Study leverages population level data from the TriNetX database. Primary TORS demonstrated increased risk of short-term dysphagia. Primary RT/CRT showed an increased risk of short and long-term PEG dependence as well as worse 5y overall survival. ja.ma/44kr16f #AHNS2023

#WiMW Today we spotlight Dr. Seerat Poonia! She recently completed her last year of training at umiamient and is one of our former #residENTs. We wish her luck in all her future endeavors and are excited to follow her journey! ♥️🩺 #WomeninMedicine #WiM #WomeninHealthcare

FOR ENT APPLICANTS! Come meet our great Penn faculty and residents at our virtual info session next Thursday (8/31) Register here: bit.ly/PennENT2024

I just hope people learned more about Taylor Swift than GLUT1!! Thank you to UPenn Physiology for letting me share a side project that I’ve been working on. Thank you to @robleelab and Ryan Carey, MD for your unconditional support!!

Congrats to Kimberly Wei Penn Medicine MS2 on her research on bitter taste receptors in medullary thyroid cancer presented at UPenn AWS research symposium! Thank you to Dr. Zoey Miller @robleelab Penn Otorhinolaryngology for the strong teamwork. Big things ahead for Kim!

In a new preclinical study out today in Cell Reports, researchers Ryan Carey, MD @robleelab and Dr. Zoey Miller show how lidocaine may be able to kill cancer cells by activating a bitter taste receptor commonly found in head and neck cancers. Penn Otorhinolaryngology spr.ly/6010ufTup

Scientists find anesthetic kills cancer cells via unique mechanisms newsweek.com/scientists-ane…

A Big Congrats to Dr. Tiffany Chao, winner of Penn Pearls Teaching Award. Chosen by the Medical Students at Penn, there is no higher honor for a Perelman School of Medicine Faculty! @penn_ent @pennmedicine

Amazing having the lab over! What an inspiring group to work with @robleelab Penn Otorhinolaryngology Penn Medicine

Findings from a study showed that T2R14 is particularly elevated in head and neck squamous cell carcinomas associated with the HPV, suggesting that lidocaine may have potential as a novel therapeutic agent for #cancer. Penn Otorhinolaryngology Ryan Carey, MD Penn Medicine targetedonc.com/view/lidocaine…

It is Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Month! Special thanks to our own Anna Bottoms who has put together our Penn Otorhinolaryngology effort to help our current patients through their treatment journey and research cures to help future patients!

Penn OTO had a memorable experience this year at #COSM2024, where amazing work was shared by our department and our collaborators. Congratulations to Kimberly Wei and her poster on bitter taste receptors in thyroid cancer which won the AHNS best poster award! 👏🤩 COSM

Exciting day sharing our research from Penn Otorhinolaryngology @robleelab on taste receptors in head and neck cancer with our friends University of Maryland Medical Center

Impressive poster by Sarah Sywanycz showing off her work on novel head and neck cancer signaling! Making us all proud Penn Otorhinolaryngology @robleelab @IDEAL_Research

Lab social chair Dr. Zoey Miller coordinated another fun event to cap off a productive summer “Biopond, Beverages and Bites” @robleelab Penn Otorhinolaryngology

Promoting our rapidly expanding investments in basic, translational, and clinical science related to HPV+ oropharynx cancer at Penn. Ahmed Diab Nick Lukens Lova Sun pennmedicine.org/updates/blogs/…

Promotion alert! Congrats to Dr. Robert Brody for his well-deserved promotion to Associate Professor @penn_ent !

Excited to now be enrolling patients in our clinical trial using lidocaine for head and neck cancer, motivated by work from our lab @robleelab Dr. Zoey Miller showing potential anticancer effects. A testament to the bench to bedside mission Penn Otorhinolaryngology clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06747…

Lily Huang, UPenn Med student mentored by Ryan Carey, summarizes a BST webinar buff.ly/TuC2D4T Understanding the complex Immune cell dynamics within the tumor and draining lymph nodes is critical for improving immunotherapy response in mucosal head and neck cancer #AHNS

New research out in JAMA Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery provides insight into immunotherapy utilization outcomes in distantly metastatic head & neck squamous cell carcinoma ft. Neel Singhal, Robert Brody, Ryan Carey, MD (Penn Otorhinolaryngology), Iulia Tapescu & Praneet Kaki (Penn Medicine) jamanetwork.com/journals/jamao…