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Cancer Neuroscience lab at Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School led by Dr. Humsa Venkatesh | venkateshlab.org | #cancerresearch #cancerneuroscience | Account managed by lab manager, tweets from PI will be signed.

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Federation of European Neuroscience Societies - FENS @fens.org · 27/08/2026
Day 3️⃣ of the Brain Conference on Cancer Neuroscience! 🧠 👉 Want to learn more about the Brain Conferences? 🔗 buff.ly/I3AtVSv @brainprize.org @naddenmark.bsky.social
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The Venkatesh Lab @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The Scientist checked back in with Dr. Venkatesh and our lab's work over the past 4 years. Check it out here!
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Humsa Venkatesh Decodes How Tumors Hijack the Nervous System | The Scientist
Neurology researcher Humsa Venkatesh investigates the mechanisms behind the intersection of the nervous system and tumor pathophysiology.
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The Venkatesh Lab @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
We are currently recruiting candidates for post-doctoral positions in the lab. If you are interested in cancer neuroscience and want to be involved in, please send your CV and cover letter to Dr. Humsa Venkatesh (hvenkatesh@bwh.harvard.edu). Come join us where cancer meets neuroscience!
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The Venkatesh Lab @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Thank you to the AACR for the opportunity to share our lab's work on this important topic. Big thanks to the organizers @michellemonje.bsky.social, Mario Suva, and Stephen Bagley.
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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 · 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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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 · 27/01/2026
The Venkatesh lab is looking for a junior technician to join us this summer. If you are interested in working in cancer neuroscience, check out the job description below and see if it is a good fit for your goals! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
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Brigham and Women's Hospital hiring Research Lab Tech I NEUROLOGY vl in Boston, MA | LinkedIn
Posted 5:11:09 PM. Site: The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc.Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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Harvard Brain Science Initiative @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Meet Hannah Farnsworth on #HumansofHBI brain.harvard.edu/hbi_humans/h... @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social
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Humans of HBI - Hannah Farnsworth
Hannah's research aims to uncover how brain tumors integrate into neural networks and influence cognitive processes such as learning and behavior.
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American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) @theaacr.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Submit an abstract by January 12 for the AACR Special Conference on Brain Cancer (March 23-25, 2026; Philadelphia), chaired by Stephen J. Bagley, Michelle Monje, and Mario L. Suva. Learn more: buff.ly/9MkKUbq #AACRbrain26 @michellemonje.bsky.social
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The Venkatesh Lab @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Happy to have one of our amazing grad students, Hannah Farnsworth, featured in @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social 's #HumansofHBI. You can check out the article here and learn more about Hannah's work in the lab! brain.harvard.edu/hbi_humans/h...
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Humans of HBI - Hannah Farnsworth
In the past, primary brain tumors were viewed as diseases that merely invade and destroy brain tissue. However, researchers now recognize that these tumors actually integrate into the brain’s circuitr...
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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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The Venkatesh Lab @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Big thanks to @mgbresearch.bsky.social for featuring our lab's first paper.
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The Venkatesh Lab @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Exciting time to be in Cancer Neuroscience! Thank you to The Transmitter for featuring our lab's work.
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Harvard Brain Science Initiative @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Please join us on 10/3 at 3pm at the Shaw-Roxbury Branch of the @bpl.boston.gov! All ages welcome!
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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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The Venkatesh Lab @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
So proud of Lexi Franklin, who delivered an outstanding talk at @cshlnews.bsky.social’s Biology of Cancer: Microenvironment & Metastasis meeting yesterday! Keep an eye out for more exciting work from our lab, Rachel Davis and Hannah Farnsworth will be presenting their posters soon!
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The Venkatesh Lab @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Grateful for generous support from The Charles Hood Foundation The Sontag Foundation The ChadTough Foundation
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The Venkatesh Lab @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Happy to share that fantastic, complementary studies done by Filippo Beleggia and Christian Reinhardt similarly found SCLC cells utilize glutamatergic signaling to promote tumor growth www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Functional synapses between neurons and small cell lung cancer - Nature
Small cell lung cancer cells form functional synapses with glutamatergic neurons, receiving synaptic transmissions and deriving a proliferative advantage from these interactions.
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The Venkatesh Lab @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
In an effort to drive our work towards clinical translation, we treated SCLC brain allografts with Levetiracetam, and observed a decrease in tumor proliferation and tumor volume, highlighting the potential of therapeutic targeting neuron-SCLC interactions.
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The Venkatesh Lab @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
SCLC cells exhibit a reciprocal effect on neurons and contribute to their hyperexcitability, further driving neuron-SCLC interactions.
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The Venkatesh Lab @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Direct SCLC cell membrane depolarization is sufficient to promote the growth of SCLC tumors.
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The Venkatesh Lab @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
#SCLC cells in the brain co-opt neuronal activity-regulated mechanisms to promote growth and progression. Optogenetic stimulation of cortical neuronal activity via both glutamatergic and GABAergic circuits drives proliferation and invasion of SCLC.
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The Venkatesh Lab @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
In collaboration with the phenomenal electrophysiologist Wengang Wang and Bernardo Sabatini we demonstrate that SCLC cells exhibit electrical currents and consequent calcium transients in response to neuronal activity.
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The Venkatesh Lab @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Using SCLC brain allograft model, we discover bona fide neuron-to-synapses SCLC, for the first time for tumors of non-CNS origin.
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The Venkatesh Lab @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
We demonstrate that a population of #SCLC cells upregulates synaptic genes when exposed to neurons in activity-dependent manner. With @BizarMd team we further show overexpression of synaptic signature in patients with SCLC #brain metastasis compared to #SCLC lesions outside the brain.
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The Venkatesh Lab @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
We found #vagus nerve transection starkly inhibits primary SCLC tumor formation in the lung, highlighting a critical role for innervation in SCLC initiation & progression. Shout out to pulmonary biologists Yin Liu & Mark Krasnow, and SCLC experts @juliensage.bsky.social and Fangfei Qu!
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The Venkatesh Lab @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Neurons and nerves regulate progression of several tumor types both in and outside of the central nervous system, but the extent to which the nervous system regulates lung cancer progression, either in the lung or when metastatic to brain, had yet to be explored.
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The Venkatesh Lab @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
This 6-year effort was co-led by Sol Savchuck (@stanfordmedicine.bsky.social & @mgbneurosurgres.bsky.social) and Kaylee Gentry @itsybitsyfitc.bsky.social (@mgbresearch.bsky.social Neurology). Tweetorial written by Sol Savchuck!
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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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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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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
The cancer hijacking story expands..... 2 new reports of small cell lung cancer provide evidence for hijacking of neurons, formation of synapses, to promote tumor growth. May help to come up with therapies for this very aggressive, fatal form of cancer www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The Venkatesh Lab @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Jacqueline is interested in applying these imaging and viral tools in the context of glioblastoma, with the goal of understanding how glial signaling impacts tumor progression and broader neural circuitry.
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The Venkatesh Lab @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Her dissertation research focused on how astrocytes modulate neuronal activity and contribute to brain function in the healthy and injured brain, using advanced imaging approaches such as iGluSnFR glutamate sensors and Genetically Encoded Voltage Indicators (GEVIs).
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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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The Venkatesh Lab @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
The lab is celebrating Hannah Hoffman for a job well done and for passing her Preliminary Qualifying Exam! 🎇Congratulations Hannah!
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Kaylee Gentry MSc @kmgentry.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
#standupforscience Boston! @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social
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The Venkatesh Lab @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Do you have a background in cancer research or neuroscience? The Venkatesh Lab is expanding its team & seeking talented individuals at all levels. If you're passionate about cutting-edge research at the intersection of cancer and neuroscience, we'd love to hear from you!
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The Venkatesh Lab @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Thanks to the efforts of our ephys scientist, Garrett Scarpa, and Scientifica, the Venkatesh lab has our ephys rig up and running!
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Winkler Laboratory @winklerlab.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
SAVE THE DATE Discuss the interactions between the nervous system and cancer in our first @helloeacr.bsky.social conference on #CancerNeuroscience next year! 🗓️ Oct. 14-16, 2025 📍Bilbao, Spain 📥 Abstracts due June 30, 2025 📥 Register by Sept. 15, 2025 For more info, visit eacr.org/conference/c...
Poster for EACR conference on Cancer Neuroscience on 14-16 October, 2025 in Bilbao, Spain featuring various speakers.
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The Venkatesh Lab @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Thrilled to present at the joint session of #ksmetastasis25 and #kscancerneuroscience25! Huge thanks to everyone who came out to hear about our lab's work!
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The Venkatesh Lab @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Happy holidays from the Venkatesh lab!! 🎄🌟
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The Venkatesh Lab @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
So proud of rising cancer neuroscience superstars @SavchukSol and Hannah Farnsworth on their beautiful presentations defining neuron brain tumor interactions at #SNO2024!
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The Venkatesh Lab @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Join Dr. Venkatesh on December 5th for an engaging discussion on The Neural Regulation of Cancer and our lab's work. The event is free and open to the public as well as via zoom. Register here: tinyurl.com/3d42jf4n
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The Venkatesh Lab @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
#FluorescenceFriday offering for our new account! SCLC Culture
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