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Our team at The Halvorsen Center for Computational Oncology has an open position for an experienced AI scientist to work on multimodal analyses of real-world cancer data. Please apply using this link, or forward to others who may be interested. social.icims.com/viewjob/pt1722…

New research from American Cancer Society shows a rise in incidence of certain cancers, such as #coloncancer and #uterinecancer, in young adults and is potentially due to early changes in the environment. MSK's Dr. Andrea Cercek shares her thoughts for CNN Health. cnn.com/2024/07/31/hea…

The 10 biggest medical research papers from this week (🧵) 1. A high resolution structure of the dopamine transporter - key to Parkinson's, schizophrenia, and addiction Here's what it looks like bound to cocaine, one of its ligands (in orange) (Study: nature.com/articles/s4158…)

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During National Postdoc Appreciation Week, we post social cards and profiles to celebrate our remarkable #MSKPostdocs (MSKPDA). A week is not enough, so we dedicate ALL of September to our outstanding scientists! Stay tuned to learn more about them. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center #NPAW2024🎉

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Meet #MSKPostdoc Sharafudeen Abubakar (Sharaf) from the Francisco Sanchez-Vega Lab. Sharafudeen is a computational oncologist who studies tumor evolution of colorectal cancer and the disparities in its outcomes. 🇳🇬#NPAW2024

Congratulations to all our 10 Postdoc Slam finalists 👏 You all were FANTASTIC! and we got to learn about the amazing and diverse work you do here Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center as #MSKPostdocs MSKPDA. You all gave our judges some hard work to pick up the winners 🤗

Meet #MSKPostdoc Martina Milighetti (Martina Milighetti) from the labs of Vinod BalachandranMD & Benjamin D. Greenbaum. Martina uses computational methods to understand the immune response to personalized mRNA vaccines 💉 in pancreatic cancer to improve clinical outcomes. 🇮🇹#NPAW2024

The AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities will convene in Los Angeles today with a keynote address from Melissa B. Davis. The next four days will highlight the latest advances in cancer disparities research and strategies to eliminate them. #AACRdisp24

#AACRdisp24 cochair Melissa B. Davis discussed "The Grand Challenge of Cancer Disparities: Progress, Challenges, and the Path Forward" in a keynote address to open the AACR Conference on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities. Melissa B Davis, PhD

Day 3 of the AACR Conference on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities—which includes sessions on the roles of AI in eliminating cancer disparities and community engagement in advancing health equity—will begin soon in Los Angeles. #AACRdisp24

It was a pleasure to present at the 17th AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved #AACRdisp2024. Special thanks to Melissa B Davis, PhD for inspiration & motivation. Appreciation goes to Francisco Sanchez-Vega Henry Walch

The final day of the AACR Conference on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities will feature sessions on cancer survivorship as well as environmental justice and cancer disparities. #AACRdisp24

Scotland has detected no cases of cervical cancer in women born between 1988-1996 who were fully vaccinated against HPV between the ages of 12 and 13. statnews.com/2024/01/25/hpv…

Biggest medical discoveries of the week (🧵) 1/10 The world's first autologous stem cell transplant for type 1 diabetes, in a 25-yo woman After 1 year, she was independent from insulin, with improved blood sugar control (Study: cell.com/cell/abstract/…)

Biggest medical discoveries of the week (🧵) 1/10 A complete map of the fruit fly brain - the biggest and most detailed to date 140,000 neurons, which connect through 55 million synapses to permit vision, movement, and memory formation (nature.com/articles/s4158…)

NAD is considered a longevity molecule It decreases with age and low levels of NAD accelerate the hallmarks of aging But most people go about raising NAD levels the wrong way Here's a thread about how to maximize your natural NAD production and minimize its loss⬇️⬇️

The Tirosh Lab has another gem of a preprint. The Curated Cancer Cell Atlas: comprehensive characterisation of tumours at single-cell resolution biorxiv.org/content/10.110… ~125 datasets from across 40 cancer types, comprising ~2900 samples. 3CA website: weizmann.ac.il/sites/3CA/

Biggest medical discoveries of the week (🧵) 1/10 Why does caloric restriction boost lifespan? This study of ~1,000 mice finds (surprisingly) it's less to do with lowering fat mass, and more to do with boosting immune function and stress resilience nature.com/articles/s4158…