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Physician-scientist; Director, Pediatric Neuro-Oncology @radychildrens, @UCSDNeuroDept, @UCSDCancer, #medulloblastoma,#DIPG,#infantbraintumors, #Neurofibromatosis/NF

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John Prensner @johnprensner.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Check out the very important topic: how does poverty influence childhood cancer biology and treatment response? wonderful work from Birgit Knoechel and Kira Bona! @huntsmancancer.bsky.social @danafarber.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/12/2025
Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?
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Daniel Heller @danielheller.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Congrats to our team on building a technology that enables virtually all PROTAC protein degrader drugs to be delivered to tumors! “Tumor microenvironment–targeted PROTAC nanoparticle self-assembly broadly predicted by structural descriptors” | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Tumor microenvironment–targeted PROTAC nanoparticle self-assembly broadly predicted by structural descriptors
Nanoparticles targeted to solid tumor vasculature improve the pharmacologic properties of PROTACs.
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ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Thanks @contagionlive.bsky.social for letting me put in some unscripted words UC San Diego is the ideal place to receive your dream education or pursue a faculty career in collaborative medical or pharmaceutical sciences @ucsandiego.bsky.social @ucsdmedschool.bsky.social @ucsdpharmacy.bsky.social
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UC San Diego’s Collaborative Research Efforts, Community-Based Care Initiatives are in its DNA
Victor Nizet, MD, discusses how students can thrive at the university’s Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. He discusses the school's features including its rigorous coursework, foc...
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Before coming to NIH, Collins identified the gene that is mutated in cystic fibrosis (CF). Years later, this discovery led to the development of an innovative therapy for CF that's saved countless children. This is why we fight. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Realizing the Dream of Molecularly Targeted Therapies for Cystic Fibrosis | NEJM
The diary entry of an 8-year-old girl with cystic fibrosis indicates that Aug. 25, 1989, was an important day for her (Figure 1). That was the day the research teams at the University of Michigan a...
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John Prensner @johnprensner.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
As a #childhoodcancer doctor, I'm proud to be able to advocate for children with cancer in any way that I can. Here is a piece that I recently wrote for #TheDetroitNews, who kindly published it. #PEDCan #CANSky www.detroitnews.com/story/opinio...
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Prensner: ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ betrays children with cancer
In the United States, we’ve fought to achieve the world’s best care for children with cancer.
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Michael Taffe @effatma.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
This rapid action by the Prebys Foundation is the kind of thing I hope other regional philanthropies are doing. It isn't the entire solution by far but it is great to see them chipping in to help investigators in the San Diego academic science community. www.prebysfdn.org/stories/blog...
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Prebys Foundation Announces $7 Million in Emergency Support for Biomedical Research
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Politics and Health 🗳️ 🩺 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Beyond taking #healthcare away from millions of kids, families, and the elderly, the Budget-Busting Bill would mean the loss of thousands of jobs in hospitals, research centers, nursing homes, clinics, doctors’ offices. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How Health Care Remade the U.S. Economy (Gift Article)
Medicine is now the nation’s largest employer, but its growth may be slowing.
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 30/06/2025
“I represent 67,000 pediatricians, and let me be clear: this bill will devastate children’s health,” said Dr. Susan Kressly, President of @ameracadpeds.bsky.social “Kids are 22% of our population—but 100% of our future. We cannot afford to fail them.” Call your senators and demand a NO vote.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The promise and problems with multi-cancer early detection tests by Sid Mukherjee @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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The Catch in Catching Cancer Early
New blood tests promise to detect malignancies before they’ve spread. But proving that these tests actually improve outcomes remains a stubborn challenge.
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RajuBrainLab @rajubrainlab.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Nice to see this important translational hurdle- crossing the BBB- highlighted in Nature! Of note is the point that it would be ideal to not only cross the BBB, but deliver therapeutics specifically to the CNS site of disease which current brain shuttles don’t do. Stay tuned:) #SelectinTherapeutics
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Nature @nature.com · 03/06/2025
Nature research paper: The pivot penalty in research go.nature.com/4dDz2bL
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The pivot penalty in research - Nature
An analysis of millions of scientific papers and patents reveals a ‘pivot penalty’ when researchers shift direction, with the impact of studies decreasing rapidly the further they move from their previous work.
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Nicolas Robine 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇺🇸 @nicorobine.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Tumor antigens preferentially derive from unmutated genomic sequences in melanoma and non-small cell lung cancer www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Tumor antigens preferentially derive from unmutated genomic sequences in melanoma and non-small cell lung cancer - Nature Cancer
Based on a proteogenomic analysis, Perreault and colleagues report that the majority of predicted tumor antigens originate from unmutated genomic sequences in melanoma and non-small cell lung cancer.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
My quote of the day If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong. Arthur C. Clarke
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Children's Brain Tumor Network @wearecbtn.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
CBTN offers pediatric brain tumor data and samples to researchers worldwide for free. Request these resources to accelerate discoveries for kids: monkeylink.co/5c6c96 #WeAreCBTN #OpenScience
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Society for Neuroscience @sfn.org · 23/05/2025
Cuts to NIH funding have dire consequences! Neuroscience Professor Robert Greene shares why efforts to treat brain disease will suffer due to recent changes in U.S. government policies. #Neurosky #AcademicChatter
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Doctors for America @drsforamerica.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Medicaid Covers • 42% of all children nationwide • 77% of children living in poverty in the U.S. • 44% of children and youth with special health care needs nationwide • 41% of births in the U.S. • 37% of U.S. children with cancer • 99% of children and youth in foster care
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bioRxiv Cancer Bio @biorxiv-cancer.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
A Characterization of the Immune Cells in Immunocompetent and Immunodeficient Mice with Orthotopic Brain Tumors. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Sciences @sciences.skyfleet.blue · 29/04/2025
Cell classification should be based on more than just DNA
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Cell classification should be based on more than just DNA
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OncoDaily @oncodaily.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Toxicity in phase III oncology clinical trials is often incompletely reported - Fumiko Ladd Chino @fumikochino.bsky.social oncodaily.com/opinion/fumi... #OncoDaily #Oncology #Cancer #Health #Medicine #MedEd #MedOnc #MedNews
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Fumiko Ladd Chino: Toxicity in phase III oncology clinical trials is often incompletely reported - OncoDaily
Fumiko Ladd Chino: Toxicity in phase III oncology clinical trials is often incompletely reported / Adina H Passy, Alexander D. Sherry, Avital M Miller,
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Sallie Permar, MD, PhD @salliepermar.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
This bottleneck in research funding threatens research that took decades to build, as well as the cures of tomorrow. Publicly-funded research is the highest economic yield there is, with 2.5X of economic gains for every $. Call your Senator and Rep to ask them to protect federal research!
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Matthew Kan @matthewkan.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The NIH grant that has supported 38 years of training the best pediatrician-scientists in the country (I’m a proud former recipient) was cancelled. It was just approved for a 5 year renewal. The PSDP has supported the careers of many NIH-funded pediatrician-scientists and thought leaders
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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Pediatric research. When grants are pulled, the infrastructure suffers www.wcvb.com/article/bost...
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John Prensner @johnprensner.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
On the front page of @cnn.com is a feature on how #NIH funding cuts might impact #childhoodcancer. Thanks to MJ Lee for spotlighting this issue, and I was glad to be able to contribute. These kids deserve the best, not cuts! #CANSky #PEDSky www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/h...
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A kindergartner’s hopes for beating cancer are tied to federal grants now on the chopping block | CNN
A family whose 6-year-old is battling cancer says a move to slash funding by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research at universities and medical centers would be “devastating.”
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 23/02/2025
Who benefits from US funding uncertainty? Hours after posting this, I got an email inviting me to China with a “package to support my research for 20 years.” Apparently, generous offers are available to all good scientists!🧪🧠
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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
American science is under attack Opinion piece by Dr Harold Varmus, Nobel Prize winner, former director of the #NIH and the #NCI 🧪 “Perhaps what’s most disheartening is what feels like the absence of widespread opposition to this unraveling” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...
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Opinion | American Science is Under Attack (Gift Article)
The Trump administration hobbles research and endangers the public health.
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Society for Neuroscience @sfn.org · 11/02/2025
The NIH’s new imposed standard indirect cost rate threatens life-saving brain & behavior research that benefits millions of Americans. SfN, with other scientific organizations,urge reversal of this policy & implore Congress to protect critical research infrastructure. Full statement: bit.ly/4jVJnCL
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Statement on the NIH Imposed Standard Indirect Cost Rate
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ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
how the NIH contributes to the economy in my home state — find yours www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-... dollars cut is a 2.5x economic return nullified, many good jobs lost, and locally economies and their healthcare weakened no savings to our country, but rather incredible losses
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Science is absolutely key to the US's success but this government's intention to now dramatically reduce the part of the federal grants that go to the university (in addition to the researchers; the "indirects") is like removing the unseen roots of a tree and expecting it to continue to flourish.
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
“NIH produces an astounding return on investment to the American taxpayer. In Fiscal Year 2022, NIH research funding supported 568,585 jobs and generated $96.84 billion in economic activity — that’s $2.64 of economic activity for every $1 of research funding.” www.researchamerica.org/2023-oped-us...
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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 20/12/2024
As a pediatric hematologist oncologist I’d like to remind y’all that federal funding for ALL childhood cancers combined is only 4% of overall cancer research funding. CHILDREN with CANCER. Who deserve every single chance they can get yet are shown over and over how little our society cares.
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RajuBrainLab @rajubrainlab.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
This is a really exciting paper on improving therapeutic index using dual-payload nanomedicines for combination therapy in cancer. Congrats Satchi-Fainaro lab and team! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39671487/
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Two-in-one nanoparticle platform induces a strong therapeutic effect of targeted therapies in P-selectin-expressing cancers - PubMed
Combined therapies in cancer treatment aim to enhance antitumor activity. However, delivering multiple small molecules imposes challenges, as different drugs have distinct pharmacokinetic profiles and...
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Marlowe Tessmer @marlowetessmer.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Limited activity in CDK4- or CDK6-amplified tumors, although central nervous system tumors warrant future investigation from this phase II trial of palbociclib in cancer patients. Results from NCI-MATCH ECOG-ACRIN Trial EAY131 Subprotocol Z1C @uofpenn.bsky.social aacrjournals.org/clincancerre...
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Phase II Study of Palbociclib in Patients with Tumors with CDK4 or CDK6 Amplification: Results from the NCI-MATCH ECOG-ACRIN Trial (EAY131) Subprotocol Z1C
AbstractPurpose:. Amplification of cyclin-dependent kinase 4 (CDK4) and CDK6 is a feature of a variety of malignancies, and preclinical evidence suggests that inhibition of CDK4/6 is a plausible treat...
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Maryam Lustberg MD MPH FASCO @maryamlustberg.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
A number of #AYA cancer survivors experience insurance and financial hardships, including foregoing medical care due to financial constraints, problems paying medical bills, and difficulties accessing loans or insurances. #survonc #ayacsm link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Insurance, legal, and financial hardships of childhood and adolescent cancer survivors—a systematic review - Journal of Cancer Survivorship
Purpose Childhood and adolescent cancer survivors (CACS) experience medical and psychosocial adverse effects. Attention widens to include issues such as socio-bureaucratic hardships. This systematic r...
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RajuBrainLab @rajubrainlab.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Enjoying the Rady Invitational holiday tournament with some big time college hoops teams in town. Purdue/NC State & Ole Miss/BYU. Next year - Kansas/Florida/Wisconsin/Providence are scheduled to play!!!!
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