Vik Dhillon
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Physician, author, ML enthusiast. Interested in biology of aging. Tweets = own. 📸: George Dunbar
Detroit, MI
Joined August 2013
Disease risk but not remission status determines transplant outcomes in AML: long-term outcomes of the ASAP trial @BloodPortfolio
https://t.co/QlYJMQXlLZ
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Key PointsNo benefit of RIST with standard salvage chemotherapy before alloHCT for poorly responsive AML or first untreated relapse.AML genetics, not remis
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(1/10) How do diverse leukemia mutations converge on the same molecular program? In our new study @CellCellPress,the @RibackLab and @Goodell_Lab show that disparate mutations rewire shared protein networks to form nuclear condensates called coordinating bodies (C-bodies).🫧
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@DraMartinezLago @myESMO @ESMO_Open @GrupoTTD @Erman_Akkus @OncoAlert @colontown @FightCRC @marklewismd @oncodaily @Larvol @OncBrothers @mtmdphd @RenoHemonc @SuyogCancer @GlopesMd We also addressed this🙋🏻♂️in this editorial at @NatureMedicine. bTMB ≠ tTMB It’s a whole different issue on how bad TMB is as a marker for immunotherapy for patients with colorectal cancer. However, even if you are going to use it, don’t in these post EGFR⛔️cases. @OncoAlert
👇🏾Read our editorial today @NatureMedicine
https://t.co/kCNQXsX3c6 “#Liquidbiopsies and tumor mutational burden: the cutoff conundrum” 🩸blood-TMB or plasma-TMB or liquid-TMB🆚tissue-TMB: are they the same? Probably no at present. Perhaps they don’t have to be same. @OncoAlert
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CONGRESS | #IACH | PRESENTATION @Dr_AmerZeidan @YaleMed discusses the current menin inhibitor landscape for the treatment of NPM1m or KMT2Ar AML. He provides an overview of clinical trial data for revumenib, ziftomenib, bleximenib and enzomenib monotherapy and combination
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New online! Apoptosis-targeting BH3 mimetics: transforming treatment for patients with acute myeloid leukaemia
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Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology - Patients with acute myeloid leukaemia are often unable to tolerate intensive chemotherapy, and the outcomes of these patients have improved considerably following...
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“garbage in, garbage out”: last week, Nature Methods published an article ( https://t.co/9fPO608NvR) comparing the deep learning models trained on scRNA-seq (single-cell transcriptomes) which were published in recent years — GENEFORMER, scGPT, scBERT, scFoundation, and others.
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Nature Methods - The analysis presented in this Brief Communication shows that, despite their complexity, current deep learning models do not outperform linear baselines in predicting gene...
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#IntheSpotlight A FABulous Couple: Adding PHENotype to GENotype Improves HMA/VEN Response Prediction in AML https://t.co/PqCzQD264b
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Everyone working in a STEM field should read this - ‘writing is thinking’ https://t.co/pps0zyCURe
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We are excited to share our work on "closing the loop" 🔄 - a framework enabling single-cell foundation models (scFMs) to learn from experimental validation and dramatically improve their predictive accuracy! (1/n)
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Excellent example of the core issue I was trying to get at wrt "virtual cells" - optimizing a prediction objective will not necessarily provide an accurate representation of physical or biological phenomena. It's extremely important to be very clear about this. 1/
Can an AI model predict perfectly and still have a terrible world model? What would that even mean? Our new ICML paper formalizes these questions One result tells the story: A transformer trained on 10M solar systems nails planetary orbits. But it botches gravitational laws 🧵
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Clu+ HSCs represent myeloid/platelet-biased HSCs that expand with age, whereas Clu– youthful HSCs become underrepresented with age. https://t.co/KOuunvdCCM
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🚨New paper on theories of ageing I discuss the major mechanistic theories of ageing in light of recent findings as well as the fundamental nature of the ageing process. Theoretical work is more important than ever in biology, including in ageing. https://t.co/JG7XLI6QFS
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Nature Cell Biology - This Review provides an overview of modern mechanistic theories and critically examines two main groups of ageing theories—error and program based—in the context...
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New research shows that heat application, not cold, enhances recovery from muscle damage https://t.co/5Y8vdbwDqB
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Abstract figure legend Thirty-four participants underwent muscle damage (electrically stimulated eccentric contractions) triggering regenerative processes following myofiber necrosis. Participants...
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Still digesting all the data from #ASCO25. Wanted to share my thoughts on a topic I found particularly fascinating: the timing of checkpoint inhibitor infusions. I'm no expert in chronobiology, but the data presented seem compelling and sparks a lot of questions.
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Over the last 2 weeks, I took a deep dive into Evo 2, Arc's Genomic Foundation model. But, I couldn't find a crisp primer on Evo 2 that covered the decisions for the ML architecture, the inference-time scaling results or the mechanistic interpretability results. So, I wrote one!
Announcing Evo 2: The largest publicly available, AI model for biology to date, capable of understanding and designing genetic code across all three domains of life. https://t.co/1Zt6gQ74SA
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There are traditionally two types of research: problem-driven research and method-driven research. As we’ve seen with large language models and now AlphaEvolve, it should be very clear now that total method-driven research is a huge opportunity. Problem-driven research is nice
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Delighted to share our study out in @CellStemCell today from the dream team @PapaemmanuilLab @iannisaifantis1 @AkEisfeld @landau_lab! We profiled IDH-mutated AML patients to define how IDH and co-mutations shape the disease at baseline and responses to IDH-inhibitors. 🧵👇
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Adult Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: 2025 Update on Diagnosis, Therapy, and Monitoring |American Journal of Hematology | Blood Research Journal | Wiley Online Library
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Disease Overview Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a disease of lymphoid progenitor cells arising in the bone marrow and extramedullary sites. While it is the most common pediatric cancer, ALL...
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A number of people have asked me why we titled our recent paper "On the Biology of a Large Language Model". Why call it "biology"?
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