Santosh Vardhana
@SantoshVardhana
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Researching immunology, metabolism, and cancer, and caring for patients with lymphoma at MSKCC @VardhanaLab. Opinions/RT are my own.
New York, NY
Joined October 2010
I’m thrilled that our work reporting the efficacy and unique mechanism of action of romidepsin and duvelisib in T cell lymphoma is out today in @NatureMedicine ( https://t.co/EpyAKX8wrd). A short thread:
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1) Ballooning health care costs are not due to providing emergency hospital care for undocumented immigrants 2) Either suggesting that hospitals should refuse emergency care, or refusing reimbursement to hospitals providing emergency care, solves nothing and is unethical
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I can understand #MedTwitter often being silent when it comes to politics for a variety of reasons. However, this is a moment where we need to be heard stating two things very clearly (1/2):
CNN on Vance remarks: So first of all, hospitals have been required for decades under a law signed by Republican president Ronald Reagan to treat undocumented immigrants and anyone else who shows up in the E.R. with an acute condition, regardless of their ability to pay,
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Here’s a nice analysis of 2.5M children about Tylenol and autism. The study found a small association between tylenol use in pregnancy and autism, but the association went away in sibling analysis. In sibling analysis you compare children born to the same mother where one child
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This will kill people
Trump: DON’T TAKE TYLENOL. There is no downside. You will be uncomfortable, it won't be as easy
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Now accepting applications for our 2026 Cancer Biology & Cancer Engineering programs. Aspiring scientists & engineers will solve fundamental problems in biology & conduct research & develop technology that will help understand, diagnose, & treat cancer. https://t.co/thSVzrM48t
sloankettering.edu
The Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences offers the next generation of basic scientists a program to study the biological sciences through the lens of cancer
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You might think, or hope, that this is a parody account. It is sadly real.
During the pandemic, public health authorities obstructed toddlers’ breathing with cloth masks, gave gene-altering therapeutics to children, conspired with unions keep schools closed, and discredited low-cost medications in favor of expensive and ineffective biologics.
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This is a clear contrast from prior statements which explicitly addressed these areas:
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Cancelling mRNA studies is the highest irresponsibility
nature.com
Nature - The rest of the world is not following the US government’s dangerous path, and will stick with the technology that helped the world out of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Considerable space was allocated to underscore the following priorities instead: Reproducibility "Real world" data sources Artificial Intelligence Autism (etiology only) "Alternative Testing Models" The harms of treating "gender dysphoria"
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Top 10 causes of death in the US: heart disease, cancer, COVID, trauma/overdose, stroke, chronic respiratory disease, Alzheimer's, diabetes, kidney disease, and liver disease/cirrhosis. # of mentions of any of these in the current 'unified strategy': 0. https://t.co/tYHi7CLjf3
nih.gov
NIH is moving toward a unified strategy that aligns our priorities and funding approaches to fulfill this commitment.
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“ The symbolism could not be clearer: Scientists, doctors, public health officials, and law enforcement officials — people whose life’s work is to protect the nation — have targets on their backs.” Bravo @celinegounder
https://t.co/WYT1D3KArZ
nytimes.com
People whose life’s work is to protect the nation have targets on their backs.
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On Friday someone who was convinced by nonsense propaganda like this (FYI every single “stat” he cited is invented gibberish) shot up the CDC. It’s actually hard to comprehend this level of wanton ignorance and cruelty. He is an existential threat to all of us.
Doctors, hospitals, insurance companies, and pharmaceutical giants profit by keeping Americans sick.
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To say it was a privilege is an understatement. Thank you to @TheVFoundation, @susannagreer, and the absolutely incomparable Jamie Valvano for the opportunity to share our work with the incredible V foundation community!!!
Our Grantee, @SantoshVardhana speaks at the Krzyzewski Family Cancer Research Symposium at our Wine Celebration today about the progress made due to advances in immunotherapy, but there is more work to be done.
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Absolutely disgraceful, as are those in the comments celebrating. UCLA is a public institution with no coffers to pull upon to placate the Mad King and his army of goons. Good people who spend their lives dedicated to helping people will needlessly suffer. Shame on everyone.
Trump freezes $200 million in UCLA science and medical research funding, citing antisemitism https://t.co/5tr4ETMNFJ
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I'm not sure people understand how close we are to the entirety of scientific research in the US grinding to a halt.
White House blocks NIH from awarding any research grants
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@Satpathology @CalebLareau So excited that i didn't even link to the thread:
Clone tracing T cell responses in cancer (using TCR-seq methods) has been incredibly valuable for understanding immunotherapy response and opportunities. A holy grail for us has been thinking about to achieve this for innate immune responses in human cancer - with high accuracy
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I feel so unbelievably sad for all the young careers that will be destroyed by this and all the potential knowledge lost that could have helped patients. For nothing. It’s pure cruelty.
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“With these considerations, we expect to fund through the 4th percentile.” A crushing and utterly despicable blow to cancer research. https://t.co/jkcR1vmUEy
cancer.gov
NCI funding policy for research project grant (RPG) awards reflects the funding goals of the institute, NIH, and HHS.
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4-5 million of these excess deaths will be children. USAID is a miniscule fraction of the federal budget. Where is our humanity?
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