Henning Willers, MD, FASTRO @henningwillersmd.bsky.social · 04/05/2025And, yes, it is noteworthy there are 3 male candidates for VP even though there are a large number of talented female scientists in RRS🤨 I am committed to increasing the # of female leaders in the Society and the field! 👍#HeforShe 270
Reposted by Henning Willers, MD, FASTROAnanya Choudhury @achoud72.bsky.social · 03/05/2025#BioCommittee meets and greets at #ESTRO25 Great turnout. Welcome all biologists! 081
Henning Willers, MD, FASTRO @henningwillersmd.bsky.social · 03/05/2025🔈 I am honored to be running alongside Sunil Krishnan & David Yu for Vice-President Elect of RRS 🙏🙏🙏 🧐You can find more info on the candidates here 👉 ftp.ameetingbydesign.com/ambddrop/202... Vote by May 1️⃣3️⃣ radres.org/Login.aspx @cvanpouillebox.bsky.social @profajchalmers.bsky.social 042
Henning Willers, MD, FASTRO @henningwillersmd.bsky.social · 27/04/2025📢Insightful in press review on a lipid metabolic pathway + #radiotherapy response - a🔥area‼️ Also, a harbinger of more to come, more #radbio reviews in @ijrobp.bsky.social that is😊 Stay tuned😍 @cvanpouillebox.bsky.social @freddyeescorcia.bsky.social www.redjournal.org/article/S036...redjournal.orgThe Mevalonate Pathway in the Radiation Response of CancerThe mevalonate (MVA) pathway plays a critical role in cholesterol biosynthesis, protein prenylation, and metabolic reprogramming, all of which contribute to cancer progression and therapy resistance. ... 073
Henning Willers, MD, FASTRO @henningwillersmd.bsky.social · 15/04/2025🔥 #RadRes2025 Meeting #PuertoRico Sept 2025🌴🌞 Looking forward to: Symposium on Radiation Combination Therapies😍 Great to have @profajchalmers.bsky.social back‼️🙏 Though I will post about this meeting mostly on that other platform 🫠🤷♂️ x.com/HenningWille... 140
Reposted by Henning Willers, MD, FASTROWafik S. El-Deiry, MD, PhD, FACP @weldeiry.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Immunogenomic cancer evolution: A framework to understand cancer immunosuppression www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgImmunogenomic cancer evolution: A framework to understand cancer immunosuppressionUnderstanding the impacts of genetic abnormalities on immune responses to tumors can inform immunogenomic-based precision medicine. 061
Reposted by Henning Willers, MD, FASTROWafik S. El-Deiry, MD, PhD, FACP @weldeiry.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Mass General Brigham to invest $400 million to open new cancer institute before Dana-Farber partnership ends www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/18/b...bostonglobe.comMass General Brigham to invest $400 million to open new cancer institute before Dana-Farber partnership ends - The Boston GlobeThe renovations at the state's biggest health system will help create the Mass General Brigham Cancer Institute. 051
Henning Willers, MD, FASTRO @henningwillersmd.bsky.social · 19/03/20251/2 📢Abstract Submission is open for #RadRes2025 Sept 21-24 in #PuertoRico ‼️ (see ⬇️) There will be many oral presentations selected from abstracts🔥 Amazing scientific program, and I am especially excited about a strong immuno-oncology focus🙏 @cvanpouillebox.bsky.social @sandrademaria.bsky.social 111
Henning Willers, MD, FASTRO @henningwillersmd.bsky.social · 10/03/2025www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/10/m...bostonglobe.comAmid Trump’s funding threats, Harvard freezes hiring - The Boston GlobeHarvard cited “substantial financial uncertainties driven by rapidly shifting federal policies.” 020
Reposted by Henning Willers, MD, FASTROAmerican Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) @astro-org.bsky.social · 07/03/2025ASTRO is accepting nominations for the 2025 ASTRO Mentorship Award. Nominations must be submitted by a colleague or mentee and are due by March 21. Learn more: ow.ly/1I6U50USy64 042
Henning Willers, MD, FASTRO @henningwillersmd.bsky.social · 04/03/20251/3 It is not too early to start thinking about the #RadRes2025 Meeting in #PuertoRico Sept 21-24, 2025 🌞🌴🍹🏖️ Abstract & Submission opens in 2 weeks‼️ The Program is shaping up to be FANTASTIC (link in 3rd post ⬇️)🔥🔥🔥 @cvanpouillebox.bsky.social (Who else is on BlueSky? (vs X, hard to recall) 131
Reposted by Henning Willers, MD, FASTROEric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Other than the brain, our immune system is the most complex part of the human body. For the first time, sequencing receptors of B and T cells, along w/ generative A.I., enabled diagnosis of medical conditions such as lupus. That's just for starters. erictopol.substack.com/p/the-first-... 13514104
Reposted by Henning Willers, MD, FASTROAZ Faust @azfaust.bsky.social · 10/02/2025If anyone is interested in following the NIH indirects case filed by Mass on behalf of 22 states, here is the link: www.courtlistener.com/docket/69625...courtlistener.comCOMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS v. Matthew Memoli, M.D., M.S., 1:25-cv-10338 - CourtListener.comDocket for COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS v. Matthew Memoli, M.D., M.S., 1:25-cv-10338 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information. 186
Henning Willers, MD, FASTRO @henningwillersmd.bsky.social · 10/02/2025I am trying to write a grant about tumor metabolic diversity and cannot come up with a different term😂 210
Reposted by Henning Willers, MD, FASTROThe OncoAlert Network 🚨 @oncoalert.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Tha=e #OncoAlertColloquium 🚨REGISTER for FREE HERE👉 buff.ly/4hKRVdM @rooogerthat of The Philippines Covering how to Treat #LungCancer when one does NOT have the Resources, Sing in to chat with Dr. Velasco The burden of disease of lung cancer remains high especially in Asia 022
Reposted by Henning Willers, MD, FASTROLeonidas Platanias, MD @leonidasplatan1.bsky.social · 09/02/2025“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.” Plato (428 BC -347 BC) 041
Reposted by Henning Willers, MD, FASTROCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025The NIH overhead cut doesn't just hurt universities. It's deadly to the US economy. The US is a world leader in tech due to the ecosystem that NIH and NSF propel. It drives innovation for tech transfer, creates a highly-skilled sci/tech workforce, and fosters academic/industry crossfertilization. 301335509
Reposted by Henning Willers, MD, FASTROJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 08/02/2025University GCs are, I'm sure, talking about this or getting some rest (if they can) for a long battle ahead. I would suggest that we don't become armchair lawyers here. Let's focus on how to communicate the impact of implementing this on health, our communities, and the ability of the US to lead. 37814
Reposted by Henning Willers, MD, FASTROJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 08/02/2025A Primer on Indirect Cost Ratesmedia.tenor.coma cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks onALT: a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on 14997351
Reposted by Henning Willers, MD, FASTROTim Clancy @viewfromarchstreet.com · 08/02/2025On changes to #NIH indirect rates, there is a law in place that prohibits NIH from making such changes without the approval of Congress. See Division D, Title II Section 224 of The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law No: 118-47) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...grants.nih.govNOT-OD-24-110: Notice of Legislative Mandates in Effect for FY 2024NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Legislative Mandates in Effect for FY 2024 NOT-OD-24-110. NIH 7835911467
Henning Willers, MD, FASTRO @henningwillersmd.bsky.social · 05/02/2025🔥Absolute pleasure to talk BRCAness/HRD as a predictor of chemoradiosensitivity in #breastcancer with the Simon Powell @mskcancercenter.bsky.social & Kerstin Borgmann UKE‼️ 🙏 to @sueyom.bsky.social @ijrobp.bsky.social My first #radbio podcast😊 🧵Tweetorial soon... (either here or on X, so torn 😂) 3133
Reposted by Henning Willers, MD, FASTROMechthild Krause, Prof. @mekrause.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Higher NTCP with variable RBE predictions in Proton RT of brain tumours- especially for blindness and deppendent in Patient factors. LET or track-end optimization can lower the risk. @hzdr.bsky.social @oncoalert.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comVariable-RBE-induced NTCP predictions for various side-effects following proton therapy for brain tumors – Identification of high-risk patients and risk mitigationDisregarding the increase of relative biological effectiveness (RBE) may raise the risk of acute and late adverse events after proton beam therapy (PB… 054
Henning Willers, MD, FASTRO @henningwillersmd.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Dang time flies ... Still have to convert last year's abstract into an actual manuscript 😅 010
Henning Willers, MD, FASTRO @henningwillersmd.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Stay tuned for all things #lungcancer tomorrow!! Glad to be reviewing #radonc relevant advances🔥 in 2024 with my colleague Katie Keane, MD, tomorrow! REGISTER HERE: oncoalert.m-pages.com/rnaYzs/the-5...oncoalert.m-pages.comThe 5th Annual OncoAlert ColloquiumThe Year in Review in Oncology 2024 brought to you by some of the Worlds TOP experts! 040
Reposted by Henning Willers, MD, FASTROJerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 01/02/2025wow! seems low tbh 573542171
Henning Willers, MD, FASTRO @henningwillersmd.bsky.social · 02/02/2025New MGB Cancer Center building @massgeneralbrigham.bsky.social coming up pretty quickly‼️ But feels a long way (and a lot of traffic standstill) until 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣7️⃣🙃 140
Henning Willers, MD, FASTRO @henningwillersmd.bsky.social · 29/01/2025📢Thrilled to have started again our Annual Radiation Biology Lecture Series with robust attendance & all the radiation chemistry effects you need to know to understand #radiotherapy😊 ☢️🔬👩🔬 @massgeneralbrigham.bsky.social @harvard.edu @oncoalert.bsky.social #radbio 052
Reposted by Henning Willers, MD, FASTROJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 26/01/2025In the present discussions about NIH and the need for reform, two recurring points I am seeing are: (1) NIH doesn't fund truly high impact research (2) NIH needs to experiment with alternative approaches to peer review, particularly for high risk-high impact research 1/n 614060
Reposted by Henning Willers, MD, FASTROWendy Woodward, MD, PhD @ibcradiation.bsky.social · 28/01/2025www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... Any more on what this means? NIH released exceptions for clinical trials from the prior order but now new reporting tonight behind the WaPo firewall that all federal grants and loans are being held… budget memo released today. #NIH #medsky #canskywashingtonpost.comWhite House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusionThe Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments. 151
Henning Willers, MD, FASTRO @henningwillersmd.bsky.social · 25/01/2025what a week🙄 #EndDryJanuarymedia.tenor.coma metal ball is hanging from a string on a wooden sculptureALT: a metal ball is hanging from a string on a wooden sculpture 030
Reposted by Henning Willers, MD, FASTRORebecca Howell, PhD @drrebeccahowell.bsky.social · 23/01/2025#medphys #radonc 🥳Let's cheer each other up by sharing something good that happened in your clinic or Lab this week.... We got snow in Houston, and with my lab closed, I had distraction free research time. I made legit progress on my @astro-org.bsky.social abstract 😊💃💃💃😊 061
Reposted by Henning Willers, MD, FASTROc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Some of this is normal-ish, some of it is unprecedented.science.orgTrump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiringResearchers facing 7368
Reposted by Henning Willers, MD, FASTROAZ Faust @azfaust.bsky.social · 22/01/2025DM is doing a huge public service at the moment, tracking the changes at NIH as a result of Trump's executive orders. Also kudos to the Bluesky Science community, sharing their realtime experiences with delays and uncertainty. 18024
Reposted by Henning Willers, MD, FASTRONsikan Akpan @monscience.bsky.social · 22/01/2025NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research. Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions 30766513280
Reposted by Henning Willers, MD, FASTROEric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 22/01/2025A 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... 729566
Henning Willers, MD, FASTRO @henningwillersmd.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Let's lighten up the overall mood a bit, shall we?🙃 👍https://x.com/SeanDreyer/status/1881841879601623145 110
Henning Willers, MD, FASTRO @henningwillersmd.bsky.social · 22/01/2025📢Just out in @theaacr.bsky.social MCT We ventured into world of cancer metabolism❗️ 🔥These days @astro-org.bsky.social #radbio ➡️Targeting lipid synthesis for #radiotherapy ➡ Lots of variation across #lungcancer models ➡️Need biomarkers ➡️More soon‼️ NCI U01 Program🙏 aacrjournals.org/mct/article-...aacrjournals.orgTargeting Monounsaturated Fatty Acid Metabolism for Radiosensitization of KRAS Mutant 3D Lung Cancer ModelsAbstract. Mutations in the KRAS oncogene can mediate resistance to radiation. KRAS mutation (mut) driven tumors have been reported to express cancer stem cell (CSC)-like features and may harbor metabo... 041
Reposted by Henning Willers, MD, FASTROAmerican Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) @astro-org.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Submissions for the 2025 ASTRO-AstraZeneca SCLC Therapy Challenge are now open! Learn more and submit your research proposal by April 30: www.astro.org/patient-care... 121
Reposted by Henning Willers, MD, FASTROGregory Riely @rielymd.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Cool paper in Cancer Discovery @theaacr.bsky.social from last week. My @mskdeptofmed.bsky.social colleague Charlie Rudin and MSK collaborators, led by Natasha Rekhtman, explore an unusual subset of small cell lung cancers that happen in people who never smoked cig aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscov....aacrjournals.orgChromothripsis-Mediated Small Cell Lung CarcinomaThis study describes an exceptional, alternative pathway of SCLC pathogenesis via chromothripsis and ecDNA in the absence of RB1 and TP53 mutations or smoking mutagenesis, defining a novel tumor type ... 1237
Henning Willers, MD, FASTRO @henningwillersmd.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Because crossposting on X + BlueSky is all the rage😂... Excited, & grateful🙏, to have my first ever #RedJournal Podcast in the👜 Also happened to be only the SECOND #RadBio Podcast ever❓Clearly we need to ⬆️ that😅 #RadBio4TheMasses Stay tuned‼️ 🙏 ➡️https://www.redjournal.org/multimedia/audio 185
Reposted by Henning Willers, MD, FASTROGregory Riely @rielymd.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Great advice on clinical trial design (with great reading list). Probably biggest take-home point: "Yes, you actually need a statistician" 183
Reposted by Henning Willers, MD, FASTROThe OncoAlert Network 🚨 @oncoalert.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Prospective validation of ORACLE, a clonal expression biomarker associated with survival of patients with lung adenocarcinoma out on Science Advances buff.ly/4hgtu7P These findings reveal key distinctions in CART cytolytic behavior, which may inform the design of more effective therapies. 031
Reposted by Henning Willers, MD, FASTROAmerican Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) @astro-org.bsky.social · 15/01/2025ASTRO requests feedback on the draft guideline on Radiation Therapy for WHO Grade 4 Diffuse Glioma (replacing the 2016 Glioblastoma Guideline). Submit comments through Monday, January 20. Learn more: ow.ly/XgHp50UG8HK 021
Henning Willers, MD, FASTRO @henningwillersmd.bsky.social · 15/01/2025📢So much exciting #radbio in the new @ijrobp.bsky.social #RedJournal issue‼️ Oncology scan by @cvanpouillebox.bsky.social on the immunogenic properties of micronuclei🔥 www.redjournal.org/article/S036...redjournal.orgRecent Mechanistic Insight into the Immunogenic Properties of Radiation-Induced MicronucleiRadiation therapy (RT) can shape the tumor immune microenvironment by releasing pro- and anti-inflammatory signals, which ultimately influence the antigenicity and adjuvanticity of a tumor.1-3 Accumul... 033
Henning Willers, MD, FASTRO @henningwillersmd.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Ok fine, @cvanpouillebox.bsky.social convinced me to give this platform a try, because, Twitter/X, you know ... 😬 470