
Sebastian Waszak
@sebastianw
Assistant Professor @epfl | Associate Adjunct Professor @ucsf | Laboratory of Computational Neuro-Oncology | cancer genomics, digital pathology, ML/AI
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https://www.epfl.ch/labs/upwaszak/ 10-11-2007 14:58:54
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The blood-brain barrier prevents many cancer therapies from reaching brain tumors. This year, the UCSF Brain Tumor Center will be opening multiple clinical trials that use focused ultrasound to safely and temporarily disrupt this barrier: braintumorcenter.ucsf.edu/news/focused-u… UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Ctr


Access to new drugs in paediatric oncology: can we learn from the ongoing ONC201 saga? The Lancet Oncology #DunLab, #CSRG Uni Newcastle Research Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI) RUNDIPG thelancet.com/journals/lanon…



Happy to share our latest paper on self-supervised representation learning for live-cell microscopy with time arrow prediction (TAP). Great work by Ben Gallusser and Max Stieber ! arxiv.org/abs/2305.05511



Wonderful to see our work on (deep) learning how to classify tumor types with WGS/WES data published in Genome Medicine! Great effort by Prima Sanjaya and coauthors to validate the method in >10,000 whole cancer genomes. FIMM HelsinkiUni Applied Tumor Genomics (ATG) iCAN - Digital Precision Cancer Medicine genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Now online in Cancer Discovery: Clinical Efficacy of ONC201 in H3K27M-mutant Diffuse Midline Gliomas Is Driven by Disruption of Integrated Metabolic and Epigenetic Pathways Koschmann Lab Vennetilab doi.org/10.1158/2159-8… Michigan Medicine U-M Rogel Cancer Center C.S. Mott Children's #DMG #DIPG


Excited to finally share our work investigating the efficacy of ONC201 in patients with H3K27M-mutant diffuse midline glioma (#DMG) published today Cancer Discovery! A tweetorial explainer🧵below by co-author Sunny Ji:

Clinical efficacy of ONC201 in H3K27M-DMG, by Vennetilab, Abed Rahman Kawakibi, Sunjong Ji, Sebastian Waszak, Stefan Sweha, Mateus Mota, Matthew Pun, Sharon Gardner, Yazmin Odia, Koschmann Lab et al. bit.ly/3qKO7Vh Michigan Medicine U-M Rogel Cancer Center C.S. Mott Children's #DMG #DIPG


#PNOC_kids is excited to present at #SNO2023 on the combination of ONC201+paxalisib in children & young adults with DMGs after completing RT. Preliminary results show that immediate OS significantly exceeds control data. Chimerix, Inc. Kazia Therapeutics ChadTough Defeat DIPG Foundation PNOC Foundation SNO

November issue— Clinical efficacy of ONC201 in H3K27M-#DMG, by Vennetilab, Abed Rahman Kawakibi, MD, Sunjong Ji, Sebastian Waszak, Stefan Sweha, Mateus Mota, Matthew Pun, Sharon Gardner, Yazmin Odia, Koschmann Lab et al. bit.ly/3QZMhKv Michigan Medicine U-M Rogel Cancer Center C.S. Mott Children's #DIPG


Commencing #BrainTumorAwarenessMonth by gathering Pediatric Neuro-Oncology experts worldwide, with gratitude to Dana-Farber for hosting us! Appreciating all who joined, whether virtually or in person. Anticipating continued progress following a fruitful meeting! #BTAM #PNOC
