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Congratulations to the 6 Penn Penn Medicine honorees elected to the National Academy of Medicine! Election to National Academy of Medicine is considered one of the highest honors in the field of health & medicine. Check back this week as we profile each new member tinyurl.com/3k9c9932


Congratulations to Drs. Basu & Diab on receiving the Stand Up To Cancer Catalyst® Research Grant! 🎉 Read about their groundbreaking work below or through our #linkinbio! 🔬👇 #CancerResearch #Innovation #StandUpToCancer Ahmed Diab Devraj Basu, MD, PhD, FACS Penn Medicine - Abramson Cancer Center Fred Hutch Cancer Center Zentalis Pharmaceuticals


Thrilled to share this exciting breakthrough! 🎉Led by researchers McGill Medicine and Health Sciences's Goodman Cancer Institute, this paper was made possible through collaboration with Dana-Farber’s Breast Oncology Center and Univ. of Pennsylvania Department of Cancer Biology. Check it out!

Dr. Susan Domchek discussed the multi-generational patients at BasserBRCA, established as the first center for care related to #BRCA1 & #BRCA2 genetic mutations. “It’s the closest thing you can get to a family doctor, but for #genetics.” spr.ly/6015siWgd


Congratulations to Dr. Susan Domchek BasserBRCA Penn Medicine - Abramson Cancer Center on being awarded the 2025 ASCO-American Cancer Society Cancer Prevention Award! ASCO Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation American Cancer Society spr.ly/6017xghzh



Snapshots of acyl carrier protein shuttling in human fatty acid synthase ft. Kollin Schultz, Pedro Costa-Pinheiro, Lauren Gardner, Laura Pinheiro, Julio Ramirez-Solis, Sarah Gardner, @WellenLab & Marmorstein Lab Penn Medicine - Abramson Cancer Center UPenn Dept of Biochem & Biophys Univ. of Pennsylvania Department of Cancer Biology nature.com/articles/s4158…


ft. Elizabeth McDonald, David Mankoff, Robert Mach (Penn Radiology), Tien-Chi Pan, Dhruv K Pant & Lewis Chodosh (Univ. of Pennsylvania Department of Cancer Biology/ Penn Medicine - Abramson Cancer Center) aacrjournals.org/cancerrescommu…


Huang et al. demonstrated that inducible TOX deletion in established LCMV-specific exhausted T cells (Tex) after chronic infection impaired their durability and differentiation. bit.ly/4bG6HRk Univ. of Pennsylvania Department of Cancer Biology Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy


We are excited to announce the Basser Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (BPFP) that will provide financial for a postdoctoral fellow for up to three years. 💻: Learn more and apply by 5/30/25: spr.ly/6015F9DPh Penn Medicine - Abramson Cancer Center Penn Medicine Penn Medicine MD


Catch Donita Brady (Donita Brady of Brady Lab UPenn, Univ. of Pennsylvania Department of Cancer Biology, Penn) at Cell Symposia #CSMetabolites2025 as she presents 'Mitochondrial Cu Sensing via Metabolism and Signaling'—happening next month in Sitges, Spain. Register today!



Our lab has opened Univ. of Pennsylvania Department of Cancer Biology BasserBRCA Penn Medicine - Abramson Cancer Center Penn Medicine! We study new mechanisms of hereditary cancers and implications for sporadic cancers, building on my training with Jacks Lab and JOAN BRUGGE. Join us: CarmanLiLab.org! Follow us: Carman-MC-Li.bsky.social


.Penn Medicine at the 2025 AACR Annual Meeting ft. Berger Lab, Celeste Simon (UPenn CDB), Katy Wellen, Luca Busino (Univ. of Pennsylvania Department of Cancer Biology), Arjun Raj (Penn Genetics), Ben Stanger, Katherine Nathanson (Penn Medicine - Abramson Cancer Center), Costas Koumenis (Penn Radiation Oncology Residency) & Ellen Puré (@PennVet) tinyurl.com/bdd7u2ba


New research out in NatureStructMolBiol provides insight into the molecular glues that inhibit deubiquitylase activity & inflammatory signaling ft. Smita Bhutda, Arindam Datta, Daniel Stein & Roger Greenberg (Univ. of Pennsylvania Department of Cancer Biology) nature.com/articles/s4159…



#ICYMI: Nominations for the Penn Medicine Awards of Excellence, which recognize our faculty's exceptional achievements in mentoring, professionalism, research & clinical work, are open through Friday, 6/20! Learn more➡️ bit.ly/3yAaduR #PSOMAOE


Learn more about 2-PREVENT Breast Cancer Translational Center of Excellence led by Angie DeMichele, MD, MSCE, FASCO & Univ. of Pennsylvania Department of Cancer Biology Chair Lewis Chodosh.