For those in the mood for some seriously well-done gallows humor, I heartily recommend this... inpreparation.substack.com/p/nih-simpli...

NIH Simplifies Grant Scoring To 👍 🤷‍♂️ 😂

BETHESDA, MD—The National Institutes of Health announced Tuesday that it would replace its 50-year-old numerical scoring system with a streamlined three-emoji format, in which grant applications will ...

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Come join our week-long course on stable isotope tracing! Great for learning and networking in the wonderful city of Nashville. (Line dancing/bull riding optional, but encouraged)

Excited to share a fantastic collaboration with the Leithner lab! In vivo isotope tracing shows that tumors use mannose to make glycosylation precursors, and increase this use when glycolysis is inhibited. Led by (soon-to-be Dr.) Theresa Haitzmann! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Mannose supports lung cancer metabolism during glycolytic limitation - EMBO Reports

Cancer cells frequently show elevated glucose consumption to support proliferation and survival. This led to the assumption that glycolytic inhibitors could be effective in cancer treatment. However, ...

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Excited to share our work just published in @natmetabolism.nature.com examining melanoma tumor metabolism in patients and how well this is (and isn’t) conserved in patient-derived xenograft models.

Nature Metabolism@natmetabolism.nature.com · last yr.

Proud to share our latest work in ‪#CancerCell‬ in collaboration with the @mannlab.bsky.social: we map the progression from borderline ovarian tumors to low-grade serous ovarian cancer and propose a promising new therapeutic strategy. ‬‬ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Spatial proteo-transcriptomic profiling reveals the molecular landscape of borderline ovarian tumors and their invasive progression

Epithelial serous borderline tumors (SBT) are non-invasive neoplastic ovarian lesions that may recur as chemo-resistant low-grade serous cancer (LGSC)…

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Incredibly proud of our latest publication in @molsystbiol.org led by @nancyts.bsky.social in collab w/ Jean Yang and Lake-Ee Quek - www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.... We curated targeted metabolomic data into pathway-centric ratios and identified subclusters of cancer cells with distinct features.

Pathway metabolite ratios reveal distinctive glutamine metabolism in a subset of proliferating cells | Molecular Systems Biology

imageimagePathway-focused metabolite ratio-based analysis of 49 tumor and 8 normal epithelial cell lines grown in their respective standard conditions reveals common and distinctive metabolic signatur...

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FUR AND INTERFERENCE AND MISINFORMATION

1/My 7th grader's science homework is to learn the elements Memorize atomic masses. She points out that carbon has a mass of 12. My life passes before my eyes. Finally, my chance to explain what I've been doing for 20 yrs. So I say, kind of casually, "you know, sometimes carbon has a mass of 13..."

Thankful for the opportunity to speak with @shikhajainmd.bsky.social about my patient advocacy journey. Listen here - www.healio.com/news/hematol...

Pioneering Changes in Patient Advocacy with Kimberly Richardson

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1/For over a decade, we’ve been studying tumor metabolism in patients with non-small cell lung cancer This long-term commitment allowed us to connect tumor metabolic features to patient outcomes We found that 13C glucose contribution to the TCA cycle predicts overall survival in NSCLC

Elizabeth McKenna@elizsmckenna.bsky.social · 2y ago

Now online in Cancer Discovery: High Glucose Contribution to the TCA Cycle Is a Feature of Aggressive Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer in Patients - by Ling Cai, Nia Hammond, Brandon Faubert, @rjdlab.bsky.social, and colleagues doi.org/10.1158/2159...

I’m really proud to announce the 2025 Cancer Metabolism Showcase and Workshop, May 5th and 6th, 9:30 AM - 3 PM EST. This year, our Keynote Speaker is Dr. Jeffrey Rathmell from VUMC. I'm excited to come together, talk science, and support researchers in our field. www.cancermetabolismshowcase.org

My lab and I were ecstatic to be funded by the VFoundation and Astrazeneca. Learning it was also sponsored by Hockey Fights Cancer was extra special to my Canadian, hockey-obsessed self. Experiencing the Winter Classic? A dream come true. www.nhl.com/news/univers...

Faubert honored at Winter Classic for cancer research | NHL.com

University of Chicago professor receives V Scholar Award for work on lung cancer

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WHAT THE LIBERAL PARTY WISHES THEY COULD SAY - PART ONE

Quietly renames “interesting papers to read in 2024” folder to “interesting papers to read in 2025” folder

"Nerd-vana". A week of non-stop discussions about isotope tracing with expert faculty and enthusiastic trainees in Nashville. Come for the 13C-glucose infusions, stay for the mechanical bull ride.