AP at @FoxChaseCancer using enzymology/structural biology to study the interplay between DNA repair and transcriptional regulation 👩🏼🔬🧬🔬; opinions my own
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Thank Roger @RogerRogergr for a great talk. Social DNAing will welcome three new rising stars this week. Please be sure to sign up. cancer.columbia.edu/research…
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🧬Amy Whitaker retweeted
28 Mar 2025
Gregory Matveev, our star master student, has been selected for a podium talk in the upcoming telomere/telomerase meeting at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory @CSHL- a rare golden opportunity for trainees. Here is Greg presenting his work to @CeiFccc @FoxChaseCancer. He is excited to face the toughest audience possible and receive valuable feedback for his discovery on telomerase. #cshltelo
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🧬Amy Whitaker retweeted
6 Mar 2025
Pround of our stellar graduate student Alex Morris @TempleUniv @CeiFccc @FoxChaseCancer presenting part of his thesis work in #cei2025symp.
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🧬Amy Whitaker retweeted
8 Feb 2025
Oh, now you understand what IDC is for?
8 Feb 2025
It depends if the overall budget is cut or not. If this allows for more or larger grants, that would be a major adjustment for the host institutions, but it would allow for more science as well. But agree someone has to pay to keep the lights on.
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8 Feb 2025
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Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as “indirect costs.” Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15%, above what many major foundations allow and much lower than the 60% that some institutions charge the government today. This change will save more than $4B a year effective immediately.
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🧬Amy Whitaker retweeted
4 Feb 2025
Weiran Feng, Hanzhi Luo, Qing Chen join @FoxChaseCancer as assistant professors
cancerletter.com/in-brief/20…
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🧬Amy Whitaker retweeted
29 Jan 2025
Congratulations to @EMGSUS member Erik Larson for his new study in @NatureComms about the role of DNA breaks at G-quadruplexes in polycystic kidney disease pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3974…
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🧬Amy Whitaker retweeted
28 Jan 2025
Never have I more wanted a news report to be wrong.
Per WaPo, all federal grants were just defunded. For me, that is 33% of my income. I'll live. I'm still 20% funded and have my art and writing.
Most scientists don't have side hustles.
washingtonpost.com/business/…
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🧬Amy Whitaker retweeted
25 Jan 2025
Welcome Hanzhi @hanzhi_luo and Weiran!!! Our two newest superstar faculty recruits into @CeiFccc @FoxChaseCancer.
Excited to see each of your labs make discoveries!
Their Press Releases-
foxchase.org/news/fox-chase-…
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🧬Amy Whitaker retweeted
23 Jan 2025
Feeling incredibly thankful and honored to receive the support as an ASH Fellow to Faculty Scholar! @ASH_hematology Excited to take the next step and officially open my lab @CeiFccc @FoxChaseCancer . Grateful for this journey and the opportunities ahead! 🙏🔬🩸
22 Jan 2025
#ASHKudos to the 2025 ASH Scholar Award recipients!
This prestigious award supports early career investigators transitioning from training programs to careers as independent investigators.
Learn more: ow.ly/40jK50ULgug #ASHAwards #MedTwitter @b_avalos_MD
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🧬Amy Whitaker retweeted
22 Jan 2025
"of 1965".
22 Jan 2025
Trump just revoked the Equal Employment Opportunity executive order of 1965, rolling back 60 years of progress on civil rights.
The order had prohibited employment discrimination in federal hiring based on race, religion, and gender.
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🧬Amy Whitaker retweeted
22 Jan 2025
Join us in congratulating Roddy O'Sullivan who will work with Patty Opresko (@Opreskolab) to lead our Genome Stability Program to continue to gain new insights into the molecular pathways that maintain genome integrity and how these processes are altered in cancer cells.
ALT Congratulations to UPMC Hillman Cancer Center's Genome Stability Program's new co-lead, Roddy O'Sullivan!
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🧬Amy Whitaker retweeted
18 Jan 2025
Another #TenureTrack position @FoxChaseCancer! This is for the Cancer Prevention & Control Program. My amazing colleagues are looking for a Cancer #Microbiome Researcher (Assistant or Associate Professor level).
See the ad attached and contact Margie.Clapper@fccc.edu
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🧬Amy Whitaker retweeted
19 Jan 2025
Drexel scientists have developed concrete that can melt snow on its own inquirer.com/health/self-hea…
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Thank the rising stars for outstanding webinars. This week, Dr. Lu Chen will join Social DNAing to discuss aging-associated chromatin changes. Please sign up at cancer.columbia.edu/research…
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🧬Amy Whitaker retweeted
16 Jan 2025
My lab at UVA is looking to hire a Postdoc to study mechanisms of DNA repair in chromatin using biochemical, biophysical, and structural biology approaches!
Feel free to share with anyone you think may be interested.
jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/…
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🧬Amy Whitaker retweeted
The #EMGS is seeking a new Editor-in-Chief for @EMMjournal! In this pivotal role, the new EIC will influence EMM’s direction and uphold its high scientific standards as the official journal of the EMGS!
Learn More: emgs-us.org/news/687716/EMGS…
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Thank Drs. Brindra and Lan. Social DNAing will feature three rising star this week. Please sign up at cancer.columbia.edu/research…
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