Jesse Boehm
@boehmjesse.bsky.social
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Chief Science Officer, Break Through Cancer; Principal Investigator, Koch Institute, MIT - boehmlab.org
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bandolab.bsky.social
Excited to get this out there as we go through revisions. These findings have changed how I think about KIAA1549-BRAF of pediatric gliomas, and all other fusions, completely.

The fusion partner is important, necessary and engenders novel vulnerabilities that can be therapeutically targeted.
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mitkochinstitute.bsky.social
Be sure to catch Jesse Boehm @boehmjesse.bsky.social in the Tumoroids, Organoids, and Cell Culture session at #AACR25! He’ll present how patient-derived cancer models are shaping research on rare and understudied cancers.
🔗 www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/20273...
multicolored whorls of cell data, resembling ocean currents or fingerprints
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erictopol.bsky.social
Today marks the beginning of OpenRxiv, which replaces bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world's largest preprint platform for life and medical science
openrxiv.org/introducing-...
@openrxiv.bsky.social
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erictopol.bsky.social
Research support for rare diseases, which cumulatively affect ~30 million Americans, is primarily derived from NIH.
Such work is exemplified by Prof Anna Greka @broadinstitute.org in a new Ground Truths podcast.
Open-access, w/ transcript, video, no ads
erictopol.substack.com/p/anna-greka...
Anna Greka: Molecular Sleuthing for Rare Diseases
Listen now | Finding the Mechanisms and the Basis for Potential Cures
erictopol.substack.com
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erictopol.bsky.social
3 points of progress vs pancreatic cancer!
1. Neoantigen vaccines
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
2. KRAS drugs
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
3. Early diagnosis www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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erictopol.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...
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danafarbernews.bsky.social
“The rare tumor space is an example of where we should think hard about the quality data that we have and how we can help inform future treatments,” @danafarber.bsky.social’s Suzanne George, MD, shared at #RareDiseaseSummit 2025.
Suzanne George, MD
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magdalenaskipper.bsky.social
Inexplicably, US administration has launched an unprecedented assault on science, on research institutions & on vital international organizations & initiatives.

An assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere; the global community must unite
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere
US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.
www.nature.com
boehmjesse.bsky.social
Excited to be speaking this Tuesday, Feb. 25 at #RareDiseaseSummit 2025, @GlobeEvent’s inaugural summit focused on innovation and advocacy in rare disease, “From Bench to Bedside: Rare Cancer Innovations.” Sign up to join in person or virtually: @bostonglobe.com rarediseasesummit2025.splashthat.com
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depmap.org
Exciting new synthetic lethal target emerging from #depmap data 🧪🧬

Frequent passenger mutations in genes involved in mRNA quality control lead to a dependency on PELO-HBS1L

Congratulations to the DepMap team! @vazquezf.bsky.social
#depmap #cancertarget #syntheticlethal
SKI complex loss renders 9p21.3-deleted or MSI-H cancers dependent on PELO - Nature
Analysis of large-scale CRISPR screening data, combined with experiments in patient-derived tumour organoid models, identifies PELO as a potential therapeutic target in chromosomal 9p21.3-deleted canc...
www.nature.com
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vazquezf.bsky.social
(1/3) Excited to share our latest work using
@depmap.org to uncover a new synthetic lethality in two distinct patient populations!

We found that SKI complex inactivation through two independent genomic alterations creates a dependency on PELO

#CancerResearch #SyntheticLethality #Genomics #DepMap
SKI complex loss renders 9p21.3-deleted or MSI-H cancers dependent on PELO - Nature
Analysis of large-scale CRISPR screening data, combined with experiments in patient-derived tumour organoid models, identifies PELO as a potential therapeutic target in chromosomal 9p21.3-deleted canc...
nature.com
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ejohnwherry.bsky.social
A full attack on US science means the red & blue lines will soon cross. Scientists just want science to progress to help society. This administration - and "Pres Musk" - is telling us they don't need/want US science. We will see many of our great ideas and innovation will go to China and elsewhere
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science.org
The National Institutes of Health plans to severely cut the percentage of its grant money that can be used for overhead costs rather than research.
NIH slashes overhead payments for research, sparking outrage
Move to cut indirect cost rate to 15% could cost universities billions of dollars
scim.ag
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jtneal.bsky.social
So, we teamed up with Anne and Paul’s lab, along with Calvin Jan at Calico, with the aim of building an accessible & unbiased high-content cell profiling platform that could be applied to genome-scale CRISPR screens (Project PERISCOPE).
PERISCOPE logo
PERISCOPE Acronym: Perturbation Effect Readout In situ via Single-cell optical phenotyping (yeah it's a mouthful)
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jtneal.bsky.social
We’re big fans of using expression-based profiling (specifically Perturb-seq) to generate high-dimensional phenotypic profiles of perturbed cells, and w/ @oana-ursu.bsky.social & @boehmjesse.bsky.social have used it successfully for generating variant effect maps (www.nature.com/articles/s41...)
Massively parallel phenotyping of coding variants in cancer with Perturb-seq - Nature Biotechnology
The functional impact of somatic mutations in cancer genes is determined by pooled Perturb-seq.
www.nature.com
boehmjesse.bsky.social
This is such an important new technology for the future of CRISPR functional genomics for biomedicine. Congrats to @jtneal.bsky.social @drannecarpenter.bsky.social Paul Blainey and their amazing labs for this tour-de-force success!
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ejohnwherry.bsky.social
Yes. Exactly. One of (if not THE) best ROI for any govt spending.
germhuntermd.bsky.social
Scientific advancements aside, this is economically irresponsible

Every $1 spent by NIH generates $2.46

For example, in 2023, $47B in NIH spending generated ~$93B

Halting NIH spending will LOSE the US a lot of money (and talent)
An image of NIH campus. Text says : With annual budget of more than $47 billion, NIH is the largest single public funder of biomedical and behavioural research in the world. In fiscal year 2023, NIH funding generated an estimated $92.89 billion in economic activity Every state and almost every congressional district received a share of NIH investment
Each year, NIH awards over 60,000 grants that directly support more than 300,000 researchers at more than 2,500 different institutions
In fiscal year 2023, every $1 of NIH funding generated approximately $2.46 of economic activity