
Umme H. Faisal, MBBS
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Postdoc studying brain tumors at @AhmedLabNW @NeurosurgeryNM | Science Communicator; Opinions my own.
Chicago, IL
Joined October 2018
Great work Pedro Lowenstein @umichmedicine @umichneuro @UMRogelCancer @UMCDB highlighting the mechanistic and clinical implications of multiple biopsies post immune-mediated virotherapy in patients glioblastoma treated by @EAChiocca and his team @MassGenBrigham @harvardmed
Researchers have applied serial biopsies to safely monitor glioblastoma progression and responses to immunotherapy in two patients, capturing details that are invisible to standard-of-care MRI. Learn more in @ScienceTM: https://t.co/LE6ofSMdBW
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Congrats to Dr. Yaghi on the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for metal-organic frameworks. Dr. Yaghi was the first PI to let me spend time in his lab @UCBerkeley for a summer when I was 13! I remain in awe at how he graciously responded to my email, inaugurating my journey in research.
“My parents could barely read or write. It’s been quite a journey, science allows you to do it.” New laureate Omar Yaghi was in the middle of changing flights when we reached him, just after he heard that he had been awarded the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry. In this interview
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“My parents could barely read or write. It’s been quite a journey, science allows you to do it.” New laureate Omar Yaghi was in the middle of changing flights when we reached him, just after he heard that he had been awarded the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry. In this interview
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Today is the 54th anniversary of the first CT scan 🎉
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ICYMI: Will Teachers Cost New Jersey Democrats the 2025 Governor's Race? https://t.co/wCKV8LgLMR
restoration-news.com
Democrats' financial advantage could dissolve as teachers exert their free speech rights.
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Clinicians can enhance patient understanding by using numerical data instead of verbal probabilities, consistent denominators, absolute risk comparisons, and clear context for unfamiliar data types. https://t.co/dcOmkNwtlS
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What a wonderful lunch today with @drcurran from MD Anderson. Grateful for the chance to learn and share ideas.
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Which is better? Lactated Ringer’s solution or normal saline? The latest video in our partnership with @DGlaucomflecken summarizes the FLUID trial. 👉 https://t.co/FtWvCvELTy
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There’s a reason almost every med school curriculum starts here so you learn early on what you signed up for
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"This place is big enough for both of us" - Such a beautiful title for a research paper and overall life. This title is not just for lovebirds, lab partners, or collaborators, but for anyone navigating (or trying to navigate) life together. It is a reminder that there’s always
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PSA: Stop calling macrophages in tissue M1 or M2. These are not states that exist in biology. The only use of M1 is a macrophage cultured ex vivo with LPS and IFNg; and for M2: IL-4/13/10. Macrophages in tissues are highly complex and diverse and do not resemble either of the
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A huge part of research taste is inherited from mentors
The most important skill for a researcher is not technical ability. It's taste. The ability to identify interesting and tractable problems, and recognize important ideas when they show up. This can't be taught directly. It's cultivated through curiosity and broad reading.
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The most important skill for a researcher is not technical ability. It's taste. The ability to identify interesting and tractable problems, and recognize important ideas when they show up. This can't be taught directly. It's cultivated through curiosity and broad reading.
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Cancer is an evolutionary disease, but does knowing a cancer’s evolutionary past help predict its future? Out today in @Nature, we learnt the evolution of 2000 lymphoid cancers and found it was highly correlated with clinical outcomes! (1/7, link below)
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Earlier this year, I learned I have a pathogenic variant in BRCA2, which gives me a very high lifetime risk of breast cancer (55-69%), as well as an increased risk of ovarian cancer (12-29%) and pancreatic cancer (5-10%). 🧵1/ …
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Scientists in training should be taught the creative scientific process, to gain confidence in their self-efficacy for research and identity as a scientist, & also for greater work satisfaction and a chance of staying in science. Join our community at https://t.co/S3mw9Kz1U6
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In case you need the world's most powerful CRISPR ablation/activation/silencing reagents, our quadruple-guide vectors are now available at AddGene! https://t.co/OzL5oYbgQL
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Congratulations to @DanWahlMD and his group whose paper on targeting glucose metabolism in GBM cells is now published in @Nature. the potential of amino acid diet restriction to slow tumor growth due. Groundbreaking work with big implications! @UMichRadOnc @UMRogelCancer
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