Assistant prof at @StanfordMed. Interested in aneuploidy, mitotic kinases, cancer therapeutics, and drug development. Co-founder x2.
Joined February 2016
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Jean-Luc Picard remains the single most compelling vision of progressive politics I am familiar with — secular, rational, compassionate, egalitarian; a believer in progress & abundance but also duty, hard work, and a constant battle for self-improvement and improving the world.
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wow so much drama about navier stokes. had no idea things could blow up so infinitely in such a finite time.
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Diabetes researchers ejected from conference after criticizing White House. The editor of ADA journal Steve Kahn was nondisruptivedly handing out his recent editorial in ADA journal that criticized Trump NIH policies. Big mistake by @AmDiabetesAssn washingtonpost.com/health/20…
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Challenges in Drug Discovery: Biology—
Paul Workman and Jason M. Sheltzer will address this topic in a special session at the AACR D3 Conference on Drug Discovery and Development (July 21-24; Boston). Learn more:
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#AACRdrugdev26 @JSheltzer
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GLP-1 drugs are the ultimate validation of the techno-solutionist approach to society's most challenging problems.
The obesity crisis seemed liked it would just get worse and worse forever. Scolding from public health officials didn't work. Proposals to completely overhaul our food systems were dead on arrival.
Instead, we invented a weekly shot (based on Gila monster venom!) that fixes obesity directly.
And now, thanks to the economic incentives in our biomedical industry, we have follow-on drugs that will be cheaper, even more effective, and easier to administer (by taking a pill instead of a shot).
Policymakers should be focused on figuring out how we can get more breakthrough drugs like GLP-1s (and faster). They also should think hard about which slopulist ideas might inadvertently kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
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Not sure how many people have noticed this: In the latest (Mar 4) release of 24 new research papers from Nature (top science journal), 8 came from the US and 8 came from China. nature.com/nature/research-a… Among the 29 new research papers in Cell (top journal in biomedical sciences) released this year, 8 came from the US while 10 came from China. cell.com/cell/newarticles Meanwhile US labs are suffering from the aftermath of the NIH/NSF funding disruptions - including drastically reduced funding rates and as a result diminishing lab sizes and competitiveness in #STEM research.
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Important bridge funding mechanism from @AmericanCancer for early career investigators with high-scoring, but unfunded research projects to either ACS or NCI.
ACS Catalyst Awards:
cancer.org/research/we-fund-…
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Me on Twitter: "AI for science is over-hyped, you all need to stop being so excitable and grow some agency. AI isn't going to cure cancer, you have to cure cancer"
Me when as soon as I switch tabs:
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BREAKING NEWS
The 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”
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Politics does not have to be boring.
You can have fun and still make a real difference in people's lives.
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Kudos to Terry Tao for this:
newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/…
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Aneuploidy in human cancer: new tools and perspectives
A review by @Jsheltzer, @Lakhani_AA & @Sarahjogs @TrendsGenetics #AACR24 hubs.li/Q02rx2110
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People who follow a plant-based diet account for 75% fewer greenhouse gas emissions than those who eat more than 3.5 ounces of meat a day, according to new research. A vegan diet also results in significantly less harm to land, water and biodiversity. nyti.ms/3OmbsFE
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On this day in 1969, the crew of NASA’s Apollo 11 made the first human landing on the moon, and Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk there. The New York Times dedicated the entire front page of the next day’s paper to this moment. nyti.ms/44pVv6V
ALT Front page of The New York Times from July 21, 1969, led by the headline: "MEN WALK ON MOON."
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The Simplest Way to Change the Planet's Fate - my article in the New York Times for Earth Day!
nytimes.com/2023/04/22/opini…
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Very excited to welcome Claudio Chuaqui as our new SVP, Head of Drug Discovery at Meliora.
Please read more here:
businesswire.com/news/home/2…
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My paper on bacteriophage genome analysis has been published. doi.org/10.1016/j.virusres.2…
And I am most proud of the last two sentences of the Acknowledgments rather than the manuscript's scientific content.
Endlessly grateful to all fighters for Ukraine.
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Excited to launch the next round of our search for Physician-scientists and Basic Scientists in the Center of Molecular and Cellular Oncology and the Cancer Biology Institute at Yale (apply.interfolio.com/119912). We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds. Please apply & RT
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Third: We classify marijuana at the same level as heroin – and more serious than fentanyl. It makes no sense. I’m asking @SecBecerra and the Attorney General to initiate the process of reviewing how marijuana is scheduled under federal law.