Beautiful commentary - I particularly like the figure below that juxtaposes data from #IMmotion151 from Robert Motzer MD et al against data from #JAVELIN100 from Renee Maria Saliby Toni Choueiri, MD David Braun et al. Very nicely done, Chadi Hage Chehade Neeraj Agarwal, MD, FASCO Huntsman Cancer Institute!

Please join for what promises to be a fabulous session at the ASCO annual meeting! Promises to be an excellent discussion full of opportunities and action steps to reduce barriers for #IMGs in oncology. #ASCO24

Of 30 patients with severe #SickleCellDisease who were treated with gene-edited autologous hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells, 29 were free from vaso-occlusive crises for at least 12 consecutive months. Read the full CLIMB SCD-121 study results: nej.md/3UvzPDT

mtDNA heteroplasmy dynamics are so complex, even paradoxical. To understand why, we combined precise mtDNA editing w/a new method SCI-LITE. In dividing cells, selection (not drift) acts on cell (not intracellular) fitness to shape population heteroplasmy. rdcu.be/dFDCY

We had a successful webinar today with wonderful advice from our speakers. If you miss it or simply just want to look back, please follow IMG Oncologists and H.O.M.E Mentorship Program. The links to the recorded webinar and summary will be published on twitter.

Get ready for an exciting webinar! 🎉 IMG Oncologists H.O.M.E Mentorship Program We're just a few hours away from diving into the world of J1 visa waivers and O1 visas, plus answering your immigration questions! 🤔 Our expert panel is ready to share their knowledge and real-time experiences…

Tomorrow! J1 visa webinar for oncologists pursuing academic career!

Join us at the webinar by ASCO IMG CoP - Visa, Mentorship & Advocacy Committee, focusing on J1 visa waiver processes for those interested in academia!
- Types of waivers
- J1 to O2 transitions
📅April 23rd, 6 PM EST
Looking forward to seeing all those interested!!

Daniel Heng with a thorough and systemic overview of the biology and treatment outcomes in translocation RCC. Some initial excellent work from Ziad Bakouny, MD, MSc Srinivas Viswanathan highlight, but clear that additional work is needed in this disease. #IKCSEU24 Kidney Cancer

Excited to announce! 🎉 Mark your calendars for the ASCO #IMG Community of Practice Meeting at #ASCO24
🕰️Fri 5/31, 4-6 PM CST at Room S103 McCormick Place.
Looking forward to coming together to celebrate IMGs and discuss ways to support each other. Join us!
Ziad Bakouny, MD, MSc…

Cannot wait for this IMG Oncologists event at #ASCO24 !

Please join us at McCormick Place, Room S103, May 31st 4-6 PM CST.
Full agenda coming soon!
Nazli Dizman Toni Choueiri, MD The ASCO Post @ASCO MSK Department of Medicine Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Such important data for patients with RCC! #KEYNOTE564
Congratulations Toni Choueiri, MD Tom Powles and all investigators!
NEJM

I am absolutely thrilled to be joining the editorial team at JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics for a 5-year term as an Associate Editor. I cannot think of a better team to work with!
SanjayAnejaMD Madhu Behera, PhD Russell Rockne Umit Topaloglu Aakash Desai, MD, MPH

Consider sending us your clinical informatics papers!…

Very happy that Melissa M Wolf's paper on how loss of VHL in kidney cancer cells reshapes the tumor immune microenvironment to recruit suppressive macrophages & point to a new immunotherapy target in RCC is out in Journal of Clinical Investigation
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
VUMC_VCI
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Honored to work alongside this truly incredible team. Supporting, nurturing and *celebrating* #IMGs journey by engaging with program directors and others is an important charge and we are excited for the work ahead! IMG Oncologists #MedEd #OncMedEd

In a new article now online, David Aggen & Jonathan Rosenberg discuss the intratumoural T cell-to-stroma enrichment score as a predictor of immunotherapy response in urothelial carcinoma: nature.com/articles/s4157…

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Delighted to share our recent publication Journal of Clinical Investigation on the new function of VHL on regulating m6A signaling and mRNA stability in ccRCC tumorigenesis. 1/n

Excited to be on this inaugural committee and work with an inspiring team to improve the #IMG journey during their training! A big thanks to Nazli Dizman Toni Choueiri, MD Ziad Bakouny, MD, MSc

🎉📢It’s our immense pleasure to introduce you to ASCO #IMG CoP - Visa, Advocacy, and Mentorship
Committee. We aim to navigate visa complexities and advocate for policies that welcome diversity. 🤝

Lei Deng, MD (He/Him) Kriti Mittal, MD Masood Pasha Syed MBBS MD Tulsi Jose, MD ASCOTECAG