Kaylee Gentry MSc
@kmgentry.bsky.social
Cancer Neuroscience Researcher Venkatesh Lab - BWH
The Venkatesh Lab is looking for post-docs! Happy to answer any questions about the lab, working at BWH/HMS, or anything in between!
The Venkatesh Lab@venkatesh-lab.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe are currently recruiting candidates for post-doctoral positions in the lab. If you are interested in cancer neuroscience and want to be involved in, please send your CV and cover letter to Dr. Humsa Venkatesh (hvenkatesh@bwh.harvard.edu). Come join us where cancer meets neuroscience!
Citizens Bank is currently financing two major companies that run for-profit prisons used by ICE as detention facilities. If this disgusts you the way it does me, check out the movement to get them to stop. www.de-icecitizensbank.org sign.moveon.org/petitions/ci...
Citizens Bank: Stop financing CoreCivic and The GEO Group.
CoreCivic and the GEO Group have seen skyrocketing profits in the last year as a result of their direct involvement in Trump’s violent deportation agenda. CoreCivic saw a nearly 70% increase in net in...
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So proud of Eleena Sherman who will be leaving us to join the Center for Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh in fall as a PhD student. So excited to see all your future work! We'll miss you!
So proud of Rachel Davis who was awarded the Young Investigator Award at the Cancer Neuroscience Symposium 2026 sponsored by MD Anderson's Cancer Neuroscience Program. Congrats Rachel! @mdanderson.bsky.social @mgbresearch.bsky.social
Congrats to @lexifranklin39.bsky.social for her Top Poster Presentation Award in Neurobiology at the 2026 Cancer Neuroscience Symposium sponsored by MD Anderson Cancer Center. Way to go Lexi, excellent work! @mdanderson.bsky.social @mgbresearch.bsky.social
🚨New paper from the NIH PRECISION Human Pain Network! We built a human DRG reference atlas: >500K cells from 126 donors to reveal 22 neuronal & 10 non-neuronal cell types. New insights into human sensory biology! Paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Data: humandrg.painseq.com
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📢 Registration (free!) for the NCI webinar series 'Fueling Cancer Progression by the Nervous System' is open! 🧠🔬 Amongst many excellent speakers, Frank Winkler and @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social discuss #cancerneuroscience of #brainmetastasis 📅 6 exciting topics are covered by leaders in the field 💡!
Fueling Cancer Progression by the Nervous System (Overview) | Events Registration
OverviewThe Fueling Cancer Progression by the Nervous System series will feature six webinars, each exploring the junction between neuroscience and cancer biology to advance our understanding of cance...
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In a new study, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and colleagues investigated the neuronal-activity dependent mechanisms of small cell lung cancer pathogenesis. The study was published on @nature.com Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social
I parked this morning at @pittophathalmology.bsky.social and got a message from my colleague, @jamespherman.bsky.social with this photograph of my car and his car in the parking lot. This tickled me to no end.
Cool to see our lab's recent paper featured in The Transmitter this week! Very proud to have worked on this project.
The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 10mo agoNeurons in the brain form functional connections with small-cell lung cancer cells that have spread there, fueling the growth of these brain metastases, two independent studies show. By @sarahdeweerdt.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/neurobiology...
Check out some #CoolScienceImages (with music by Zara Larsson) from a @nature.com study. A team led by @michellemonje.bsky.social & Humsa Venkatesh showed that neuronal activity plays a crucial role in small cell #LungCancer (#SCLC) pathogenesis. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #FluorescenceFriday 🧪
📊 A new national poll shows 71% of voters want Congress to increase federal funding for medical research. Cuts would stall progress toward cures for cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, blood disorders, and more. 🔗 https://bit.ly/3Kfkq8c #Fight4Hematology #HemeSky #ResearchSavesLives
Great to see all our student's shine at the @cshlnews.bsky.social's Biology of Cancer: Microenvironment & Metastasis meeting! Props to Rachel Davis & Hannah Farnsworth for a job well done on their poster presentations. Very proud of all our hardworking future PhDs!
Signalling between neurons and tumour cells in the lung and brain promotes the growth of small-cell lung cancer go.nature.com/4gzoMmI
Wired for growth: neuron–tumour signalling in the lung and brain increases growth of a hard-to-treat cancer
Signalling between neurons and tumour cells in the lung and brain promotes the growth of small-cell lung cancer. These interactions might be a therapeutic target.
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Wooo go Lexi!
The Venkatesh Lab@venkatesh-lab.bsky.social · 11mo agoSo proud of Lexi Franklin, who delivered an outstanding talk at @cshlnews.bsky.social’s Biology of Cancer: Microenvironment & Metastasis meeting yesterday! Keep an eye out for more exciting work from our lab, Rachel Davis and Hannah Farnsworth will be presenting their posters soon!
We are excited to share the Venkatesh Lab’s first publication in collaboration with @michellemonje.bsky.social team uncovering how neuronal activity influences the progression of small cell lung cancer #SCLC in the lung and brain. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Neuronal activity-dependent mechanisms of small cell lung cancer pathogenesis - Nature
Glutamatergic and GABAergic (γ-aminobutyric acid-producing) cortical neuronal activity drives proliferation of small lung cell cancer via paracrine interactions and through synapses formed with tumour...
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Neuronal activity-dependent mechanisms of small cell lung cancer pathogenesis - Nature
Glutamatergic and GABAergic (γ-aminobutyric acid-producing) cortical neuronal activity drives proliferation of small lung cell cancer via paracrine interactions and through synapses formed with tumour...
nature.com
Check out the Venkatesh lab's new paper in Nature, where we uncover how neural activity drives small cell lung cancer (SCLC) progression. Grateful to my PI Humsa Venkatesh, my co-first author Solomiia Savchuk, & a huge thanks to all the incredible co-authors. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Neuronal activity-dependent mechanisms of small cell lung cancer pathogenesis - Nature
Glutamatergic and GABAergic (γ-aminobutyric acid-producing) cortical neuronal activity drives proliferation of small lung cell cancer via paracrine interactions and through synapses formed with tumour...
nature.com
We are excited to welcome Jacqueline Garcia to the Venkatesh Lab! Jacqueline completed her PhD in Cellular, Molecular, & Developmental Biology at Tufts University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in 2025 as a member of Dr. Chris Dulla’s lab.
Scientists are making surprising discoveries about the connections between cancer and the nervous system. Harvard Medicine Magazine profiles the research of William Hwang, Richard Wong, and @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social. @harvardmed.bsky.social magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/neu...
The Neuroscience of Cancer
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The Venkatesh Lab is looking for a Sr. Lab Technician to help support ongoing projects focused on the peripheral nervous system & its interactions with cancers. Check out the posting below! massgeneralbrigham.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/MGBExt...
Senior Lab Technician RESEARCH NEUROLOGY V Lab
Site: The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals, including doctors, nurses, business people, tech experts, researchers, and systems analysts t...
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UMASS IS RESCINDING ALL GRAD POSITIONS FOR THIS YEAR
Hello, I’m a disruptor, very smart, here to create efficiency. I’m just going to drill holes in the bottom of this boat to see which parts of the hull are mission-critical.
99% of new medicines developed by the pharmaceutical industry depend on NIH research jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Comparison of Research Spending on New Drug Approvals by the NIH vs the Pharmaceutical Industry
This cross-sectional study examines National Institutes of Health and pharmaceutical industry investments in recent drug approvals.
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The mood was defiant at many of the rallies, where chants of “Scientists will not be silenced”, “Facts over fear” and “What do we want? Peer review! When do we want it? Now!” were heard. https://go.nature.com/3F8T6FX
‘Scientists will not be silenced’: thousands protest Trump research cuts
Researchers at Stand Up for Science rallies voice defiance against the policies of US President Donald Trump’s administration.
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joke's on you I DID 'go cry about it' and compassion has made me more powerful
They adopted a posture of total submission and it bought them precisely nothing. A lesson for the Trump era www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
The Trump administration cancels $400 million in grants and contracts to Columbia University.
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