Out for a ride with my buddies today 🚵

One person with COVID-19 can infect one to three others, one person with measles can infect as many as *18* other susceptible individuals

The Wild Wild West of 'stem cells' - Utah flouts #FDA with law greenlighting placental stem cell therapies, not afraid to endanger patient health and financial toxicity science.org/content/articl…

Been there, but didn't have this view 👇

2012: Emily Whitehead is 1st person to be treated and cured using CAR-T (by Carl June Stephan Grupp MD PhD and Penn Medicine CMC team Bruce Levine, Ph.D. 🇺🇦).
2024: 35,000 patients treated with CAR-T + TCR-T.
No better #yeswecan story in our field.
HUGE motivator / example for us CRISPR cures people.

PSA if you are driving, likely you cannot feel a 4.8 magnitude earthquake

Penn Medicine’s own #CARTcelltherapy pioneer Carl June sits down with Katie Couric, co-founder of Stand Up To Cancer, to discuss the captivating story behind the award-winning film “Of Medicine and Miracles.”
Jolt Emily Whitehead Foundation

My blog post on these papers: sugarconebiotech.com/insights/recen…

Three GBM CAR papers within a week shows progress in solid tumors

We are happy to share that today, Rick Slayman, our first patient to ever receive a genetically edited pig kidney transplant, has been discharged from the hospital. He is recovering well and will continue to recuperate at home with his family.

The hearts + minds of ASGCT's leadership, staff and volunteers are with Baltimore following the tragic collapse of the Key Bridge. Ahead of #ASGCT2024 next month, we encourage our community to support families who lost loved ones and the city itself through 2 relief funds.

I'm disappointed that Best In Class Therapeutics did not make it in the tournament