Awesome news: “This year, the PD Soros Fellowships Fellowship was awarded to 30 graduate students, including Abigail Jiang, who graduated from Caltech in 2023 with a double major in materials science and history, and is now studying applied physics at Harvard University.” pdsoros.org/meet-the-fello…

Very excited to have Dennis Lo deliver the opening address at the NIH #LiquidBiopsy conference that I’m co-chairing with All-⭐️s Adam Sowalsky Bruna Pellini, MD Aaron Newman Lab.

Should be one heck of a conference! See you there/then National Cancer Institute in Bethesda!!

I’m grateful to be on the programming committee & chair the ECI Council for Radiation Research Society. All I can say is: This is turning out to be a great meeting. So submit your abstracts by Wed!!

Mayo Clinic Radiation Oncology

Congrats, Jeff (and a huge win for your team Aadel Chaudhuri, MD PhD !)! So excited to keep working with you in your new role!

The 3 hardest things to learn as a scientist:
1. Trust the data, even when it’s not what you expected,
2. Trust the data, allowing it to change your direction,
3. Trust the data, but not too much: test with new data at every turn.

Mark your calendars! 🗓️ April 17th is just around the corner, and we can't wait to unveil the remarkable individuals selected as the 2024 #PDSoros Fellows! Get ready to be inspired by their extraordinary journeys & impactful contributions. Stay tuned for the big announcement! 🎉

The most important aspect of creativity and innovation is not being afraid to fail.

As noted in this STAT article, supporting early-career cancer researchers is a top priority. I want to encourage young people to stay in this field, bring others along, and together, change the experience of everyone touched by cancer. #AACR24 go.nih.gov/FsTITck

Tune in!

Comprehensive roundup of where ctDNA fits into lung cancer guidelines right now from Prof Natasha Leighl at the All-Ireland Lung Cancer Conference

Value is clear for upfront testing alongside tissue...

Next stops... Maybe MRD after surgery? Teatment monitoring during XRT?

.Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center director @cherylwillmanmd is part of NCI Disparities’s newly established team of Cancer Equity Leaders. This diverse group of cancer leaders will reimagine and transform the future of cancer #HealthEquity . Learn more: bit.ly/49zzAMv

Been following the Coldwater Creek story in St. Louis for a while & wondered how we could use next-gen liquid biopsy ctDNA testing to detect cancer cases in at-risk communities.

So Nick Semenkovich, MD PhD, Gautum Agarwal & I wrote a paper on this overall topic coming out in JAMA Oncology. Stay tuned!

The new Kellen Research Building Mayo Clinic is pretty remarkable. Ultra-modern & highly functional. Fully dedicated to biomedical research.

Grateful to be there!!

The first-ever NIH-wide conference on liquid biopsies will feature lunchtime interactive sessions on clinical implementation. Foundation Medicine's Dave Fabrizio and AstraZeneca's Diana Vega will discuss molecular residual disease! Registration is required: ncifrederick.cancer.gov/events/confere…

I love this team!!

Fun to hangout with them at #AACR24 & see how incredibly far they’ve come. #GreatData

Onward my friends!

José P. Zevallos, MD, MPH, FACS