David Walter
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Group leader @ Cancer Research Horizons, Functional Genomics for Cancer Drug Target Discovery.
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What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.

Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social

We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.

Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
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Former Observer big-hitters inc @carolecadwalla.bsky.social launch new title The Nerve with redundancy payouts

After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent"
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Former Observer big-hitters launch new title with redundancy payouts
Five former Observer journalists including Carole Cadwalladr have launched their own culture publication using their redundancy money.
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Great to see this published! Congrats Andrii!
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New paper! We uncover mechanistic insights into the crosstalk between AHR (aryl hydrocarbon receptor, a transcription factor) and PARP7 (a nuclear enzyme that performs protein ADP-ribosylation). Both are promising cancer drug targets.

Big thanks to all co-authors!

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New paper from the Functional Genomics Centre! 🎉 Published in BMC Genomics describing our effort to minimize the size of genome-wide CRISPR-Cas9 libraries. Learn more here: rdcu.be/ebsN6
A benchmark comparison of CRISPRn guide-RNA design algorithms and generation of small single and dual-targeting libraries to boost screening efficiency
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Excited to be speaking at the Festival of Genomics in London on Jan 30th! Come hear about the work we're doing at the Functional Genomics Centre to accelerate oncology drug discovery.

See you there! festivalofgenomics.com/london

#FoG2025 #DrugDiscovery #Oncology