
Saheli Sadanand
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Deputy Editor @NatureMedicine | Handling research in #oncology #immunology #immunotherapy | Follow me on Bluesky! @sahelisadanand.bsky.social
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03-03-2019 18:02:40
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Great to see that tovorafenib, a RAF inhibitor, has been granted FDA accelerated approval for treatment of pediatric r/r BRAF+ low-grade #glioma. Approval was based on the phase 2 FIREFLY-1 trial, which we published last year in Nature Medicine! #pLGG nature.com/articles/s4159…

Check out our new story out in Nature Medicine today: a phase II study of nivolumab in dMMR/hypermutated gynecologic cancers together with my dear friend Claire Friedman MD . link.springer.com/article/10.103… brief summary (thread):


🌟NEW in Nature Medicine: In 6 patients w/ #RheumatoidArthritis, the CD19xCD3 BITE #blinatumomab ⬇️ disease activity & ⬇️ autoantibodies. Work led by #GeorgSchett Ricardo Grieshaber-Bouyer FAU Erlangen-Nbg. Similar n of 1 report in systemic sclerosis published earlier this week. nature.com/articles/s4159…

📢 Proud to see this important, timely comment by @DrLauraEsserman & Douglas Yee MD just published in Nature Medicine. I 💯 agree: Science & medical groups should stop holding conferences in anti-choice states. Abortion IS healthcare! #WomensRights Please RT! nature.com/articles/s4159…

Extremely proud to announce that our NEOPREDICT-Lung study on neoadjuvant PD-1 and LAG-3 inhibition in resectable NSCLC is now online in Nature Medicine . Without any doubt one the highlights of my career so far. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Our molecular therapies editor Anna Maria Ranzoni is attending #ASGCT24 in Baltimore this week. Reach out to her if you'd like to discuss your work!


#BiTE therapy for #rheumatoidarthritis: A pilot study shows promising results with #blinatumomab, but larger studies and deep phenotyping will be crucial to optimizing this approach. News & Views from Frances Humby& colleagues Guy's and St Thomas' King's College London nature.com/articles/s4159…

The search for authentic microbiome–disease relationships. A new study challenges the validity of previously reported microbial markers and serves as a wake-up call for the #microbiome research field. News and Views from Ruixin Zhu & colleagues nature.com/articles/s4159…

Refining #neoadjuvant #immunotherapy for resectable #NSCLC: Perioperative approaches are expanding, and new data show feasibility of co-targeting PD-1 and LAG-3. News and Views from Christine Lovly, MD, PhD, FASCO and Misty Dawn Shields Vanderbilt University Medical Center nature.com/articles/s4159…


Pemigatinib in previously treated solid tumors w/ activating FGFR1–FGFR3 GA Nature Medicine doi.org/10.1038/s41591… 🔎 FIGHT-207 basket 👉Fusions most responsive, but histology matters 👉C382R & in frameDel also responsive 👉BAP1: ORR⬆️ 👉TP53: ORR⬇️ ESMO - Eur. Oncology ILCA EASLnews




Our new study is now out in Nature Medicine! We introduce DEPLOY, a deep-learning model that enhances the diagnosis of CNS tumor subtypes. DEPLOY predicts methylation profiles from H&E slide images for classification. #CancerResearch #AI #DeepLearning shorturl.at/gjCOR 1/n




Absolutely heartbreaking. Thank you ProPublica for continuing to publish important, well researched articles like this. The mainstream media could learn a thing or two from you. This election shouldn't be treated like a game. #MedTwitter