Honored to be selected as a 2025 AFAR-Glenn Foundation for Medical Research Junior Faculty Grant recipient! Excited to explore how senescent cells remodel their membrane contact sites and activate inflammatory signaling @cu-bmg.bsky.social
Introducing 2025 Glenn Foundation for Medical Research Grants for Junior Faculty recipient Joe Nassour, PhD, of the @cumedicalschool.bsky.social, who will research “Probing Membrane Contact Sites as Drivers of Senescence-Associated Inflammation.”
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Out now in CSH Perspectives in Biology (Telomeres & Telomerase) : “Telomere crisis shapes cancer evolution.” cshperspectives.cshlp.org/content/earl...
New preprint out! We propose a “degradative flux” mechanism for tonic STING signaling in ALT+ cells, driven by IRF3-dependent trafficking and clearance of immunogenic extrachromosomal telomeric repeats—a process that could be targeted for cancer immunotherapy
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
