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Maria Amaya MD PhD

@mariaamaya27.bsky.social
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Physician Scientist, University of Colorado | MDS, AML |

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Maria Amaya MD PhD @mariaamaya27.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Full article is finally out! Venetoclax and oral azacitidine is safe and showed excellent responses in newly diagnosed AML patients. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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CU Anschutz School of Medicine @cumedicalschool.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Join us in congratulating Wells Messersmith, MD, who has been named director of the University of Colorado Anschutz Cancer Center (@cucancercenter.bsky.social), effective October 1. Read the full announcement here: news.cuanschutz.edu/medicine/messer…
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CU Anschutz Cancer Center @cucancercenter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
CU Anschutz Cancer Center's Maria Amaya (@mariaamaya27.bsky.social), MD, PhD, shares why last Friday's Mentored Member Collaborative Forum is important for mentored members like herself.
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Maria Amaya MD PhD @mariaamaya27.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
We had so much fun at the myeloid meeting and congrats to Keishla on her poster! Until next time!
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Maria Amaya MD PhD @mariaamaya27.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Our lab, the Lego version!
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CU Anschutz School of Medicine @cumedicalschool.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The ASCEND program aims to coordinate and accelerate cell and gene therapy clinical trials—an area rich with promise, but complex in execution. Learn more about this new chapter in the CU Anschutz’s commitment to patients with serious and rare diseases: bit.ly/4cr0jPT
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Powering ASCEND: Translational Strength and Campuswide Collaboration
The Accelerating Solutions for Cell and Gene Therapy Evaluation and Novel Delivery (ASCEND) was created to coordinate and accelerate cell and gene therapy clinical trials at CU Anschutz. Gates Institu...
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Maria Amaya MD PhD @mariaamaya27.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Had an amazing time at ALF 2026, many great and inspirational talks!
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Maria Amaya MD PhD @mariaamaya27.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Great day at the department of medicine research day! So proud of the team and especially proud Keishla for winning an abstract award! @cudeptofmedicine.bsky.social
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Maria Amaya MD PhD @mariaamaya27.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Coming up later this month is AML World Awareness Day! So tomorrow morning at 8:30am, we will be talking about AML in the radio show “Hablemos Hoy” (Emisora La Buena Honda 1150AM) in Spanish!
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ernstlaboratory.bsky.social @ernstlaboratory.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
For our local Colorado cancer researchers @cucancercenter.bsky.social @nucleosomepolice.bsky.social @cucancerbio.bsky.social
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Maria Amaya MD PhD @mariaamaya27.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
It’s been a tough year so sun, palm trees is what we needed to end the year! 🌴🌴🌴🌴☀️☀️🕶️
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Maria Amaya MD PhD @mariaamaya27.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
The work of a talented trainee with biorender! Happy holidays from the Amaya and Marchetti’s labs! Couldn’t ask for a more amazing group of people to work with 💕
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Maria Amaya MD PhD @mariaamaya27.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
That’s a wrap for me for #ASH25! So many great things! Oral therapies for myeloid malignancies, aza/ven for the win for AML, CDK inhibitors to avoid t-MN? And can we finally give IV iron to pts with infections? Also, ASH daycare always saves the day!
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Maria Amaya MD PhD @mariaamaya27.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Go check out Makenna’s poster tonight (5610) on MDS and T-LGL leukemia! #ASH2025
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OncLive @onclive.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
A huge thanks to Dr Manali Kamdar, of @cuanschutz.bsky.social, for stopping by during #ASH25 to discuss long-term follow-up data from the TRANSFORM study of liso-cel in R/R LBCL! See our site for more #lymsm insights from the meeting! @ash.hematology.org #hematology www.onclive.com/conference/ash
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Maria Amaya MD PhD @mariaamaya27.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Day 1 of ASH ✅ Excited to see more friends over the weekend!
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Maria Amaya MD PhD @mariaamaya27.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
So proud of Dr. Cassandra Duarte for publishing this important study with the help of the Flatiron database! “Impact of demographic factors on clinical outcomes of patients with acute myeloid leukemia” haematologica.org/newsletter/v...
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Early View | Haematologica
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Nature @nature.com · 01/08/2025
A US Senate committee endorsed maintaining the NIH's structure and increasing its funding by US$400 million, or about 1% go.nature.com/4mg193S
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‘Congress has your back’: US senators tell scientists they want to protect NIH budget
Senate budget bill includes small increase for the health-research agency — but faces a long road before being signed into law.
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Ashani Weeraratna @ashi-w.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Congrats to my friend James DeGregori and his partner Mercedes Rincon and everyone involved on this beautiful study!
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Ashani Weeraratna @ashi-w.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
May the odds be ever in your favor. 4% payline at the NCI. www.cancer.gov/grants-train...
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Funding Policy - Research Grants
NCI funding policy for research project grant (RPG) awards reflects the funding goals of the institute, NIH, and HHS.
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CU Hematology/Oncology Fellowship @cuhemeonc.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Orientation week is over and we are excited to have the new first years on rotation with us!
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Maria Amaya MD PhD @mariaamaya27.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Outcomes of oral azacitidine and venetoclax in newly diagnosed AML. High responses in TP53 mut patients. www.vjhemonc.com/video/wmkfly...
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Outcomes with an all-oral regimen of CC-486 and venetoclax in patients with newly diagnosed AML
Maria Amaya, MD, PhD, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, presents the results from a clinical study (NCT05287568)...
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Maria Amaya MD PhD @mariaamaya27.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Come check out our poster tonight! EHA2025
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Maria Amaya MD PhD @mariaamaya27.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
We made it!
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CU Hematology/Oncology Fellowship @cuhemeonc.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Congratulations to Maria Amaya, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine-Hematology (and CU HemeOnc Fellowship alumni) on being selected as one of the 2025 Translational Research Scholars. Each scholar receives research support over four years. #CUAnschutz #CUCancer
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CU Anschutz Cancer Center @cucancercenter.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Four CU Cancer Center members have been tapped to serve as ambassadors for its four main scientific and clinical research programs ⬇️
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‘Building Bridges’: The CU Cancer Center Names Four Program Liaisons
Four CU Cancer Center members have been tapped to serve as ambassadors for its four main scientific and clinical research programs.
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University of Colorado Anschutz @cuanschutz.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
An international study led by @cucancercenter.bsky.social has uncovered why a widely used treatment for acute myeloid #leukemia doesn’t work for everyone. The findings could help doctors better match patients with the therapies most likely to work for them. 💡
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New Study Reveals Why Common Leukemia Treatments Fail in Some Patients
An international study led by the CU Cancer Center has uncovered why a widely used treatment for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) doesn’t work for everyone.
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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 02/04/2025
The crazy thing about firing all of these federal employees is that they tend to be underpaid, super hardworking, in it for the right reasons, idealistic people who could’ve worked in industry or pharma and made way more money but they truly believed in the mission and the good they were doing.
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Emma M. Groarke @emmamgroarke.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Unfortunately was not able to travel to EBMT but our poster can still be viewed virtually! We report on the first 7 #VEXAS patients who underwent allo-HCT on our prospective phase II trial. High rates of #GVHD and other inflammatory complications noted. @ Bhavisha Patel
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Maria Amaya MD PhD @mariaamaya27.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... If part of the RIF is to let term contracts expire, they will completely decimate VA research in a matter of months, and researchers will be terminated with no severance.
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Veterans Affairs Research Under Threat
This Viewpoint discusses the critical importance of continued funding for the intramural research program in the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Maria Amaya MD PhD @mariaamaya27.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
All amazing women!
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Maria Amaya MD PhD @mariaamaya27.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Good news for the week! (This Venezuelan federal worker is still making it work 😉) 1. We published our small retrospective study in CCUS vs tCCUS www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 2. Makenna from the lab presented her work to legislators and the public at the State capitol!
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Maria Amaya MD PhD @mariaamaya27.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
It’s been tough, not going to lie, but today we got a paper accepted and one of my PRAs’ visas got renewed and we will take any victories we can get! ❤️👩🏻‍🔬👩🏻‍🔬
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CU Anschutz Cancer Center @cucancercenter.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
CU Cancer Center's Deputy Associate Director of the Office of Engagement, Access, and Success, Curtis Henry, PhD, shares his thoughts with 9 News about the @acscan.bsky.social report that cancer is the second-leading cause of death for Black people ⬇️ www.9news.com/video/news/h...
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Maria Amaya MD PhD @mariaamaya27.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
If they fire staff that supports research, physicians and investigators will also be forced to leave…
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Science Magazine @science.org · 24/02/2025
“There’s going to be a missing age class of researchers that will reverberate for years.” scim.ag/3ERRLDo
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U.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaos
Uncertain funding, government firings, and distressed universities hit vulnerable groups especially hard
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CU Anschutz Cancer Center @cucancercenter.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
CU Cancer Center member Manali Kamdar, MD, started to think about pivoting from her dream of being a dancer to a different profession after receiving care for a spinal injury. Now she is a highly recognized leading lymphoma researcher ⬇️
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Dancer to Doctor: Dreams Fuel Top Lymphoma Researcher’s Success
Manali Kamdar, MD, has transformed lymphoma care with groundbreaking chemo-free therapies, leading to improved patient outcomes and FDA-approved therapies.
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Laura White @laurakwhite.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
There’s no argument that should reassure anyone enough to go back to business as usual, because none of these actions are happening in isolation. The war on US science won’t end with a court order on indirects.
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Ross Levine MD @rosslevinemd.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
I believe that most of our society values science and scientists. We need to continue to communicate our findings and value to the public and advocate for increased research funding, especially for young investigators->they are the future.
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Maria Amaya MD PhD @mariaamaya27.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Excited to share this commentary on a very interesting clinical trial for AML ashpublications.org/blood/articl... @bloodjournal.bsky.social
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A novel therapy with a rational design for AML
In this issue of Blood, Liu et al1 report the results of a phase 1 clinical trial using pegcrisantaspase (PegC) in combination with venetoclax in relapsed
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Maria Amaya MD PhD @mariaamaya27.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Fork in the road Q/A: Q: Can I take extended vacation while on administrative leave? A: You are most welcome to stay at home and relax or travel to your dream destination. Sure, let me go take an extended vacation while I leave Veretans hanging without care because we are already short-staffed.
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Maria Amaya MD PhD @mariaamaya27.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Join us soon for a great session on mechanisms of therapy resistance in myeloid neoplasms. #ASH24
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Maria Amaya MD PhD @mariaamaya27.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Amazing trainees presenting their amazing work! #ASH24
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Maria Amaya MD PhD @mariaamaya27.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Fascinating talk by Shanshan Pei on a newly identified TFG-ROS1 fusion, that although rare it can cause CMML -> AML and can be targeted with ALK/ROS1 inhibitors. #AMLsm #ASH24
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Maria Amaya MD PhD @mariaamaya27.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
It’s ASH week! #ASHThrowback to 2019 Orlando plane ride with the amazing lab mate Shanshan Pei who is now a trailblazing independent investigator! He just came to visit and I look forward to his talk on Saturday. #AMLsm
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Maria Amaya MD PhD @mariaamaya27.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Took me long but better late than never! This is our lab website and this Thanksgiving weekend I am grateful for everyone in the lab, they make science so fun! ladybug-triceratops-dpm6.squarespace.com
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THE AMAYA LAB
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Kapil Meleveedu @hematologymd.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
4-gene prognostic risk classifier (FLT3-ITD, KRAS, NRAS, and TP53) seems to successfully differentiate outcomes among patients with newly diagnosed AML treated with Aza/Ven than ELN 2017/2022 ashpublications.org/blood/articl...
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American Society of Hematology @ash.hematology.org · 21/11/2024
Hello, #hematology community! ASH is now on BlueSky. We're here to share cutting-edge research and educational resources and connect global experts in blood diseases. Join us in advancing hematology together. Welcome, colleagues! #BloodSky #HemeSky #MedSky
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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 21/11/2024
How to make friends with a hematologist Chapter 1 1. Order a peripheral smear before they ask 2. Never get a CBC without a diff 3. Stop the heparin before you call for a HIT consult 4. NEVER order MTHFR 5. Order a reticulocyte count before you consult for anemia
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Lee Grimes Lab @leegrimeslab.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Previous studies have shown self-reported Black patients have inferior treatment and survival outcomes compared to White patients, but why? Our work indicating that underlying genetics influence AML biology is now live at Nature Genetics. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Multiomic profiling identifies predictors of survival in African American patients with acute myeloid leukemia - Nature Genetics
Analysis of exomes and transcriptomes from 100 African American patients with acute myeloid leukemia identifies ancestry-related variation in mutation profiles and survival. Refined risk classificatio...
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