Devoted to
#endcancer
suffering. Scientist, Physician, Educator, Entrepreneur, Advocate. Professor & Past President
@MDAndersonNews
. Views expressed are my own
It’s 3 AM. A wife angrily awaits for her scientist husband to come home. He returns, she demands “where have you been!?” He says, “my colleagues went out for drinks, we met some flirty women and one thing led to another.
Wife says, “LIAR! You were in the lab again weren’t you!”
I completed my BDAY bike-my-age ride. 67 miles. Absolutely everything in my body hurts except perhaps my pride. 😊 I hope to stay healthy for my family, my lab, and the patients we serve. 💪🖖
U.S. physicians are reporting that virtually all hospitalized
#COVID
patients are unvaccinated. Don't be the last person to die from this virus or cause the death of another. Please
#GetVaccinated
Women are 2X more likely than men to die after receiving a combo of cancer immunotherapy drugs (checkpoint inhibitors). It’s not clear if the difference is due to side effects or because the treatment isn't working. We need more research on sex-specific differences in
#cancer
For CAR-T to be successful in solid tumors, we need to solve key issues: increase trafficking of CAR-Ts to the tumor, maintain T cell viability, improve regimens for CAR-T expansion, and dampen immune suppressive mechanisms in the tumor microenvironment.
My dad. My hero. Grew up poor. No education. WWII frontlines in Italy. Returned to live the American dream, own business and put all 5 kids thru college.
#GreatestGeneration
#GodBlessAmerica
Remembering my beloved dad and hero today. Fought for freedom on the front lines in the fierce battle of Monte Cassino. Only one in his company to survive. God bless you dad ❤️🇺🇸
Identification of tumor-reactive T cells using phenotypic markers is established in treatment-naive tumors.
@NatureCancer
paper shows CXCL13 is a robust marker that identifies tumor-reactive T cells before and after ICB, tracking with treatment response.
Twenty years ago, NCI program officer Suresh Mohla pushed for support of research focused on the TME. The prevailing view at the time was dominated by cancer genomics and cancer cell intrinsic hallmarks. He prevailed and here we are. Thank you for your vision Suresh!
@theNCI
The current issue of
@Cancer_Cell
on a holistic view of cancer - featuring a series of state of the art reviews on the entirety of the tumor ecosystem - is absolute dynamite 💥
So pleased and proud to see
@POTUS
Biden relaunch the
#cancermoonshot
. A bit of history: I recall fondly our long talk about the idea a year before his rose garden announcement when he was Vice President. Lives will be saved by research and his vision 🙏
Another year passes. Completed my birthday ritual of biking my age. And, yes, I’m feeling it! Got some drafting help from my awesome friends half way through to bring it home.
@POTUS
Biden will deliver remarks about the "Cancer Moonshot" today on the 60th anniversary of JFK’s "We choose to go to the moon" speech. JFK’s vision was the inspiration for
@MDAndersonNews
Cancer
#Moonshot
, leading to major advances for
#cancer
patients. 👏💪🇺🇸
Sad beyond words of the passing of my friend and cancer warrior, Jose Baselga. He was a major force that made precision cancer medicine a reality. His brilliance and courage saved many lives. Rest In Peace 🙏
Truly impressive results for Belzufifan (HIF inhibitor) prompts
@US_FDA
approval of the first drug for Von Hippel-Lindau-associated tumors. Great example of basic science illuminating lifesaving options for our patients. Bravo Bill Kaelin
@DanaFarber
Although we've cut cancer deaths significantly over 30 years, too many people still suffer and die. Cancer remains the 2nd leading cause of U.S. deaths. This year, almost 2M new cases will be diagnosed and over 600,000 people will die. We can win this war!
#Covid
variants XBB and BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 are spreading around the world.
@PeterHotez
's advice for parents: Make sure kids are up to date on their vaccines ... the new bivalent COVID boosters for kids as well as shots for flu and pneumococcus.
#axiosvitals
My beloved 96 year old mom finally got her first
#covidvaccine
in NY. Relieved. We tried multiple times per day to make this happen. NY needs to do better for its citizens.
Sad news. The passing of a friend and icon dr. Emil Freireich. He served
@MDAndersonNews
for 50 years and transformed the care of childhood leukemia. A life that saved many. 🙏
Harald zur Hausen, virologist who linked viruses to cancer (1936–2023). A true gentelman whose genius saved millions of lives with his work on
#HPV
which ultimately led to the
#Vaccine
Very proud of my former postdoc
@BoyiGan
@MDAndersonNews
who is now a leader in ferroptosis and doing his part to train the next generation. His lab is a great one to join.
Thank you to the entire team who collaborated on this important study. Targeting T cell checkpoints 41BB and LAG3 and myeloid cell CXCR1/CXCR2 results in antitumor immunity and durable response in pancreatic cancer.
Very proud to share the amazing work of Jiexi Li, a rock star graduate student
@MDAndersonNews
, whose intelligence and determination answered a long standing mystery in cancer biology
@Nature
👏
Presence of alternative immune checkpoints 41BB and LAG3, combined with CXCR1/2 inhibitor, can reprogram the highly suppressive immune microenvironment of pancreas cancer.
@NatureCancer
#PancreaticCancer
#immunotherapy
Symposium honoring Doug Hanahan who has all of the hallmarks of a great scientist, mentor and colleague. Thank you
@Johanna_A_Joyce
@CoukosGeorge
👏👏
I took Alexis to Biden’s Xmas party in 2015, then 11 months later at MD Anderson’s 75th celebration, I brought alexis to our table and he said “alexis how have you been? I miss you”. He made a 15 year old girl feel respected and special. A truly good man.
Ultrasensitive detection of circulating LINE-1 ORF1p as a specific multi-cancer biomarker. Accurate, fast and cheap ($3) assay detected this endogenous retroviral protein ORF1p in blood of patients with a variety of cancers: Ovarian, esophageal, CRC, etc.
The
#1
cancer preventive is you. Practice a healthy lifestyle; avoid smoking, eat a good diet, get plenty of exercise and sleep, and practice stress management.
Jim Allison has been a good friend and colleague for decades. I am so happy he won the
#NobelPrize
for his groundbreaking work in
#Immune
therapy. Honored to be with him in
#NYC
for the announcement. His science and passion has saved and will continue to save many lives.
@ednacukierman
@UNC_Lineberger
cancer center annual symposium. Rock star in defining the role of the stromal fibroblasts in the tumor microenvironment.
A new class of molecules designed by Gerry Crabtree and Nat Gray which can tether cancer drivers to transcriptional activators to turn on pro-apoptotic gene expression. Very creative.
@Nature
Getting my shot at life. Wonderful to see the great team spirit of our
@MDAndersonNews
vaccinators who are saving lives
#COVID19vaccine
. Remember that vaccines don’t save lives, VACCINATIONS save lives.
#VaccinesWork
😷
Deeply saddened to share that beloved colleague and respected scientist Judy Campisi has passed away. Groundbreaking discoveries in aging, devoted mentor, generous colleague, and incredible friend. She was the heart of the aging field. She will be missed 🙏❤️
How does this even make any sense? It was a real honor for me to work with the White House Office of Science & Tech Policy when I served as US Science Envoy in the Obama Administration 2015-16. Hate to think that office became contaminated like the CoV Task Force?
@WHO
OKs low-cost
#COVIDVACCINE
developed
@TexasChildrens
@bcmhouston
. Notably, its developers didn’t seek patent protection and freely licensed it to Biological E Limited, a global vaccine supplier based in India. $1.90 per dose. Bravo
@PeterHotez
& team to help the forgotten.
@AACR
lifetime achievement award Tony Hunter
@salkinstitute
Many lives saved thanks to his his genius and discovery of tyrosine phosphorylation leading to TKIs.
#endcancer
👏🙏
So excited to return to my
#bronx
roots to give a seminar at
@EinsteinMed
. I owe much to the caring and gifted mentors of this special institution 🙏
If clinically validated this RAS G12D inhibitor will be a game changer for many cancer patients.
@MDAndersonNews
@MiratiTx
strategic research and
development collaboration in solid tumors
Today is Marie Curie's birthday. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win 2 Nobel Prizes & whose groundbreaking research led to the development of
#radiotherapy
. We celebrate Marie & all the amazing women working in radiation oncology.
#WomenWhoCurie
"Harnessing the Power of Discovery"
@CD_AACR
editors affirm commitment to publishing fundamental insights into cancer biology, recognizing the importance of basic science, which forms the foundation for translational and clinical studies. Bravo 👏