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Dr. Ron DePinho

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Devoted to #endcancer suffering. Scientist, Physician, Educator, Entrepreneur, Advocate. Professor & Past President @MDAndersonNews . Views expressed are my own

Houston, TX
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1 year
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!”
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I’d certainly vote for him. 😉
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6 years
My friend Jim Allison just received a call from @JoeBiden on his #NobelPrize announcement.
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Ring of fire #eclipse in San Antonio. Magnificent.
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2 years
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. 💪🖖
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Happy birthday @JimAllisonPhD . Your discoveries has produced many more birthdays for others. @PamSharmaMDPhD
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Celebrating ⁦ @JimAllisonPhD ⁩ birthday. Not many bands have two Nobel laureates ⁦ @CarolynBertozzi
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3 years
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
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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
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2 years
Hanging out with my 98 year old mommy. Happy Mother’s Day ❤️
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3 years
Any questions?
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3 years
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.
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Ninety seven years and going strong. My mom spends her day praying for all of her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. Pure goodness ❤️
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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
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The best Christmas gift. Spending time with blessed 98 year young mom. ❤️🎄
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2 years
So delighted that @mebottazzi & @PeterHotez have been nominated for the #NobelPeacePrize for their brilliant and compassionate work in developing #CovidVaccines for worldwide distribution. Bravo! 🙌🙏
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Masking up for the immunocompromised for whom the #covid #vaccine does not work. Be safe and #wearamask
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Happy birthday to the greatest mom! 98 years young and going strong. Proud to be your son. Love you mommy! ❤️❤️❤️
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Targeting alternative T cell checkpoints and myeloid suppressors reveals that #pancreascancer can be cured by #immunotherapy in faithful mouse models.
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My adorable 99 year old mommy. ❤️
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2 years
Move-in day for Joseph @BrownUniversity 🥲. Applied Math major. So proud of him and grateful for his gift of this totally ‘dad’ T shirt
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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 ❤️🇺🇸
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1 year
Congratulations to Celeste Simon UPenn for receiving the ⁦ @AACR ⁩ Lily Clowes memorial award.
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4 years
Let’s not get caught flatfooted, again: long term effects from #COVID19
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2 years
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.
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Why I exercise religiously
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2 years
Here for the exciting launch of the Allison Institute ⁦ @MDAndersonNews ⁩. Dawn of a new era in cancer cures for our patients.
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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
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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 💥
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So grateful to be blessed with three amazing kids on this Father’s Day ❤️
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2 years
@POTUS ⁩ Biden remembered my daughter’s names. Class act.
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2 years
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 🙏
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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.
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3 years
I can attest that a truly decent person will be our next President.
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2 years
@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. 👏💪🇺🇸
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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 🙏
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Hanging out with Captain Jim on a beautiful day on lake Conroe talking about T cells and life. @JimAllisonPhD @PamSharmaMDPhD
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Congratulations to ⁦ @DavidTuveson ⁩ ⁦ @CSHL ⁩ for his induction into ⁦ @theNAMedicine ⁩ for his critical contributions to pancreas cancer models. 👏👏
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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
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1 year
Wishing my mom a very happy Mother’s Day. God willing we will soon celebrate her 99th birthday ❤️
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3 years
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!
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@BeschlossDC Gotta love this letter on Mother’s Day!❤️
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#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
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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.
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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. 🙏
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The end of the beginning … off to @BrownUniversity
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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
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Wonderful to hang out with an amazing person and scholar ⁦ @leonard_zon ⁩ ⁦ @harvardmed ⁩. Congratulations on election to the ⁦ @theNASciences ⁩ 👏👏
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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.
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ZERO! Cases of cervical cancer among nearly 30,000 Scottish women, ages 24 to 32, vaccinated as girls against #HPV , a virus which causes the cancer.
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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.
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The one an only THE EDGE. A truly gifted artist and wonderful person. 🙏
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5 years
At the @EIHonors ceremony with my friend @drsanjaygupta . Congratulations for receiving the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
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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 👏
@MDAndersonNews
MD Anderson Cancer Center
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A preclinical study revealed that KRAS regulates a Y chromosome gene driving metastasis and reducing anti-tumor immunity, offering novel insights into the sex-based disparities in #ColorectalCancer outcomes. @RonDePinho @JiexiLiPhD @Nature #KRAS #EndCancer
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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
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My birthday ride (one day early). Beautiful sunny 70 degree day in #Houston . Slow but steady. Grateful to be healthy 🙏
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2 years
Symposium honoring Doug Hanahan who has all of the hallmarks of a great scientist, mentor and colleague. Thank you ⁦ @Johanna_A_Joyce ⁩ ⁦ @CoukosGeorge ⁩ 👏👏
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Annual birthday bike ride #65yearsyoung
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One of his great qualities... he listens
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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.
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Nothing more beautiful than biology
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That’s earth from Mars. We are a spec of stardust riding thru the universe.
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Stunning beauty. Torres del Paine, Chile.
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Grateful to ⁦ @katyperry ⁩ for supporting public health. 🙏
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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.
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Here ⁦ @theNAMedicine ⁩ with one of its newest members and inspiration to many women scientists. #nobel
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4 years
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.
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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.
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@ednacukierman ⁩ ⁦ @UNC_Lineberger ⁩ cancer center annual symposium. Rock star in defining the role of the stromal fibroblasts in the tumor microenvironment.
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Congratulations to ⁦ @kevansf ⁩ for the ⁦⁦ @theNASciences ⁩ award recognizing his breakthrough development of the KRAS inhibitor for #cancer . 👏
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Major breakthrough in our #COVID19 battle.
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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
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2 years
Good memories with my friend ⁦ @katyperry
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5 years
Here in #Stockholm to see @MDAndersonNews Jim Allison receive the @NobelPrize tomorrow for his lifesaving work in #immunotherapy . Very exciting moment for all cancer researchers and patients. #endcancer #NobelPrize
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@MaraShermanLab ⁩ delivers a phenomenal talk on the role of pancreatic stellate cells in #pancreatic #cancer @aacr #aacr24 . Elegant, impactful work 👏👏👏
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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 😷
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I survived my bday ride of 69 miles 😰
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Doing SOUL MAN with the one and only - my bro man - ⁦ @JimAllisonPhD ⁩ and the amazingly talented ⁦ @CarolynBertozzi ⁩ on the keyboard 😎
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Dr. Ron DePinho
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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 🙏❤️
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Anti-science condemns us to suffer tremendous losses from SARS-CoV2.
@PeterHotez
Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD
4 years
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?
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@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.
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Grateful to my biking brothers who inspired me to finish my 68 mile bday ride. 🙏🚴‍♂️
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@AACR ⁩ lifetime achievement award Tony Hunter ⁦ @salkinstitute ⁩ Many lives saved thanks to his his genius and discovery of tyrosine phosphorylation leading to TKIs. #endcancer 👏🙏
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Four generations from 9 months to 99 years. Love you mom ❤️
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Getting ready to celebrate mom’s 99th birthday! Pictured here with four generations.
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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 🙏
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Something ain’t right when the #covid virus is afforded more reproductive rights than women in #texas .
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2 years
Hard to fathom that my boy is now all grown up and on his way to ⁦ @BrownUniversity ⁩. Missing him already 🥲
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Cervical cancer can be eliminated. We must do more to prevent this deadly disease
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5 years
Photos after the #NobelPrize with Jim Allison, Pam Sharma, Robert Allison, Fred Alt and @LyndaChin
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A new day. Beautiful sunrise over Brooklyn. I ❤️ NY.
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My visceral response to reviewer #3 has left me frozen.
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Dr. Ron DePinho
1 year
Having no friends is as deadly as smoking. Being with happy people makes you happier. And, finally, life is short, drink good wine. 🍷
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Dr. Ron DePinho
2 years
My hero, my dad, our veteran (WWII). Miss him every day. 🇺🇸
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Dr. Ron DePinho
3 years
I'm pleased to share our review on "Metabolic Codependencies in the #Tumor Microenvironment" in @CD_AACR , together with exceptional #cancer scholars @prasenjitdey and @aleckimmelman .
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Dr. Ron DePinho
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A beautiful mind who illuminated the path for women in science, unleashing the genius of half of humanity. Her greatest impact. 🙏👏
@NRGonc
NRG Oncology
2 years
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
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"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 👏
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