Synapse: Your Connection to our MSK Authors
Meet: Manu Jain
Research Focus: Medicine; Associate Attending
Cross-modal imaging in noninvasive identification of histologic features of skin
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#CrossModalImaging #SkinImaging #Dermatology
Synapse: Your Connection to our MSK Authors
Meet: Anna Helena Furberg-Barnes
Research Focus: Biostat/Epidemiology; Attending
Body composition may be a novel presurgical risk factor for acute kidney injury among clear cell renal cell cancer patients ...
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Synapse: Your Connection to our MSK Authors
Meet: Elisa De Stanchina
Research Focus: Res Facilities; Lab Member
Trastuzumab deruxtecan resistance via loss of HER2 expression and binding
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#TrastuzumabDeruxtecan #HER2
#BreastCancerResearch #TargetedTherapy #Oncology
2026 Physician Survey on Augmented Intelligence
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#AugmentedIntelligence #ArtificialIntelligence
#HealthAI #AIinMedicine #DigitalHealth #FutureOfHealthcare #PhysicianSurvey #MedicalInnovation #ClinicalAI #HealthTech
Synapse: Your Connection to our MSK Authors
Meet: Chiara Mastroleo
Research Focus: Cancer Biology and Genetics; Research Assistant
Engineered extrachromosomal oncogene amplifications promote tumorigenesis
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#CancerResearch #Oncogenes #BiomedicalResearch
Your Connection to our MSK Authors
Meet: Taylor McCready
Research Focus: Biostat/Epidemiology
Paravertebral or serratus anterior plane block combined with PECS I (interpectoral) blocks versus paravertebral block for mastectomy:
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#BreastCancerSurgery #Mastectomy
Synapse: Your Connection to our MSK Authors
Meet: Sophia Meixuan Zhang
Research Focus: SKI-Pediatrics; Research Tech
Prompt-based multimodal representation learning for drug repurposing
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#DrugRepurposing #AIinMedicine
#MultimodalAI #MachineLearning
#DeepLearning
Synapse: Your Connection to our MSK Authors
Meet: Francesca Mara Gany
Research Focus: Psychiatry Service; Chief Attending
Community-based participatory research: A lifeline to achieve people-centered care
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#CommunityBasedResearch #HealthEquity #ResearchPartnerships
Your Connection to our MSK Authors
Meet: Lila Lee Peters
Research Focus: Grad School Admin; GSK Grad Student
TGFβ induces an atypical EMT to evade immune mechanosurveillance in lung adenocarcinoma dormant metastasis
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#LungCancer #CancerResearch #TumorBiology
Synapse: Your Connection to our MSK Authors
Meet: Urvi A Shah
Research Focus: Medicine; Assistant Attending
Oncologists knowledge and attitudes towards providing dietary guidance to patients with cancer
#Oncology #CancerCare #CancerNutrition
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Your Connection to our MSK Authors
Meet: Jessica Ann Lavery
Research Focus: Biostat/Epidemiology; Sr. Research Biostatistician
Assoc between exercise and clinical outcomes in patients treated with immunotherapy for solid tumors
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#Immunotherapy #ExerciseOncology
Synapse: Your Connection to our MSK Authors
Meet: Chhavi Kumar
Research Focus: Medicine; Attending
Responsible Artificial Intelligence governance in oncology
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#ResponsibleAI #AIGovernance #ArtificialIntelligence #Oncology #CancerCare #HealthEquity #EthicalAI
Five ways to spot when a paper is a fraud
Science sleuths share their common-sense tips for sniffing out fishy articles.
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#ResearchIntegrity #ScientificMisconduct #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #FraudDetection #RetractionWatch #EvidenceBased #ScienceEthics
Why every scientist needs a librarian
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#WhyEveryScientistNeedsALibrarian #ResearchSupport #EvidenceBased #SystematicReview #InformationScience #AcademicLibraries #OpenAccess #ResearchIntegrity #ScienceSupport
For Women’s History Month, the Archives honors Black women at MSK, starting with Mary Brinkley. She joined in 1947 as a lab aide, rose to Senior Technician, and helped identify penicillin-related antibodies in 1957.
#WomensHistoryMonth #HealthcareHeroes #HiddenFigures #MSKArchives
Nearly Half of Colorectal Cancers Now Occur in Younger Patients, Study Shows
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#YoungAdultHealth #EarlyOnsetCancer
#HealthInYoungerAdults #NotJustTheElderly #ColorectalCancer #CancerAwareness #ColorectalCancerAwareness #CancerPrevention
It’s March and we’re celebrating Women’s History Month!
Let’s celebrate their strength, resilience, leadership, and legacy all month long and every day after.
#WomensHistoryMonth #CelebrateWomen #HerStory
Synapse: Your Connection to our MSK Authors
Meet: David H Ilson
Research Focus: Medicine; Attending
Genomic and clinical parallels between US and Japanese gastric cancers: A propensity score-matched cohort study
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#GastricCancer #Genomics #CancerResearch
Synapse: Your Connection to our MSK Authors
Meet: Tobias Christian Walther
Research Focus: Cell Biology; Non-Stipend Program Chair
DGAT-driven futile lipid cycling has a pronounced, yet concealed, thermogenic function
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#DGAT #LipidMetabolism #Thermogenesis
Synapse: Your Connection to our MSK Authors
Meet: Danielle Nadav
Research Focus: Anesthesiology; Asst Attending
Paravertebral or serratus anterior plane block combined with PECS I (interpectoral) blocks versus paravertebral block for mastectomy
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Synapse: Your Connection to our MSK Authors
Meet: Fernando Costa Santini
Research Focus: Medicine; Assistant Attending
A phase II study of cabozantinib in patients with MET-altered lung cancers
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#LungCancer #METAltered
#TargetedTherapy #PrecisionOncology
Synapse: Your Connection to our MSK Authors
Meet: Cathleen A Cooper
Research Focus: Radiology; Associate Director, Hospital Operations
Pulmonary metastases: Effect of CT section thickness on measurement - Initial experience
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#PulmonaryMetastases #CTImaging
Synapse: Your Connection to our MSK Authors
Meet: Sohrab Prakash Shah
Research Focus: BIOSTAT/EPIDEMIOLOGY; Chief Attending
Determinants of sensitivity to HER2-targeted antibody drug conjugates in urothelial cancer
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#UrothelialCancer #BladderCancer #HER2
Synapse: Your Connection to our MSK Authors
Meet: Jennifer S Golia Pernicka
Research Focus: Radiology; Assoc Attending
Lymph nodes in MRI-based early-stage rectal cancer: Can MRI accurately predict lymph node involvement?
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#RectalCancer #MRI #MedicalImaging #Radio
Synapse: Your Connection to our MSK Authors
Meet: Sharafudeen Dahiru Abubakar
Research Focus: SKI Epidemiology/Biostatistics
Assessing racial disparities in guideline-concordant care and clinical outcomes after surgical resection of nonmetastatic colon cancer
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Synapse: Your Connection to our MSK Authors
Meet: Danielle Nadav
Res. Focus: Anesthesiology; Asst Attending
Paravertebral or serratus anterior plane block combined with PECS I (interpectoral) blocks versus paravertebral block for mastectomy: Trial 1507 patients
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Synapse: Your Connection to our MSK Authors
Meet: Joshua David Jorvina
Research Focus: Nursing; Clinical Trials Nurse III
Does transparency promote engagement? Cancer patients' access of electronic medical records before and after the information blocking rule
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Lung cancer in ‘never-smokers’ draws new focus — and questions
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#LungCancer #NeverSmokers #LungCancerAwareness #CancerResearch #ThoracicOncology#PrecisionMedicine #TargetedTherapy #EnvironmentalHealth #AirPollution #PublicHealth #CancerPrevention #OncologyResearch
Synapse: Your Connection to our MSK Authors
Meet: Nancy Kemeny
Research Focus: Medicine; NE Emeritus
Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma: Recurrence patterns, genomics, and survival
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#FightLiverCancer #CancerDataDriven
#UnderstandingCancer #CancerSurvivorship