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Spencer S Watson

@drspencerwatson.bsky.social
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Cancer researcher at UNIL - CHUV in Lausanne Switzerland. Studying brain cancers with spatial-omics and computational oncology.

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Spencer S Watson @drspencerwatson.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Very happy to announce that I will be starting my own lab as an assistant professor in the College of Pharmacy at the @umich.edu! I'm very excited to be joining the BioInnovations in Brain Cancer program, and really looking forward to contributing to the incredible work being done there.
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Spencer S Watson @drspencerwatson.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The last paddle board of the season. 🍁🇨🇭
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OHSU Knight Cancer Institute @ohsuknight.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Phil and Penny Knight announced today a record-breaking $2 billion gift to the Oregon Health & Science University’s Knight Cancer Institute to transform the future of cancer care and set a new standard globally. Thank you to Phil and Penny Knight for their incredible generosity. #GiveCancerHell
White text over a black background; “Give Cancer Hell” An OHSU Knight Cancer Institute logo is placed below.The top text reads:

Cancer is the biggest fight in the history of the world. We will win.
It will be hard. We're built for it.
We care. Every breath. Of every second. Of every day.
Great things come from the most unexpected places.
Look around. We're surrounded by heroes.
This is not a job. This is our life.
Cancer does not discriminate. Neither will we.
Bold moves only.
Cancer doesn't see us coming. We will outlast, and we will outwit it.
This fight is and always will be personal.
"GIVE CANCER HELL." in bold at the bottom.
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Raphael Gottardo @rgottardo.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
🎉 New paper alert. We benchmarked Visium, GeoMx, and Chromium for FFPE tumor analysis. Thanks @estellayixingdong.bsky.social for pushing this forward, & MOSAIC collaborators! 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SpatialTranscriptomics #CancerResearch cc: @owkin.bsky.social @10xgenomics.bsky.social
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Transcriptome analysis of archived tumors by Visium, GeoMx DSP, and Chromium reveals patient heterogeneity - Nature Communications
Currently, there is an urgent need to evaluate the strengths and limitations of various probe-based full transcriptome methods for formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tumor tissues. Here, the authors ana...
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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
And wonderful photos by our in-house photographers/ drone specialists 📷👏 @drspencerwatson.bsky.social @dolfibastien.bsky.social 🙏 This group photo was captured by drone - a J for Joyce lab 😉 My thanks again to ~50 alumni & current lab members who joined over the 3 days of this truly unique event!!
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Spencer S Watson @drspencerwatson.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Great to see this paper finally out. We've been using it for a while, a really great resource for omics in glioblastoma! doi.org/10.1093/neuo...
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Charting the Single-Cell and Spatial Landscape of IDH-Wildtype Glioblastoma with GBmap
AbstractBackground. Glioblastoma (GB), particularly IDH-wildtype, is the most aggressive brain malignancy with a dismal prognosis. Despite advances in mole
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Hallou Lab @halloulab.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Thank you @naturemethods.bsky.social for highlighting our recent paper on "Spatial Mechano-Transcriptomics" in your April Issue: www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A computational pipeline for spatial mechano-transcriptomics - Nature Methods
The authors present a computational framework that leverages mechanical force inference and spatial transcriptomics to enable analyses of the interplay between the transcriptomic and mechanical state.
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Spencer S Watson @drspencerwatson.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Thrilled to announce our doctoral network for spatial oncology as been funded by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions! This combines some of the best immuno-oncology and computational labs across Europe to create a multi-disciplinary PhD program for spatial-omics cancer research. More details soon!
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 19/03/2025
Please also check out the News & Views highlighting this cool work! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Marrying mechanics with spatial transcriptomics - Nature Methods
A method infers tension from spatial transcriptomic data on single cells in tissue context.
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Gina DeNicola @ginadenicola.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
What's better than spatial metabolomics? Spatial metabolomics in 3D! New from Ramon Sun and colleagues, a 3D map of the brain metabolome using AI, with an interactive database to explore. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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AI-driven framework to map the brain metabolome in three dimensions - Nature Metabolism
This study presents MetaVision3D, a pipeline to integrate mass spectrometry imaging sections into 3D reconstructions of metabolomic maps. The authors also provide a comprehensive 3D metabolome atlas o...
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Spencer S Watson @drspencerwatson.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Morning in Haute-Nendaz 🇨🇭
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Spencer S Watson @drspencerwatson.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
OMG, I feel so seen!
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Spencer S Watson @drspencerwatson.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Also, what’s this big orange thing in the sky over London? Never seen that here before.
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Spencer S Watson @drspencerwatson.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Fantastic scientific advisory board meeting for @braintumourcharity.bsky.social Some great applications I’m excited to see funded. Thanks again for everything the Charity does to support cutting edge brain cancer research!
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Spencer S Watson @drspencerwatson.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Check out this amazing visualization of SNSF funding by Colas Droin! Really highlights how Switzerland has become such a scientific leader through intelligent investments in research. colasdroin.github.io/snsf-dataviz/
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SNSF Data Visualization
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Derek Thompson @dkthomp.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Unbelievable news. Pancreatic is one of the deadliest cancers. New paper shows personalized mRNA vaccines can induce durable T cells that attack pancreatic cancer, with 75% of patients cancer free at three years—far, far better than standard of care. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Spencer S Watson @drspencerwatson.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Evening in Lutry Switzerland
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Constantin Pape @cppape.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
After a long journey, Segment Anything for Microscopy is now published in Nature Methods! We significantly improve SAM for interactive and automatic segmentation in light and electron microscopy and build a user-friendly tool. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Improvements in LM (top) and EM (bottom) of our micro-sam model (finetuned) compared to the default SAM model.
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Spencer S Watson @drspencerwatson.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Exciting to see these approaches reach clinical trials.
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Spencer S Watson @drspencerwatson.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
It’s great to see these progressive changes by @ethzurich.bsky.social. It’s hard enough getting and starting an assistant professorship, removing barriers will be a huge gain for early career scientists and academic research in Switzerland. #EduSky #AcademicSky
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
RUNX2 promotes fibrosis via an alveolar-to-pathological fibroblast transition @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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RUNX2 promotes fibrosis via an alveolar-to-pathological fibroblast transition - Nature
The use of two mouse models of pulmonary fibrosis helped the identification of the transcription factor RUNX2 as a regulator of the transition of alveolar fibroblasts to pathological fibroblasts.
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Spencer S Watson @drspencerwatson.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I’m at the AI Moonshot Hackathon for glioblastoma in Paris, put on by Owkin and Servier. We have 15 teams working with spatial transcriptimics to develop new analyses for GBM. Excited to see what they come up with. #ScienceSky #CanSky #MedSky
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Spencer S Watson @drspencerwatson.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
In Paris today speaking at the Brain Tumor Microenvironment Symposium. It’s a very impressive lineup, really looking forward to it. It’s also my first time in Paris so would love some recommendations on what to do after the symposium. #CanSky #ScienceSky #MedSky curamus-cancer.fr/wp-content/u...
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Spatial multi-omics has just gone to the next level! www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... —Integration of 5 omic modalities w/ spatial resolution at 20 -50 μm —"a new era for characterizing tissue & cellular heterogeneity that single-modality studies alone could not reveal"
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Spencer S Watson @drspencerwatson.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
In London to speak at the British Neuropathological Society symposium. We'll be discussing how we can apply spatial-omics approaches to improve immunotherapies for glioblastoma patients. #CanSky #ScienceSky #MedSky www.bns.org.uk/126th-bns-me...
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126th BNS meeting 2025 - BNS
118th Meeting of the British Neuropathological Society MARCH 2017 Symposium: 'Small Vessel Disease'
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Spencer S Watson @drspencerwatson.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Deleted all FB/Insta/Meta accounts. Now I don’t have anywhere else to post cute pet pics. So for now on I’ll be posting about cutting edge cancer research, and random stuff my dog does. #ScienceSky #CanSky #AcademicSky
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
A new mechanism for cancer-induced immune evasion. We knew about cancer cells hijacking mitochondria. Now we learn about how their mitochondrial transfer to T cells impairs the tumor immune response. www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · 17/01/2025
Making space for spatial biology in the clinic Spatial transcriptomics methods have been slow to move into clinical practice, but spatial proteomics are cheaper and more scalable, and could progress faster go.nature.com/3PoWPkz
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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
You cannot underestimate all the positive and long-term benefits of having a supportive #mentor One could argue this is at least as important as the research topic 🧪 Do choose wisely.. #MentoringMonth
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Anna Obenauf @obenaufa.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Thrilled to share that our paper www.nature.com/articles/s41... is featured in a fantastic Nature News & Views piece by thomastueting.bsky.social! 🎉 Grateful for the spotlight on our research and its impact on understanding cancer immunology. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 👀👉 rdcu.be/d3cRz
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A lipid made by tumour cells reprograms immune cells
Insights into how cancer cells become unresponsive to therapy.
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Johanna Joyce Lab @joycelab.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Spatial Proteomics is the Method of the Year 🧪 from Nature Methods! Resharing our #HIFI paper - which we developed to be #accessible and #economical for all interested in #spatial analysis of complex tissues @drspencerwatson.bsky.social @natureportfolio.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Microenvironmental reorganization in brain tumors following radiotherapy and recurrence revealed by hyperplexed immunofluorescence imaging - Nature Communications
Improved imaging techniques are required to help advance our understanding of the complex role of the tumour microenvironment (TME). Here, the authors develop a high-throughput, highly multiplexed tis...
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Spencer S Watson @drspencerwatson.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Great to see spatial proteomics named as the Method of the Year. Couldn't agree more! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Method of the Year 2024: spatial proteomics - Nature Methods
Approaches for profiling the spatial proteome in tissues are the basis of atlas-scale projects that are delivering on their promise for understanding biological complexity in health and disease.
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Bernard A. Fox @bernardafox.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
#Emotional #Distress Signature in #cancer patients associated with lower RR to IO - Blocking #Adrenalin Receptor improves outcome in mice! Humans? Consistent with reduced immunity, Distressed pts have less SAEs / Prof Christian Blank @nkinl.bsky.social #Bridge2024 @sitcancer.bsky.social #psychology
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Spencer S Watson @drspencerwatson.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Great first day of TMEsystems24 at Georg-Speyer-Haus. Got to give a talk in the same session as my PhD mentor Joe Gray, and see a museum of the world’s first cancer research lab. #cancer #science
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Maria Secrier @mariasecrier.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Developed by my brilliant PhD student, Eloise Withnell, we use SpottedPy to explore EMT plasticity in breast primary tumours and uncover a hybrid, quasi-mesenchymal E/M state linked with immune evasion. #cancer #spatialtranscriptomics #EMT
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Spencer S Watson @drspencerwatson.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Looking at how the surrounding brain's response to surgical tumor resection can help cancer cells survive treatment. We saw saw similar pro-survival niches following immunotherapy treatment in the lab of @johannajoyce.bsky.social. www.cell.com/cancer-cell/...
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Spencer S Watson @drspencerwatson.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Hello Bluesky! Glad to see so many familiar faces here. #science #cancerresearch #sciart
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