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Pauline Funchain

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Melanoma oncology @Stanford. Study hereditary genetics and irAEs. LA explant in SF via Ohio State, NIH/NHGRI, Harbor UCLA, and Cleveland Clinic. Sports fan, geek and mom. APD Hem/Onc fellowship. ASPirE founder, Checkpoint Now. COI bit.ly/43UCDOz

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Pauline Funchain @funchainmd.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Straight up fangirling here at Medicine Grand Rounds @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social Mix of emotions as Fauci goes through the history of HIV, paralleling many of our medical lives and training. How many lost in the decades before, and how no one should be lost today - except for infrastructure gaps 😢
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Pauline Funchain @funchainmd.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
One of the wonderful things about doing science @stanford-cancer.bsky.social is incredible support through multiple shared resources supported by SCI. Today highlighting the new Organoid Core led by Claudia Petrisch and Cancer Data Science Core led by Summer Han #SCIResearch26
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Pauline Funchain @funchainmd.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Great learning on data science algorithms by Tina Hernandez-Boussard: when a predictive algorithm works @stanford-cancer.bsky.social but fails when used at @massgeneralbrigham.bsky.social because one hospital uses "Depends" to refer to an adult diaper and the other uses "depends" only as a verb...
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Pauline Funchain @funchainmd.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Good afternoon Vancouver 🌞🏔️ It’s 2026 and melanoma data continue to move in TIL 🏋️‍♀️ @drbetofmdphd.bsky.social discusses 10 year melanoma survival data for patients who have experienced complete response with earlier versions of TIL #MovingTheGoalPosts #CMC26 @stanford-cancer.bsky.social
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Allison Betof Warner, MD, PhD @drbetofmdphd.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Stanford #Melanoma’s @funchainmd.bsky.social leading us through a fantastic discussion of immune checkpoint toxicity #irAE in patients with pre-existing autoimmune disease. #CMC26 @stanforduniversity.bsky.social
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Pauline Funchain @funchainmd.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Day 30 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 557 mins writing 📝 Not 12 days of Christmas, but 30 days of November: -5 pgs cut ✂️ -4 talks in 3 days 🎤 -2 manuscripts, 2 abstracts edited ✔️ -rainsoaked @scoutingamerica.bsky.social campout 🏕️ - @dodgers.com WS win 💍 and -1 aims page 📃 #grateful
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Pauline Funchain @funchainmd.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Day 29 #NaGraWriMo: 25 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 542 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: Cut 0.5 pg! Down to 7.5... Now in the cuts that hurt 😅😂
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Pauline Funchain @funchainmd.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Day 28 #NaGraWriMo: 25 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 517 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: Black Friday changed the schedule but not the commitment. Day shopping and night writing ftw 🏆
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Pauline Funchain @funchainmd.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Day 27 #NaGraWriMo: 27 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 492 mins writing 📝 Happy Thanksgiving! Grateful for the opportunity to write and represent @stanford-cancer.bsky.social 🦃 Also, totally unintentional numerology in writing 27 mins for the 27th day 🍀
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Pauline Funchain @funchainmd.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Hugely impactful work addressing the toughest of diagnoses - leptomeningeal disease. Early trial discontinuation due to significant benefit of proton craniospinal irradiation (pCSI). Kudos to the authors including @drbetofmdphd.bsky.social @stanford-cancer.bsky.social 🙏🧠
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Pauline Funchain @funchainmd.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Day 25 and 26 #NaGraWriMo: 10 (gra) and 15 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 465 mins writing 📝 Rounding the bases...3 more pages trimmed ✂️
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Pauline Funchain @funchainmd.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Day 24 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 465 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: I tend to look at both forest and trees, which is a skill in and of itself but also is time consuming. If #NaMaGraMo has taught me anything, you don't (shouldn't) have to keep doing it the way you always have 🙏
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Pauline Funchain @funchainmd.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Day 23 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 440 mins writing 📝 3 weeks down, 1 to go! Challenging myself in the home stretch to cut 1 page per day to make the material fit the grant guidelines 😅🏋️
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Pauline Funchain @funchainmd.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Day 21 and 22 #NaGraWriMo: 20 (ma) and 15 (ma) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 425 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: This is the first year I've had to double-day post regularly. Reflecting that as feedback (and grace) for exactly how challenging this year has been in comparison to the last 4 yrs I've done this 🕊️
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Pauline Funchain @funchainmd.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Day 19 and 20 #NaGraWriMo: 25 (ma) and 15 (ma) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 390 mins writing 📝 2 more manuscript edits down 🥳 2/3 of November and #NaGraWriMo is in the books! 😅
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Pauline Funchain @funchainmd.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Day 18 #NaGraWriMo: 20 (ma) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 350 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: As much as I want edits to take less time as I have more editing years under my belt, they still take a lot of time! On day 3 of what I thought would be 1 day of editing...
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Pauline Funchain @funchainmd.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Day 17 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (ma) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 330 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: Oops transposed a day, so adding that day back to the total. Too tired for math, but not too tired to write! ✍️💪
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Pauline Funchain @funchainmd.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
🚨irAE aficionados - ASPIRE+ IOTOX CME 2026 - hosted by @mdanderson.bsky.social - open for registration! Abstract submission is also open 📝 Register below 👇 mdanderson.cloud-cme.com/course/cours...
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2026 IOTOX Symposium: Delivering What Matters - Patient-Centered through IOTOX Translational Science - MDA - Continuing Education (CE)
MDA, 2026 IOTOX Symposium: Delivering What Matters - Patient-Centered through IOTOX Translational Science, 4/24/2026 1:30:00 PM - 4/25/2026 4:00:00 PM, <p>This symposium is designed to create a space ...
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Pauline Funchain @funchainmd.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Day 14 + 15 #NaGraWriMo: 50 (ma) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 290 mins writing 📝 Real talk - gave 4 talks in 3 days, followed by a rain soaked @scoutingamerica.bsky.social campout. I'm exhausted, happy, and should NEVER repeat a stretch like that again 🫠 Also HALFWAY DONE 🥳
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Pauline Funchain @funchainmd.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Good morning Mountain View 🌞 Nothing like starting the day jumping into the great academic debate over surveillance strategies for uveal melanoma. Esp if one of the debaters is an old friend and colleague Arun Singh @clevelandclinic.bsky.social Whatever it takes to knock out cancer 🥊 #rarediseases
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Pauline Funchain @funchainmd.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Amazing night celebrating the inception of the Alan Adler Center for Ophthalmic Oncology and Prithvi Mruthyunjaya, the Alan Adler Professor of Ophthalmology @ Byers Eye and @stanford-cancer.bsky.social member 🍾🎊
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Pauline Funchain @funchainmd.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Day 14 #NaGraWriMo: 25 (ma) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 265 mins writing 📝 Abstract edits ✅ Manuscript edits 1/2 way… Two weeks down 🏋️‍♀️
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Pauline Funchain @funchainmd.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Day 13 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 240 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: Giving myself enough time to put away crucial pieces of writing (e.g. aims) and come back to them with fresh eyes, and repeating the process multiple times - I've had new thoughts each time #IterationWorks 🏆
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Pauline Funchain @funchainmd.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Day 12 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 225 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: Noise does matter... Tomorrow recommitting to writing before everyone else wakes up 😇
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Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer @sitcancer.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Abstract submissions for Spring Scientific are open through Jan. 15, 2026. Don’t miss this opportunity to share your research with your colleagues and fellow immuno-oncology professionals. Learn more about the program and register: sitcancer.org/edu/2026-spring-scien…
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Pauline Funchain @funchainmd.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Day 11 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 210 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: consistency is its own skill and reward (inspo from @dodgers.com, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and Shohei Ohtani 💙)
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Pauline Funchain @funchainmd.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Day 10 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (gra) + 25 mins (ma) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 195 mins writing 📝 Post vaccine recovery day (Day 9)...learned that sleeping in kills the writing for me. Up early today and punched it out 🌞 #BeginAgain #RealWorldWriting #MondayMotivation
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Pauline Funchain @funchainmd.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Day 8 #NaGraWriMo: 15 mins (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 155 mins writing 📝 Exhausted on a post vaccine day, but committed and completed 👊
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Pauline Funchain @funchainmd.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Day 7 #NaGraWriMo: 15 mins (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 140 mins writing 📝 Routine broke yesterday, but as they say in meditation circles, #BeginAgain 🌬️ Back on track! One week down! 💪
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Pauline Funchain @funchainmd.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Day 5 & 6 #NaGraWriMo: 15 +15 mins (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 125 mins writing 📝 Argh, forgot to post yesterday - living a life that I will appreciate for its fullness... 🙃
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Pauline Funchain @funchainmd.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Is this explosive growth in publications good for science: Fabulous questions posed and thoughtful summary on the state of publications today by @kbibbinsdomingo.bsky.social editor in chief @jama.com Medicine Grand Rounds @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social
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Pauline Funchain @funchainmd.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
🚨 irAE aficionados! This Friday! @aspire-cop.bsky.social is at @sitcancer.bsky.social 🥳 ⏱️4-6p 📍Chesapeake Rm 2-3 More details below:
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Pauline Funchain @funchainmd.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
AI in Clinical Science - amazing data being presented today by @jason-fries.bsky.social Sylvia Plevritis @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social @akshay-chaudhari.bsky.social but still feel like we are just barely cracking the egg in this field. So impatient for the omelette…! @stanford-cancer.bsky.social
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Pauline Funchain @funchainmd.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Ever wonder why our HLA specified cancer therapies are only for HLA02:01 thus far? @possuhuanglab.bsky.social presents the scope of the problem at the inaugural @stanford-cancer.bsky.social AI and Cancer Research Symposium 🧬
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Pauline Funchain @funchainmd.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Seeing the future: from Election Day straight to AI and Cancer Research @stanford-cancer.bsky.social Keynote speaker Michelle Mello @law.stanford.edu with involved Q&A over the use of AI in prior auth
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Pauline Funchain @funchainmd.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Day 4 #NaGraWriMo: 15 mins (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 95 mins writing 📝 #GoVote 🗳️
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Pauline Funchain @funchainmd.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Day 3 #NaGraWriMo: 20 mins (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 80 mins writing 📝
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Cris Bergerot, PhD @crisbergerot.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
So wonderful to be in this group with you! Congratulations to you as well @funchainmd.bsky.social 🥰
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Mikkael Sekeres @mikkaelsekeres.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
And what an honor to be recognized alongside @funchainmd.bsky.social and all of these other outstanding oncologists @ascocancer.bsky.social!
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Pauline Funchain @funchainmd.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Day 2 #NaGraWriMo: 20 mins (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 60 mins writing 📝 Still soaking in the #WorldSeries joy and recovering from the exhaustion of 74 innings of fandom while traveling over the last week #WorthIt
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Pauline Funchain @funchainmd.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Day 1 #NaGraWriMo: 30 mins (sm) + 10 mins (gra) ✅ This year, it's winning the #WorldSeries on Day 1 (and also Day 2 for you on EST) and then editing grants (gra) and social media (sm) copy for the rest of the month. #DodgersWin #BackToBack #Champs
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 02/11/2025
For the first time in 25 years, Major League Baseball has a repeat champion, and of course it’s California’s own Dodgers. Congratulations!
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MLB @mlbbot.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Your 2025 World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers 🔥
The Los Angeles Dodgers pose for a team photo on the field after winning the 2025 World Series against the Toronto Blue Jays. They wear gray Dodgers team shirts that say "World Series champions."
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Pauline Funchain @funchainmd.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
It's Nov 1! #NaMaWriMo and #NaGraWriMo are back! ✍️ In the month of November, challenge yourself and oomfs to write daily to complete a manuscript or grant: 117 words/day = 3500 word manuscript 200 words/day = 12 page R01 Research Strategy RIP #NaNoWriMo - thank you for the inspo, the 🔥 is alive
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Pauline Funchain @funchainmd.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
To be in the company of @mikkaelsekeres.bsky.social @crisbergerot.bsky.social is wild! Congrats to my fellow Fellows. I am so honored to be in your company and to be recognized by @ASCO
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Pauline Funchain @funchainmd.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
“A child does not pay for his mother’s milk.” 🙏 Profound global cancer lessons from Dr. Miriam Mutebi Nothing like #ESMO25 back-to-back with a deep dive into cancer in Africa to understand cancer as a truly 🌍 global effort @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social Grand Rounds 👏 @stanford-cancer.bsky.social
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Pauline Funchain @funchainmd.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Pledge allegiance to your hands, your team, your vibes/all the airports you have been/Caffeine, you’re mine/ it’s ‘bout to be the sleepless night/ because of ESMO #yayjetlag #LifeofanAcademicGirl
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Pauline Funchain @funchainmd.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
The Mount Rushmore of @stanford-cancer.bsky.social leaders past and present at a fireside chat, reflecting on their career paths, their pivotal choices, how they maintain high achievement with non-academic life #Asilomar25
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