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Adoptive T cell therapies for pediatric solid tumors. Postdoc @Children’s National Hospital. PhDone! @ChiappinelliLab @GWCancer @GWSMHS @GW_IBS https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephgomez/
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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...

submitted 16 days ago • 271 comments

The only possible result to this will be massive layoffs across the US higher education system

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

This is... actually a fairly reasonable takeaway from this year.

submitted 76 days ago • 856 comments

I participated in a faculty panel a few weeks ago in which senior (ahem) faculty gave advice on careers in academia by pretending luck had very little to do with our success. One piece of advice riled me up, in which it was argued that a reason for their success was their ability to say no. 1/

submitted 77 days ago • 81 comments

Oh my

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

I've decided that when researchers say a treatment is "well tolerated" it actually means "I can tolerate my patients having toxicity" and nothing to do with what the patient thinks. We can only make such a statement if we use patient-reported outcome or experience measures.

submitted 88 days ago • 3 comments

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

ICYMI - over the summer Maria Parkhurst from our branch published one of the first reports of clinical responses after adoptive cell transfer of TCR engineered private neoantigen (tumor mutation) targeting T cells in metastatic cancer patients 🧪🦠🔬🩺 1/3 #Immunosky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 92 days ago • 4 comments

UCSF hosted its first food pantry event for postdocs today, where a local food bank gives free food to UCSF employees. This picture represents about half the line that had formed 10 minutes before the market had opened. What the fuck are we doing here guys?

submitted 95 days ago • 26 comments

Two weeks without looking/listening to any news, so much this

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Robert is right.

submitted 98 days ago • 6 comments

There’s a clip of RFK Jr saying his first week at the NIH he’s going to tell the various institute leads that “we’re going to give drug development and infectious disease a break, a little bit of a break, for 8 years.” I cannot overstate how disastrous this would be.

submitted 99 days ago • 19 comments

Here's the #Cancer #Research #2 starter pack 🤩 Researchers, oncologists, patient advocates & more -working across all aspects of cancer research and treatment 🧪🔬⚕️ I also tried to give some exposure to #PhD #students & #postdocs - randomly picked from followers of me or my lab! go.bsky.app/6EcjWNA

submitted 99 days ago • 43 comments

I am excited to share our latest paper. We profiled CD8+ TILs from HPV- HNSCC patients using scRNA/TCRseq. In addition, we performed an ex vivo stimulation of cells to capture their transcriptional response. 1/n onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment