What a great surprise! Thank you Gretchen Vaughan Kidney Cancer So grateful and excited to be a part of this #WiRCC #kidneycancer community and can’t wait to sport my orange! 🧡

Very cool- using bacteria to boost immunotherapy. They produce large amounts of arginine giving a continuous boost to T-cells. And when injected the bacteria preferentially find their way to tumors! Engineered Bacteria Make Tumors More T Cell-Friendly the-scientist.com/news-opinion/e…

Congrats to Rishi Sekar and Kassem S Faraj ! Two of our amazing Dow Division HSR YUO fellows. Come check out their work at #GU24 next week!

Read our recent work from APSA about the importance of diversifying the physician-scientist workforce in Nature Medicine! #DoubleDocs #DiverseDoubleDocs #MedEd @dcarrot2 Cynthia Tang, PhD Alex Serafini, PhD/MHA Carey Jansen, MD PhD Micaila Curtis Anthony Chesebro Alex Waldman, DPhil nature.com/articles/s4159…

Happy to share our recent work let by postdoc verenalink (she/her) published today in Nature Medicine. 👩‍🔬🥳Ketogenic and vegan diet differentially impact human immune system, microbiome and metabolism. (1/7) 🧵👇 nature.com/articles/s4159…

Awesome science and incredible leader/mentor! I’m already jealous of whoever takes this position💫

SAGES is in Long Beach in 2025! Geeta Lal Jenny Shao, MD, FACS (she/her) Society of Surgical Ergonomics Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD Jorge Zárate, MD 🔹Surgeons with smaller glove size struggle w existing instruments👉🏻 pain/strain/cognitive load 🔹Effect of small hand size not same for male vs female surgeons ⚠️Objective data: "firing the stapler by gripping the proximal side of the lever was defined as “physically impossible”

I’m overwhelmed by the amount of outreach I’ve received about this article. When my husband asked why I continue to write, I said it’s so that I (WE) feel a little less alone. I hope you feel seen. You are good enough. #pedsICU JAMA jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

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 jci.org/articles/view/…

How amazing is our 🌟 of UM Urology Residency Program chief Alex Zhu giving a plenery on RCT on optimal hydrodistention technique #AUA24 ✅ degree of sx relief 🟰 across pressures, duration, and # of distentions ➡️ Should we opt for low P, short duration?

This meant so much to me. Thankful to Amer. Urol. Assn. , the judges and organizers for supporting early career investigators. And my mentors Michigan Urology Saint Louis University Urology Residency Program. So much incredible research going on in the field of urology. I hope to live up to it UVA Urology!

Thanks to Amer. Urol. Assn. for this honor! It really is a TEAM award, a recognition of our: trainees, staff, colleagues, collaborators…I am truly grateful to ALL of my mentors over the years; special mention of Todd 〽️ Morgan, MD Ganesh Palapattu for your amazing mentorship!

Female Chairs of Urology Departments Society of Women in Urology - SWIU @swiuorg

Powerful Grand Rounds talk on DEI in urology by Efe Chantal Ghanney Simons. This quote really struck me. We need to assess the systems in place, assign value to and put resources behind the work to improve them. Incredible work and presentation! 💫

'...it’s vital that we don’t become complacent or tokenistic, believing that by appointing a doctor with a specific trope of intersectionality we’ve solved wider workplace problems of poor diversity and representation.' So well written Clara Munro !👏 #ILookLikeASurgeon 💪

Aviv Regev on collaborations: be generous with your ideas, your abilities, with resources that you have, your time, your mindset... And when everyone in a collaboration behaves in this way, then of course, it's a lot of fun. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/avi… The Night Science Podcast

ICYMI @nih directors testify to the US Senate Dr. Kimryn Rathmell (🙂) NIHDirector Jeanne Marrazzo . NIH Institutes do amazing work to support health, discovery, and develop the medical workforce -- worth the investment and more

We are thrilled to welcome our newly matched 2025 SUO Fellows!

Whoever believes that cancer has been mechanistically understood, could not be further away from the truth New study adds evidence to the intricate link between breast cancer spread & the nervous system (!) Tumor cells use sensing nerves (touch, feel etc) to metastasize faster.

1/5: Are large and small kidney cancers genomically the same? Of course not! But do small ccRCCs with aggressive mutations behave worse? Almost certainly. Read our publication in BJU International : doi.org/10.1111/bju.16… A collaborative effort of Michigan Urology and UC Davis Urology