So proud of Eleena Sherman who will be leaving us to join the Center for Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh in fall as a PhD student. So excited to see all your future work! We'll miss you!
So proud of Rachel Davis who was awarded the Young Investigator Award at the Cancer Neuroscience Symposium 2026 sponsored by MD Anderson's Cancer Neuroscience Program.
Congrats Rachel!
@mdanderson.bsky.social @mgbresearch.bsky.social
Congrats to @lexifranklin39.bsky.social for her Top Poster Presentation Award in Neurobiology at the 2026 Cancer Neuroscience Symposium sponsored by MD Anderson Cancer Center. Way to go Lexi, excellent work!
@mdanderson.bsky.social @mgbresearch.bsky.social
🚨New paper from the NIH PRECISION Human Pain Network! We built a human DRG reference atlas: >500K cells from 126 donors to reveal 22 neuronal & 10 non-neuronal cell types. New insights into human sensory biology!
Paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Data: humandrg.painseq.com
📢 Registration (free!) for the NCI webinar series 'Fueling Cancer Progression by the Nervous System' is open!
🧠🔬 Amongst many excellent speakers, Frank Winkler and @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social discuss #cancerneuroscience of #brainmetastasis
📅 6 exciting topics are covered by leaders in the field 💡!
Happy Halloween from the Venkatesh Lab! @mgbresearch.bsky.social
Venkatesh Lab Fall Outing -- Apple Picking!
Fritz does this!
In a new study, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and colleagues investigated the neuronal-activity dependent mechanisms of small cell lung cancer pathogenesis. The study was published on @nature.com
Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social
Two vehicles, a silver Toyota 4Runner with a Utah license plate that says "RETINA" and a maroon Honda CR-V with a Pennsylvania license plate that says NEURON.
I parked this morning at @pittophathalmology.bsky.social and got a message from my colleague, @jamespherman.bsky.social with this photograph of my car and his car in the parking lot.
This tickled me to no end.
Cool to see our lab's recent paper featured in The Transmitter this week! Very proud to have worked on this project.
Check out some #CoolScienceImages (with music by Zara Larsson) from a @nature.com study. A team led by @michellemonje.bsky.social & Humsa Venkatesh showed that neuronal activity plays a crucial role in small cell #LungCancer (#SCLC) pathogenesis. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #FluorescenceFriday 🧪
I absolutely hate leaf blowers.
📊 A new national poll shows 71% of voters want Congress to increase federal funding for medical research.
Cuts would stall progress toward cures for cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, blood disorders, and more.
🔗 https://bit.ly/3Kfkq8c
#Fight4Hematology #HemeSky #ResearchSavesLives
Poor Mia Bia.
Great to see all our student's shine at the @cshlnews.bsky.social's Biology of Cancer: Microenvironment & Metastasis meeting! Props to Rachel Davis & Hannah Farnsworth for a job well done on their poster presentations. Very proud of all our hardworking future PhDs!
Signalling between neurons and tumour cells in the lung and brain promotes the growth of small-cell lung cancer
go.nature.com/4gzoMmI
Wooo go Lexi!
We are excited to share the Venkatesh Lab’s first publication in collaboration with @michellemonje.bsky.social team uncovering how neuronal activity influences the progression of small cell lung cancer #SCLC in the lung and brain. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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#cancerneuroscience #SCLC #Cancerresearch
Check out the Venkatesh lab's new paper in Nature, where we uncover how neural activity drives small cell lung cancer (SCLC) progression. Grateful to my PI Humsa Venkatesh, my co-first author Solomiia Savchuk, & a huge thanks to all the incredible co-authors.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We are excited to welcome Jacqueline Garcia to the Venkatesh Lab! Jacqueline completed her PhD in Cellular, Molecular, & Developmental Biology at Tufts University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in 2025 as a member of Dr. Chris Dulla’s lab.
Scientists are making surprising discoveries about the connections between cancer and the nervous system. Harvard Medicine Magazine profiles the research of William Hwang, Richard Wong, and @venkatesh-lab.bsky.social.
@harvardmed.bsky.social
magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/neu...
The Venkatesh Lab is looking for a Sr. Lab Technician to help support ongoing projects focused on the peripheral nervous system & its interactions with cancers. Check out the posting below!
massgeneralbrigham.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/MGBExt...
UMASS IS RESCINDING ALL GRAD POSITIONS FOR THIS YEAR
Hello, I’m a disruptor, very smart, here to create efficiency. I’m just going to drill holes in the bottom of this boat to see which parts of the hull are mission-critical.
99% of new medicines developed by the pharmaceutical industry depend on NIH research jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
The mood was defiant at many of the rallies, where chants of “Scientists will not be silenced”, “Facts over fear” and “What do we want? Peer review! When do we want it? Now!” were heard.
https://go.nature.com/3F8T6FX
joke's on you I DID 'go cry about it' and compassion has made me more powerful
