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Kate Lawrenson

@lawrensonlab.bsky.social
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endometriosis | ovarian cancer | genomics | biobanking | risk genetics co-director, center for inherited oncogenesis, UT Health San Antonio associate director, office of postdoctoral affairs

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Nature @nature.com · 27/07/2026
Scientists have exploited a peculiar CRISPR enzyme so that it fights cancer by shredding the DNA in cancer cells, causing them to self-destruct go.nature.com/4pKLI6X
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Bizarre CRISPR enzyme kills cancer cells by shredding their DNA
Early tests suggest the protein can be aimed at targets with tumour-causing mutations.
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Kate Lawrenson @lawrensonlab.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Enjoying the latest and greatest #research updates @uthealthsa.bsky.social Long School of Medicine
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Kate Lawrenson @lawrensonlab.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Let’s talk about #Cancer #Prevention and #survivorship Dr Jessica Jones updating us on the latest and greatest in cancer #genetics #womenshealth @utsaroadrunners.bsky.social @uthealthsa.bsky.social
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Kate Lawrenson @lawrensonlab.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Let’s talk about #endometriosis and #womenshealth at #agces
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Kate Lawrenson @lawrensonlab.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Excited to participate in our local conference Advancing Cancer Research for Latinos and All Populations #CancerResearchForAll #ACRLP
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Nature @nature.com · 15/02/2026
Has the rapid and widespread adoption of AI tools changed the type of science that is funded? go.nature.com/4ctrKcb
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AI help in grant proposals tied to higher funding odds at NIH
But funding proposals to US agencies also tend to be more similar to previously funded projects if they are written or edited with the help of a chatbot.
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Paul Pharoah @paulpharoah.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
The PREDICT breast web tool is now fifteen years old. breast.v3.predict.cam It is free to use. The tool has been used over 4 million times. If you'd like to sponsor the costs of web site maintenance or ongoing development send me a DM. #breastcancer
Line graph of the annual usage of the PREDICT breast web tool from 2011 to 2025 showing a steady, year-on-year increase to over 600,000 sessions in 2025
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Letter of resignation from @jennifer-troyer.bsky.social former Dir of Extramural Ops at NHGRI "The NIH is not only no longer the organization that I love but is now an organization that I can no longer be a part of and retain my integrity and self-respect." www.linkedin.com/posts/jennif... 1/6
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Letter of resignation | Jennifer Troyer
Reposting: As many of you know, I recently chose to leave the position I worked hard to achieve, the work that I love, and the team of people that could not have been better to do this work with. It ...
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Kate Lawrenson @lawrensonlab.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Long been a fan of Dr Polyaks work, who gave a superb talk on aging and breast cancer today @sabcs.bsky.social
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Kate Lawrenson @lawrensonlab.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Excited to participate in the first meeting for Advances in Human Health through #Spatial Omics and #AI @uthealthsa.bsky.social @utsaroadrunners.bsky.social
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 07/06/2025
One thing the MAHA report is seriously missing: connection to reality. You can’t tackle chronic illness while gutting the workforce that prevents it. Health departments hollowed out, $11b of directed federal support pulled, 20k jobs at health agencies eliminated. zurl.co/QUnUU
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Deep cuts erode the foundations of US public health system, end progress, threaten worse to come
Americans are losing an array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Every scientist should discuss the consequences of the NIH and NSF grant terminations and delays and failure to fund at their home institution at the end of a talk or seminar. Even if a scientist’s own funding is not threatened, I GUARANTEE there is someone at their institution affected.
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Theresa O @theresalouiseo.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Cutler & Glaser in JAMA: The proposed budgetary cuts to NIH will create a social cost 16 times greater than the savings the administration is attempting to achieve. The Trump administration should recognize that funding science is good economic as well as health policy.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
JAMA Forum on the proposed NIH budget… jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe
This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...
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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Women make up only 16% of corresponding authors who submit to Nature, a new Springer Nature analysis revealed. This is not enough - there are 30-40% #womeninSTEM We want to change it, through targeted editorial policies & outreach. But change will take everyone! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Gender equality in research publishing is a responsibility for everyone
A concerted effort is needed to support women in their choice of journal when submitting their manuscript.
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Kyriaki Michailidou @kmichailidou.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
1/🧬 Excited to share our latest paper in Nature Communications @natcomms.nature.com. We analyzed germline sequencing data from 400,000+ women to strengthen how we classify BRCA1 & BRCA2 variants. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵
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Analysis of more than 400,000 women provides case-control evidence for BRCA1 and BRCA2 variant classification - Nature Communications
BRCA1 and BRCA2 are well known breast cancer predisposition genes, however, many variants have not yet been classified for their pathogenicity. Here, the authors analyse a large combined cohort to pro...
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Andrew Horne @horne-research.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
What a day! Incredible energy & inspiring conversations at the #wce2025 joint WES/WERF #Endometriosis Interdisciplinary Research Directions Workshop. So much momentum - and so much important work ahead
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Kate Lawrenson @lawrensonlab.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Wrapping up #WCE2025 with a passionate discussion about the value of interdisciplinary care for #endometriosis
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Andrew Horne @horne-research.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Excellent talk from @meaghangriff.bsky.social from Centre for Reproductive Health at University of Edinburgh at #wce2025 presenting her work exploring the biological mechanisms behind endometriosis-associated infertility @edinuni-irr.bsky.social
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Kate Lawrenson @lawrensonlab.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Genomes, transcriptomes and proteomes, oh my! Enjoyed participating in this mornings session on advances in molecular analyses of #endometriosis #wce2025
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Deborah Marsh @djmarsh24.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Informative talk from PhD student Kate Gunther telling us about what works & what you need to give a bit more attention to, when generating #organoids from different types of #endometriosis lesions. #WCE2025
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Deborah Marsh @djmarsh24.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Senior Research Associate Kristie Dickson from my group giving a short poster talk on work on co-culture of #ovariancancer & endometrial stromal cells … driving an inflammatory microenvironment that may be targetable in #endometriosis-related ovarian cancers. #WCE2025
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Kate Lawrenson @lawrensonlab.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Promising progress in modeling #endometriosis in vitro and in vivo from the Greaves, Rogers, Griffith, Angelsio, McKinnon labs and more These tools are essential for progressing #translationalresearch but endo is very complex- this work is not for the faint hearted! 💪 #WCE2025
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Andrew Horne @horne-research.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
NEW RESEARCH We used smartwatches to track daily symptoms in people with #Endometriosis 📉 More fatigue = less movement 💤 Severe symptoms = worse sleep + rhythm 🔁 Surgery effects showed up in both symptoms & wearable data @exppect @ENDO1000project pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Andrew Horne @horne-research.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
🌟 SHROxEd - Congratulations to all presenters at 1st joint Edinburgh/Oxford Reproductive Health Postgraduate Symposium! 🌟 A day of fascinating research & standout presentations. Excited to see how this work shapes the future of reproductive health. #ReproductiveHealth @edinuni-irr.bsky.social
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Andrew Horne @horne-research.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
We show #endometriosis treatments are failing to address fatigue, a key quality-of-life issue 🔹 2,907 responses 🔹 54% say GnRH agonists worsened fatigue 🔹 Most treatments showed little benefit 📄 Read the research: raf.bioscientifica.com/view/journal... @endo1000.bsky.social @edinuni-irr.bsky.social
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Andrew Horne @horne-research.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Amazing talk from Frankie Hearn-Yeates from Centre for Reproductive Health at University of Edinburgh showing that fatigue in #endometriosis is associated with changes in the gut microbiome and metabolome! @edinuni-irr.bsky.social
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Deborah Marsh @djmarsh24.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Inspiring plenary from my friend & colleague Prof Caroline Ford - need to now apply all that we have learnt about precision medicine through oncology to #endometriosis … another disease with tonnes of heterogeneity #WCE2025
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Deborah Marsh @djmarsh24.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Postdoc Amy Sarker from my group at the short talks in the poster session today - 3D modelling of migration of ovarian cancer cells towards endometrial stromal cells using the #RASTRUM 3D bioprinter from #Inventia #WCE2025
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Deborah Marsh @djmarsh24.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
First day of the 16th World Congress on Endometriosis listening to Mike Anglesio from Vancouver telling us about challenges working with endometriotic lesions … . Happy to be learning at my first endometriosis conference & in my home town to boot 😊 #WCE2025
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Deborah Marsh @djmarsh24.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Great Welcome to Country this morning at the World Congress on Endometriosis in Sydney. >1,100 attendees from 60 countries. From co-organiser Prof Jason Abbott - “we are all friends here”. #WCE2025
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Kate Lawrenson @lawrensonlab.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Next up - clinical advances in managing #endometriosis #WCE2025
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Kate Lawrenson @lawrensonlab.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Fun debate to end to today’s #WCE2025 events - do we need a change to our approach to #endometriosis #research?! What’s your vote?!
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Robinson Research Institute - Adelaide University @robsinstitute.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Our researchers from the Endometriosis Research Group, attending and shaping the World Congress on Endometriosis. Globally recognised in the field, they present and chair sessions to share their insights on the use of AI to predict endometriosis, early diagnosis and safe-guarding fertility. #WCH2025
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Andrew Horne @horne-research.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Wonderful talk at #wce2025 from Dr Doug Gibson presenting his exciting work showing that women with endometriosis have a unique hormone signature that could be used as a potential novel non-invasive diagnostic test for endometriosis! @edinuni-irr.bsky.social
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Kate Lawrenson @lawrensonlab.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Neuroimmune communication as a therapeutic target in #endometriosis - great work on CGRP from the Rogers lab, including Victor Fattori whose talk is up next #WCE2025
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Kate Lawrenson @lawrensonlab.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Complex disease such as #endometriosis need creative approaches. Enjoying the innovative studies described at the #davidhealy award presentations #spatialtranscriptomics #organoids #microfluidics #microbiome #gwas #adenomyosis
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Kate Lawrenson @lawrensonlab.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Over 60 countries represented at the #WCE2025 Let’s talk #endometriosis #research Woo!
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Kate Lawrenson @lawrensonlab.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Kicked off #WCE with a stellar early career workshop. Honoured to have been invited to share my experience of #research and #academia (and why I love it so much!) #womenshealth #endometriosis #WCE2025
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ACOG @acog.org · 11/04/2025
ACOG joins @blackmamasmatter.bsky.social in observing #BlackMaternalHealthWeek. Black women are 3–4 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women. This isn’t just a statistic—it’s a public health crisis. ACOG is committed to fighting inequities in maternal care. #BMHW25
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Kate Lawrenson @lawrensonlab.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Always exciting to see favourite scientists off Bluesky give a talk IRL! Stellar talk on #evolutionarygenetics and #selfishgenes by @harmitmalik.bsky.social @uthealthsa.bsky.social today
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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 02/04/2025
I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Collecting my thoughts at the end of one of the worst days of my life... At NIH, > 1300 people were RIFed. These range all across the board from institute directors to low level administrative staff. Communication staff and procurement appear to be hardest hit as anticipated from the HHS plan 1/n
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
NEW: Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) is the decades old data collection program focusing on the health of infants and mothers at CDC. Critical source of data for all aspects of health thru process of pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum etc. In the first weeks of the admin I ...
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Kate Lawrenson @lawrensonlab.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Stellar talks from trainees @uthealthsa.bsky.social LSOM New cancer therapies, to stroke, aging and more! 🤩
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Kate Lawrenson @lawrensonlab.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Hey, this guy looks familiar! Excited for todays #researchday @uthealthsa.bsky.social LSOM
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Kate Lawrenson @lawrensonlab.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Great article by @vigocarpathian.bsky.social A must read! Thank you Dennis!
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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
"Your job is to have ideas and spread them so that they impact other people’s work. Writing is your job. Nothing else. Therefore, everything else that you do is subservient to the activity of writing. Let this revolution take place in your mind." www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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An open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it’s time to write - Nature Biotechnology
Nature Biotechnology - An open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it’s time to write
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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Eric Green is out as head of National Human Genome Research Institute www.statnews.com/2025/03/17/t... #genomics #NIH #NHGRI
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Eric Green is out as head of National Human Genome Research Institute
The longtime director of the National Human Genome Research Institute is stepping down, as the larger NIH braces for more changes.
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