So excited that @rwalensky has been chosen as the new CDC director! She is going to do an incredible job!

I began my medical career at the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis, and I've spent my life ever since working to research, treat, and combat infectious diseases. I'm honored to be called to lead the brilliant team at the CDC. We are ready to combat this virus with science and facts.

What a great opportunity to discuss global #STIs and get valuable feedback - feel lucky to be part of such a supportive (and brilliant) research community! Thanks Harvard CFAR and Emily Hyle for organizing x.com/mgh_mpec/statu…

The U.S. has administered >90 million COVID vaccine doses yet front-line health workers in many lower-income countries haven't seen a single dose. We can still act to stop vaccine apartheid. Please read and consider signing: x.com/GlobalHealthMG… @GlobalHealthMGH

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Partners In Health announced that its founder, Dr. Paul Farmer, unexpectedly passed away today in his sleep while in Rwanda. Dr. Farmer was 62 years old. He is survived by his wife, Didi Bertrand Farmer, and their three children. 1/🧵

Imagine being able to detect cancer in the blood up to 10 years before patients are diagnosed. In the Faden Lab at Mass Eye and Ear and MassGeneral News, researchers are working to make this a reality for some patients. Learn more from @MGH_RI spklr.io/6016obOC

STIs are everywhere!

Our simultaneously published manuscripts describing two custom whole genome sequencing liquid biopsy approaches are now available to read online in Clinical Cancer Research HPV-DeepSeek (HPV WGS): aacrjournals.org/clincancerres/… MAESTRO (Human WGS): aacrjournals.org/clincancerres/…

Excited to share our new manuscript, Circulating tumor HPV DNA whole genome sequencing enables HPV+oropharynx cancer early detection published in JNCI. Congrats to first author Dipon Das and the full study team Mass Eye and Ear, Broad Institute, Mass General Cancer Center