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Deborah Marsh @djmarsh24.bsky.social · 16h

When you study a rare cancer, an international community is priceless. Such is the case for Small Cell Carcinoma of the Ovary, Hypercalcemic Type ( #SCCOHT) Happy to engage in the wee small hrs of an Australian night & cheer on PhD student Natisha Field from our group sharing her research #digoxin 🧪

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Deborah Marsh @djmarsh24.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The challenging funding environment for medical research in Australia is starting to bite in a big way. Absorption of the renowned Hudson Institute of Medical Research into Monash University is a huge loss, with concerns of more to come. #STEM #ResearchFunding #Hudson www.smh.com.au/national/vic...

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Slowly strangled: Cancer institute to close as research centres buckle under funding crisis

A leading children’s cancer and women’s health institute has proposed closing and merging with Monash University after years of multimillion-dollar deficits, with about 75 staff expected to lose their...

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Deborah Marsh @djmarsh24.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Sending our most junior group members, Layal & Anaida, to the Australian Society of Medical Research (ASMR) NSW meeting tomorrow. Posters ready to go! First time presenting at a conference for both! #ovariancancer #endometriosis #microfluidics #PTEN #CRISPR #tumour-on-chip #PrecisionMedicine 🧪

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Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I saw a meme today that said that books are proof that strangers can meet across centuries and still understand each other. That really resonated.

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Deborah Marsh @djmarsh24.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

In April this year at a medical conference (ASCO 2026), results of a drug improving overall survival in patients with #PancreaticCancer received a standing ovation - almost unheard of. Exciting to see the RAS inhibitor #daraxonrasib now approved by the FDA for metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma. 🧪

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Deborah Marsh @djmarsh24.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

#MultipleMyeloma is an incurable blood cancer. This month a new class of drug has been FDA-approved to enter the therapeutic mix for adults under certain conditions - #Zenbexus (iberdomide) from Bristol-Myers Squibb, a specific targeted protein degrader, #CELMoD 🧪. www.fda.gov/drugs/resour...

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FDA grants accelerated approval to iberdomide with daratumumab and hya

On August 13, 2026, the Food and Drug Administration granted accelerated approval to iberdomide (Zenbexus, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company) in combination with daratumumab and hyaluronidase-fihj and dexa...

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Deborah Marsh @djmarsh24.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

My friend & colleague Muhammad Zaman at Boston Uni has written a book - “INFECTED - How Power, Politics, & Privilege Use Science Against the World’s Most Vulnerable”. Bonus for me to be handed this over dinner in Sydney - “A paradigm-shifting exploration of the politics of health around the world”.

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Deborah Marsh @djmarsh24.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I have to take a class next week on meta-analyses. Very hard to find anything humorous about meta-analyses to try and help to carry this large 3rd year class on evidence-based medicine along with me for the session. This is the best I can find. Any others out there? 🧪 #meta-analysis #STEMhumour

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Deborah Marsh @djmarsh24.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Young son of a colleague is 100 days into a diagnosis of Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) requiring many blood transfusions. When people ask what they can do she says "Give blood". Amplifying her words & to people worldwide who do this to help strangers, you're amongst the best of us #AML #BloodDonation

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Deborah Marsh @djmarsh24.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Jasmine flowering mid-winter in Sydney … Its scent was beautiful but 2026 is not giving us a usual winter. #climatechange

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Deborah Marsh @djmarsh24.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Reading this & thinking I must look at this paper & then realising that they are talking about our research!! 🥰 Thank you @oxford-optronix.bsky.social . Love your #GelCount for clonogenic cell survival assays. Our students are grateful they don't need to spend their time manually counting colonies!

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Deborah Marsh @djmarsh24.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

A week of creativity in the lab - Part 2. Our PhD student Teagan Fisher came runner-up in our Faculty’s 3 Minute Thesis competition with this imaginative representation of her research - “Investigating the missing link between endometriosis and ovarian cancer”. 🧪 #3MT #ovariancancer #endometriosis

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Deborah Marsh @djmarsh24.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

A week of creativity in the lab - Part 1. Honours student Layal Dani supervised by @amanialghalayini.bsky.social was short-listed in our university’s microscopy imaging competition with her “Firework of Cancer Cells”. Congratulations to Layal who’s working on a microfluidics project 🧪 #ovariancancer

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Deborah Marsh @djmarsh24.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Experienced & successful science grant writers, what do you wish that someone had told you earlier in your career when you were first beginning to write grant applications to fund your research? 🧪

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Deborah Marsh @djmarsh24.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Reading David Suzuki’s “Lessons from a Lifetime”. I heard him speak in Sydney when I was young. In chap 9, “Down Under” he speaks about a “Commission for the Future” established in the 1980s on the importance of #science in Australian life & future. Needing to make this case again & again & again…

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Steven Ray Morris @stevenraymorris.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

One of the quiet bright moments of lockdown was Sam Neill serenading us on the ukulele. This type of tenderness feels rare nowadays, how lucky we were. Thank you for everything. ❤️❤️❤️

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TeeDixie ✊🏼 @teedixie.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Wow who’d have thunk it, vaccines work 🤔 Great news to celebrate.

No women aged 20-24 in England have died from cervical cancer for the first time, thanks to the HPV vaccine.
A landmark study funded by Cancer Research
UK shows the HPV vaccine is making cervical cancer increasingly preventable, with researchers highlighting a major milestone: between 2020 and 2024, no women aged 20-24 in England died from the disease.

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Deborah Marsh @djmarsh24.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Grant rejoinders: Avoid using comments from a +ve Assessor to rebut another Assessor who is more critical of aspects of your proposal. For assessors, it’s easier to say something is great than spend time detailing issues. Responses need to come from your deep knowledge of your proposal. #grants 🧪

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Deborah Marsh @djmarsh24.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Today, June 26, is Rare Cancer Awareness Day. Every 12 minutes in Australia someone is told they have a rare cancer. Sharing for my colleague in the picture, the people with lived experience we work with as researchers, & for all the people I don’t know walking this path. 🧪 #RareCancerAwarenessDay

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Living LFS @livinglfs.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Joseph F. Fraumeni Jr.. Alongside Frederick Li, he helped identify Li-Fraumeni syndrome and advance understanding of inherited cancer risk. His work gave generations of families knowledge and hope. We honor his legacy and lasting impact on the LFS community.

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Deborah Marsh @djmarsh24.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

The Marie Krogh Young Women in Science Prize is open across Australia & New Zealand - recognising outstanding people who fit eligibility in science & medicine who embody Innovation, Leadership & Impact. www.novonordisk.com.au/marie-krogh-...

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Marie Krogh Prize

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Darcy Burbage, DNP, RN, AOCN @darcyburbage.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

On National Cancer Survivors Day, we honor and celebrate everyone whose life has been touched by cancer As oncology nurses and healthcare professionals, we are privileged to witness the courage of patients and care partners each day. Thank you for inspiring us!

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Deborah Marsh @djmarsh24.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

It is rare to see a standing ovation at a scientific cancer meeting, especially when the slide is a Kaplan Meier survival curve. Beyond thrilled to see the progress being made in the treatment of #PancreaticCancer. #daraxonrasib #RAS-drivenCancer #PrecisionMedicine 👏👏

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Deborah Marsh @djmarsh24.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

This is good-“Universities are not corporations in need of strong CEOs.They are federations of expertise held together by norms, trust & a shared commitment to inquiry..The work of leadership..is to steward institutions where that independence can flourish” 🧪 www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

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On Leading People Who Don’t Want to Be Led (opinion)

Many faculty say this is not the job they signed up for. They need leaders who see this and who are looking out for them.

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Deborah Marsh @djmarsh24.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

A stranger gave me these beautiful flowers yesterday. She was about to travel & couldn’t bear to throw them away. When a stranger gives another stranger flowers because she can’t contemplate turning her back on their beauty without sharing them, somehow the world feels a little more OK. #tulips

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Deborah Marsh @djmarsh24.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

A global problem. My university in Australia shut down from CANVAS until “at least” Monday. In higher education and in so many aspects of life, we are all too vulnerable to cyberattacks. Didn’t see this one coming though. #CANVAS

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Deborah Marsh @djmarsh24.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Celebrating David Attenborough’s birthday tonight by watching one of his many documentaries. This one “Rise of Animals - Triumph of Vertebrates”. Happy birthday Sir David Attenborough! Thank you for sharing your love and curiosity of life with the rest of us. Always special.

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John Williams @johnhuww.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

“Tofersen targets only about 2% of A.L.S. patients, those whose disease is caused by a mutation on the SOD1 gene.” “Despite the small numbers, evidence that some patients are getting better —& that others are not getting worse— is generating excitement & optimism” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/w...

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In a Milestone for A.L.S., a Treatment Helps Some Patients Improve

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iamals.bsky.social @iamals.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

We are so grateful to @Pam Belluck and @nytimes for telling our community’s story and making ALS progress visible. THIS is progress—I AM ALS pushed for Tofersen, the FDA understood this need, and it paid off. We won’t stop bit.ly/NYT-tofersen

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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 29/04/2026

notably his cure is from CAR-T therapy, which is so new I didn’t even learn about it in med school THIS is why we invest in science

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Deborah Marsh @djmarsh24.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Expanding the power of drugs used to treat liquid malignancies into solid tumours. We screened an epigenetic compound library against cell lines models of ovarian clear cell carcinoma. The BTK inhibitor ibrutinib shows promise #ovariancancer #ibrutinib 🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Deborah Marsh @djmarsh24.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I often think that if the world could be run like a scientific collaboration with valued colleagues located around the globe, what a place it could be. As @astrokatie.com notes - "joy, international teamwork, diversity". Important reminder we're actually capable of this as a species 🧪#Artemis II

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Do we grow wiser as we age? I spent 15+ years chasing glam journals, wasting time and energy (and frustrating my team and co-authors). I don’t want to wake up at 70 and realize my life went into convincing a few editors my work was trendy enough. Enough. I’ll try to be smarter.

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Deborah Marsh @djmarsh24.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Brilliant talk by my colleague Dr Dongli Liu from UNSW at ANZGOG (Australia New Zealand Gynaecological Oncology Group) on the Gold Coast this week. All about development of organoids from patients with ovarian and endometrial cancer & their value in drug testing. #organoids #tumoroids #ANZGOGASM2026

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Deborah Marsh @djmarsh24.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Honours student Anaida Nirula giving her formative presentation today. Excited to be working on PTEN again after somewhat of a hiatus 😊. This time working to understand the role of loss of #PTEN in #endometriosis. Anaida nailed her presentation & I am excited for her discoveries this year! 🧪

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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

‘Medical research isn't just good for our health, it's also great for our economy.’ In this Budget, the govt has to commit to spending money put aside for that purpose in the Medical Research Future Fund. Before we lose more brilliant minds overseas, before we damage the sector irrevocably.

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