🚀 Excited to share that I’ve joined @EmoryMedicine & @WinshipAtEmory to launch The Berchuck Lab. Our research is focused on using liquid biopsy to improve outcomes for people living with cancer. We’re hiring for several key roles!. Learn more & apply:

RT @jordanciuro: 🚨 Check out our new post in @ASCO Daily News. 🔎Exploring emerging paradigms transforming metastatic hormone-sensitive pros….

🚨 Excited to share our manuscript in @Nature_NPJ highlighting the expanding role of liquid biopsy to detect clinically actionable non-genomic mechanisms of therapeutic resistance. Led by @KarlSemaan @RashadNawfal with collaborators @SylvanBacaLab @DrChoueiri #MattFreedman.

RT @urotoday: Plasma epigenomic profiling to reveal molecular correlates of response and resistance to 177Lu-PSMA-617 in #mCRPC. Presentati….

RT @WinshipAtEmory: Winship medical oncologist Jacob E. Berchuck, MD recently spoke with @targetedonc on how a new epigenomic platform may….

RT @UrologyTimes: Data presented at #ISLB24 suggest that epigenomic cfDNA may accurately assess PSMA expression and predict Lu-PSMA respons….

Honored to be awarded best poster at the @isliquidbiopsy #ISLB24 Annual Congress for our work using a novel epigenomic liquid biopsy platform to detect PSMA expression and predict Pluvicto response in mCRPC. CC: fantastic collaborators @PrafulRavi1 @HJacene @Precede_Bio

Thank you @isliquidbiopsy for the opportunity to speak on the potential of liquid biopsies for early cancer detection at #ISLB24. Congrats to @ChristianRolfo and co for organizing a fantastic conference!.

RT @aadel_chaudhuri: Fantastic @CCR_AACR Translations piece from @jberchuck & colleagues on our recent @CCR_AACR paper uncovering a stemnes….

RT @PCFnews: 📊 Revolutionary approach: Analyzing cell-free DNA to track PSMA expression in real-time. Dr. Jake Berchuck (@jberchuck) discus….

RT @urotoday: Novel epigenomic liquid biopsy detects PSMA expression in #ProstateCancer. @jberchuck @WinshipAtEmory and Oliver Sartor, MD @….

RT @PCFnews: Challenging prostate cancer subtypes like liver metastases and neuroendocrine #prostatecancer may ultimately benefit from more….

RT @TargetedOnc: WATCH: Jacob E. Berchuck, MD, discusses research behind using a blood-based liquid biopsy over traditional PSMA PET scans….

7/ 🎯 We conclude that the SigMA HRD mutational signature could help refine the population of mCRPC patients who may benefit from PARPi. Larger studies are needed for further validation. Stay tuned!.

6/ 👴🏻 We highlight a patient lacking an HR gene alteration but classified as HRD by SigMA who experienced a 64% reduction in PSA and 11-month rPFS on olaparib, suggesting the potential clinical utility of SigMA to identify PARPi responders in mCRPC.

5/ 📊 We found that SigMA-predicted HRD was a stronger predictor of response to olaparib than the list of HR gene alterations in the FDA label. On multivariate analysis, SigMA-predicted HRD was associated with improved PSA-PFS and rPFS to olaparib.

4/ 🧪 In our cohort of 546 prostate tumors from @DanaFarber, 34% had SigMA-predicted HRD, which strongly associated with BRCA2 alts. HRD was also detected in 31% of tumors without HR alterations, suggesting the potential to capture a broader set of responders to PARPi in mCRPC.

3/ 🖥️ SigMA is a computational tool developed by @dcgulhan that detects HRD signatures from targeted gene panel sequencing data. In ovarian cancer, SigMA identifies HRD in some patients even when HR alterations aren’t present. Our study brings this approach to prostate cancer.

2/ 💡 PARPi are approved for mCRPC patients with HR gene alterations, but response to PARPi can vary. Can mutational signatures be a better predictor of response to PARPi in mCRPC? We aimed to find out!.

1/ 🔈Excited to share our latest publication “A panel-based mutational signature of HRD associates with response to PARP inhibition in mCRPC” led by #danielboiarsky @aloktewar @dcgulhan. 🧵Below…. 📄Read the full paper here:

I can’t think of anyone more deserving of this recognition. Matt Freedman is an extraordinary scientist, mentor, and colleague who has made equally immense and indelible impacts on the field of cancer epigenetics / liquid biopsy and the careers and future success of his mentees.