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Congratulations to Dr. Sam Yates MD, MS on a fantastic new paper in Blood Advances (also authored by many of our faculty!) exploring multidisciplinary assessment of older adult patients before starting CAR T-cell therapy: doi.org/10.1182/blooda… #AtTheForefront #CARTCellTherapy

Thanks to Journal of Geriatric Oncology for highlighting our paper as paper of the month! Sam Yates MD, MS Fabian Ullrich Ashley Rosko Raul Cordoba, MD, PhD Abdullah M. Khan Richard J. Lin MD PhD

As if on cue… just the review I was looking for.

Pleased to share the final version of our Blood Advances paper on outcomes in pts w/ MPN-AP/BP in the current era of myeloid therapies! #mpnsm #leusm Yasmin Abaza Iyana Gross Hannah Johnston, MD See the tweet below for a breakdown thread ashpublications.org/bloodadvances/…

How I Treat: Differentiation Therapy in Acute Myeloid Leukemia | Blood | American Society of Hematology ashpublications.org/blood/article/…

ashpublications.org/blood/article/… A well-written, clinician friendly article out in Blood this week on choosing surrogate endpoints in trials for patients with hematologic malignancies.

A UChicago Medicine patient was the first in Illinois — and one of the first in the country — to receive TIL therapy for treatment of her advanced melanoma. uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/canc…

Publication in Blood Advances featuring Toyosi Odenike and Wendy Stock as part of the BEAT-AML initiative! ashpublications.org/bloodadvances/…

Frailty screening before stressful tx improves candidate selection, decreases risk, and enhances care. Comprehensive geriatric assessments reduce chemo toxicity & unplanned hospitalizations, improving quality of life in older cancer patients. #GeriOnc nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

An excellent review on frailty assessment, highlighting the importance of frailty assessment in the field of Oncology and a call to action for interventional trials to potentially mitigate its negative effects in our patients. nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

🔥 Hot off the press: Randy Sweis et al published encouraging results in JAMA Oncology from FORT-2, the 1st clinical trial that evaluated the combination of FGFR inhibitor and anti-PD-L1 therapy in patients with #BladderCancer. ow.ly/YOq750TrbIa UChicago Urology Residency UChicagoHemOnc

Excited to share this work at ASH later this year! Big thank you to Anand Patel and Rory M. Shallis, MD for their mentorship on this project.

Check out our latest article to learn more about how to optimize dosing regimens for recombinant asparaginase from ALL expert Wendy Stock UChicago Leukemia Program. 👉 loom.ly/luNI-L0 #leukemia #leusm #ALLsm

Congrats Ben Derman Ajay Major, MD, MBA and team!!

UChicago alum John Jumper, SM’12, PhD’17, shared the The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing the AI model AlphaFold, which predicts the structure of proteins. He is the 100th member of the UChicago community to earn a Nobel Prize. Learn more: ms.spr.ly/6014mxiuy

Our IIT investigating ivosidenib + ruxolitinib in advanced-phase IDH1-mutated MPNs is open to enrollment! Toyosi Odenike UChicago Leukemia Program UChicagoCancerCenter University of Chicago Hematology/Oncology clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06291…

On the way to Montreal for an exciting few days of Geriatric Oncology science at SIOG! Looking forward to catching up with friends and meeting new ones passionate about taking care of older adults with cancer. Cancer and Aging Research Group (CARG) #GeriOnc Young SIOG

Congratulations to Kate Shimamoto Habib El-Khoury, MD and Ethan Harris for their ASH #ASH24 Abstract Achievement Awards! Saygin Lab has some cool science to present in San Diego!

Thank you for the support and mentorship Anand Patel and Rory M. Shallis, MD!

Huge congrats to Greg Roloff on this important paper in Journal of Clinical Oncology!!!