Dr. Thomas Martínez

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Asst Prof of Pharmaceutical Sciences #UCIrvine | Studying #microprotein and #peptide biology in cancer and metabolism | #FirstGen | #LAnative | 🇵🇸🇲🇽-🇺🇸 | https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/martinezlab/

“It will be transformative in the way we treat pancreas cancer. It’s the biggest development we’ve had in pancreas cancer in decades,” said Andrew Ko, a medical oncologist specializing in gastrointestinal cancers at UCSF. “I’m so thankful for this as an advance for our patients.”

FDA approves new pancreatic cancer drug expected to usher in new era of treatment

The FDA has approved a life-extending treatment for advanced pancreatic cancer — the first such therapy to attack a genetic cause of the highly lethal malignancy.

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“The whole point of AI tools is that I no longer need to retain information in my biological memory. My biological memory is for other things now. Important things. Like my Netflix password” 😂 inpreparation.substack.com/p/opinion-i-...

Opinion: I Was Not Allowed To Type Prompts Into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk And This Is Discrimination

By Dr. Rachel Simmons, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University

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this is honestly an excellent celebratory and motivational speech from Mamdani at the Knicks parade. i'm ready to run through a wall, and i'm not even a Knicks fan

A 20 year study on 2 NIH diversity programs in Science Advances shows they doubled undergrads' odds of getting a Ph.D. That is, before the funding for those programs and for the study itself was terminated last year: www.statnews.com/2026/06/17/n...

NIH diversity programs doubled undergraduates’ odds of getting a Ph.D., 20-year study finds

A new study found that two diversity-oriented programs supported by the NIH doubled the odds that an undergraduate would earn a Ph.D.

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The Trump Administration’s racist science policies have achieved some of their goals. The number of Black Principal Investigators has dropped by 10% between 2024 and 2025; while the number of Hispanic PIs has fallen by 7%. For research trainees, the numbers are far worse.

Trends in NIH Investigators by Sex, Race, Ethnicity, and Disability Status

This cross-sectional study assesses National Institutes of Health (NIH) data from fiscal years 2016-2025 comprising annual counts of principal investigators funded through research grants and fellowsh...

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"The document itself is an odd grab-bag of micromanaging grant processes, assertion of presidential power, and airing of cultural grievances... Its lack of coherence, however, will not prevent it from causing staggering damage to the US scientific system." 👇 arstechnica.com/science/2026...

Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time

Peer review now optional, political staff would screen grants for forbidden topics.

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