Excited to share our new manuscript, now published in Blood! BCMA #CART show impressive responses for #myeloma, but pts with high-risk cytogenetics relapse more quickly and are in urgent need of new therapies. Thread👇 (1/10) ashpublications.org/blood/articl...

Thrilled to share our new paper in Blood! We show that CD70 is upregulated in high-risk MM, and that a CD27-based anti-CD70 CAR-T design achieves >80-fold improved expansion in vivo. So honored to co–lead this work with @corynnkasap.bsky.social, Adila Izgutdina under @apwiita.bsky.social mentorship

We did a thing. @standupforscience.bsky.social

It was so much work but worth it! San Francisco really showed up! @standupforscience.bsky.social

“Out of the lab and into the streets, researchers and doctors rally for science against Trump cuts” by @borenbears.bsky.social for @apnews.com. Read more here: apnews.com/article/scie...

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE!✊🏽💪 Great turnout in #SanFrancisco to defend science from political attacks. Funding science is what actually makes America great vehicle for economic growth, advances in innovation, American leadership, upward mobility for Americans, and overall benefit to humanity.

Beautiful day and amazing turnout to hear keynote speaker and Nobel laureate Carolyn Bertozzi speak in San Francisco at today’s protest in defense of federal science funding #StandUpForScience2025 #StandUpForScience

Nobel Prize winner @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social talking about how important science is and how we are in danger of losing decades worth of investment in science. Highlighting the danger to programs that gave her her start in science targeted for DEI & the cost of losing them

Breaking news: Thousands of researchers and their supporters, including recently fired federal workers, have gathered across the U.S. in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration. scim.ag/41zlPv4

I was bot involved in making any of the posters behind me but I agree with all of them.

#StandUpForScience Denver

#New: Huge crowd gathers for #StandUpForScience2025 rally in San Francisco:

San Francisco really showed up for #standupforscience2025!! Making me proud, Bay Area. 🥼🌁🌍

So happy to see so many people who want to support the fight to preserve science funding at today’s #StandUpForScience in SF @standupforscience.bsky.social

Amazing turnout at today’s #StandUpForScience in San Francisco

SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING! To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎

NIH funding of basic + translational science trainees is critical for advancing the standard of care for cancer patients. I could not have done the work I did, and want to continue to do, without the 9+ years of NIH support I have received.

NIH funding blocked: If study sections and review councils don’t meet, then grants are not awarded. “U.S. National Institutes of Health-related updates to the Federal Register… are on hold.” www.thetransmitter.org/funding/fede...

California Stand Up for Science, March 7 in Sacramento - it’s happening. Spread the word. standupforscience2025.org/sacramento-ca/

Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠 sciencehomecoming.com

A proposal: Academic researchers and folks in similar positions, consider writing an op-Ed, or at least a letter to the editor, in your local paper about what these horrific decisions will do to jobs and services *in your local community*. I train scientists to write op-Ed’s and I can help.

Well said @dereklowe.bsky.social. Academia produces two vital products: (1) knowledge, and (2) human capital that knows how to use it. If we can’t train enough young creative US scientists to fulfill biopharma industry needs… “I think they're being short-sighted, because fear does that to you.”