Super excited to be attending NIHOxCam 2024. Really great talent! Thanks to Dr. Francis Collins band for entertainment.

Super excited to receive a copy of the WHO Classification of Tumors, Haematolymphoid Tumors, 5th Edn. Was honored to contribute to the chapter on Burkitt Lymphoma. The new thing is that EBV defines molecular subtypes of BL better than geography or clinical type. @NCI_Training 🙏

Really thrilled to attend a talk by Carole Motekoa presenting trends of Burkitt lymphoma in South Africa. Great work, which I look forward to seeing in print.

Presentation at the 19th International Conference on Malignancies and HIV at Bethesda, Maryland.

Thrilled to have run with the Marines today! It is one of the most exciting events in Washington DC! #runwiththemarines

It was a pleasure to host Ms. Carole Metekoua to deliver a departmental seminar on Burkitt lymphoma epidemiology in South Africa 🇿🇦. Great collaboration between US and South African scientists.

#eidtorchoice #article Burkitt #Lymphoma Incidence in Five Continents by Dr. Sam M. Mbulaiteye Sam M Mbulaiteye and Dr. Susan S. Devesa Welcome to Read! mdpi.com/2673-6357/3/3/…

Great talk at #ASHG24 Ozkar! Check out our corresponding preprint: medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

A trip to space!

Attending ASH24- talks on Burkitt lymphoma are sparse, but happy to note that molecular data support presence of age-specific patterns originally suspected from analysis of density plots of BL in the SEER registry databases.

Mpanda!

We need more such stories in African patients with Burkitt lymphoma!

Happy to share our paper in Nature Communications with Oscar Florez-Vargas Ozkar and team! We explore a VNTR as a functional GWAS lead for bladder and many other cancers, and show mechanism in cancer, telomere length, and longevity nature.com/articles/s4146…

CIFF2025 - BURKITT | Solas Nua I enjoyed seeing this documentary, which tells Burkitt’s story of discovery of his eponymous disease. Careful observation, enquiring mind, and sharing results with passion opened up the field of viral oncology! Asante Sana! solasnua.org/events/ciff202…

Subtyping Burkitt Lymphoma by DNA Methylation - by studying Burkitt tumors from Europe and Africa together, we confirm that EBV is the major driver of biological variation in BL, and discover additional variation in both EBV positive and negative BL. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40192513/

Diagnosing Burkitt Lymphoma in Sub-Saharan Africa by Sequencing of Circulating Tumor DNA: A Comparative Microcostin… pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40209317/- Dr. Morrell shows that liquid biopsy is feasible for Burkitt lymphoma diagnosis, but we need to increase scale #diagnoseallBLcases #AIREAL

Joint analysis of Burkitt tumors from Africa, US, Europe, and Latin America continents confirm confirms DNA methylation epitypes of Burkitt lymphoma with distinct molecular and clinical features. Regardless of geography. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40338627/

Faster, simpler, and accurate methods of diagnosing Burkitt lymphoma are needed. We show that Circulating plasma EBV DNA: a potential tool to facilitate diagnosis of pediatric Burkitt lymphoma in sub-Saharan Africa. Earlier diagnosis of BL is possible. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…