Out now
@NatureMedicine
ARROW trial showing RET-fusion as a tissue-agnostic target🎯! Proud and honored to call
@VivekSubbiah
my mentor & watch the treatment landscape of cancer evolve day by day‼️ Likely to be the next 🧬tissue-agnostic
@US_FDA
approval!
Congratulations! I look forward to meeting everyone at the ASCO Annual Meeting
#ASCO24
. 🏆Congratulations to
@jacobadashek
for being selected as the next chair of the
#TECAG
🏆. I look forward to working alongside you!
Thrilled, honored, and humbled to be invited to serve as a member of
@ASCO
Trainee & Early Career Advisory Group and learn from
@ramsedhom
@AnaVManana
@ADesaiMD
and many more‼️
I love to bake and mention it in my
@twitter
bio… I should share with the twitterverse what I’m bringing for my
@hopkinskimmel
inpatient solid oncology team tomorrow! Chocolate chip walnut banana bread 😎
Matched combination (lenvatinib + palbociclib) therapy for FGFR and cell cycle-altered osteosarcoma benefits 51+ MONTHS and ONGOING with
@Dr_R_Kurzrock
@VivekSubbiah
! Molecular alterations drive cancer. Slay the hydra, cut off all the heads!
So excited to be in
@hopkinskimmel
@Hopkins_HemOnc
clinic with Ravin Garg! The man is a savant and hematology-oncology encyclopedia! He personally wrote >2500 questions for high yield boards!
Proud to share our
@MoffittNews
study on fear of cancer recurrence among survivors in
@ESMO_Open
! On the eve of day 1 of
@Hopkins_HemOnc
fellowship! Would not be here without the supreme mentorship from many special people, feeling so grateful!!
@Dr_R_Kurzrock
would never toot her own horn so as a proud mentee I will! I am so honored & grateful to work with and be mentored by her! She now has 900 peer-reviewed papers contributing so much to cancer care research & continues helping countless patients! Here’s to 900 more!
@VivekSubbiah
with another
@US_FDA
AGNOSTIC APPROVAL!
@Dr_R_Kurzrock
says “If it’s a target, it’s a pan-cancer target” The needle moves forward & patients can get new therapies! RET-fusions are targetable REGARDLESS of histology!
Dr Pat Lo Russo
@YaleCancer
delivers one of the best lectures I have ever witnessed in my life
@ASCO
@AACR
MCCR23!! A true visionary and legendary oncologist and human being! ❤️ honored to have been in the audience to experience
🌟OUT TODAY in
@JCOPO_ASCO
🌟with
@MedicalCollege
@Dr_R_Kurzrock
! HER2 protein and mRNA expression and amplifications among 5,305 diverse cancers is HIGHLY VARIABLE‼️
20% (144/723) of patients had mRNA overexpression with negative CNV and IHC!
So glad to support
@cityofhope
@montypal
for the nominating committee in the
@ASCO
elections!
Monty’s bedside manner and patient care is what I still try to emulate today. He is an exceptionally generous and thoughtful leader! I hope you’ll support him at the polls on 11/2!
Having such an amazing experience at
@ASCO
@AACR
Methods in Clinical Cancer Research Workshop!! Awesome to see
@lauracmichaelis
@DrEzraCohen
and listen to some amazing lectures this morning!
Ok now hear me out. I bought the muffin baking cups, but forgot I didn’t bring a muffin tray when I moved. But life is about pivoting, this is a pivot: blueberry muffin .. bread. It’s a blueberry muffin bread. Enjoy your weekend twitterverse!
BRAF V600 mutations in non-melanoma and responses to BRAF +- MEK inhibitors
#AACR21
with
@VivekSubbiah
@ADesaiMD
! An actionable target outside of melanoma! Potentially agnostic marker?
@AACR
Unbelievably proud of what he has done and what he will do!! Unparalleled mentorship from
@VivekSubbiah
now launched🚀🚀 to transform
@SarahCannonDocs
Early-Phase!! Can't wait to see what the future will bring🌟🌟!! See you
@ASCO
#ASCO23
!!
OUT IN
@JIPOEditors
w/
@Dr_R_Kurzrock
@AaronGoodman33
, PD-1 TILs PREDICT RESPONSE TO ICB‼️ PD-1+ TILs in tumors associated w/ ⬆️mPFS (7 v 1.9 m;p=0.006) & ⬆️OS (18.1 v 8 m;p=0.04) post-ICB. Time to stop staining for PD-L1 and start staining for PD-1 TILs❓
My first TWEETORIAL about an organization that I feel so passionately about and am so grateful has taken me under their wings
@targetcancer
with the world's 1st virtual molecular tumor board (vMTB) clinical trial TCF-001 TRACK focused on rare cancers! 1/8
A whirlwind of a week filled with phenomenal lectures, thought-provoking group sessions led by
@DrMhidalgo
, amazing views, and new friendships that I hope will last a lifetime✨
@ASCO
@AACR
#MCCR23
you exceeded all expectations and I am so grateful to have had this experience♥️
Day 1 of
@Hopkins_HemOnc
orientation in the books! Such a packed day and thrilled to be here with
@pdzavras
!! Looking forward to what tomorrow will bring! Bone marrow biopsy training with
@Dr_BDSmith
and more!!
Very grateful for
@sitcancer
Forward Fund Travel Award✈️and can’t wait for a great week at Cancer Immunotherapy Winter School! Looking forward to learning a lot!🤓
🌟PRECISION ONCOLOGY AT ITS BEST🌟with
@hopkinskimmel
@DocSeiwert
in
@Nature_NPJ
our patient achieved a DURABLE, COMPLETE RESPONSE with alectinib for her ALK-fusion🧬metastatic salivary ductal carcinoma‼️ Is ALK another tissue agnostic target🎯⁉️
Excited for
@myESMO
#ESMO20
tomorrow with our
@UCSDHealth
@Dr_R_Kurzrock
oral presentation on PERSONALIZED🧬 GENOMIC-MATCHED COMBINATION💊 TARGETED🎯 therapies for patients with CUP‼️ Tune in on-demand tomorrow❗️
Out now in
@sitcancer
#SITC2020
with
@Dr_R_Kurzrock
@AlexeyGoloubev
"Immunotherapy trials lack a biomarker🧬🎯 for inclusion ➡️ implications for drug💊 development‼️"
Only, 37 (~9%) of 413 trials were planned requiring a biomarker for enrollment (n = 5,602 of 57,853; [9.7%])‼️
Our
@MCWCancerCenter
@Dr_R_Kurzrock
@UCSDHealth
@zacksurg
findings: LAG-3 transcriptomic expression correlates linearly with other checkpoints, but not clinical outcomes‼️ High LAG-3 levels do NOT predict resistance to anti-PD-1/PD-L1 checkpoint blockade‼️
Just finished 2 weeks of inpt solid onc
@hopkinskimmel
, motivation to do better for our patients. Makes me think about
@GavinPrestonMD
showing how much you care. Tonight I share with the twitterverse one of my favorites of all-time, mandelbread that I made tonight!
@Dr_R_Kurzrock
Very excited, honored, and humbled to be the guest editor for
@MDPIOpenAccess
@Pharmaceut_MDPI
for a special issue on ICI! Please take a look and submit here! This is a PubMed indexed journal with rising impact factor, latest >5‼️
Incredibly grateful to
@OncLive
for featuring me to promote tumor-agnostic approvals and specifically the new BRAF V600E approval! Continue the
#PrecisionOncology
paradigm! “Get the right drug to the right patient at the right time” -
@Dr_R_Kurzrock
Coming soon- the
@targetcancer
Think Tank on Advancing Precision Medicine in Rare Cancers, in Boston on 9/21! Featuring an amazing agenda including talks by
@Dr_R_Kurzrock
@VivekSubbiah
and many more. Learn more and register for free here:
🌟HOT🔥 off the press
@Nature_NPJ
w/
@MCWCancerCenter
@Dr_R_Kurzrock
🌟Home-run trials: giving the right🧬drug💊to the right🫂patient in the right🏡place‼️ Access to an academic center shouldn't be a limiting factor for patients to get on a clinical trial‼️
Can't wait for
#ASCO23
! Humbled, honored, and excited to be a Featured Voice! Helping you keep up to date in real-time on all things novel drugs, biomarkers, and early phase studies!
📣 Announcing the
#ASCO23
Featured Voices! 🎉 Follow on Twitter, Instagram and/or LinkedIn for a range of expert insights and join the conversation using the official hashtag:
#ASCO23
👉
After such an epic
@ASCO
#GU19
and meeting so many people I look up to in the field. Without
@montypal
I would’ve never been able to be here. He is a stellar mentor, unbelievably generous, and a true role model I aspire to be like everyday. Thank you for everything!!!
📲 Announcing the
#ASCO22
Featured Voices! Follow on Twitter and/or Instagram for a range of expert insights and join the conversation using the official hashtag,
#ASCO22
👉
My take on
@levainbakery
walnut chocolate chip cookies😎 Wishing the twitterverse a happy and healthy holiday season and new year!🎁☃️🧣
@Dr_R_Kurzrock
what do you think, how did I do?
@VivekSubbiah
showed today
#AACR2021
that targeting RET can yield response in multiple tumor types!
@ADesaiMD
@andreevdrakhlin
and I found that in NSCLC with RET fusions, KRAS is significantly co-altered! A potential combination in RET fusion NSCLC??
@AACR
Incredibly grateful for the opportunity to work on our manuscript in
@OncologyAdvance
describing the evidence and decision-making strategy based on second-generation p-values (SGPV) under the mentorship of
@PavlosMsaouel
@MDAndersonNews
!
Who did it better😇☺️?! Comparing and contrasting Figures 1 from NRG1 papers from 2020
@CCR_AACR
& 2024
@BMCMedicine
from our paper!
Honestly, I love the tactfulness & clarity! vs. 😁
@Dr_R_Kurzrock
, what do you think?
We
@MCWCancerCenter
@Dr_R_Kurzrock
looked at CSF1R expression and found NO Δ in PFS, OS between ⬆️ vs. ⬇️ expressers & in pts who received CSF1Ri‼️
All CSF1R ⬆️ samples also had ⬆️ ≥ 2 immune checkpoints (e.g. PD-1, PD-L1, PD-L2, CTLA4, LAG3, TIM3)‼️
As my time winds down w last few days in Tampa, reflecting on the last 3 yrs. I will absolutely miss q6weeks continuity clinic with
@JadChahoud
@MoffittNew
! Jad graciously allowed me to spend 2 yrs in his clinic and is a supportive, wise, thoughtful mentor and friend! So grateful
How can we logically combine targeted therapies and immunotherapies⁉️ 23 significant associations were found between highly 🎯targetable 🧬mutations and IRMs in over 5700 samples, REGARDLESS of TISSUE‼️
#tissueagnostic
#precisionmedicine
🌟Now in
@CancerMedicineJ
w/
@Dr_R_Kurzrock
🌟"Pan-cancer analysis of TIM-3 transcriptomic expression reveals high levels in pancreatic cancer and interpatient heterogeneity"‼️⬆️TIM-3 is significantly and independently correlated with⬆️PD-L1 &⬆️CTLA-4‼️🔥🔥
Mixed responses and overcoming resistance by cutting off the heads of the hydra! Such a great effort in
@Annals_Oncology
under the amazing mentorship of
@Dr_R_Kurzrock
@VivekSubbiah
! Very thankful to
@FAndreMD
to accept our paper! Check out the pre-proof !
“The Lernaean Hydra was a monster in Greek mythology. It had many heads and every time someone would cut off one of them, two more heads would grow out of the stump. In order to slay the Hydra, Heracles cut off all off the monster’s heads and burned the neck.”
@Annals_Oncology