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Incoming Assistant Professor @UChicago | NIH K99/R00 Fellow @LoweLabMSKCC @MSKCancerCenter | cancer • epi/genetics • metastasis • stem cells

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Kal Tsanov

28 days

18 years ago, I came to the US to pursue my dream of becoming a scientist. Last week marked a major milestone in this journey, as I accepted an Assistant Professor position at @UChicago , where I am thrilled to start my own research group in January 2025! (1/5)

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Kal Tsanov

3 years

Favorite @sloan_kettering holiday tradition. Walking through the incredible 'Holiday Hallway' created by our phenomenal Facilities team. Thank you & happy holidays to everyone!

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Kal Tsanov

2 years

My 1st-ever @NIH @theNCI NOA! Deeply grateful to all my mentors & colleagues, and for this nation’s continued support of my education & research. Excited to continue my efforts to better understand & target #PancreaticCancer #Metastasis ! (1/2)

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Lowe Lab

2 years

Congratulations to postdoc @KTsanov on receiving the @NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award!! 👏🎉🚀

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Kal Tsanov

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Excited to share our latest preprint! Here, we asked: Does a tumor’s dependence on driver mutations change after it spreads to other organs? This led us to uncover a critical interplay b/w tumor #Genetics , #Epigenetics and #AnatomicLocation ... 🧵 1/n

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Metastatic site influences driver gene function in pancreatic cancer

Driver gene mutations can increase the metastatic potential of the primary tumor[1][1]–[3][2], but their role in sustaining tumor growth at metastatic sites is poorly understood. A paradigm of such...

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Kal Tsanov

4 months

Truly honored by this recognition, which is really a reflection of the phenomenal mentorship, environment & colleagues, incl. key collaborators @LoweLabMSKCC @MSKCancerCenter . Thank you! 🙏

@LoweLabMSKCC

Lowe Lab

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Congratulations to postdoc @KTsanov on receiving the 2024 MSK Postdoctoral Research Award, in recognition of outstanding accomplishments & promise! 👏🥳🎉 @MSKCancerCenter @MSKEducation #Convocation2024

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Kal Tsanov

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The final version of our manuscript that develops the #EPOGEMM platform of mouse models to study #MetastaticGastricCancer . 6 diff genotypes + 4 diff genetic backgrounds = new insights into the interplay b/w metastatic site, tumor genotype & immune surveillance. 🧬⚡🐭 (1/4)

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Lowe Lab

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First publication of 2024! Now out in @NatureCancer , the final (and substantially expanded) version of our work that develops a new suite of mouse models to study #MetastaticGastricCancer of customizable #Genotypes and #HostBackgrounds : .

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Kal Tsanov

1 year

First time at the @SalkInstitute Cancer Meeting & had a blast. Thanks to the organizers for a great conference -- see you next time! 🙂 #MechModels2023

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Kal Tsanov

2 years

My 1st preprint! Great collaboration with the amazing @JosefLeibold @TeamJJTueb (EPO-GEMM pioneer) & @Corina_Amor_MD @Amor_lab . #GastricCancer is on the rise, understudied & needs flexible #MouseModels . More to come but excited to share our work so far. 🧬⚡️🐭 #EPOGEMMs #teamwork

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Lowe Lab

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Pre-print Alert! Today we report the development of rapid & flexible platform for #GastricCancer mouse modeling and use it to produce a suite of models w/ different #Genotypes & #HostBackgrounds , uncovering genotype-specific features of #MetastaticDisease .

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Kal Tsanov

2 years

New preprint, super fun collaboration with the amazing Pancho 'MACHETE' @BarrigaFM ! We present a flexible method to study large genomic deletions & use it to uncover how the pervasive 9p21 dels promote tumor immune evasion & metastasis. 🧬🔪🧬 #MACHETE #Cancer #Deletions #Teamwork

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Lowe Lab

2 years

New Preprint! Led by #DynamicDuo @BarrigaFM & @KTsanov , this study set out to understand how somatic copy number alterations (CNAs) promote cancer. CNAs are prevalent across cancer types & correlate w/ clinical outcomes but remain difficult to study. 1/n

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Kal Tsanov

2 years

Had a blast celebrating my inspiring friend @DirenaAC 's Blavatnik Award. Big congratulations to her & the other 2021-22 @BlavatnikAwards honorees! 👏🥳🚀

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Kal Tsanov

1 year

Another fantastic CSHL Cancer Meeting for the books! Had a blast presenting our work, hearing about all the exciting advances in the field, and hanging out with old & new friends -- CSHL style! See you next time. @cshlmeetings #cshlcancer

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Kal Tsanov

2 years

And a great editorial by @IanDemsky @MSKCancerCenter ! #MACHETE #Cancer #Deletions #Teamwork

@MSKCancerCenter

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

@MSKCancerCenter

2 years

Watch out @officialDannyT , there’s a new MACHETE in town — a powerful technique developed at MSK's Sloan Kettering Institute to study frequent, large-scale genetic deletions in #cancer called copy number alterations.

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Kal Tsanov

1 year

Won some $$$! 🙂 Super fun to be part of this year's #MSKPostdocSlam . Congrats @AnnelisaCornel @magdalinipan & all fellow finalists, who did a great job! And BIG thanks to the amazing @MSKEducation team!

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MSK ScienceEducation

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1st place winner @AnnelisaCornel ! 2nd place @magdalinipan ! 3rd place @ktsanov ! And people’s choice winner @magdalinipan !

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Kal Tsanov

1 year

The Metastasis @KeystoneSymp has begun! Thrilled to learn from & connect with the community, and grateful for the opportunity to present our work this afternoon. #KSMetastasis23 #KSTumorResist23

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Kal Tsanov

2 years

Another fun night making new friends thanks to #MSKFunFund @MSKEducation ! We soared over NYC 🙂🗽

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Kal Tsanov

28 days

The #TsanovLab will combine next-gen mouse models, functional genetics & multiomic approaches to understand and target the #drivers and #vulnerabilities of metastatic tumors, with the ultimate goal of novel #therapies that are specifically tailored to #metastatic cancers. (2/5)

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Kal Tsanov

3 years

Great night with some new friends thanks to #MSKFunFund @MSKEducation @UshmaNeill ! #USOpen

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Kal Tsanov

1 year

First time at AACR! Excited to present our work, learn about the latest advances, and meet old & new friends. #AACR2023

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Kal Tsanov

1 year

Looking forward to presenting our work in a few hours! #AACR23

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Lowe Lab

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Happening this afternoon, postdoc @KTsanov presents brand-new work uncovering surprising roles for the SMAD4 tumor suppressor gene in metastatic pancreatic cancer. Check it out! #AACR23

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Kal Tsanov

28 days

I excitedly look forward to joining the outstanding community at @UChicagoHemOnc @UChicagoMed @UChicagoBSD @UCCancerCenter , who have already made me feel most welcome. Will soon start building the team at all levels – details to follow! #newPI #nextchapter (5/5)

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Kal Tsanov

1 year

Always a good time, especially when making new friends -- thank you #MSKFunFund @MSKEducation ! 🙂🎾 #USOpen2023

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Kal Tsanov

2 years

CSHL Mechanisms & Models Meeting was fantastic! Great science, great people, great memories. Till next time! @cshlmeetings #cshlcancer22

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Kal Tsanov

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Equally as important, I will be dedicated to #mentoring future generations of scientists and fostering a collegial, collaborative & inclusive culture of excellence, where everyone can reach their full potential while enjoying the journey of scientific discovery. (3/5)

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Kal Tsanov

2 years

The final version of our #MACHETE study w/ @barrigafm on chr 9p21 #IFN deletions is now out @NatureCancer !

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MACHETE identifies interferon-encompassing chromosome 9p21.3 deletions as mediators of immune...

Nature Cancer - Barriga et al. develop MACHETE, a genome engineering strategy enabling the flexible modeling of megabase-sized deletions and show that the concomitant loss of the interferon cluster...

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Lowe Lab

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Now out in @NatureCancer , an updated version of our study developing the #MACHETE strategy for modeling large genomic deletions and using it to uncover a key role for type I #IFN deletions in tumor #ImmuneEvasion & #Metastasis : (1/3)

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Kal Tsanov

1 year

It was amazing to reunite with old friends, put faces to the names whose papers I've read (and stories I've heard) & to see that the culture of excellence, collaboration & fun has remained a constant throughout 25+ years of the Lowe lab. Here's to the next decade! #LoweLab25

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Lowe Lab

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What an incredible Reunion! It was wonderful to see all former lab members who traveled to NYC from all over the world & to experience the joy that we all shared in getting together. THANK YOU & stay in touch! #LoweLab25

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Kal Tsanov

2 years

Anyone looking for a highly creative, supportive & fun mentor should not miss this opportunity! Having worked closely with Pancho for the past 4 years, I can say that he is an outstanding scientist AND person. Sad to see him leave but so excited about the #BarrigaLab ! 🚀🎉🍻

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Pancho Barriga

2 years

I’m delighted to announce two major developments for my career: First, I will be joining the amazing @VHIO as a Group Leader! Second, I have been awarded an #ERCStG (MACHETE!) to start my lab @ERC_Research . I look forward to join the vibrant Barcelona research community!

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Kal Tsanov

6 months

Congratulations Dire!! #DACLab 👏🥳🚀

@DirenaAC

Direna Alonso-Curbelo

6 months

Honored to receive the Inaugural Cancer Discovery Early Career Award. Thank you @CD_AACR for this recognition, which I extend to my many GREAT #colleagues and #mentors I've had the privilege to work with & learn from. @IRBBarcelona @MSKCancerCenter @LoweLabMSKCC @msmelanoma

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Kal Tsanov

10 months

It was a pleasure to present our work at #MRSEarlyCareer2023 , in a fantastic company @lab_gomes @DiegoBentezRiq1 @PitarresiLab #ChenlingMeng @JulieLCarstens . Tons of cool metastasis research! Many thanks to @MetastasisRS ECLC for this outstanding ECR-focused event & opportunity!

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Kal Tsanov

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My deepest thanks go to my incredible mentors, colleagues, collaborators, sponsors & everyone who gave me a chance on the job market. 🙏 @LoweLabMSKCC @MSKCancerCenter @MSKEducation @G_Q_Daley @BBS_Harvard #AndyMcMahonLab #OdjakovaLab @JCChildsFund @theNCI (4/5)

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Kal Tsanov

1 year

Exciting science, great reunions & new friends in beautiful Vancouver -- it has been a blast! Until next time #KSMetastasis23 #KSTumorResist23

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Kal Tsanov

2 years

It's not all chaos! #p53 loss triggers an ordered pattern of genome evolution in cancer. Happy to have contributed to this insightful study led by @TimourBaslan @johnpmorrisiv @sparklingpm .

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Lowe Lab

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Out in @Nature today, we report that #p53 loss unleashes an ordered & selective pattern of cancer #GenomeEvolution : . 1/n

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Kal Tsanov

1 year

Absolute pleasure talking to @AspenHighSchool students about science/research, along w/ super inspiring leaders Dr. Knudsen @AmerCancerCEO & Dr. Harris @theNCI . Brought me back to my high school days, when an amazing teacher sparked my interest in Biology. The future is bright!

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Karen Knudsen, MBA PhD

1 year

How cool was that? Spent the last day of #AspenCancerConf talking w/ local high schoolers about Med/Sci careers with Dr Harris from @theNCI and Dr @ktsanov from @LoweLabMSKCC . Loving the next gen of innovators! @AmericanCancer

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Kal Tsanov

2 years

Special thanks to Scott & the entire @LoweLabMSKCC who make research fun every day, my amazing advisors/collaborators @LabMassague @CIacobu @Dana_Peer #RudenskyLab @SunLab_Official , & @JCCFund @MSKEducation @MSKCancerCenter whose support laid the foundation for this award! (2/2)

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Kal Tsanov

5 months

Congratulations @almudena_chaves !!

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@LeadingEdgeSymp

5 months

Congratulations to the 2024 Leading Edge Fellows! 34 exceptional postdocs doing biomedical research 🤩 Search committees, seminar committees, keep your eyes on these superstars. We're excited for their presentations @janeliaconf @HHMIJanelia !

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Kal Tsanov

7 months

Detailed #MACHETE protocol now out -- delete away! 🙂🔪🧬🔪 #LabBarriga @NatureProtocols

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Pancho Barriga

7 months

Have you been thinking about how to make megabase-sized deletions? Does MACHETE ring a bell, but maybe the details seem daunting? Fret no more, since our protocol has just been published @NatureProtocols ! @VHIO @MSKCancerCenter

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Kal Tsanov

7 months

I support the message my colleagues are sharing in today's @AACR Early-career Hill Day. I urge Congress to continue prioritizing medical research and support the highest possible funding increase for @NIH . #AACRontheHill @SenSchumer @SenGillibrand @RepJerryNadler

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AACR

7 months

Today is the AACR Early-Career National Day of Action, and we're calling on early-career scientists, trainees, students, and all who support them to contact members of Congress and ask them to prioritize @NIH funding. Take action: #AACRontheHill #FundNIH

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Kal Tsanov

3 years

An invaluable resource for functionalizing cancer-associated SNVs. Impressive work by a super rigorous team. Congrats @fjsanchezrivera @biancaaadiaz @KastenhuberER @dow_lab !

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Dow Lab

3 years

New paper day! Since the development of #baseediting tools, we have been excited about the ability of this technology to engineer and understand the hundreds of cancer-associated genetic variants of unknown significance. BUT… it wasn’t as easy as hoped. 🧵

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Kal Tsanov

4 years

💯 Wonderful event! Happy 60th @G_Q_Daley and here's to many more!

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Kal Tsanov

2 years

Thinking of all my friends affected by this terrible disaster. Please consider donating if you can👇

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Semir Beyaz

2 years

I ask for your help to support this Turkey Earthquake Fund that will directly help affected families in the region. Thanks everyone who reached out during these difficult times, truly appreciate and will never forget your support ❤️ Please share this 🙏

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Kal Tsanov

5 years

Fantastic event! Everyone did an amazing job distilling complex science down to a 3-min talk. Thank you all & congrats to the winners! #MSKPostdocSlam #NPAW @MSKEducation @sloan_kettering

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MSK ScienceEducation

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To everyone who came to support the #MSKPostdocSlam THANK YOU! The winners: 1st: Merav Antman-Passig @HellerLab 2nd: Kelly Henry @k_hens @LewisLabMSKCC 3rd: Gabriel Duran Rehbein @GDuranR from Viviane’s Tabar lab People’s Choice: @elneztor Nestor Saiz from Hadjantonakis Lab

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Kal Tsanov

1 year

T-4 hours! Excited to present my research in a 3-minute 'elevator pitch' format, along with 9 of my @MSKCancerCenter colleagues. Join us -- and get to vote for the 'People's Choice' winner! 🙂 #MSKPostdocSlam #NPAW2023

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MSK ScienceEducation

1 year

Happy National Postdoc Appreciation Week to our phenomenal #MSKPostdocs ( @MSKPDA )! @MSKCancerCenter community, join us today @ 4pm for the Postdoc Slam competition. We will also announce the winners of the 📸 contest and show the annual postdoc appreciation video. #NPAW2023

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Kal Tsanov

1 year

I join @AACR & @AACI_Cancer in urging #Congress to prioritize investments in cancer research in FY2024. Add your voice by messaging your Members of Congress! #FundNIH #FundNCI #AACRontheHill #AACIontheHill @SenSchumer @SenGillibrand @RepJerryNadler

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AACR

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We are pleased to join @AACI_Cancer for our annual Joint Hill Day in support of medical research. You can help by writing your Members of Congress and asking them to support needed funding for @NIH and @theNCI . #AACRontheHill #FundNIH #FundNCI

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Kal Tsanov

1 year

Congratulations Dr. @StellaPaff & all other graduates! 🙌🎉🎓 My favorite day of the academic year 🙂

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Lowe Lab

1 year

Great to have @StellaPaff back for @GSKGradSchool Commencement -- congratulations, Dr. Paffenholz! 🎓👏🍾

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Kal Tsanov

3 years

Highly recommended! A fantastic scientist, collaborator, colleague & friend 👍🏻👍🏻

@BatlleLab

The BATLLE Lab

3 years

Immense pleasure and proud satisfaction hosting former postdoc @barrigafm . We’ll learn from the fantastic work he’s developed @LoweLabMSKCC next week at the #IRBBarcelona Stem Cells & #Cancer BioMed conference

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Kal Tsanov

5 years

So happy to see my summer intern Sam Gould present his wonderful work today! And inspired to witness the next generation's motivation & excitement about science throughout this poster session today. #SURP2019 #mentoring #research @MSKEducation @sloan_kettering

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Kal Tsanov

5 years

Standing-room only @morris_lab seminar @sloan_kettering . Fantastic talk & beautiful work!

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Kal Tsanov

1 year

Very cool work shedding new light on the 'dark matter' of the cancer genome. 🔥🔎🧬 Super fun to be involved in this study & other ongoing collaborations with the Greenbaum lab! (Also, love the #TransposonThursday hashtag 🤓)

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Benjamin D. Greenbaum

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Its #TransposonThursday ! Sharing our newest preprint on context dependent mechanisms by which cancer cells co-evolve with retrotransposons (LINE1 and SINEs) to mitigate viral mimicry. A #TeamScience effort led by our postdoc @sunsiyu1 @CompOncMSK 👇👇👇

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Kal Tsanov

4 years

What an amazing & inspiring moment. To receive a revolutionary vaccine based on your own foundational research, which was ignored by most. Thank you, Dr. Kariko!

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Katalin Kariko

4 years

While receiving the vaccine I reflected on my long journey by remembering my colleagues @barnathanes and @drdavidlanger who were so enthusiastic about the mRNA therapeutic use in my early days at Penn. Thank you!

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Kal Tsanov

3 years

And more pics... There is so much to see!

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Kal Tsanov

3 years

Loved the #Kandinsky exhibit @Guggenheim . Beautiful example of how #art & #science interconnect.

@Guggenheim

Guggenheim Museum

3 years

#WorkoftheWeek : In Vasily Kandinsky's “Dominant Curve” (1936), the figures within the green rectangle recall microscopic marine animals, while embryo-like shapes appear elsewhere. These biomorphic forms gesture to rebirth and regeneration. Learn more:

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Kal Tsanov

4 years

The amazing @DirenaAC featured in Spain, showcasing the fantastic work of #WomenInSTEM ! #CosaDeMujeres

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Direna Alonso-Curbelo

4 years

From public education to public transport! 🙈

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Kal Tsanov

5 years

Congratulations, @EvangeliaLoizou et al! Mutant #p53 co-opts a #developmental program to drive #AML . Suggests common theme of p53 gain of function in cancer via stem cell-associated pathways. @CD_AACR @CHM_MSKCC @sloan_kettering

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Kal Tsanov

3 years

Super cool! A transposon jump created an alt splice site leading to tail loss in humans. 🤯 I have sometimes lamented the fact we don't have tails (think about tail-based accessories, sports, etc...😄). Now we know why 👇

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Itai Yanai

3 years

Losing our tail had big consequences for our ancestors, but how did it happen? In our paper, led by @BoXia7 , and with @JefBoeke , we propose that tail-loss involved the insertion of a single transposable element, with implications for our health today.

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Kal Tsanov

5 years

Congrats @johnpmorrisiv @lydfinley & team on this elegant study! α-Ketoglutarate is a key metabolic component of p53's tumor-suppressive program.

α-Ketoglutarate links p53 to cell fate during tumour suppression

Nature - Restoring the function of p53 in a mouse model of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma leads to the accumulation of α-ketoglutarate, which increases levels of the 5-hydroxymethylcytosine...

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Kal Tsanov

4 years

Exciting work by great friend & colleague @fjsanchezrivera that is poised to transform our understanding of genetic variants in cancer! #NPAW2020

@MSKEducation

MSK ScienceEducation

4 years

Francisco Sanchez-Rivera ( @fjsanchezrivera ) @LoweLabMSKCC share his research on genetic variants in cancer. "One of my main interests centers on developing & applying high-throughput methods to assess the function of cancer-associated genetic variants of unknown significance."

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Kal Tsanov

2 years

Beautiful work & example of the magic that happens when amazing computational and experimental biology meet. Powerful insights into #PancreaticCancer that open many new avenues of investigation. Big congrats @CassBurdziak @DirenaAC et al!!

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dana_peer

2 years

1) I am totally thrilled to share a joint work with @LoweLabMSKCC on PDAC initiation. Led by my spectacular student @CassBurdziak and @DirenaAC now at (IRB):

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Kal Tsanov

4 years

Hello, Titan mice! Wow...

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Shahaf Peleg 🌅

4 years

My lab’s first pre-print! We present the “Killifish” for a mammalian model:-) We describe a mouse model that was generated by 45 years (!!) of breeding. These are the biggest mice in the world - say hello to Titan mice... More work to follow...

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Kal Tsanov

3 years

Outstanding opportunity to work with a super enthusiastic, creative & supportive mentor! 👇🏻

@DirenaAC

Direna Alonso-Curbelo

3 years

Are you interested in: 🧩Understanding how cell and tissue plasticity go awry in #cancer ? 🔬Single-cell technologies, organoid/mouse models and functional genomics approaches? 🌻Creating a lab #environment that promotes the best of us? JOIN US! We are #HIRING at all levels!

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Kal Tsanov

2 years

Fully agree 👍👍

@LoweLabMSKCC

Lowe Lab

2 years

Pancho @BarrigaFM is an innovative molecular biologist & mouse modeler who is currently looking for faculty positions. He will be a great colleague & collaborator at any institute lucky enough to get him! –SWL 9/9

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Kal Tsanov

6 years

Impressive opening keynote of #tumour19 by John Dick. Genetic mining of stem cell populations reveals origins & drivers of leukemia relapse.

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Kal Tsanov

6 years

Excited about #tumour19 conference starting @sloan_kettering tomorrow. Looking forward to reconnecting with old friends & making new ones! @NatureConf #CancerResearch

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Kal Tsanov

4 years

Truly a tour de force. So much to functionalize!

@labs_mann

Matthias Mann Lab

4 years

Enjoy our ‘Proteome Landscape of the Kingdoms of Life’ @Nature . We analyzed 100 species by #proteomics #automation #µpac #AI and doubled the number of experimentally verified proteins.

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Kal Tsanov

4 years

Powerful model and insights into #ProstateCancer #metastasis !

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Lowe Lab

4 years

Happy to share our latest work @CD_AACR developing fast & flexible method to model #ProstateCancer that led us to uncover an actionable role for #WNT signaling in driving #metastasis in this cancer. (1/2)

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Kal Tsanov

2 years

One of my favorite scientists. Truly a trailblazer! #TransposonDay2022

@MobDNAjournal

Mobile DNA

2 years

Happy Transposon Day 2022! Today is the 120th birthday of Barbara McClintock, founder of the #transposon field and Nobel laureate. Please celebrate with us by using the hashtag #TransposonDay2022 . How has Barbara McClintock or her work influenced you?

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Kal Tsanov

5 years

Cool story. A secreted #RNA binding protein in the honeybee royal jelly stabilizes RNA for horizontal transfer between bees. Could RBP/RNA granule secretion be a widespread phenomenon?

@MolecularCell

Molecular Cell

5 years

A Secreted RNA Binding Protein Forms RNA-Stabilizing Granules in the Honeybee Royal Jelly

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Kal Tsanov

4 years

One of the most brilliant scientists of all time!

@NobelPrize

The Nobel Prize

4 years

How much do you know about Marie Curie? Curie dedicated her life to science. She was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the first person to be awarded twice and is still the only person to receive the prize in two different scientific fields. Curie died #OTD in 1934.

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Kal Tsanov

4 years

Exciting work linking #stemness , #ribosome production & translational capacity in #ColorectalCancer . Interesting parallels & differences to the hematopoietic @SJMorrison_ @SignerLab and skin @MFryeLab @Sblancolab #ElaineFuchs @FionaWattMRC systems!

@BatlleLab

The BATLLE Lab

4 years

1/6 @CellStemCell publishes today our recent work on #CancerStemCells . Tremendous amount of work 🙌🏻 from @clara_morral PhD project 🎓 and Jelena Stanisavljevic 👍🏻 with help of the rest of the team 🌊🔝 Thread 👇🏼

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Kal Tsanov

4 years

Exciting news for cancer research!

@break_cancer

Break Through Cancer

4 years

We’re proud to announce the launch of Break Through Cancer, a new foundation dedicated to supporting multi-institutional teams focused on the most difficult to treat cancers. Read the full press release here: #BreakThroughCancer

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Kal Tsanov

4 years

Despite COVID-19, @HSCatalystPrgm has provided an outstanding virtual experience for a group of motivated NYC high schoolers. Pleasure to serve as a mentor this year. Tune in to see the next generation! #Mentorship #Diversity #TheFutureIsBright @WeillCornellGS @MSKPDA

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HSCatalystProgram

@HSCatalystPrgm

4 years

Big day tomorrow! Come check out the work our students have done this summer!!!

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Kal Tsanov

3 years

Congratulations to an amazing scientist, colleague & friend! Can't wait to see all the exciting science to come out of the Alonso-Curbelo lab!

@DirenaAC

Direna Alonso-Curbelo

3 years

Hi twitter world, I have news: I am very happy to announce that I will be joining the @IRBBarcelona this fall as group leader! The lab will study the interplay between #genetics , #inflammation and #cell_identity programs in #cancer to devise strategies for early #interception .

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Kal Tsanov

3 years

Of all the innocent victims of the war in Ukraine, kids with cancer are among the most vulnerable. Just donated. Pls consider it too if you can: . #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦

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Kal Tsanov

4 years

Congrats @corina_amor_MD , #JudithFeucht & @JosefLeibold ! A pleasure to witness this unfold & exciting to see it out. #CART cells for #senescence !

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Lowe Lab

4 years

Out in @Nature today, our latest work provides a proof of concept for the utility of #CART cells as #senolytics . This study was an exciting collaboration with the #SadelainLab ... (1/3)

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Kal Tsanov

2 years

Very excited to have the Sherman Lab next door soon! And they are hiring 👇👇👇

@MaraShermanLab

Mara Sherman Lab

@MaraShermanLab

2 years

Shermlab goes east! A new chapter begins @MSKCancerCenter @CpcrMsk in Jan 2023. Forever grateful to my amazing OHSU mentors and colleagues, and excited for the scientific interactions, NYC adventures, and #feiginworthy bagels ahead! 1/2

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Kal Tsanov

4 years

A discovery that has already transformed science, by two highly inspiring scientists. Congratulations to @e__charpentier and @doudna_lab ! #CRISPR #NobelPrize #WomenInSTEM

@NobelPrize

The Nobel Prize

4 years

BREAKING NEWS: The 2020 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna “for the development of a method for genome editing.”

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Kal Tsanov

2 years

Bravos to these outstanding new PhDs!!! #Commencement2022

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Lowe Lab

2 years

Three graduates in one year! Congratulations to Dr. Amor @corina_amor_MD , Dr. Li @Xiang_Grace_Li & Dr. Chen @an_hsuan !!! @GSKGradSchool @WeillCornellGS @MSKEducation 🎓🎓🎓👏👏👏🍾🍾🍾

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Kal Tsanov

3 years

Amazing! No pressure, fellow postdocs... 😅

@florian_krammer

Florian Krammer

@florian_krammer

3 years

Today, Austrian amateur cyclist and mathematician Anna Kiesenhofer, PhD, won Olympic gold in the women's cycling road race. Congratulations!!!!

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Kal Tsanov

2 years

Huge thanks to our colleagues @LoweLabMSKCC , our wonderful collaborators @dana_peer @ChaligneRonan #RoshanSharma #NoorSohail #SAIL @MSKCancerCenter , #AmyZhang @LabNotta , @ciacobu @CpcrMsk & #DafnaBarSagi , and to @JCChildsFund for supporting my postdoc training!

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Kal Tsanov

6 months

Huge thanks to @barrigafm #RayHo & everyone else at @LoweLabMSKCC , instrumental collaborators (& mentors!) @dana_peer @LabMassague @ciacobu @CpcrMsk @ChaligneRonan #SAIL @RichardKoche #ERIL , and key funding support from @theNCI @JCChildsFund #KatzmanFellowship #GMTEC ! 10/10

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Kal Tsanov

3 years

@pdhsu @arcinstitute @UCBerkeley @Stanford @UCSF Wow sounds fantastic! Biomedical research needs more of this.

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Kal Tsanov

1 year

Happy to see this beautiful story out -- congrats @CassBurdziak & @DirenaAC et al!!

@CassBurdziak

Cassandra Burdziak

1 year

our paper out today in ⁦ @ScienceMagazine ⁩ showing how plasticity in early cancer progression influences cells’ ability to communicate w/ their environment! huge thank you & congrats ⁦ @DirenaAC ⁩ ⁦⁦ @LoweLabMSKCC ⁩ ⁦ @dana_peer ⁩!

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Kal Tsanov

5 years

Great read on origins & milestones of cellular #reprogramming by @morris_lab ! My favorite part (besides the Methods describing accidental loss of a frog) is the elegant use of mutant frog nucleoli or naturally rearranged mouse nuclei as donor cell markers.

@morris_lab

Samantha Morris

5 years

In the 1800s, it was thought that cells lose genetic material as they differentiate, making differentiation irreversible. In 1958, John Gurdon challenged this notion to reset differentiated cells to early embryonic stages #Nature150 @NatureNV

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Kal Tsanov

1 year

A fantastic community -- apply! (int'l postdocs are eligible)

@JCChildsFund

Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund

1 year

The application cycle for the next round of Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research Postdoctoral Fellowships opens on October 10th. Please spread the word to postdocs (and soon to be postdocs) in biomedical sciences. 1/8

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Kal Tsanov

6 months

Great use of #AI -- cheers! 🙂🍻

@KevinVerstrepen

Kevin Verstrepen

@KevinVerstrepen

6 months

Our new paper “Predicting and improving complex #beer flavor through #MachineLearning learning” is out in @NatureComms ! Read how we used #AI to make #belgian 🍺 even better: Comments in @guardian @KU_Leuven @VIBLifeSciences

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Kal Tsanov

4 years

A new function for histones! 🤯

@VashKurdistani

Siavash Kurdistani

@VashKurdistani

4 years

After many long years filled w/ delight and disappointment, often in the same day, our paper on a new function of histones is out @ScienceMagazine ! Thx to incredible team @NarsisAttar @OA_Campos Maria Vogelauer @jencheng65 and many collaborators.

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Kal Tsanov

3 years

Congratulations to the amazing @DirenaAC & the other honorees!!

@BlavatnikAwards

Blavatnik Awards

@BlavatnikAwards

3 years

Announcing the 2021 Blavatnik Regional Awards Life Science Honorees 🏅 🏅 🏅 #NPAW2021 @DirenaAC @sloan_kettering @LoweLabMSKCC @MSKEducation @CpcrMsk @LukaMesin @victora_lab @RockefellerUniv @jiang_wenyan @ColumbiaScience @Columbia @nationalpostdoc

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Kal Tsanov

1 year

Way to go, Issy! Lucky to be working with you. 👏🙂 #excellence

@LoweLabMSKCC

Lowe Lab

1 year

Congratulations to grad student @Issy_DelPriore on successfully passing her qualifying exam! 👏🎉🥳 #PhDCandidate

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Kal Tsanov

2 years

Congrats Margaret, Caroline & Issy!!! Lucky to have you at @LoweLabMSKCC 👏👏👏

@LoweLabMSKCC

Lowe Lab

2 years

Proud of our amazing graduate students, ALL of whom were recently awarded competitive fellowships 🚀🚀🚀👇👇👇

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Kal Tsanov

6 years

Fantastic Day 2 of #tumour19 is over. Epigenetics, tumor evolution, metastasis, immunotherapy. Some highlights:

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Kal Tsanov

5 years

@aemonten Indeed. People often quote Seneca: "Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." True. But behind "preparation" & "opportunity" lie many random factors (what country/family were you born in, what education was accessible to you, etc). Humility is important.

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Kal Tsanov

5 years

What a brilliant & fun idea! Kids interview @sloan_kettering postdocs. 😁 #NPAW

@MSKEducation

MSK ScienceEducation

5 years

We continue the celebration of #MSKPostdocs for #NPAW . Check out this video, where our postdocs got grilled by kids with very hard Q’s such as ‘What do you want to do when you grow up?’ and ‘have you broken anything in lab?’ @sloan_kettering @MSKPDA 🤣😂

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Kal Tsanov

5 years

Indeed. Fantastic talk, beautiful work & inspiring story. Thanks, @DMSabatini !

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Kal Tsanov

5 years

Congrats @r_mezzadra & @Ghoshomy ! Love the team name too 😀

@CHM_MSKCC

CHM_MSKCC

5 years

Congrats to our research shark tank winners! @Ghoshomy from @DrMvandenBrink labs & @riccardo_mezzadra from @LoweLab ! AKA Team Spicy Pasta. Going home with 15K to support their novel collaborative heme research idea!

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Kal Tsanov

1 year

Amazing work with great potential for #PDAC treatment!

@TheVinodLab

Vinod BalachandranMD

1 year

1. ENTER #mRNAvaccines for #pancreaticcancer ! Long-term #PDAC survivor story PART3. "Do #PDACs REALLY have vaccine neoantigens (NAs)"? (aren’t they lowly mutated?) If each patient = own NAs, how do you vaccinate? Maybe mRNA? But how? @Nature 👇🏽 [1/32]

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Kal Tsanov

2 years

Congrats, Simon! Pleasure to contribute to this study that establishes a key role for #Hypoxia in driving the pro-tumorigenic #iCAF phenotype in #PancreaticCancer (and likely beyond).

@schwoerersimon

Simon Schwörer

@schwoerersimon

2 years

Excited to share the latest chapter of my work on how #CAFs adapt their phenotype to the metabolic conditions in the #PDAC #TME , in collaboration with @LoweLabMSKCC @carmofonlab @ktsanov @manon_ros . AND: proud of contributing the first EVER Thompson Lab pre-print! (1)

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Kal Tsanov

2 years

Another beautiful & insightful study by @whitefishlab . Super cool story that was a pleasure to see unfold at dept seminars/retreats. Congrats @Joshua_M_Weiss & team!

@whitefishlab

richard white

2 years

A longstanding question in cancer: why do tumors only form in certain locations in the body? In our new @nature paper (), we define anatomic position of the cell as a mechanism for this.

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Kal Tsanov

1 year

@dow_lab @LoweLabMSKCC @mcjunkin_lab @DickinsLab @johannes_zuber @KevinPORourke @AmaiaLujambio @CSHL @MSKCancerCenter An incredible weekend... (still processing). And a truly amazing & unique gift!

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Kal Tsanov

9 months

Big thanks to my close collaborators @JosefLeibold @TeamJJTueb & @corina_amor_MD @amor_lab , everyone else from @LoweLabMSKCC who contributed, and @JCChildsFund for supporting my postdoc training (3/4)

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Kal Tsanov

4 years

Congratulations, Tobi!

@CancerHacker

Tobiloba Oni

4 years

#BlackinCancerWeek #BlackinCancer Inspiring to see black scientists from all levels. And a great week to announce that my lab will launch in Feb 2021 @WhiteheadInst . We will develop new tools to understand and induce anti-tumor immunity in pancreatic cancer.

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Kal Tsanov

1 year

Great tribute to an amazing scientist & opportunity for biomed grad students outside of the US 👇

@kochinstitute

Koch Institute at MIT

1 year

Applications for the 2023 Angelika Amon Young Scientist Awards are closing on May 31. If you are a graduate student in life sciences or biomedical research at at non-U.S. institution and have a passion for discovery science, we encourage you to apply!

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Kal Tsanov

4 years

@dow_lab Is this a small incubator on the right? TC during rest times? :)

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