Wishing you a boo-tiful Halloween from the lab! 🧪🎃 May your experiments work and your candy be plentiful. 👻

Last Friday,we welcomed our friends from Forward Strides 4NF,an amazing family-founded charity that brings awareness and support to the NF center with their fundraising opportunities,like the fun annual family walk you shouldn't miss! We are grateful for their endorsement and opportunity to connect💙

The FDA approved a new cancer drug by SpringWorks Therapeutics— MEK inhibitor mirdametinib (brand name Gomekli) for adult & pediatric patients (> age 2) w/ neurofibromatosis type 1-associated plexiform neurofibromas (NF1-PN) not amenable to complete resection www.cancernetwork.com/view/fda-app...

Excited to share our latest work in Neuro-Oncology Advances! 🥳 After comparing several potential therapies, we identified lamotrigine as a promising therapy for NF1 optic glioma, showing both tumor reduction and vision protection. Check out the work of our great team!

Exciting news! Our new paper is out in Neuron! We discovered how neurons drive brain tumor growth through aberrant glutamate–tyrosine kinase signaling, uncovering novel mechanisms that shape tumor progression. Grateful to our team & collaborators for making this breakthrough possible! 🧠✨

We are so proud of Rasha and Rui's new paper! Their single cell reveals hidden diversity in CD8+ exhausted T cells across cancers, shedding light on why patients respond differently to immunotherapy and bringing us closer to more effective therapies. Don’t miss this exciting advance from our team!

We were thrilled to welcome Girl Scout Troop 222 to the lab this week! They explored science hands-on and got a glimpse of the work we do. Grateful for their curios minds and amazing energy—let’s keep inspiring the next generation of scientists! 🔬💫 #GirlsInSTEM #Troop222

This past weekend we celebrated the 3rd Annual NF Family Day - a special time to honor our patients and families, build community, and have fun! From shaved ice and giant slides to visits from the St. Louis Fire and Police Department, we’re grateful for the support and another year moving forward.

Today we celebrated two incredible members of the Gutmann lab. We'll miss Alex’s cooking tips and Talia’s humor, but we’re excited for all that lies ahead on their next adventures!

Another year, another cherised lab photo! We are excited to see some colleagues embark on new journeys and we warmly welcome our newest members. What never changes is our commitment to a happy and collaborative research environment. #Researchteam #lablife

This week we have said, "See you later" (never goodbye) to an incredible lab member! Chloe has brought joy and amazing work to the lab since her undergrad for more than 4 years. We wish her the best in NYC and her journey to med school.

We are so happy to have our friends from Penny's Flight Foundation visit last week! It was wonderful sharing the exciting NF1 research currently happening in the lab. We're so grateful for their dedication to raising NF awareness, supporting patients, and championing research. #nf1 🦋

Another celebration for the Gutmann Lab! Today, one of our newest undergrads, Paulina, makes her debut into the 20s. We are excited to have her for the summer and support her on her scientific journey next year. Happy Birthday Paulina! 🎉

Today, we celebrate the journey of two amazing trainees in the lab. They have great things coming into their future, and we are equally sad and proud to see them go. Wherever their paths may take them, the Gutmann lab will always be their home. Good luck, Laura and Xuanwei!

The Gutmann Lab celebrates Giving Day at WashU Medical Campus! In these hard times, our gratitude and donations are more important than ever. A community that supports and helps each other can handle anything that comes their way. #givingday

I'm glad to be back in my hometown. Detroit. Michigan. Cliff Bells for jazz.

Tesla has recalled... every single Cybertruck. Every one they've ever sold. For a hardware issue www.carscoops.com/2025/03/tesl...

Celebrating with #Lars #Danielsson on the stereo!

Who's got it better than us??? #BigTen champions!!!

What an ending. 81-80. Wow! www.espn.com/mens-college... via @ESPN App espn.com/app

Birthday celebrations 🎂 and a sad goodbye. Yeah to Hallie Youker and Desiree Zanetti-Alepuz and thank you Dahlia Qi.

Happy Pi Day from @gutmannlab.bsky.social.

Off to @cshlaboratory.bsky.social to speak on cancer neuroscience. Looking forward to a great meeting!

The future of @umichwbball.bsky.social is extremely bright. Go Syla Swords!

We know the answer to "Would you hide us?" when a request to #StandUpToJewishHate by adding 🟦# to a social media profile is ignored. I hope that no other group of people has to experience this.

@washuneurology.bsky.social and colleagues marching for science!!!!

Help support Camp Kesem, an organization that provides support to children through and beyond a parent’s cancer. donate.kesem.org/fundraiser/5...

Hope to you all at the Cancer Neuroscience Methods Course @cshlaboratory.bsky.social.

Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

Thank you, @thenewyorker.bsky.social

@forestparkforever.bsky.social #STL

Dr. Francis Collins, legendary former NIH director, retires : the end of an era www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Lakecia Benjamin was in the house tonight. @jazzstlouis.bsky.social

Michigan wins on a 3 pointer as time expires 84-82. www.espn.com/mens-college... via @ESPN App espn.com/app

Rita Levi-Montalcini defied fascism, which excluded her from university due to her jewish ancestry, by setting up a clandestine lab in her own bedroom. During 1940-42 she carried out experiments that set the foundations for her Nobel-prize-winning research a decade later. nautil.us/a-lab-of-her...

Whoa!!!! We heard an amazing @gutmannlab.bsky.social presentation by star rotating Neuroscience graduate student Hallie Youker.

The rookie and the veteran. A 20-year journey for Diana Taurasi.

Next week will be better. Enjoy the weekend.

We welcome talented Adult Neurology resident, Dr. lzzy Renteria, to @gutmannlab.bsky.social.

Delighted to speak at Neurology Grand Rounds this week. Come join me! acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...

Germany's Olaf Scholz slams JD Vance - NEVER AGAIN! www.npr.org/2025/02/15/n...

What is a fatberg?

Puts everything in perspective? An asteroid that could hit Earth in 2032 www.npr.org/2025/02/02/n...

Six more weeks? Seriously, Phil?

Long difficult week ends with sublime music @jazzstlouis.bsky.social. Thank you, Tierney Sutton.

It's birthday time in @gutmannlab.bsky.social. 🎂🎂🎂

Congratulations to @jitchatterjee1.bsky.social on the acceptance of his cool new paper‼️🦠🦠🦠🦠