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Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation @damonrunyon.org · 14/08/2026
We are proud to announce the newest cohort of Damon Runyon Fellows! These 14 exceptional postdocs will receive four years of independent funding to advance their investigation of causes, treatments, and prevention strategies for all types of cancer. Read more: bit.ly/4cj7Gby
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Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation awards $4.2 million to exceptional early-career scientists | New Discoveries
The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation has named 14 new Damon Runyon Fellows, brilliant postdoctoral scientists conducting basic and translational cancer research in the laboratories of leading s...
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Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation @damonrunyon.org · 07/07/2026
Three scientists with exceptional promise and novel approaches to fighting cancer have been named the 2026 recipients of the Damon Runyon Physician-Scientist Training Award.
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Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation @damonrunyon.org · 15/06/2026
Congratulations to the newest Damon Runyon Quantitative Biology Fellows, three exceptional early-career scientists who are applying computational approaches to solve big questions in cancer biology!
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Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation @damonrunyon.org · 29/05/2026
Former Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Ralph J. DeBerardinis, MD, and his lab, including Damon Runyon SPARK Fellow Imani M. Williams, have illuminated a potential mechanism of chemotherapy resistance in cancer cells. Read more:
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Cellular pathway suggests mechanism of chemotherapy resistance | New Discoveries
Purines, namely adenine and guanine, are one of two chemical compounds that cells use to make the building blocks of DNA and RNA. (The other are pyrimidines, cytosine and thymine.) Cells can make puri...
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Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation @damonrunyon.org · 27/05/2026
Over the weekend, we were thrilled to welcome the 2026 Illini 4000 team to our office for breakfast with current Fellows Wenzhi Song, PhD, and James Swann, VetMB, DPhil. They're off on their cross-country adventure raising funds for cancer research - wish them luck! 🗽 -> 🌉
The Illini 4000 team and two Damon Runyon Fellows stand together in a conference room holding a sign for the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation. They are smiling and wearing matching t-shirts, along with casual attire.
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Gregory A. Wilson @gregoryawilson.com · 25/05/2026
We've begun our final segment of #ArvCon2026 to benefit @damonrunyon.org, with our annual DRCRF scientist TTRPG game--Timewatch, GM'ed by @therisingtithes.bsky.social! We're only $750 away from our goal, so please join us, enjoy the time shenanigans, and help us get that final amount! :D
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Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation @damonrunyon.org · 23/05/2026
Tune in now to meet some of our scientists during this special weekend-long fundraiser!
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Gregory A. Wilson @gregoryawilson.com · 20/05/2026
#ArvCon2026 to benefit @damonrunyon.org begins with our Pre-Show TOMORROW, Thursday the 21st at 7:30 p.m. ET...please mark your calendars for an event full of community, giveaways, surprises, interviews, music, and--of course--lots of TTRPGs! Please spread the word, and we'll see you tomorrow night!
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Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation @damonrunyon.org · 07/05/2026
New research from former Damon Runyon-Sohn Pediatric Cancer Fellow Katherine E. Gadek, PhD, traces the childhood cancer rhabdomyosarcoma to its origins in developing blood vessels—paving the way for better detection and prevention strategies. Learn more: bit.ly/4nbQ1qs
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Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation @damonrunyon.org · 20/04/2026
Nearly a decade after former Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Scott Armstrong, MD, PhD, demonstrated that leukemia cells depend on a protein called menin for survival, the FDA approved the menin inhibitor revumenib for treatment of acute myeloid leukemia. Read more: bit.ly/4vuSmR4
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FDA approves novel treatment for acute myeloid leukemia | New Discoveries
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is diagnosed in more than 20,000 people in the U.S. each year, and the five-year survival rate remains around 30%. For patients whose disease is driven by mutations in the...
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 13/04/2026
Congrats to @kinglhung.bsky.social from my lab on receiving a @damonrunyon.org Postdoctoral Fellowship! I was a Damon Runyon Fellow early in my career and know how much this recognition means. So proud! www.damonrunyon.org/news/damon-r...
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Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation awards $4.5M to top young scientists - Honors and Awards
The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation has named 13 new Damon Runyon Fellows, exceptional postdoctoral scientists conducting basic and translational cancer research in the laboratories of leading...
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Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation @damonrunyon.org · 13/04/2026
We are thrilled to announce the newest class of Damon Runyon Fellows, 13 exceptional early-career scientists who are working to push boundaries and make breakthroughs in cancer research. Read more about their projects: bit.ly/4muFTsP
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Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation @damonrunyon.org · 28/03/2026
On March 24, clinically focused Damon Runyon scientists and industry partners gathered at Amgen in Cambridge, MA for the 2026 Accelerating Cancer Cures Symposium. The symposium aims to foster conversation and spark collaboration between academia and industry. Read more: bit.ly/47XXWkQ
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Damon Runyon scientists gather for 2026 Accelerating Cancer Cures Symposium
Damon Runyon scientists and industry partners gathered on Tuesday, March 24, for the 2026 Accelerating Cancer Cures Research Symposium, hosted by Amgen in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation @damonrunyon.org · 21/03/2026
Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Steven M. Corsello, MD, and his colleagues at Stanford have discovered a drug that can degrade nuclear pores—the passageways by which mRNA leaves the nucleus—in cancer cells, effectively inducing cell death. Read more: bit.ly/3NCJeZJ
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A hidden weakness in pancreatic cancer cells | New Discoveries
Cancer drugs often target a molecule that cancer cells rely on for survival but, crucially, healthy cells do not. When they are first identified, this type of molecule is known as a therapeutic vulner...
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Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation @damonrunyon.org · 25/02/2026
Congratulations to the newest recipients of the 2026 Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award! Five exceptional scientists received initial grants, and three previous awardees were given "Stage 2" support to continue their critical work. Read more:
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Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation awards $3.2M to innovative early-career scientists - Honors and Awards
The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation has announced eight recipients of the 2026 Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award, established to support high-risk, high-reward ideas with the potential to...
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Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation @damonrunyon.org · 04/02/2026
Major breakthroughs in cancer research can come from the most unexpected sources. This World Cancer Day, we celebrate the curiosity that drives our scientists to look for answers in unusual places.
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What does that have to do with cancer?
Current and former Damon Runyon scientists explain why breakthroughs can come from unusual places, and why Damon Runyon's funding strategy is so important.…
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Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation @damonrunyon.org · 22/01/2026
A pediatric patient was able to walk again after a groundbreaking discovery by Damon Runyon alumni Michael E. Pacold, MD, PhD, and Robert S. Banh, PhD, led to an experimental therapy for his neurodevelopmental condition.
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Pancreatic cancer research leads to treatment for neurological disease | New Discoveries
In 2021, Damon Runyon scientists Michael E. Pacold, MD, PhD, Robert S. Banh, PhD, and their colleagues at New York University Langone Health discovered how the enzyme CoQ10 is made, a synthesis pathwa...
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Tina Termini @cterminiphd.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Shoutout to first author, Isabella Alves, a @damonrunyon.org SPARK postbaccalaureate fellow and rising star in hematology. Very proud to see this work in print and honored to have had the opportunity to review the original article and learn more about the coolness of ferroptosis🩸🔮
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Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation @damonrunyon.org · 12/01/2026
Last month, Arlene Sharpe and Gordon J. Freeman (Damon Runyon Fellow '79-'81) received the inaugural edition of the Gretener-Thürlemann Prize for their foundational work on the immune system, widening the field of immunology and demonstrating how important basic science is to medical breakthrough.
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Deciphering the Immune System Side by Side
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Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation @damonrunyon.org · 31/12/2025
No one organization can fill the gaps created by federal funding cuts to research. But as an independent funder, Damon Runyon is committed to ensuring that our scientists can continue their lifesaving work in 2026 and beyond. Until midnight, all gifts will be fully matched: damonrunyon.org/donate
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Damon Runyon scientists on the impact of slashing research funding
Damon Runyon scientists explain how drastic cuts in federal research funding threaten progress in cancer research, and how Damon Runyon can help protect the breakthroughs…
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Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation @damonrunyon.org · 30/12/2025
Recent research from former Damon Runyon–Dale F. Frey Breakthrough Scientist Abigail Overacre-Delgoffe, PhD, suggests that sucralose—a common artificial sweetener—may interfere with cancer immunotherapy. Read more: bit.ly/3MZvzv1
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Artificial sweetener may interfere with immunotherapy
New research from Damon Runyon-Dale F. Frey Breakthrough Scientist Abigail E. Overacre-Delgoffe, PhD, and her lab at the University of Pittsburgh suggests that sucralose—the sugar substitute found in ...
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Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation @damonrunyon.org · 24/12/2025
Our scientists explain what support from Damon Runyon has meant during a turbulent year for cancer research. To everyone in our Damon Runyon community, happy holidays and thank you!
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A message of gratitude from our scientists
Damon Runyon scientists explain what your support has meant during a difficult year for cancer researchers. Help protect their progress in 2026 at at damonrunyon.org.
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Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation @damonrunyon.org · 26/11/2025
Pancreatic cancer remains one of the deadliest diagnoses, with a 5-year survival rate of about 12%. But even amidst a federal funding crisis, Damon Runyon scientists are working to advance methods of detection and treatment.
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How Damon Runyon scientists are making progress against pancreatic cancer
Learn more about our brilliant young scientists and support their work at damonrunyon.org.
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Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation @damonrunyon.org · 18/11/2025
Congratulations to Damon Runyon scientists Omar Abdel-Wahab, MD, Wendy S. Garrett, MD, PhD, and David G. Kirsch, MD, PhD, for their election to the National Academy of Medicine last month! 👏 Read the full press release here: bit.ly/4hnDYDH
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National Academy of Medicine Elects 100 New Members - NAM
The National Academy of Medicine has announced 100 new members for the Class of 2025.
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Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation @damonrunyon.org · 14/11/2025
A study from Damon Runyon scientists Eirini Papapetrou, MD, PhD, Piro Lito, MD, PhD, Elli Papaemmanuil, PhD, and Elvin Wagenblast, PhD, explains why RAS-mutant leukemias behave differently, and may offer a clue to overcoming their treatment resistance. Read more: bit.ly/4p61B6k
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A step toward overcoming treatment resistance in leukemia | New Discoveries
Since the Food and Drug Administration approved the targeted therapy drug venetoclax in 2020, it has become a first-line treatment for acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a blood cancer. Unfortunately, some...
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Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation @damonrunyon.org · 19/09/2025
Earlier this month, we proudly welcomed the newest cohort of Damon Runyon Fellows! These 16 brilliant postdocs will receive four years of independent funding to advance their investigation of causes, treatments, and prevention strategies for all types of cancer. Read more: bit.ly/4nc25Hq
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Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation @damonrunyon.org · 19/09/2025
The recipient of the 2025 Damon Runyon-Jake Wetchler Award for Pediatric Innovation, recognizing work with great potential to impact pediatric cancers, is Pu Zheng, PhD, a Damon Runyon-Fayez Sarofim Fellow working on new technologies to visualize cancer cell behavior within its native environment.
Photo of Pu Zheng standing in front of some laboratory shelving.
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Jian Zhou @zhou-jian.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Wanted to give a proper shout-out to @txrwang.bsky.social for earning a @damonrunyon.org QBio Fellowship! He is a perfect example of the next gen of scientists who think deeply and creatively across disciplines of biology and ML/AI. I learned a lot from him. www.damonrunyon.org/news/entries... 1/2
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Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation awards Quantitative Biology Fellowships to five cutting-edge scientists
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Luke Timmerman @luketimmerman.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Creative Ways to Back Young Scientists. Listen to Yung Lie and Andy Rachleff of Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation on The Long Run podcast. timmermanreport.com/2025/07/crea...
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Creative Ways to Back Young Scientists: Andy Rachleff and Yung Lie on The Long Run - TimmermanReport.com
Yung Lie and Andy Rachleff are today’s guests on The Long Run. Yung is the president and CEO of the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, based in New York. Andy is the board chair. Andy was one of...
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Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation @damonrunyon.org · 23/07/2025
Damon Runyon mentor-mentee duo Piro Lito, MD, PhD, and Antonio Cuevas-Navarro, PhD, have developed a new approach to treating RAS-driven cancers, such as colorectal and pancreatic. Rather than inhibiting the cancerous protein, their drug restores its natural function. Read more:
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New Discoveries and Honors in Cancer Research | Damon Runyon
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OHSU Knight Cancer Institute @ohsuknight.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
The Clinical Investigator Award program was designed to increase the number of physician-scientists capable of translating discoveries in the lab into new treatments for cancer patients. @tanaya-shree.bsky.social was recognized as one of five new @damonrunyon.org Clinical Investigators in 2025.
A graphic featuring a portrait of Dr. Tanaya Shree smiling over a blue-green gradient with text underneath reading, "This generous funding will allow us to study immune responses as they occur in patients receiving bispecific antibodies and help translate the ingredients for successful treatment to more patients. Tanaya Shree M.D., PH.D., OHSU Knight Cancer Institute"
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OHSU Knight Cancer Institute @ohsuknight.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Congratulations to Dr. Tanaya Shree on receiving the 2025 @damonrunyon.org Clinical Investigator Award! The recipients of this award are outstanding, early-career physician-scientists conducting patient-oriented cancer research under the mentorship of the nation's leading scientists and clinicians.
A portrait of Dr. Tanaya Shree smiling placed over the top of a background image of the Knight Cancer Research Building in a top-down light-to-dar blue gradient. Text underneath reads, "Tanaya Shree, M.D., PH.D., 2025 Clinical Investigator Award, Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation"
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Tanaya Shree @tanaya-shree.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Honored to be selected as a Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator among this group of incredible scientists and appreciative of the support to conduct patient-centered mechanistic research. @ohsunews.bsky.social @ohsuknight.bsky.social #CancerImmunotherapy #LymphomaResearch
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Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation @damonrunyon.org · 15/07/2025
Congratulations to the newest Damon Runyon Clinical Investigators! The five recipients of this prestigious award are exceptional early-career physician-scientists conducting patient-centered cancer research.
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michaelpacold.bsky.social @michaelpacold.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Out now: rdcu.be/evxCv We've used CoQ10 headgroup intermediates to treat mouse models of a mitochondrial disease and improve the neurological symptoms of a patient with this disease. Grateful for funding from @damonrunyon.org , Pershing Square Foundation, @americancancersoc.bsky.social, NIH!
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Coenzyme Q headgroup intermediates can ameliorate a mitochondrial encephalopathy - Nature
Decreased brain coenzyme Q10 levels cause encephalopathy and are associated with neurodegeneration; supplementation with 4-HMA or 4-HB restores coenzyme Q10 synthesis in mice and humans with HPDL vari...
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Luke Timmerman @luketimmerman.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Join me at 3 pm Mon. June 16 at the BIO International Convention's Storytelling Stage to hear about the past, present, and future of Timmerman Traverse for @lifesciencecares.bsky.social @damonrunyon.org convention.bio.org/program/bio-...
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BIO International Convention | Storytelling Stage
Experience powerful stories from researchers, patients, and innovators at the BIO 2025 Storytelling Stage, June 16–19 in Boston.
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MSKEducation @mskeducation.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
🎉 Congratulations to #MSKPostdoc Paul Klauser (@paulklauser.bsky.social), mentored by @lewislabmskcc.bsky.social & @caleblareau.bsky.social, on being awarded the prestigious Damon Runyon Quantitative Biology Fellowship! 👏
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Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics @cancerdynamics.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Congrats to IICD postdoc Aaron Zweig (@elhamazizi.bsky.social and @davidaknowles.bsky.social groups), awarded the prestigious Damon Runyon Quantitative Biology Fellowship @damonrunyon.org—one of only five granted this year! 🔗 bit.ly/3TeK7GQ #CancerResearch #QuantBio
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Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation @damonrunyon.org · 04/06/2025
Congratulations to the newest Damon Runyon Quantitative Biology Fellows, five exceptional early-career scientists who are using state-of-the-art computational tools to bring cancer biology into high resolution!
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Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation @damonrunyon.org · 26/05/2025
Starting now!
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Gregory A. Wilson @gregoryawilson.com · 24/05/2025
Now up to almost $1700 raised for @damonrunyon.org during Day Two of #ArvCon2025, join us at 5:15 p.m. EDT for the next TTRPG session with the Expedition from the Mysterious Peaks crew! www.twitch.tv/arvaneleron
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Arv streams Day 2 of ArvCon 2025--By The Dice Roll with D&D: Ghosts of Saltmarsh! !donate !arvcon !drcrf !BLM !ukraine
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Gregory A. Wilson @gregoryawilson.com · 23/05/2025
And the day has arrived! Tonight at 9 p.m. EDT, please join us for Day One of #ArvCon2025 to benefit @damonrunyon.org, featuring a TTRPG one-shot with the amazing Arvocalists!
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Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation @damonrunyon.org · 20/05/2025
Coming up this weekend - it's going to be a good one!
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Luke Timmerman @luketimmerman.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
We all made it! The Timmerman Traverse for Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation team arrived at Everest Base Camp (elev. 17,600 feet) on Apr. 23, 2025. Another awe-inspiring day in the mountains, supporting brave and bold cancer research. Thanks to all who supported this marvelous experience.
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Tata Kavlashvili @tatakavlashvili.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Day 5 - Trek to Dengboche with incredible views of Mt. Everest with the Timmerman Traverse for @damonrunyon.org team!
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Tata Kavlashvili @tatakavlashvili.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Timmerman Traverse for @damonrunyon.org. Trekking to Everest Base Camp with our first sight of the top of the world today in Syangboche! Absolutely epic!
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Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation @damonrunyon.org · 20/03/2025
After testing 1.2 billion (yes - with a b!) drug candidates, Damon Runyon Fellow Fangyu Liu, PhD, and her colleagues may have discovered a safer way to target CaSR, a protein that has been implicated in several cancers. Read more: www.damonrunyon.org/our-impact/n...
Diagram of calcium-sensing receptor docking process
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Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation @damonrunyon.org · 20/03/2025
Exciting work from former Damon Runyon Fellow and 2022 Damon Runyon-Jake Wetchler Award for Pediatric Innovation winner @anandpatellab.bsky.social 👇 bsky.app/profile/stju...
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Dhiraj Indana @dhirajindana.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Excited to contribute to the pioneering work at @damonrunyon.org @hhmi.org @elowitzlab.bsky.social!
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kashishjain.bsky.social @kashishjain.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Thrilled to be part of the Damon Runyon community and to receive this funding. It really helps a lot in these uncertain times! Thank you to my mentor Dr. Valerie Weaver for her unwavering support! #ucsf
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