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Kaylee Gentry MSc

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Cancer Neuroscience Researcher Venkatesh Lab - BWH

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Kaylee Gentry MSc @kmgentry.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The Venkatesh Lab is looking for post-docs! Happy to answer any questions about the lab, working at BWH/HMS, or anything in between!
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Kaylee Gentry MSc @kmgentry.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Citizens Bank is currently financing two major companies that run for-profit prisons used by ICE as detention facilities. If this disgusts you the way it does me, check out the movement to get them to stop. www.de-icecitizensbank.org sign.moveon.org/petitions/ci...
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Citizens Bank: Stop financing CoreCivic and The GEO Group.
CoreCivic and the GEO Group have seen skyrocketing profits in the last year as a result of their direct involvement in Trump’s violent deportation agenda. CoreCivic saw a nearly 70% increase in net in...
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The Venkatesh Lab @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
So proud of Eleena Sherman who will be leaving us to join the Center for Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh in fall as a PhD student. So excited to see all your future work! We'll miss you!
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The Venkatesh Lab @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
So proud of Rachel Davis who was awarded the Young Investigator Award at the Cancer Neuroscience Symposium 2026 sponsored by MD Anderson's Cancer Neuroscience Program. Congrats Rachel! @mdanderson.bsky.social @mgbresearch.bsky.social
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The Venkatesh Lab @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Congrats to @lexifranklin39.bsky.social for her Top Poster Presentation Award in Neurobiology at the 2026 Cancer Neuroscience Symposium sponsored by MD Anderson Cancer Center. Way to go Lexi, excellent work! @mdanderson.bsky.social @mgbresearch.bsky.social
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Will Renthal @willrenthal.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
🚨New paper from the NIH PRECISION Human Pain Network! We built a human DRG reference atlas: >500K cells from 126 donors to reveal 22 neuronal & 10 non-neuronal cell types. New insights into human sensory biology! Paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Data: humandrg.painseq.com
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Winkler Laboratory @winklerlab.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
📢 Registration (free!) for the NCI webinar series 'Fueling Cancer Progression by the Nervous System' is open! 🧠🔬 Amongst many excellent speakers, Frank Winkler and @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social discuss #cancerneuroscience of #brainmetastasis 📅 6 exciting topics are covered by leaders in the field 💡!
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Fueling Cancer Progression by the Nervous System (Overview) | Events Registration
OverviewThe Fueling Cancer Progression by the Nervous System series will feature six webinars, each exploring the junction between neuroscience and cancer biology to advance our understanding of cance...
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The Venkatesh Lab @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Happy Halloween from the Venkatesh Lab! @mgbresearch.bsky.social
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The Venkatesh Lab @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Venkatesh Lab Fall Outing -- Apple Picking!
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Mass General Brigham Research @mgbresearch.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
In a new study, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and colleagues investigated the neuronal-activity dependent mechanisms of small cell lung cancer pathogenesis. The study was published on @nature.com Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I parked this morning at @pittophathalmology.bsky.social and got a message from my colleague, @jamespherman.bsky.social with this photograph of my car and his car in the parking lot. This tickled me to no end.
Two vehicles, a silver Toyota 4Runner with a Utah license plate that says "RETINA" and a maroon Honda CR-V with a Pennsylvania license plate that says NEURON.
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Kaylee Gentry MSc @kmgentry.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Cool to see our lab's recent paper featured in The Transmitter this week! Very proud to have worked on this project.
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Claire McCarthy @clairem402.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Check out some #CoolScienceImages (with music by Zara Larsson) from a @nature.com study. A team led by @michellemonje.bsky.social & Humsa Venkatesh showed that neuronal activity plays a crucial role in small cell #LungCancer (#SCLC) pathogenesis. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #FluorescenceFriday 🧪
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American Society of Hematology @ash.hematology.org · 22/09/2025
📊 A new national poll shows 71% of voters want Congress to increase federal funding for medical research. Cuts would stall progress toward cures for cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, blood disorders, and more. 🔗 bit.ly/3Kfkq8c #Fight4Hematology #HemeSky #ResearchSavesLives
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The Venkatesh Lab @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Great to see all our student's shine at the @cshlnews.bsky.social's Biology of Cancer: Microenvironment & Metastasis meeting! Props to Rachel Davis & Hannah Farnsworth for a job well done on their poster presentations. Very proud of all our hardworking future PhDs!
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Nature @nature.com · 17/09/2025
Signalling between neurons and tumour cells in the lung and brain promotes the growth of small-cell lung cancer go.nature.com/4gzoMmI
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Wired for growth: neuron–tumour signalling in the lung and brain increases growth of a hard-to-treat cancer
Signalling between neurons and tumour cells in the lung and brain promotes the growth of small-cell lung cancer. These interactions might be a therapeutic target.
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Kaylee Gentry MSc @kmgentry.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Wooo go Lexi!
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The Venkatesh Lab @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
We are excited to share the Venkatesh Lab’s first publication in collaboration with @michellemonje.bsky.social team uncovering how neuronal activity influences the progression of small cell lung cancer #SCLC in the lung and brain. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Neuronal activity-dependent mechanisms of small cell lung cancer pathogenesis - Nature
Glutamatergic and GABAergic (γ-aminobutyric acid-producing) cortical neuronal activity drives proliferation of small lung cell cancer via paracrine interactions and through synapses formed with tumour...
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Barbara Marte @barbmarte.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
2. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Neuronal activity-dependent mechanisms of small cell lung cancer pathogenesis - Nature
Glutamatergic and GABAergic (γ-aminobutyric acid-producing) cortical neuronal activity drives proliferation of small lung cell cancer via paracrine interactions and through synapses formed with tumour...
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Kaylee Gentry MSc @kmgentry.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Check out the Venkatesh lab's new paper in Nature, where we uncover how neural activity drives small cell lung cancer (SCLC) progression. Grateful to my PI Humsa Venkatesh, my co-first author Solomiia Savchuk, & a huge thanks to all the incredible co-authors. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Neuronal activity-dependent mechanisms of small cell lung cancer pathogenesis - Nature
Glutamatergic and GABAergic (γ-aminobutyric acid-producing) cortical neuronal activity drives proliferation of small lung cell cancer via paracrine interactions and through synapses formed with tumour...
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The Venkatesh Lab @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
We are excited to welcome Jacqueline Garcia to the Venkatesh Lab! Jacqueline completed her PhD in Cellular, Molecular, & Developmental Biology at Tufts University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in 2025 as a member of Dr. Chris Dulla’s lab.
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Harvard Brain Science Initiative @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Scientists are making surprising discoveries about the connections between cancer and the nervous system. Harvard Medicine Magazine profiles the research of William Hwang, Richard Wong, and @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social. @harvardmed.bsky.social magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/neu...
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The Neuroscience of Cancer
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The Venkatesh Lab @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
The Venkatesh Lab is looking for a Sr. Lab Technician to help support ongoing projects focused on the peripheral nervous system & its interactions with cancers. Check out the posting below! massgeneralbrigham.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/MGBExt...
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Senior Lab Technician RESEARCH NEUROLOGY V Lab
Site: The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals, including doctors, nurses, business people, tech experts, researchers, and systems analysts t...
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KLAB - finding a cure for GI dysmotility at #HarvardStrong @klab.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
UMASS IS RESCINDING ALL GRAD POSITIONS FOR THIS YEAR
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Hello, I’m a disruptor, very smart, here to create efficiency. I’m just going to drill holes in the bottom of this boat to see which parts of the hull are mission-critical.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
99% of new medicines developed by the pharmaceutical industry depend on NIH research jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Comparison of Research Spending on New Drug Approvals by the NIH vs the Pharmaceutical Industry
This cross-sectional study examines National Institutes of Health and pharmaceutical industry investments in recent drug approvals.
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Nature @nature.com · 07/03/2025
The mood was defiant at many of the rallies, where chants of “Scientists will not be silenced”, “Facts over fear” and “What do we want? Peer review! When do we want it? Now!” were heard. go.nature.com/3F8T6FX
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‘Scientists will not be silenced’: thousands protest Trump research cuts
Researchers at Stand Up for Science rallies voice defiance against the policies of US President Donald Trump’s administration.
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Ceej @ceejoyner.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
joke's on you I DID 'go cry about it' and compassion has made me more powerful
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Kaylee Gentry MSc @kmgentry.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
#standupforscience Boston! @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
They adopted a posture of total submission and it bought them precisely nothing. A lesson for the Trump era www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
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The Trump administration cancels $400 million in grants and contracts to Columbia University.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 07/03/2025
Breaking news: Thousands of researchers and their supporters, including recently fired federal workers, have gathered across the U.S. in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration. scim.ag/41zlPv4
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Thousands gather across U.S. in Stand Up for Science events
Scientists rally across the country in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration
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Universal Hub @universalhub.com · 05/03/2025
Wu: "If you wanted to make us safe, pass gun reform. Stop cutting Medicaid, stop cutting cancer research, stop cutting funds for veterans, that is what will make our cities safe."
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 02/03/2025
WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!? Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one! #standupforscience2025
Map of Stand Up for Science events, with official SUFS events in Red and solidarity events in Blue
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Scissors @scissors.myatproto.social · 28/02/2025
How do I volunteer to switch places with one of the astronauts stuck in space?
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Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H. @drjanicekirsch.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
US CAN GET OUR FLU VACCINES DESPITE TRUMP. Two U.S. agencies working with the World Health Organization-led process to select the flu viruses for the 2025-2026 influenza vaccines are in a meeting with WHO, despite Trump's plans to withdraw from the WHO www.statnews.com/2025/02/24/u...
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U.S. joins WHO-led flu vaccine meeting, despite planned withdrawal from agency
The United States has joined a WHO-led flu vaccine meeting, despite the Trump administration's plans to withdraw from the global health agency.
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 28/02/2025
Join me next Saturday at Malden High School for a Town Hall where I’ll answer all your questions about our country, our climate, and our communities. markey.senate.gov/townhall
Join Senator Ed Markey for a TOWN HALL

Saturday, March 8, 2025
2-3:30pm

Doors Open @ 1pm

Malden High School

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Kaylee Gentry MSc @kmgentry.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Snowy day at The Brigham
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UMass Chan Medical School @umasschan.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The thousands of organizations that receive NIH grant funding will remain in an unavoidable period of uncertainty despite a U.S. District Court order, Chancellor Michael F. Collins writes in updated memo to UMass Chan Medical School community: direc.to/mrWQ #ResearchFunding
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As federal judge temporarily pauses cuts to NIH funding, Chancellor urges UMass Chan community to ‘make voices heard’
In a follow-up memo to the UMass Chan community on Tuesday, Feb. 11, Chancellor Michael F. Collins explained the status of the new National Institutes of Health indirect costs rate cap.
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American Institute for Medical & Biological Engineering (AIMBE) @aimbe-official.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
AIMBE has developed a new advocacy letter on the changes to NIH indirect cost rates: aimbe.org/advocate/wri... We urge the broader biomedical research community to customize this letter (<1 minute) to contact your congressional representatives about the severe consequences of this new policy 👇
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Write Your Lawmakers - AIMBE
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AG Andrea Joy Campbell @massago.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Massachusetts is home to universities and research institutions that lead our country in saving lives and creating jobs. Trump's NIH cuts put them at risk. We won't allow this Administration to play politics with our public health or undermine our economy. We're suing.
Graphic with a picture of a microscope and text: We're suing the Trump Administration for defunding critical medical and public health research
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 10/02/2025
Petition to Reverse the NIH Indirect Cost Cap initiated by Tom Maniatis. Please amplify Sign the Petition: chng.it/kK2HMP5pGk "Share with Leadership & Faculty. Reach out to professional societies, biotech and pharma leaders, and philanthropic organizations to raise awareness and mobilize support."
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Sign the Petition
Petition to Reverse the NIH Indirect Cost Cap (NOT-OD-25-068)
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
"’America's competitors will relish this self-inflicted wound,’ Owens says. ‘We urge NIH leaders to rescind this dangerous policy before its harms are felt by Americans.’” www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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NIH announces new funding policy that rattles medical researchers
The National Institutes of Health has dramatically changed its grant-making terms by limiting how much it will disburse for costs such as equipment and administration.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
It's not "Breaking News" now, since it was announced by NIH yesterday. But it is breaking....... washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 05/02/2025
35+ Dems plan to hold the Senate floor all night to oppose the confirmation of Musk-Trump funding freeze architect Russ Vought. THIS is how we fight back while in the minority. (via @schatz.bsky.social)
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 05/02/2025
I’m taking every opportunity to stop Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s illegal government takeover. Just now, I offered an amendment at the Commerce Committee to stop their seizure of your data at Treasury. Republicans voted it down in fealty to Trump. youtu.be/wR9Eu--McII
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Senator Markey attempts to stop Elon Musk's seizure of your data at Treasury
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
pushback works, part infinity +1 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/h...
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Another FBI leader standing up for the rule of law “Today, we find ourselves in the middle of a battle of our own, as good people are being walked out of the FBI and others are being targeted because they did their jobs in accordance with the law and FBI policy." James Dennehy, FBI NY Field Office
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Top F.B.I. Agent in New York Vows to ‘Dig In’ After Removals at Agency
James E. Dennehy, the highly respected leader of the largest and most important field office in the bureau, said the F.B.I. was in a “battle of our own.”
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
SCHATZ: “.. I will oppose unanimous consent. I will vote no. I will do maximal delays until this is resolved.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Exclusive | Democratic Senator Says He Will Stall Trump Nominees Until USAID Is Back
The move would require Senate Majority Leader John Thune to use precious floor time to advance the president’s nominees through the confirmation process.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Sen Chris Murphy (D-CT) just now: “You could literally walk down the street and the first 100 people you’d find would be less dangerous as the head of HHS than Robert F Kennedy Jr. He will get people killed”
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