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Nima Sharifi MD

@nimasharifimd.bsky.social
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Scientific Director Desai Sethi Urology Institute Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center University of Miami Miller School of Medicine www.nimasharifilab.com

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Nima Sharifi MD @nimasharifimd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“In the hormone therapy subgroup, the CC genotype was significantly associated with increased PCSM among patients with metastatic (HR=6.79, 95% CI: 2.03-17.2, P<0.001) and advanced (HR=3.29, 95% CI: 1.10-11.7, P=0.03) disease.” aacrjournals.org/cancerres/ar...
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Abstract 3594: Adrenal-permissive HSD3B1 genotype and prostate cancer-specific mortality among patients: Insights from the multiethnic cohort Study
AbstractBackground:. The HSD3B1 gene encodes an androgen synthesis enzyme critical for prostate cancer (PCa) progression. The CC genotype of a common missense variant in HSD3B1 (rs1047303) is consider...
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zhipengawang.bsky.social @zhipengawang.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Excited to share our latest review in TIBS! We discuss metabolite-mediated PTMs from a metabolism-centered perspective, highlighting chemical origins, discovery, and roles in linking metabolism to PTM regulation. Grateful to my coauthors and the editors! www.cell.com/trends/bioch...
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A framework for understanding post-translational modifications of metabolic origin
Metabolites, beyond their canonical roles in energy production and biosynthesis, also serve as precursors for a diverse array of post-translational modifications (PTMs). The functional significance of...
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Nima Sharifi MD @nimasharifimd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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Nima Sharifi MD @nimasharifimd.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Wind, surf and pelicans!
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Journal of Clinical Investigation @jci.org · 23/06/2026
Behind the scenes of research in action: first author Nikou Fotouhi and Nima Sharifi showcase the many sides of scientific discovery.
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Journal of Clinical Investigation @jci.org · 23/06/2026
Metabolic disturbances are a common side effect of ADT for prostate cancer doi.org/10.1172/JCI2... Here, @nimasharifimd.bsky.social & team unveil a surprising link between a common inherited enzyme variant that drives prostate cancer mortality & its effects on bile acid regulation.
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Nima Sharifi MD @nimasharifimd.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I love this. These are the words of a mystic.
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Nima Sharifi MD @nimasharifimd.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
En vuelo #pelican
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NEJM.org @nejm.org · 07/06/2026
A study dissects the way in which fasting or a fasting-mimicking diet augments the effect of hormonal therapy in a mouse model of breast cancer. Learn more: nej.md/4xdH58T Wondering how you might use this article in practice or teaching? AI Companion can help. Try it with this article.
Diagram illustrating the possible mechanisms that connect fasting with response to hormonal therapy for breast cancer. The article type (Clinical Implications of Basic Research) and title ("Fasting, Glucocorticoids, and Breast Cancer") appear above the illustration.
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Nima Sharifi MD @nimasharifimd.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
What does fasting do to regulation of glucocorticoids? What does that mean for outcomes in steroid-dependent cancers? Glad to have the opportunity to share a Clinical Implications of Basic Research on fasting, glucocorticoids and breast cancer @nejm.org! www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Fasting, Glucocorticoids, and Breast Cancer | NEJM
A study dissects the way in which fasting or a fasting-mimicking diet augments the effect of hormonal therapy in a mouse model of breast cancer.
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Nima Sharifi MD @nimasharifimd.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Just a pleasant and breezy evening!
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Nima Sharifi MD @nimasharifimd.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Royal Poinciana? 🌱
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Endocrine Society Journals @endosocjournals.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Androgen metabolism in prostate cancer: recent advances. Read more in #Endocrinology: bit.ly/4vUb451 #Androgens #Metabolism #Steroids @endocrinesociety.bsky.social
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Androgen metabolism in prostate cancer: recent advances
Abstract. Androgen biosynthesis is physiologically necessary for generating the principal stimulus for androgen receptor (AR) signaling and thus plays an e
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Nima Sharifi MD @nimasharifimd.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Really enjoyed this collaboration led by Juyeun Lee and Justin Lathia - now out @nature.com ! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Androgen loss accelerates brain tumour growth via HPA axis activation - Nature
Androgens have distinct roles in the brain, acting as immune-based tumour suppressors through neuroinflammation and neuroendocrine mechanisms.
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Nima Sharifi MD @nimasharifimd.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Androgen metabolism in prostate cancer: recent advances - out in the May issue of Endocrinology! #urosky 🧪 #testosterone academic.oup.com/endo?login=f...
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Endocrinology | Oxford Academic
An official journal of the Endocrine Society. Publishes novel research and mechanistic studies on regulation of receptor/hormone signals, gene expression, development, function, and disease at the mol...
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Nima Sharifi MD @nimasharifimd.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Really cool findings by @zhipengawang.bsky.social on new mechanisms of ketones in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social! news.med.miami.edu/ketone-metab...
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Top Chemistry Journal Highlights Miller School Discovery Linking Ketone Metabolism to Cell Signaling - InventUM
Desai Sethi Urology Institute's Dr. Nima Sharifi and Dr. Zhipeng Wang were named recipients of Prostate Cancer Foundation grants.
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Nima Sharifi MD @nimasharifimd.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Hoping for a better year and more peaceful times ahead.
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Nima Sharifi MD @nimasharifimd.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Serendipity, steroids and #science - a short story and perspective of 18 years for our research laboratory🧪 #medsky doi.org/10.1016/j.js...
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Redirecting
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Nima Sharifi MD @nimasharifimd.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Androgen Metabolism in Prostate Cancer: Recent Advances #metabolism #testosterone #prostatecancer url: academic.oup.com/endo/article...
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Androgen Metabolism in Prostate Cancer: Recent Advances
Abstract. Androgen biosynthesis is physiologically necessary for generating the principal stimulus for androgen receptor (AR) signaling and thus plays an e
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Nima Sharifi MD @nimasharifimd.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
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Metabolomic Insights Into Saliva as a Non‐Invasive Surrogate for Serum to Enable Community‐Based Biomarker Investigation
Introduction Using serum metabolomics in Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) with underserved populations presents challenges due to the invasive nature of venipuncture, which limits longi...
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Nima Sharifi MD @nimasharifimd.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Crows! They left a mystical feeling flying overhead in a rush. @carlbergstrom.com
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Nima Sharifi MD @nimasharifimd.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Just 1 more week to go until the 3rd Miami Symposium on Human Metabolism. Register today! In addition to the speaker lineup, the poster titles are presenters are now up👇! 🧪 med.miami.edu/elp/miamimetab…
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Nima Sharifi MD @nimasharifimd.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
We are looking for a research associate with a working knowledge and interest in mass spectrometry of small molecules. If interested, please check this out! careers.miami.edu/us/en/job/R1...
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Research Associate 1 in Miami, Florida, United States of America | Research at University of Miami
Apply for Research Associate 1 job with University of Miami in Miami, Florida, United States of America. Research at University of Miami
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Nima Sharifi MD @nimasharifimd.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The flock at dusk
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Nima Sharifi MD @nimasharifimd.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Congratulations @zhipengawang.bsky.social and team! What an incredible discovery in #metabolism and protein modification! It turns out acetoacetate is converted to another metabolite that modifies cysteines! 🧪
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Nima Sharifi MD @nimasharifimd.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Are you a postdoc or PhD student? Working on #metabolism? Escape the snow, apply for a travel award & submit an abstract for the 3rd #Miami Symposium on Human Metabolism on February 14, 2026! 🧪 The deadline is 12/31! Submit here: med.miami.edu/elp/miamimet...
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Poster Session & Reception
Official website for the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
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Nima Sharifi MD @nimasharifimd.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Very excited our story on a CYP17A1-independent androgen biosynthesis pathway is out! Could explain why androgens are left when we use abiraterone to block CYP17A1 clinically in prostate cancer. Need to look more closely at oxidized forms of cholesterol! Please read the whole paper. 🧪 rdcu.be/eS7kU
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DeBerardinis Lab at UT Southwestern Medical Center @rjdlab.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
1/New paper from Zheng Wu, Phong Nguyen et al. @cri-utsw.bsky.social shows how cells balance the two pathways that produce purine nucleotides: de novo purine biosynthesis (DNPB) and purine salvage. The surprising mechanism involves NUDT5, a Nudix hydrolase www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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NUDT5 regulates purine metabolism and thiopurine sensitivity by interacting with PPAT
Cells generate purine nucleotides through de novo purine biosynthesis (DNPB) and purine salvage. Purine salvage represses DNPB to prevent excessive purine nucleotide synthesis through mechanisms that ...
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Nima Sharifi MD @nimasharifimd.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
True words!
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Nima Sharifi MD @nimasharifimd.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
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Living in the Present Tense | NEJM
When a pediatrician caring for patients with a rare genetic disease discovers incidentally that he carries his own rare high-risk mutation, he must learn from a patient’s parents how to shift his p...
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Nima Sharifi MD @nimasharifimd.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Big and well deserved congratulations to @zhipengawang.bsky.social for his new Prostate Cancer Foundation Young Investigator Award! So well deserved! He is doing incredible work discovering new mechanisms of ketones in metabolism. And congrats to all the other PCF young investigator awardees! 🧪
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Nima Sharifi MD @nimasharifimd.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Evidence that even when LLMs produce similar results to humans, they “rely on lexical associations and statistical priors rather than contextual reasoning or normative criteria. We term this divergence epistemia: the illusion of knowledge emerging when surface plausibility replaces verification”
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Nima Sharifi MD @nimasharifimd.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Latest clinical data on HSD3B1 presented at ASTRO www.urotoday.com/conference-h...
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ASTRO 2025: Influence of HSD3B1 Genotype on Prostate Cancer Outcomes Following Definitive Radiation Therapy with ADT: A Retrospective Analysis of the Million Veterans Program
prostate cancer, HSD3B1 Genotype, Influence of HSD3B1 Genotype on Prostate Cancer Outcomes Following Definitive Radiation Therapy with ADT.
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Nima Sharifi MD @nimasharifimd.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
"Rockets, computers and lifesaving medicines all come from decades of effort by scientists hunkered over pages of calculation or the laboratory bench. They required the same tireless, single-minded effort every elite athlete understands." 🧪 @adamfrank4.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o...
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Opinion | How the Manosphere Hijacks Young Men’s Interest in Science
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Nima Sharifi MD @nimasharifimd.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
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Nima Sharifi MD @nimasharifimd.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
We are hiring and looking for exceptional faculty! If you are interested in the fundamental mechanisms of human biology, biochemistry, metabolism, or genetics, please look here! 🧪 jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/675109/f...
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Faculty – Assistant, Associate and Full Professor - Miami, Florida (US) job with Miami Miller School of Medicine - Desai Sethi Urology and Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center | 675109
The Desai Sethi Urology Institute seeks scientists to study genitourinary cancers, offering strong support, collaboration, and a new cancer facility.
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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Today, scientists know that genetics plays a role in many conditions and diseases. But back in the ’90s, geneticist Mary-Claire King was the first to link a gene to an inherited form of a common cancer.
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A Trailblazing Geneticist Reflects On Her Life And Work
Dr. Mary-Claire King was the first to link a gene to hereditary cancer risk with the identification of BRCA1. She was just getting started.
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Nima Sharifi MD @nimasharifimd.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
These pelicans out this morning are just magnificent and mesmerizing to watch
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Nima Sharifi MD @nimasharifimd.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Reduced Screening May Have Led to Rise in Advanced Prostate Cancer Diagnoses www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/s...
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Reduced Screening May Have Led to Rise in Advanced Prostate Cancer Diagnoses
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Nima Sharifi MD @nimasharifimd.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Congratulations @marinaparry.bsky.social! Wonderful work!
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Nima Sharifi MD @nimasharifimd.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Enjoyed working with Masoud Bitaraf and Elena Castro on this review on prostate cancer germline variants with therapeutic implications for Trends in Molecular Medicine! 🧪 #UroSky #MedSky @cp-trendsmolecmed.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/a/1lWYz5Eb1B...
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Josh Lang @joshlangmd.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Such an honor and so much fun to join the Cancer Clear and Simple @uwhealth.bsky.social Carbone Cancer Center Podcast to discuss liquid biopsies in cancer! cancer.wisc.edu/community-ou...
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Cancer Clear and Simple Podcast
Welcome to ‘Cancer Clear and Simple,’ the podcast dedicated to simplifying cancer. Join us as we discuss the world of cancer, breaking down complex concepts for our listening audience. One of our goal...
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Nima Sharifi MD @nimasharifimd.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
I consider myself fortunate for every day I can continue to do science
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Nima Sharifi MD @nimasharifimd.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
An Editor's Pick paper at J Biol Chem @asbmb.bsky.social! Don't forget to read the profile about the first author Xiuxiu Li at the end of our paper on HSD3B1 and breast cancer! Dr. Li recently moved from University of Miami to the University of Alabama! 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Jon Wolf Mueller @jonwolfmueller.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
...a long way to go...
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Nima Sharifi MD @nimasharifimd.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
😣😩😭
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Nima Sharifi MD @nimasharifimd.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Sage advice as always from @rjdlab.bsky.social 🧪
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