O’Connor, Benjamin F. Cravatt and Chengqi Yi talk about the major changes in chemical biology, the advances that have most affected their research, and their thoughts about the important questions facing chemical biologists. rdcu.be/d5Sm0

Thank you to Eric Gomez for introducing TCG labs Soleil to Molecular Therapeutics faculty at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social today!

Congrats to ⁦‪Frontier Medicines‬⁩ on their covalent p53 Y220C activator FMC-220! www.globenewswire.com/news-release...

I am excited to report the preprint of my postdoc work in the @olzmannlab.bsky.social! We have discovered the first lipid droplet quality control pathway with broad implications for lipid physiology and diseases associated with LD accumulation and oxidative stress! #lipidtime shorturl.at/2HqFd