I was watching Lord of the Rings last night and realized there are many parallels with academia! A thread 🧵👇

Come by poster session B at #ASCOBT23 to discuss our work (abstract 58, poster D5) which uses a novel therapeutic probiotic in #PancreaticCancer MD Anderson Cancer Center Anirban Maitra Dr. Shubham Pant

Hot enough today in #Houston to heat shock outside! 🔥😭

Welcoming Sarah Ghalayini to the #TaniguchiLab for the PhD portion of her MDPhD journey. Presented her with her white coat yesterday! MD Anderson-UTH Grad MD Anderson Cancer Center McGovern Med School

I watched him welcome us, make sure we had ample opportunities to learn, teach us how to be confident and always made sure we knew we belonged. He emphasized how important it was that we knew what our representation in STEM brought to the table.

Thank you for sharing and trusting me with every crazy, exciting, and incredible idea. For believing in me, when I didn’t see my light. For changing my life for good and showing me to love and be passionate about science. I will always be grateful ❤️ Cullen Taniguchi, MD

Cullen Taniguchi, MD words will fall short to describe your brilliant soul & how much you meant to all of us. A truly rare mix of generosity, kindness, curiosity, brilliance, humility, integrity, optimism, wit, grit, goofiness, presence. Your shine is deeply missed. Mahalo, Sensei🖤🌺

These lessons are not unique to me, but will echo on from every one of his trainees, and the generations that they will train. We will keep trying to make him proud. Mahalo, Dr. T. Ramez Kouzy, MD Vince Bernard Pagan, MD PHD Carolina García García, MD, PhD Daniel Lin @MollyAlam Mari de la Cruz Bonilla, MD PhD Ayeisha N. Colon-Ortiz Ariana Acevedo-Diaz

Feeling a little homesick today so I think it’s only right to share this gem on my phone of the time I took Cullen Taniguchi, MD to eat mofongo in Puerto Rico earlier this year🇵🇷 #RememberingCT

This one has been hard to celebrate, but it was such a fun collaboration. Congratulations to Colleen Wu & Wendi Guo’s team on such a beautiful and impactful piece of work!! Missing you Cullen Taniguchi, MD #TeamHIF2

Bittersweet pub in The Lancet Oncology by the one and only Cullen Taniguchi, MD . A herculean effort that captured his enguiniety. - True translational science from bench to bedside - Collaboration between RT and pharm - Innovative Bayesian adaptive approach thelancet.com/journals/lanon…

🚨 ‼️ Applications now open for PAID summer science research opportunities MD Anderson Cancer Center for high school, undergrad, #gradstudents, #medstudents! One of my fave things is the excitement, creativity and fun of our summer lab students. mdanderson.org/education-trai…

Bittersweet first, first-author paper is out today. This review has been a rollercoaster and I wish I could share it with Cullen, but I knew how proud he was that it got accepted, and how proud he would be that I navigated the process without him. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Celebration of life today ⁦MD Anderson Cancer Center⁩ for Cullen Taniguchi. Amazing legacy as a physician and scientist but greatest impact will be on the trainees he mentored. #radonc #endcancer ⁦Percy Lee MD⁩ ⁦Anirban Maitra⁩ ⁦Prajnan Das, MD, MS, MPH⁩

Congrats to ⁦Lauren E. Colbert, MD MSCR⁩ and her team on their newly awarded ⁦CPRIT⁩ grant! ⁦Can’t wait to see the impact of this research on advancing cancer therapy for our patients. MD Anderson Cancer Center⁩ #endcancer #radonc

Multi-lab dinner to celebrate ⁦Lauren E. Colbert, MD MSCR⁩ lab’s first R01 and CPRIT award. Congrats! #radonc #endcancer ⁦MD Anderson Cancer Center⁩

Lab dinner to celebrate Ayeisha and Ariana’s acceptance to MSTP and cancer bio PhD programs. So proud of these two superstars! #radonc #endcancer ⁦MD Anderson Cancer Center⁩ ⁦Dadi Jiang⁩

couldn’t be prouder of these rising Puerto Rican scientists! lucky to be witness to their growth and can’t wait to see what they achieve. Ayeisha N. Colon-Ortiz Ariana Acevedo-Diaz

#RadOnc Olympics today MD Anderson Cancer Center! Strong showing by Koong lab team should challenge for the title. Looking to take down previous champs led by Jillian Gunther! #endcancer

Coming out party / preprint for Vince Bernard-Pagan, MD PHD who starts his faculty position MD Anderson Cancer Center in a week. This study identifies adaptive responses to radiation therapy in pancreatic cancer using single cell & spatial profiling, resulting in persister cell populations post XRT.