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Freddy E Escorcia, MD/PhD

@freddyeescorcia.bsky.social
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Radiation Oncologist, Scientist · Cancer imaging and therapy · Radiopharmaceuticals development ☢️ · Personal account orcid.org/0000-0002-0727-3242 #RadOnc #nucmed #Radiopharmaceuticals #LiverCancer #HCC #chemsky #medsky #oncsky

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Leslie B Vosshall PhD @leslievosshall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Transformative opportunity for early career faculty @hhmi-science.bsky.social #FreemanHrabowski Scholars competition opens 11/3/2026 but you can get started NOW: view application components, establish eligibility, and unlock example applications and other resources www.hhmi.org/programs/fre...
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Early Career Faculty Program | Freeman Hrabowski Scholars | HHMI
The Freeman Hrabowski Scholars Program offers comprehensive support to outstanding early career faculty committed to scientific excellence in their own research, and to fostering labs that expand the ...
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Toxicologist here. If you have a working liver and kidneys then you are already “detoxing.” Supplement use is one of the leading causes of liver and kidney failure. The only thing you’re getting rid of when you fall for these predatory wellness grifts is your money.
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Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
My department (Biology at Emory) is hiring for a teaching track position! These are stable, well-respected, long-term positions with a path to promotion and ppl often staying for decades. The dept is wonderfully supportive and filled with amazing humans (faculty + staff) apply.interfolio.com/191814
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
CONCERNING NIH NEWS Administrator's access to ERA Commons has been taken away! Please share and confirm if true. Please correct me if I am getting bad information 1/3
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Sesame Street's Cookie Monster: 'So Share It Maybe'
ALT: Sesame Street's Cookie Monster: 'So Share It Maybe'
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The NIH just released a proposal that will apparently hide peer reviewers’ impact scores and percentiles from the research team, their institution, and NIH program officers. All the better to obscure how funding decisions will be made primarily via political review, I’m guessing.
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NOT-OD-26-088: Request for Information (RFI) on Proposed Changes to Reporting Outcomes from NIH Peer Review
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Request for Information (RFI) on Proposed Changes to Reporting Outcomes from NIH Peer Review NOT-OD-26-088. NIH
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Freddy E Escorcia, MD/PhD @freddyeescorcia.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
🚨Hot off the Presses!🚨 New work from our NIH team! We asked a simple question: can we systematically find cell-surface targets in #HCC for #theranostics development? Our answer: yes! A thread on the pipeline, the hits, and the caveats 🧵 1/10
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
As Dr. Fleming famously wrote about that red-letter date: "When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world's first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I guess that was exactly what I did." /1
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Freddy E Escorcia, MD/PhD @freddyeescorcia.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
🚨New work on #radiopharmaceuticals #immunology from our collaboration w @hhrosanguyen.bsky.social and Ravi Patel UPMC Rad Onc The interplay bt #radiopharmaceuticals therapy and the immune compartment is a hot topic ☢️! Work led by postdoc Constanza Rodriguez sheds some light! 1/2
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Jason Shepherd @jasonsynaptic.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I am still waiting on whether a 3% scored R01 will be funded at the NIA (reviewed in Jan) and even the NoA for my funded R01 non-competitive renewal is a month late 😭. And this is preclinical science that shouldn’t have any “dirty” words!
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
🔥 Published today, and just in time for summer conferences, here are your guidelines for presenting badly www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/fqa92
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hhrosanguyen.bsky.social @hhrosanguyen.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
New work out of the NCI @cp-cellrepmed.bsky.social Use of VLA4-targeting radiopharmaceutical therapy to reprogram the TME in neuroblastoma and enhance CAR efficacy! @freddyeescorcia.bsky.social @rpatelMDPhD www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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A radiopharmaceutical enhances CAR T cells against radio-sensitive and radio-resistant neuroblastoma by tumor sensitization and TME remodeling
Rodriguez et al. demonstrate that VLA-4-targeted low-dose radiopharmaceutical therapy enhances CAR T cell activity and drives tumor regression in neuroblastoma mouse models. Mechanistically, RPT promo...
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Freddy E Escorcia, MD/PhD @freddyeescorcia.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Tagging @hhrosanguyen.bsky.social
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Freddy E Escorcia, MD/PhD @freddyeescorcia.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
🚨New pub alert!🚨 Excited to share our @MolTherapy pub resulting from a massive collaboration w friends and colleagues Rosa Nguyen & @RPatelMDPHD & their teams! We explore GPC2-targeted #radiopharmaceuticals #theranostics CAR T cell therapy in models of #neuroblastoma! 👇🧵 1/9
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hhrosanguyen.bsky.social @hhrosanguyen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Excited to share our latest work out of the POB/NCI! We are exploring the use of radiopharmaceuticals to detect cancer antigens and guide combination therapies with CAR T cells. @freddyeescorcia.bsky.social #CancerResearch #CAR_T #Radiopharmeceuticals #B+_Foundation www.cell.com/molecular-th...
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Development of novel GPC2-directed radiotheranostics and CAR T cell therapy for neuroblastoma
Phadke and colleagues developed a radiotheranostic platform with 89Zr-mCT3 for non-invasive GPC2 imaging via immunoPET and 225Ac-mCT3 for targeted alpha-particle therapy. 89Zr-mCT3 served as a novel r...
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Science peeps, particularly trainees: When reviewing grants, it really, really helps if you have a Google Scholar page, an ORCID account, or a website that makes getting information about you, easy. Some sort of web presence. I'm begging you. Make it easier for study sections to give you money.
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I have always found that my lab staff each contribute unique strengths. There is even greater reason to think this holds true at the level of a lab contributing to the science endeavor.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 12/06/2026
If you were to count out a million seconds, it would take you 11 and a half days. A billion seconds would take you 31.7 years. But a trillion seconds would take 31,700 years — to reach that point today, you would have needed to start counting around the time that neanderthals went extinct.
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A trillion dollars is a stupid amount of money
No one man should have all that power.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/06/2026
1. How common is LLM use in scientific publishing, and how does it vary across field, publisher, journal prestige, author demographics etc.? @kylesiler.bsky.social has new paper in PNAS that addresses this question on a massive scale: 7.3 million papers from Elsevier, PLOS, MDPI, and Frontiers.
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The diffusion of large language models in published academic articles | PNAS
Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly changing academic research, raising questions of who is adopting these tools and under what conditions. Th...
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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
When it rains it pours. The RasgonLab was just awarded 2 NIH grants (R01 and R21). This is also actually the first time in my career that I've successfully renewed an R01
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a man in a suit and tie is standing in a desert with the word boom written on the ground
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AZ Faust @azfaust.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
If we try to play this game, we will lose. Our biggest mistake is thinking we can tell who the winners are (or which research questions will be most important in the future).
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
💔 I’m so tired of this we all depend on caregivers to pretend otherwise is to reject our own humanity
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
My quote of the day I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it. Frank A. Clark
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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I don’t know how to feel about grant rejections anymore. When you get a score that would have been funded at any other point in history, except right now, how bad can you feel? I see scores from friends and colleagues (and my own) and it just breaks my heart more than anything.
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Freddy E Escorcia, MD/PhD @freddyeescorcia.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
🚨New pub just dropped🚨 This effort was led by former postbac Divya Nambiar, and scientist Thomas Esparza, and brought to the finishline by Orit Jacobson at the NIH! We identified an #HCC-selective target CD147/BSG, and engineered a novel nanobody-based immunoPET agent. 1/5
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
The @nationalacademies.org Awards for Excellence in #scicomm have honored some of the best thinkers & creatives I know, like @chanda.blacksky.app @neillewisjr.bsky.social @cbo.bsky.social Top award: $40,000. Deadline: April 3. Explore & apply www.nationalacademies.org/programs/NAE...
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National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications
The National Academies are accepting submissions to an annual award program that aims to recognize and develop excellence in science communication by research scientists, science journalists, and scie...
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Freddy E Escorcia, MD/PhD @freddyeescorcia.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Beautifully written essay…
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Each Friday night, I write a briefing on what happened in US science & higher ed. 🧪  Mar 20 (Year 2, Week 12) - major ruling! ACIP & vaccine schedule illegitimate - NIH funds finally(?) “flowing” & what that actually means - NSF still hostage to OMB & so much more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
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Year 2, Week 12
Mar 14-20, 2026 - equinox
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
New @sloanfoundation.bsky.social grants: Exemplary Pathways to STEM Graduate Education. Up to $500,000 for orgs focused on helping remove obstacles for undergraduates who want to pursue advanced STEM degrees. Deadline is June 1. Please share & apply if this is you! sloan.org/programs/hig...
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Call for Letters of Inquiry: Exemplary Pathways to STEM Graduate Education | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Our mission is to make the world a better place through the advancement of scientific knowledge.
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Freddy E Escorcia, MD/PhD @freddyeescorcia.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Whoa!🤯
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
This is kinda bonkers. In addition, 20 amino acids were found on Ryugu, along with uracil and vitamin B3. These have been found in other instances, but since the samples from Ryugu were collected directly from the asteroid and delivered in sealed capsules, contamination on Earth could be ruled out.
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AZ Faust @azfaust.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I don't think most people would say "it was fine before." Getting a sub 10%ile grant is really hard. But having 5th %iles go unfunded just feels bewildering. It's not that they are objectively better than the 10%iles, but getting 5 requires enormous luck and even that is now not good enough.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26) Directorates to follow 1/10
A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025.
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C. Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Now this is a goddamn paper
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/02/2026
1. Kevin Gross and I have a new paper out today PLOS Biology. We used economic models based around screening games and the market for unpaid labor to highlight a meltdown cycle threatening peer review.
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Screening, sorting, and the feedback cycles that imperil peer review
The process of peer review is vital to contemporary science, but is also under enormous strain. This study uses mathematical models to dissect the threats to the long-term viability of peer review, su...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
My quote of the day Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in. Sally Ride
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AZ Faust @azfaust.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
At this point, I'll pay people to stop writing Alzheimer's grants.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
My quote of the day Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. Charles Darwin
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
My quote of the day All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity. Robert F. Kennedy
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Emmanuel Saliba @emmanuel-saliba.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
🔔HIRI has opened a new call to recruit Group Leaders. If you are interested in opening an RNA Biology and Infection lab, join us! Deadline: February 15. More info here 👇
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026
AOC: "Early reports are that he was an ICU nurse at the Mpls VA. So we are talking about Donald Trump accusing a VA ICU as being a terrorist against the United States. A man who was treating service members to our country ... his final act on early was helping a woman pushed to the ground."
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 24/01/2026
He wasn't a domestic terrorist. A domestic terrorist was the Oklahoma City bomber. This was a VA nurse looking out for his neighbors.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
“.. He cared about people deeply ..,” said Michael Pretti, Alex’s father. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong ..” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national/202...
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Trump has been in office for one year. We at @nature.com did a deep dive looking at the administration's disruption of science in numbers. Take a look—the numbers are staggering. By me, @dangaristo.bsky.social, Jeff Tollefson, @kimay.bsky.social, & help from @noamross.net @scott-delaney.bsky.social
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US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains
A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 19/01/2026
This is how we first teach chirality to our undergrads !
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Nate Brought @usfreepressspain.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
I worked 16 years in the Office of the Secretary at the Department of Homeland Security, including as the Intel & Ops briefer to the Secretary, the Department's Congressional Reports Officer, & as the Exec Sec for OGC. If I can be useful to your law firm, NGO, or Cong. office, please let me know.
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
The data show that when you let more women and racial/ethnic minorities into your academic society they tend to be overrepresented doing the service work of your society. Isn’t that interesting? #ACNP2026
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
6 years ago, our Nusayba rang the bell and was officially cancer free. She's now a 9 year old diva. A stage 4 cancer survivor with a full liver transplant thanks to once anonymous donor Shawn Zahir who donated a piece of his liver to save the life of a girl he never met. God is great.
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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 06/01/2026
This is so important. I’ve taken care of children who didn’t die from their vaccine preventable illness but instead -lost limbs -developed kidney failure requiring dialysis -had strokes and permanent deficits Death isn’t the only bad outcome. And sometimes it may not be the worst one.
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
When I explain to people what is involved with writing a successful grant, they simply don’t believe me. I explained it once to a famous person from Pixar, and he looked me square in the eye and said: You mean all the cancer and Alzheimer’s grants work that way? You’ve gotta be &$%#ing kidding me!
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