#NIHHemeOncFellow Nirmal Choradia is first author of this new study shedding light on the diversity of study participants at NCI Center for Cancer Research. Published in JNCI, coauthors include alumni Charalampos Floudas (his mentor), Fatima Yaftali Karzai, M.D. & @gulleyj1.
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A hearty congratulations to #NIHHemeOncFellowship alumnus Ramprasad Srinivasan, MD, PhD, on being appointed as NIH Clinical Center's deputy director! An active member of our faculty, he develops precision, targeted treatment #ClinicalTrials for patients with kidney cancers. #kcsm

Our #NIHHemeOncFellowship chief fellows, Drs. Kentsa, Raissa MD and Disha Dalela, were nominated to attend the annual Southeastern Fellows Research Skills & Training Workshop annually held Duck, NC. They just returned, filled with enthusiasm! NIH NHLBI NCI Center for Cancer Research

A shout-out to #NIHHemeOncFellow Dr. Kentsa, Raissa MD (center), recipient of this year’s annual Elaine M. Sloand Award for Excellence in Hematology, based on faculty voting! Shown here with @crispleyer, associate program director for hematology & @jenkanakry, the program’s director

So proud of #NIHHemeOncFellow Saad Atiq, who received this year’s annual Herb Kotz Exemplary Oncologist Award--based on voting by our NCI Center for Cancer Research, NIH Clinical Center, & @nih_hhlbi faculty--for being an outstanding physician “who exhibits #kindness , #compassion & #scholarship ”

New research suggests that choices of diet may affect a person's health by modulating the immune system. The study, led by #NIH researchers, focused on vegan and ketogenic diets. Learn more: spr.ly/6016w442e #ImmuneSystem NIAID News NIDDK

As always, the #NIHHemeOncFellows enjoyed each others’ company during our #NationalDoctorsDay celebration! #wellness NCI Center for Cancer Research NIH NHLBI

Big congrats to #NIHHemeOncFellow Norihiro, who just received a #patent on the results he presented at #AACR24 describing the targetable secreted protein which his research shows drives pancreatic cancer #metastatic colonization and HIF1a nuclear retention. AACR #pancsm

A hearty congratulations to our hard-working #NIHHemeOncFellowship director, Dr. @jenkanakry, who earned an National Cancer Institute Director’s Award today for recruitment efforts to attract #diverse , talented fellows & train them to become productive and successful #physicianresearchers !

Kudos to #NIHHemeOncFellow Kevin Breen, who is presenting a poster at #AACR24 next Monday about the tumor model he created using #CRISPRCas9 to investigate impacts of mutational burden on immune response in #glioblastoma , which is generally not responsive to #immunotherapy . AACR

The #NIHHemeOncFellowship salutes our fellows, faculty, and alumni—along with all #physicians everywhere—in honor of #NationalDoctorsDay ! Stay tuned for more after our fellowship’s official ceremony next week.

As Washingtonians know, our area’s famed cherry trees can be found far from the Tidal Basin where tourists flock this time of year. #Signsofspring appreciated by #NIHHemeOnFellows on our Bethesda campus include blossoming cherries outside NIH’s flagship building 1 & daffodils

#NIHHemeOncFellows engaged in translational biomedical research, along with directors Jen Kanakry & Kamil Rechache, met with Cell Scientific Editor Emma Yee (on left) for an open dialogue on #AI /machine learning, bioinformatics, & multi-D approaches to handling big data

#NIHHemeOncFellowship alumni & faculty member Jung-Min Lee has been awarded tenure at NIH & appointed to NCI Center for Cancer Research Women's Malignancies Branch Senior Investigator. Her research focuses on developing targeted therapies for ovarian carcinoma. #gyncsm
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#NIHHemeOncFellowship alumni C. 'Harris' Floudas, @gulleyj1 & Fatima Yaftali Karzai, M.D. + Giovanni Maria Iannantuono, a recent visiting fellow at National Cancer Institute, coauthored research on using #artificialintelligence w large language models to answer #immunooncology questions. #MedicalTwitterAI academic.oup.com/oncolo/advance…

So proud of my friend and colleague! Lillian Siu Looking forward to so many good things. Delightful having dinner with her last night and being on a panel with her today.

Bittersweet on this last day of Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer Sparkarthon! Incredible spring scientific meeting, followed by an amazing meeting, focusing on the next generation. Marco Ruella Jennifer Guerriero, PhD did a fabulous job putting sparkathon together! And what an incredible class!

Delighted that our paper on impact of bintrafusp alfa in NSCLC is out. Have some very long ongoing CR which limited our ability for post biopsies. Check it out
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#NIHHemeOncFellowship 's leadership is dedicated to continuous improvement. Last week, coordinators Elizabeth Hedstrom & Kellyn Betts attended #ACGME2024 and returned with new knowledge and great ideas! Shown here with #NIHGME DIO @joycechungpsych NIH CC MedEd NCI Center for Cancer Research ACGME

#NIHHemeOncFellowship Women stand strong together on International Women’s Day! NIH NHLBI NCI Center for Cancer Research #IWD2024 #InspireInclusion2024