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Congratulations to our former PhD student and now NCI post-doc Thong Luong on being awarded one of four NCI Director’s Intramural Innovation Awards! Could not be prouder. dceg.cancer.gov/news-events/ne…

Can We Prevent Cancer With a Shot? This is an inspiring article that highlights work at Penn on BRCA patients to prevent cancer. wsj.com/health/healthc…

It’s Election Day, let’s remember the power of our collective voice. Voting isn’t just about today—it’s about shaping the future. Each ballot represents hope, freedom, & commitment to a better tomorrow. Let’s celebrate our democratic future where our voices are valued.

Voted today! PA there’s still time to perform your civic duty and make a difference. This one is a nail bitter…every vote counts.

Had a wonderful visit to Academia Sinica in Taiwan. A huge thanks to Joseph Ho for hosting me and showing me around Taipei. It is a wonderful place for DNA repair.

Read our latest: Ex vivo RAD51 foci analysis in ovarian cancer PDX models predicts PARPi response and reveals a subset lacking BRCA1/2 alteration. From F. Talens, M van Vugt, and coworkers, Groningen. academic.oup.com/narcancer/arti…

So incredibly proud of Adeola for successfully defending his dissertation last week. Our understanding of the Shu complex role in finding replicative DNA damage has now been revealed ….stay tuned.

Enjoyed a very fun and scientifically inspiring Biochemistry and Biophysics Retreat in the Poconos. ⁦BBCB Graduate Group⁩ UPenn Dept of Biochem & Biophys⁩

Having a great time at the ASCB meeting ⁦⁦American Society for Cell Biology⁩ ! Just finished co-chairing a session with ⁦Huaiying Zhang⁩ ⁦Mikael V. Garabedian⁩ on Macromolecular Ensembles in Genome Integrity in San Diego!

Check out fascinating new work from PCGI leadership Ben Black and Mike Lampson on the role of sequence dependent satellite DNA shape and packaging in female meiosis. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Take a look at our recent EMBO J. article on the Shu complex and how it finds replicative damage! Congratulations to Adeola Fagunloye, Ph.D Nathan Clark nclark.bsky.social Katrin Paeschke Kushol Gupta and the other co-authors on their incredible work. embopress.org/doi/full/10.10…

We enjoyed a great round of talks by Alberto Ciccia (Columbia), Lee Zou (Duke), Dr. Agnel Sfeir (MSKCC), and Ranjit Bindra,MD/PhD (Yale), plus our trainees Arindam Datta and Azrin Jamalruddin at yesterday’s PCGI Mini Symposium on "Targeting the Damage Response"

Co-chaired my first study section this week. It was surprisingly fun.

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Philly is so pretty all lit up even during the winter.

A must for all DNA repair aficionados! Egmond DNA Repair Meeting → April 19–24, 2026 🇳🇱 ✔️ Confirmed top speakers ✔️ Ample opportunities for talks & posters Don’t miss it: dnarepairmeeting-egmond2026.com

Wonderful to celebrate Dr. Patrick Sung from UT Health San Antonio as the Basser Global Prize Awardee and Keynote speaker at the 2025 Basser Center for BRCA Symposium! BasserBRCA Penn Medicine - Abramson Cancer Center Penn Center for Genome Integrity Penn Medicine CSO

Excited to share our publication out in Science today! We define a role for the CST complex in DSB repair pathway choice. This study was conducted in close collaboration with Patrick Sung’s lab. Congratulations to Michelle Swift and all other authors! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…