Pauline Funchain
@funchainmd.bsky.social
Melanoma oncology @Stanford. Study hereditary genetics and irAEs. LA explant in SF via Ohio State, NIH/NHGRI, Harbor UCLA, and Cleveland Clinic. Sports fan, geek and mom. APD Hem/Onc fellowship. ASPirE founder, Checkpoint Now. COI http://bit.ly/43UCDOz
Straight up fangirling here at Medicine Grand Rounds @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social Mix of emotions as Fauci goes through the history of HIV, paralleling many of our medical lives and training. How many lost in the decades before, and how no one should be lost today - except for infrastructure gaps 😢
One of the wonderful things about doing science @stanford-cancer.bsky.social is incredible support through multiple shared resources supported by SCI. Today highlighting the new Organoid Core led by Claudia Petrisch and Cancer Data Science Core led by Summer Han #SCIResearch26
Great learning on data science algorithms by Tina Hernandez-Boussard: when a predictive algorithm works @stanford-cancer.bsky.social but fails when used at @massgeneralbrigham.bsky.social because one hospital uses "Depends" to refer to an adult diaper and the other uses "depends" only as a verb...
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Good afternoon Vancouver 🌞🏔️ It’s 2026 and melanoma data continue to move in TIL 🏋️♀️ @drbetofmdphd.bsky.social discusses 10 year melanoma survival data for patients who have experienced complete response with earlier versions of TIL #MovingTheGoalPosts #CMC26 @stanford-cancer.bsky.social
Stanford #Melanoma’s @funchainmd.bsky.social leading us through a fantastic discussion of immune checkpoint toxicity #irAE in patients with pre-existing autoimmune disease. #CMC26 @stanforduniversity.bsky.social
Day 30 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 557 mins writing 📝 Not 12 days of Christmas, but 30 days of November: -5 pgs cut ✂️ -4 talks in 3 days 🎤 -2 manuscripts, 2 abstracts edited ✔️ -rainsoaked @scoutingamerica.bsky.social campout 🏕️ - @dodgers.com WS win 💍 and -1 aims page 📃 #grateful
Pauline Funchain@funchainmd.bsky.social · 8mo agoDay 29 #NaGraWriMo: 25 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 542 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: Cut 0.5 pg! Down to 7.5... Now in the cuts that hurt 😅😂
Day 29 #NaGraWriMo: 25 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 542 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: Cut 0.5 pg! Down to 7.5... Now in the cuts that hurt 😅😂
Pauline Funchain@funchainmd.bsky.social · 8mo agoDay 28 #NaGraWriMo: 25 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 517 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: Black Friday changed the schedule but not the commitment. Day shopping and night writing ftw 🏆
Day 28 #NaGraWriMo: 25 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 517 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: Black Friday changed the schedule but not the commitment. Day shopping and night writing ftw 🏆
Pauline Funchain@funchainmd.bsky.social · 8mo agoDay 27 #NaGraWriMo: 27 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 492 mins writing 📝 Happy Thanksgiving! Grateful for the opportunity to write and represent @stanford-cancer.bsky.social 🦃 Also, totally unintentional numerology in writing 27 mins for the 27th day 🍀
Day 27 #NaGraWriMo: 27 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 492 mins writing 📝 Happy Thanksgiving! Grateful for the opportunity to write and represent @stanford-cancer.bsky.social 🦃 Also, totally unintentional numerology in writing 27 mins for the 27th day 🍀
Pauline Funchain@funchainmd.bsky.social · 8mo agoDay 25 and 26 #NaGraWriMo: 10 (gra) and 15 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 465 mins writing 📝 Rounding the bases...3 more pages trimmed ✂️
Hugely impactful work addressing the toughest of diagnoses - leptomeningeal disease. Early trial discontinuation due to significant benefit of proton craniospinal irradiation (pCSI). Kudos to the authors including @drbetofmdphd.bsky.social @stanford-cancer.bsky.social 🙏🧠
JAMA Oncology@jamaoncology.com · 8mo agoProton craniospinal irradiation significantly improves survival outcomes compared to involved-field radiotherapy for patients with leptomeningeal metastases from non–small cell lung cancer and breast cancer. ja.ma/4puO9sK
Day 25 and 26 #NaGraWriMo: 10 (gra) and 15 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 465 mins writing 📝 Rounding the bases...3 more pages trimmed ✂️
Pauline Funchain@funchainmd.bsky.social · 9mo agoDay 23 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 440 mins writing 📝 3 weeks down, 1 to go! Challenging myself in the home stretch to cut 1 page per day to make the material fit the grant guidelines 😅🏋️
Day 24 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 465 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: I tend to look at both forest and trees, which is a skill in and of itself but also is time consuming. If #NaMaGraMo has taught me anything, you don't (shouldn't) have to keep doing it the way you always have 🙏
Pauline Funchain@funchainmd.bsky.social · 9mo agoDay 23 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 440 mins writing 📝 3 weeks down, 1 to go! Challenging myself in the home stretch to cut 1 page per day to make the material fit the grant guidelines 😅🏋️
Day 23 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 440 mins writing 📝 3 weeks down, 1 to go! Challenging myself in the home stretch to cut 1 page per day to make the material fit the grant guidelines 😅🏋️
Pauline Funchain@funchainmd.bsky.social · 9mo agoDay 21 and 22 #NaGraWriMo: 20 (ma) and 15 (ma) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 425 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: This is the first year I've had to double-day post regularly. Reflecting that as feedback (and grace) for exactly how challenging this year has been in comparison to the last 4 yrs I've done this 🕊️
Day 21 and 22 #NaGraWriMo: 20 (ma) and 15 (ma) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 425 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: This is the first year I've had to double-day post regularly. Reflecting that as feedback (and grace) for exactly how challenging this year has been in comparison to the last 4 yrs I've done this 🕊️
Pauline Funchain@funchainmd.bsky.social · 9mo agoDay 19 and 20 #NaGraWriMo: 25 (ma) and 15 (ma) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 390 mins writing 📝 2 more manuscript edits down 🥳 2/3 of November and #NaGraWriMo is in the books! 😅
Day 19 and 20 #NaGraWriMo: 25 (ma) and 15 (ma) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 390 mins writing 📝 2 more manuscript edits down 🥳 2/3 of November and #NaGraWriMo is in the books! 😅
Pauline Funchain@funchainmd.bsky.social · 9mo agoDay 18 #NaGraWriMo: 20 (ma) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 350 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: As much as I want edits to take less time as I have more editing years under my belt, they still take a lot of time! On day 3 of what I thought would be 1 day of editing...
Day 18 #NaGraWriMo: 20 (ma) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 350 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: As much as I want edits to take less time as I have more editing years under my belt, they still take a lot of time! On day 3 of what I thought would be 1 day of editing...
Pauline Funchain@funchainmd.bsky.social · 9mo agoDay 17 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (ma) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 330 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: Oops transposed a day, so adding that day back to the total. Too tired for math, but not too tired to write! ✍️💪
Day 17 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (ma) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 330 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: Oops transposed a day, so adding that day back to the total. Too tired for math, but not too tired to write! ✍️💪
Pauline Funchain@funchainmd.bsky.social · 9mo agoDay 14 + 15 #NaGraWriMo: 50 (ma) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 290 mins writing 📝 Real talk - gave 4 talks in 3 days, followed by a rain soaked @scoutingamerica.bsky.social campout. I'm exhausted, happy, and should NEVER repeat a stretch like that again 🫠 Also HALFWAY DONE 🥳
🚨irAE aficionados - ASPIRE+ IOTOX CME 2026 - hosted by @mdanderson.bsky.social - open for registration! Abstract submission is also open 📝 Register below 👇 mdanderson.cloud-cme.com/course/cours...
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MDA, 2026 IOTOX Symposium: Delivering What Matters - Patient-Centered through IOTOX Translational Science, 4/24/2026 1:30:00 PM - 4/25/2026 4:00:00 PM, <p>This symposium is designed to create a space ...
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Day 14 + 15 #NaGraWriMo: 50 (ma) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 290 mins writing 📝 Real talk - gave 4 talks in 3 days, followed by a rain soaked @scoutingamerica.bsky.social campout. I'm exhausted, happy, and should NEVER repeat a stretch like that again 🫠 Also HALFWAY DONE 🥳
Pauline Funchain@funchainmd.bsky.social · 9mo agoDay 13 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 240 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: Giving myself enough time to put away crucial pieces of writing (e.g. aims) and come back to them with fresh eyes, and repeating the process multiple times - I've had new thoughts each time #IterationWorks 🏆
Good morning Mountain View 🌞 Nothing like starting the day jumping into the great academic debate over surveillance strategies for uveal melanoma. Esp if one of the debaters is an old friend and colleague Arun Singh @clevelandclinic.bsky.social Whatever it takes to knock out cancer 🥊 #rarediseases
Amazing night celebrating the inception of the Alan Adler Center for Ophthalmic Oncology and Prithvi Mruthyunjaya, the Alan Adler Professor of Ophthalmology @ Byers Eye and @stanford-cancer.bsky.social member 🍾🎊
Day 14 #NaGraWriMo: 25 (ma) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 265 mins writing 📝 Abstract edits ✅ Manuscript edits 1/2 way… Two weeks down 🏋️♀️
Pauline Funchain@funchainmd.bsky.social · 9mo agoDay 13 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 240 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: Giving myself enough time to put away crucial pieces of writing (e.g. aims) and come back to them with fresh eyes, and repeating the process multiple times - I've had new thoughts each time #IterationWorks 🏆
Day 13 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 240 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: Giving myself enough time to put away crucial pieces of writing (e.g. aims) and come back to them with fresh eyes, and repeating the process multiple times - I've had new thoughts each time #IterationWorks 🏆
Pauline Funchain@funchainmd.bsky.social · 9mo agoDay 12 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 225 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: Noise does matter... Tomorrow recommitting to writing before everyone else wakes up 😇
Day 12 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 225 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: Noise does matter... Tomorrow recommitting to writing before everyone else wakes up 😇
Pauline Funchain@funchainmd.bsky.social · 9mo agoDay 11 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 210 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: consistency is its own skill and reward (inspo from @dodgers.com, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and Shohei Ohtani 💙)
Abstract submissions for Spring Scientific are open through Jan. 15, 2026. Don’t miss this opportunity to share your research with your colleagues and fellow immuno-oncology professionals. Learn more about the program and register: https://sitcancer.org/edu/2026-spring-scientific
Day 11 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 210 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: consistency is its own skill and reward (inspo from @dodgers.com, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and Shohei Ohtani 💙)
Pauline Funchain@funchainmd.bsky.social · 9mo agoDay 10 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (gra) + 25 mins (ma) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 195 mins writing 📝 Post vaccine recovery day (Day 9)...learned that sleeping in kills the writing for me. Up early today and punched it out 🌞 #BeginAgain #RealWorldWriting #MondayMotivation
Day 10 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (gra) + 25 mins (ma) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 195 mins writing 📝 Post vaccine recovery day (Day 9)...learned that sleeping in kills the writing for me. Up early today and punched it out 🌞 #BeginAgain #RealWorldWriting #MondayMotivation
Pauline Funchain@funchainmd.bsky.social · 9mo agoDay 8 #NaGraWriMo: 15 mins (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 155 mins writing 📝 Exhausted on a post vaccine day, but committed and completed 👊
Day 8 #NaGraWriMo: 15 mins (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 155 mins writing 📝 Exhausted on a post vaccine day, but committed and completed 👊
Pauline Funchain@funchainmd.bsky.social · 9mo agoDay 7 #NaGraWriMo: 15 mins (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 140 mins writing 📝 Routine broke yesterday, but as they say in meditation circles, #BeginAgain 🌬️ Back on track! One week down! 💪