Resident Research Day: Driving the Future of Research! Medical & Physics residents presentations, Data Science speakers, Highlights: radonc.ucsf.edu/resident-res... @ucsfcancer.bsky.social @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social @sjohnliu.bsky.social @sueyom.bsky.social @ajh.bsky.social @julianhong.bsky.social

Amazing collaboration with the Jain lab! The impact of systemic hypoxia on cancer!

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month! Please join @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social and partners for an awareness and remembrance gathering on the Polk St steps of San Francisco City Hall as we Light It Up Blue! Thursday, Feb 26th 6pm calendar.ucsf.edu/event/colore... #ColorectalCancerAwareness

Some of the latest work from our lab from outstanding scientist Sensen Lin @ctbatucsf.bsky.social @ucsfcancer.bsky.social We find MYC- driven #livercancer are dependent on methionine metabolism. This includes a dependence on the ribosomal rRNA methyltransferase NOP2 that is a MYC target. 🧪

Tuesday, February 17th, our latest @ucsfhealth.bsky.social educational workshop for mutation carriers and family members: BRCA and Hereditary Cancer Workshop - Helping Your Family Get Tested: Next Steps After a Positive Test Result. Panel disucssion plus Q&A calendar.ucsf.edu/event/brca-a...

Today 2/6 at 4pm: Friday Cancer Center Seminar Series @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social | Isaac Chan, MD, PhD from UT Southwestern Medical Center presents "Using innate barriers to treat metastatic breast cancer" Hosted by @andreigoga.bsky.social Info: cancer.ucsf.edu/seminars

Do patients with a non-invasive type of #BreastCancer need surgery to prevent progression—or is it better to hold off & carefully monitor their condition? A @ucsfcancer.bsky.social#BreastCancerclinical trial focuses on determining the best approach for patients with #DCIS. https://ucsfh.org/4ryI13X

Today on #WorldCancerDay, our @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social Global Cancer Program celebrates the power of education, training, and mentorship to empower collaborators around the world. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi9T...

Fri 1/30 at 4pm: @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social Cancer Center Friday Seminar Series | Miller Huang, PhD @keckmedicineusc.bsky.social presents "Using human pluripotent stem cells to model tumorigenesis and identify therapeutic targets in pediatric neural tumors" cancer.ucsf.edu/seminars

Join us March 21-22 for our UCSF Radiation Oncology Update: The Science and Practice of Reirradiation - a focused training and update on the scientific bases and technological advances enabling reirradiation! Details, Agenda ucsf.cloud-cme.com/course/cours... @ucsfcancer.bsky.social

“We hope to prove we can safely adjust the therapy based on an individual’s cancer instead of sticking to a rigid schedule,” Dr. Thomas Hope @ucsfhealth.bsky.social on study optimizing targeted radioligand therapy to minimize side effects for prostate cancer Tx www.auntminnie.com/clinical-new...

Congratulations to David Raleigh on being appointed Translational Science Co-Vice Chair of the NRG Brain Tumor Committee! @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social @ucsfcancer.bsky.social

We’re excited to share a new report from the President’s Cancer Panel that highlights opportunities to strengthen America’s cancer workforce. Read the full report, which was co-authored by UCSF's Mitchel Berger, MD: prescancerpanel.cancer.gov/reports-meet... @ucsfcancer.bsky.social

Today 1/19 at 4pm: @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social Cancer Center Friday Seminar Series: Omar Abdel-Wahab, MD @mskcancercenter.bsky.social presents "Understanding and Targeting Aberrant RNA Splicing in Cancer" cancer.ucsf.edu/seminars

So excited for our second annual RISE UP luncheon on February 19! Join us!! www.linkedin.com/posts/laura-...

Congratulations to UCSF neurosurgeon scientist Shawn Hervey-Jumper, MD, on being elected to @the-asci.org! 🎉 His election recognizes the significant research contributions he has made towards our understanding of glioblastoma. @ucsfcancer.bsky.social

Today 1/9 at 4pm: UCSF Cancer Center Friday Seminar Series | Sean Morrison, PhD @seanjmorrison.bsky.social Founding Director, @cri-utsw.bsky.social presents "Immune regulation of melanoma metastasis" cancer.ucsf.edu/seminars Hosted by @rushika-perera.bsky.social @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social

Great to see research on tanning bed and cancer risk from @bishaltandukar.bsky.social @shainlab.bsky.social on today’s @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social Town Hall www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/12... #UCSFCancerProud

WISDOM is the beginning of risk-based screening. Not the end. Given the billions of dollars spent annually on screening in the US alone, we owe it to women to work to find ways to improve screening. I’m thrilled to share the results from WISDOM 1.0! www.linkedin.com/posts/laura-...

Maya Vijayaraghavan, MD, MAS, CTCRE Fellowship Co-Director, was recently interviewed for an article in Hunterbrook in which she discusses the benefits of cytisinicline for smoking cessation. Read here: hntrbrk.com/achieve/

“Our goal... to strategically improve both survival & quality of life for men living w/ advanced prostate cancer” Thomas Hope, MD @ucsfhealth.bsky.social | New prostate cancer trial seeks to reduce toxicity w/out sacrificing efficacy @eurekalert.bsky.social www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Together with @ronghuizhu.bsky.social, we are thrilled to present our new perturb-seq study of 22M primary CD4+ T cells, across donors and timepoints – the result of a decade-long collaboration between the Marson @marsonlab.bsky.social and Pritchard @jkpritch.bsky.social labs 🧵 tinyurl.com/gwt2025

Step away from the tanning bed. Collaborative research from @shainlab.bsky.social @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social and Northwestern nypost.com/2025/12/21/h...

Congrats to @sjohnliu.bsky.social named 1 of 3 recipients of this yr’s Distinguished Scientist Award from The Sontag Foundation! It will support research using new functional genomic techniques to find better therapies for glioblastoma @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social @ucsfcancer.bsky.social

Kudos to Ana I. Velázquez Mañana, MD, MSc, FASCO @ucsfhealth.bsky.social (seen here with @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social mentor and current @ascocancer.bsky.social President Dr. Eric Small) on being elected to the ASCO Nominating Committee. www.asco.org/about-asco/p...

“We found that tanning bed users in their 30s and 40s had even more mutations than people in the general population who were in their 70s and 80s” @bishaltandukar.bsky.social @shainlab.bsky.social on latest study from @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social & Northwestern Univ cancer.ucsf.edu/news/2025/12...

Good news keeps coming! Excited to share our latest preprint expanding myeloid cell editing capabilities: Virus-like particles enable targeted gene engineering and pooled CRISPR screening in primary human myeloid cells, led by Hyuncheol Jung and Pascal Devant joint with @juliacarnevale.bsky.social

Landmark study! WISDOM study demonstrated that a risk-based approach successfully stratifies the population for breast cancer risk and is safe and acceptable to women. @drlauraesserman.bsky.social. Risk-Based vs Annual Breast Cancer Screening url: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

"Probably the most important study that’s been presented at this meeting.” Dr. Eric Winer of @yalecancer.bsky.social comments on results from @wisdomstudy.bsky.social by lead author Dr. Laura Esserman @ucsfhealth.bsky.social at #SABCS2025 @sabcs.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/h...

Today at 4pm | Friday Cancer Research Seminar: Aaron Hata, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine @harvard.edu presents “Mechanisms driving evolution of drug resistance in lung cancer” cancer.ucsf.edu/seminars

Nearly 1 in 3 insurance denials for cancer genetic testing overturned on appeal, finds new @ucsf-transpers.bsky.social study of 941 cases across 4 states. Results reveal gaps between payer policies and clinical guidelines. @kathrynp-phd.bsky.social www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/...

Real Impact with Artificial Intelligence: Johan Hartman, Tufia Haddad, Amrita Basu, and advocate Carole L Baas explored this topic in an #SABCS25 educational session moderated by Frederick M Howard.

Gladstone researcher Alex Marson and his collaborators at Stanford University developed a genomic mapping technique that helps close the gap in understanding why certain genetic variants are tied to disease. @marsonlab.bsky.social @stanford.edu @nature.com

Applications are open for the 2026 CTCRE Postdoctoral Fellowship! Train with UCSF faculty and join a community committed to ending tobacco use. Apply today: tobacco.ucsf.edu/fellowship

The Liu lab is now recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to study brain tumor biology using advanced functional #genomics techniques. Apply now: postdocs.ucsf.edu/postdoctoral... #PostdocJobs #ScienceJobs #AcademicJobs @sjohnliu.bsky.social @ucsfradonc.bsky.social @ucsfcancer.bsky.social

Proud to have three @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social faculty members from our department make it on this year's list of Highly Cited Researchers from @clarivate.com! clarivate.com/highly-cited... #UCSFProud @ucsfcancer.bsky.social

More details in our new work: 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What drives the earliest steps of skin cancer development? In keratinocyte cancers, the first selected mutations almost always hit TP53 and NOTCH genes—plus occasional hits in chromatin remodeling genes or the Hippo pathway.

CTCRE faculty Nhung Nguyen, PhD, is the lead author on a new paper published this week in Annals of Behavioral Medicine. Access the paper here: academic.oup.com/abm/article/...

Thanks to a complex regimen of experimental immunotherapies, a person with HIV was able to keep symptoms in check for 1.5+ years w/o daily medication, a study published in @nature.com finds. UCSF’s Dr. Steven Deeks describes the breakthrough as “unexpected & unparalleled.” ucsfh.org/3XvbDSM

"People need a space that they can get back in their skin. If you need to paint your anger, paint your anger. If you need to paint your resiliency and paint a new version of hope that is true to you, we are there for that too," says Art for Recovery Director Van Cleve. abc7news.com/post/san-fra...

Join us Monday, Dec. 8 at 10am to hear from David Raleigh, faculty / PI for the Brain Tumor Center on "Molecular classification of meningioma for clinical risk stratification and therapeutic innovation" @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social @ucsfcancer.bsky.social calendar.ucsf.edu/event/comput...

I am thrilled to share the latest manuscript from the Shain lab, describing the genetic changes that transform a keratinocyte into cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (and everything in between). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The lab was well represented at #SNO2025 in Honolulu spanning 4 presentations. Congratulations, team! @neurosurgucsf.bsky.social @ucsfradonc.bsky.social

“No one should have to walk through those moments alone...my hope is that my art becomes a quiet companion to the viewers, something that shines light when your world might feel dark.” Allison Leeds on her @ucsfhealth.bsky.social Art for Recovery SFMOMA piece www.sfexaminer.com/news/public-...

This Friday 11/21 at 4pm PT: Neel H. Shah, PhD @nshahlab.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social presents "Exploring mutational effects in cell signaling from the molecular to the cellular scale" at Cancer Center Friday Seminar Series @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social calendar.ucsf.edu/event/cancer...

Dr. Van Loon @kvanloonmd.bsky.social @ucsfhealth.bsky.social spoke to @ktvufox2.bsky.social about an alarming new study giving clues that dietary patterns may be linked to the rise in colorectal cancer among younger people www.ktvu.com/news/new-stu... #ColorectalCancer

Today at 4pm: Cancer Center Friday Seminar | Ashley Kiemen, PhD, Johns Hopkins Inst for NanoBioTechnology "Integration of histology and multiplex imaging for targeted understanding of pancreatic cancer progression" cancer.ucsf.edu/seminars Host: @shainlab.bsky.social @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social

We're looking forward to reconnecting with our colleagues next week at #SNO2025! Check out the full list of presentations from our team of researchers at the UCSF Brain Tumor Center: braintumorcenter.ucsf.edu/news/ucsf-ex... @ucsfcancer.bsky.social @ucsfradonc.bsky.social @neuroonc.bsky.social

@ucsfcancer.bsky.social Urology Clinicians Present Research Findings at #SurgeWest25 #oncology #prostatecancer www.onclive.com/view/ucsf-ur...