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Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation

@DamonRunyon

4 years

Welcome to our 2021 Damon Runyon Fellows! We're pleased to announce the new wave of early-career scientists joining our #braveandbold mission to conduct innovative #cancerresearch in the laboratories of leading senior investigators across the country! (Thread)

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@DamonRunyon

4 years

Congratulations Damon Runyon alum Lydia Finley, PhD, for being awarded a Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young Investigators in Cancer Research! @psscra @sloan_kettering

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@DamonRunyon

1 year

Say hello to a new class of Damon Runyon Fellows! We’re honored to announce these thirteen remarkable postdoctoral scientists who are joining our #braveandbold mission to advance cancer research. Learn more about our new Fellows:

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@DamonRunyon

2 years

Amid growing calls for institutions to recognize the financial hardships faced by postdocs across the country, Damon Runyon has announced that it will increase its Fellowship stipend by 12.5% over the award’s four-year term. Read more about the decision:

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Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation

@DamonRunyon

2 years

Meet the new Damon Runyon Fellows - 16 remarkable postdoctoral scientists investigating cancer causes, mechanisms, therapies, and prevention in the laboratories of leading senior investigators. Learn more about the new Fellows and their research here:

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@DamonRunyon

5 years

BREAKING NEWS: Damon Runyon Launches New Quantitative Biology Award.

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@DamonRunyon

4 years

Congratulations to five Damon Runyon Fellows on receiving the Damon Runyon-Dale Frey Breakthrough scientist award this year! This award provides additional funding to Damon Runyon Fellows who have greatly exceeded Damon Runyon’s highest expectations:

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@DamonRunyon

5 years

Damon Runyon Awards $3.8M to Innovative Early Career Scientists @LironBarPeled @MGHCancerCenter @gsducker @HarvardGSAS @chemical_phd @MichaelPacold @PapaemmanuilLab @sloan_kettering @DanaFarberNews @columbiacancer @AmaiaLujambio @IcahnMountSinai @DukeHMCT

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@DamonRunyon

3 years

We’re thrilled to announce our newest cohort of Damon Runyon Fellows! This Fellowship provides promising young scientists with funding to work on innovative projects. We can't wait to see how our Fellows will contribute to cancer research! Learn more:

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@DamonRunyon

1 year

We are thrilled to announce, in partnership with @StJude , the new Damon Runyon-St. Jude Pediatric Cancer Research Fellowship, designed to support outstanding young scientists in their search for better prevention, diagnosis, and treatment strategies for children with cancer.

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@DamonRunyon

1 year

Three scientists with exceptional promise and novel approaches to fighting cancer have been named the 2023 recipients of the Damon Runyon Physician-Scientist Training Award.

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@DamonRunyon

1 year

In light of the critical role postdoctoral scientists play in research and the economic challenges faced in the early stages of their careers, Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation is pleased to announce a 15% increase in our Fellowship stipend. More:

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@DamonRunyon

3 years

Delighted to announce our newest class of Damon Runyon Fellows! We're honored to award seventeen remarkable postdoctoral scientists with independent funding to kickstart their research careers:

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@DamonRunyon

2 years

Two-time Damon Runyon alumnus and Director of the @kochinstitute Matthew Vander Heiden, MD, PhD, welcomes Fellows to the #DamonRunyonRetreat with a keynote on how metabolism informs cancer biology.

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@DamonRunyon

1 year

Crossing the blood-brain barrier is a major challenge in treating brain cancer. Now, @HellerLab may have discovered a way to ferry cancer drugs directly to brain tumors, which could have a revolutionary impact on treatment. Read more:

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@DamonRunyon

4 years

We proudly welcome 15 brilliant scientists from across the country as Damon Runyon Fellows. Looking forward to seeing where their innovative research will take them!

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@DamonRunyon

5 years

Congratulations to 16 new Damon Runyon Fellows. @tessbranon @UCBerkeley @ZiboChen @Caltech @StevenCrossle13 @harvardmed @C__Ellison @UCSFCancer @Stanford @jontmcginn @RockefellerUniv @RyanMoyMDPhD @YsbrandNusse @UCalgary @shoba_veronika @broadinstitute

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@DamonRunyon

2 years

We're so excited to announce our newest class of Damon Runyon Fellows! This Fellowship cycle will fund 14 exceptional early-career scientists who are working to push boundaries and make innovative breakthroughs in cancer research. Learn more:

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@DamonRunyon

6 years

We are thrilled to announce that scientist and alumna Yung S. Lie, PhD, has been named the next President and CEO of Damon Runyon. More:

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@DamonRunyon

6 years

Is cancer research on the right track, both scientifically and structurally? Read what Damon Runyon board member William G. Kaelin, Jr. MD @DanaFarber @HHMINEWS has to say about the state of #cancerresearch …

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@DamonRunyon

4 years

NEWS: Damon Runyon extends funding for our scientists facing #COVID19 setbacks. Watch our webinar as our scientists discuss the challenges of doing research during the pandemic. 📺 @Caroline_Bartma @Princeton @ucsf @michaelwd @UCCancerCenter @UChicagoMed

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@DamonRunyon

4 years

Congrats to former Damon Runyon-Sohn Fellow @yadirasotof on being named a 2021 #NIHmosaic scholar! Yadira’s dedication to #cancerresearch is inspiring. If you missed our profile on her resilience and accomplishments last year against all odds, read it here:

NIGMS

@NIGMS

4 years

NIGMS is pleased to announce our first cohort of Maximizing Opportunities for Scientific and Academic Independent Careers (MOSAIC) program scholars! #NIHmosaic #NIGMSFeedbackLoop

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@DamonRunyon

5 years

These are just a few of our brave and bold women scientists. Join us in wishing them a Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! #WomeninScience

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@DamonRunyon

3 years

We're excited to announce six new recipients of the Damon Runyon-Dale F. Frey Award for Breakthrough Scientists, recognizing Fellows whose work has the potential to transform the way we prevent, diagnose and treat cancer. Learn more about their work here:

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@DamonRunyon

3 years

Congrats to the 2021 Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovators! Six extraordinary researchers have received five initial grants, and four previous awardees were given “Stage 2” support. Read more about our new #braveandbold Innovators here: and below 🔽

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@DamonRunyon

2 years

Thanks to the support of the Damon Runyon community, we exceeded our fundraising goal for the end of 2022, raising nearly $880,00. As always, 100% of those funds will go to bright young scientists with bold ideas for treating and preventing cancer.

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@DamonRunyon

5 years

“We are thrilled and extremely proud of Bill for this extraordinary honor and achievement,” said Yung S. Lie, PhD, Damon Runyon President and CEO on the news that Damon Runyon Board Chair, William G. Kaelin, Jr., MD, won the 2019 #NobelPrize .

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@DamonRunyon

7 months

We are delighted to welcome a new class of Damon Runyon Fellows! Learn more about these talented researchers and the questions they'll work to answer as Damon Runyon scientists:

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@DamonRunyon

1 year

The 2023 Damon Runyon Fellows Retreat is underway! President & CEO Yung S. Lie, PhD welcomed the Fellows before introducing alumnus and keynote speaker Eric S. Fischer, PhD who observed being among a group of Damon Runyon scientists "feels like coming home." #DamonRunyonRetreat

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@DamonRunyon

2 years

Congrats to the #braveandbold recipients of the 2023 Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award! Five exceptional scientists received initial grants, and three previous awardees have been given "Stage 2" support to continue their critical work. Read more:

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@DamonRunyon

2 years

Former Fellow @cterminiPHD and colleagues have uncovered the pathway that leads to blood stem cell death following cancer treatment—and demonstrated how to block it—showing how crucial research is for improving patient health and well-being: #NCRM22

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@DamonRunyon

2 years

Meet the new Damon Runyon Clinical Investigators - five outstanding physician-scientists conducting critical patient-oriented cancer research - and our three Continuation Grantees, who will have two more years to complete their promising research or clinical trials. (1/7)

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@DamonRunyon

6 years

LATEST NEWS: Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Awards $3.2M to Nine Innovative Early Career Scientists #cancerresearch

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@DamonRunyon

3 years

We're inspired by former Dale F. Frey Breakthrough Scientist @DrShrutiNaik 's exciting work on inflammation and cancer. Learn more about her work and how her background influences her interdisciplinary approach to discovery science here:

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@DamonRunyon

4 years

Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovator @rushika_perera at @UCSF and colleagues at @nyugrossman discovered that #pancreaticcancer cells can internally dispose of tags (MHC-1) on their surfaces which trigger the immune system to destroy tumors

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@DamonRunyon

8 months

Congratulations to the newest recipients of the 2024 Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award! Five exceptional scientists received initial grants, and three previous awardees were given "Stage 2" support to continue their critical work. Read more:

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@DamonRunyon

5 years

Congratulations to Damon Runyon alum, Omar Abdel-Wahab, MD, on his recent publications in @nature on coordinated effects of alterations in RNA splicing and the epigenome in AML patients. @AbdelWahablab @sloan_kettering

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@DamonRunyon

5 years

Our Annual Damon Runyon Fellows’ Retreat has officially kicked off. Themes we’ve already touched on: mentorship, investing in brave and bold research, cancer dependencies, synthetic lethality and precision medicine. Tune in for more updates. (Thread) #DamonRunyonRetreat

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@DamonRunyon

2 years

Welcome to the third class of Damon Runyon Quantitative Biology Fellows! Using tools of computational biology to generate and interpret cancer research data at exceptional scale, these scientists will push the boundaries of what’s possible in #cancerresearch .

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@DamonRunyon

1 year

Congratulations to the newest Damon Runyon Clinical Investigators! The six recipients of this prestigious award are outstanding, early-career physician-scientists conducting patient-oriented cancer research.

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@DamonRunyon

5 years

Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Awards $5M to 10 Top Young Clinical Investigators: @KarunaMDPhD @sloan_kettering @childrensphila @UTSWNews @StanfordMed @Chris_Barbieri1 @heatheryeomd @WeillCornell @WUSTL @LurieCancer @jaehyukchoimd @geoff_oxnard

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@DamonRunyon

3 years

Congratulations to Ardem Patapoutian, PhD, a former Damon Runyon Fellow (1996-1999) and Scholar (2002-2005)! Ardem is the 13th Damon Runyon alumni to be honored with a Nobel Prize.

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

3 years

BREAKING NEWS: The 2021 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian “for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch.”

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@DamonRunyon

4 years

Damon Runyon Fellow Lindsay M. LaFave, PhD, and colleagues at @MIT and @Harvard , discovered that elevated levels of the protein RUNX2 in human lung tumors predict a worse prognosis—a finding that could lead to new diagnostics and drug targets. Learn more:

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@DamonRunyon

3 years

Today we kick off our annual three-day Fellows’ Symposium, where some of the field’s brightest young scientists will discuss their groundbreaking research. Follow #DamonRunyonRetreat for updates ⬇️

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@DamonRunyon

5 years

Good morning! Today is our first full day of our Annual Damon Runyon Fellows’ Retreat. Receive updates throughout the day, follow #DamonRunyonRetreat (thread)

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@DamonRunyon

2 years

We are delighted to highlight the 2023 recipients of the Damon Runyon-Dale F. Frey Award for Breakthrough Scientists, granted to seven high-achieving Damon Runyon Fellows who are most likely to make paradigm-shifts in cancer research!

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@DamonRunyon

3 years

Congratulations to Damon Runyon Fellow Lindsay LaFave, PhD, on joining @EinstenMed and @MontefioreNYC as an assistant professor in the Dept. of Cell Biology & @ae_cancercenter ! We wish you good luck @lindsaylafave —we can't wait to see what discoveries come out of the LaFave lab😊

Lindsay LaFave

@Lindsay_LaFave

3 years

I am so excited to announce that I will be joining @EinsteinMed and @MontefioreNYC as an Assistant Professor and member of the Department of Cell Biology and the @ae_cancercenter this fall. The LaFave lab will use epigenomic technologies to study gene regulation in lung cancer.

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@DamonRunyon

4 years

Good Morning! Today marks the first day of our *virtual* Annual Damon Runyon Fellows' Retreat. Tune into #RunyonRetreat2020 to receive updates throughout the day. (thread)

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@DamonRunyon

4 years

Thank you to Nobel Laureates William G. Kaelin, Jr., MD, and Harold E. Varmus, MD for leading this insightful discussion with Damon Runyon scientists! @kaelin_lab

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@DamonRunyon

5 years

In a milestone year for women, five Damon Runyon alumnae were elected to the National Academy of Sciences. #NASmember @theNASciences

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@DamonRunyon

5 years

Congratulations to Damon Runyon Board member and Vice Chair, Scientific Programs, William G. Kaelin, Jr., MD, Professor, Department of Medicine Dana-Farber Cancer Institutue for being named a recipient of this year’s #NobelPrize in Physiology and Medicine! @kaelin_lab @DanaFarber

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

5 years

BREAKING NEWS: The 2019 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to William G. Kaelin Jr, Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza “for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.”

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@DamonRunyon

2 years

Congrats to the fantastic Damon Runyon scientists who have received the NIH Director's New Innovator Award, which supports creative early career investigators working on innovative, high-impact projects! Learn more about their exciting projects here:

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@DamonRunyon

6 years

The world needs more #WomenInScience . Show your support. #WomenInSTEM

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@DamonRunyon

4 years

Join us in congratulating our five Physician-Scientist Training Awardees. Full story: @meyersonlab @DanaFarber @harvardmed @jonathandudley @Ludwig_Cancer @HopkinsMedicine @RockefellerUniv @sloan_kettering @StanfordMed @NIVokes @VanAllenLab

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@DamonRunyon

2 years

Congratulations to @DrAnandPatel14 on winning the Damon Runyon-Jake Wetchler Award for Pediatric Innovation, which is given to a third-year Damon Runyon Fellow whose research has great potential to impact the prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of pediatric cancer.

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@DamonRunyon

5 years

Join us in congratulating six new #braveandbold Damon Runyon Physician Scientists! They are bridging the gap between the laboratory and clinic to accelerate medical advances Read more:

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@DamonRunyon

4 years

Applications for the Damon Runyon postdoctoral Fellowship award are due on March 15! This award is open to all theoretical and experimental research relevant to the study of #cancer and the search for cancer causes, mechanisms, therapies and prevention:

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@DamonRunyon

4 years

NEWS: Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Awards New Quantitative Biology Fellowships. @ShouwenW @DenisSchapiro @rum_wei @OHSUNews @fredhutch @sloan_kettering @harvardmed @DanaFarber @uvmvermont @StanfordMed @MDAndersonNews @LabMassague @dana_peer

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@DamonRunyon

5 years

Congratulations to Damon Runyon alum and University of Texas Southwestern Biophysics Chair Michael Rosen on receiving the19th annual Wiley Global Prize in Biomedical Sciences @UTSWNews

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@DamonRunyon

5 years

Damon Runyon Innovator, Amaia Lujambio and colleagues report on the role of b-catenin in immune escape and #HCC in @CD_AACR @AmaiaLujambio @MountSinaiNYC @IcahnMountSinai

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@DamonRunyon

5 years

Today marks the International Day of Women and Girls in Science we want to thank and celebrate our brave and bold women scientists. Continue to be risk-takers and inspire a new generation of cancer researchers! @UN_Women #WomeninScience #WomeninSTEM

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@DamonRunyon

4 years

Starting off day two of #RunyonRetreat2020 with a special honor: congratulations to Damon Runyon Fellow Dian Yang, PhD, @dianyang1117 of @WhiteheadInst on receiving this year’s Jake Wetchler Award for Pediatric Innovation! @JakeWetchlerFnd

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@DamonRunyon

10 months

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of SPARK, a year-long research internship program designed to provide outstanding college graduates from backgrounds underrepresented in STEM (as defined by the NIH) with the training and mentorship to become leaders in cancer research.

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@DamonRunyon

4 years

Congratulations to Damon Runyon-Dale Frey Breakthrough Scientist Lindsay B. Case, PhD, on officially opening her lab at @MITBiology ! We can’t wait to see what discoveries emerge from the Case Lab— good luck, @lindsaycase19 !🎊🎉

Lindsay Case

@LindsayCase19

4 years

I officially have the keys to the lab!!! Can’t wait to fill those benches and get the science started 🙌

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@DamonRunyon

2 years

Join us on Thursday, September 8, at 6 pm ET to hear 2019 Nobel Laureate William G. Kaelin, Jr., MD, reflect on his early days as a scientist, his passion for mentoring, and how he just happened to win a Nobel Prize along the way. Register here:

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@DamonRunyon

4 years

We are proud to see seven Damon Runyon scientists receive @NIH high-risk, high-reward research program awards! This funding is supports “unusually impactful biomedical research proposed by extraordinarily creative scientists” #BraveandBold read more:

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@DamonRunyon

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Congratulations to the newest Damon Runyon Quantitative Biology Fellows, four exceptional early-career scientists who are bringing cutting-edge computational tools to bear on some of the most important questions in cancer biology!

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@DamonRunyon

1 year

@Mounicav07 is investigating blood cancers caused by mutations in splicing factors. Using genome editing technology, she will develop SF3B1-mutant models in human adult blood stem cells for use in genetic screening and searching for new therapeutic targets for these cancers.

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@DamonRunyon

3 years

It was wonderful to gather with Damon Runyon scientists and supporters in the Bay Area last week! We look forward to more opportunities to safely connect with our community in person in the coming months. 😊

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@DamonRunyon

5 years

Last month, at our #DamonRunyonRetreat , William G. Kaelin, Jr., MD, 2019 Nobel Laureate and Damon Runyon Board of Directors talked about what makes Damon Runyon so special. @kaelin_lab @DanaFarberNews @DanaFarber @NobelPrize #NobelPrize

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@DamonRunyon

4 years

We did it! Thanks to you, we were able to raise $750,000 to support 15 new scientists focusing all their research time and attention on bold new advances in cancer prevention, diagnosis, and treatment! See how our scientists reacted to your generosity:

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@DamonRunyon

4 years

Proud to see our scientists @TheVinodLab and @lydfinley winning prestigious awards--Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young Investigators in Cancer Research--that propel careers forward and fund breakthroughs. @sloan_kettering @psscra @WilliamRaveis More:

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@DamonRunyon

3 years

Join us in welcoming 6 rising Physician-Scientists as 2021 Damon Runyon Clinical Investigators! There has never been a more pressing need for physician-scientists in #cancerresearch , & we're committed to building the ranks of these uniquely skilled scientists through this award🔽

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@DamonRunyon

2 years

Every year, Damon Runyon Fellows get to gather and share their research at the Damon Runyon Retreat. We're back in-person in 2022 after a few years of virtual retreats, and we couldn't be more excited to see our scientists and hear about their projects! #DamonRunyonRetreat

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@DamonRunyon

5 years

Good morning from beautiful @yankeestadium . We’re getting ready to run for #cancerresearch . (Thread)

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@DamonRunyon

3 years

Thrilled to have the chance to get together with current awardees and recent alumni in NYC earlier this week at @wine30nyc ! This was our first in-person event since last year, and we hope to host more networking events with our #braveandbold scientists across the country soon.😄

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@DamonRunyon

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Congratulate and meet the 2020 Recipients of the Damon Runyon-Dale F. Frey Award for Breakthrough Scientists: @LindsayCase19 @UTSWNews @Ivana_Gasic @NatashaOBrown1 @harvardmed @MGHCancerCenter @MGHMolBio @yeastyin @UCLA

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@DamonRunyon

6 years

Time to support the choice to follow alternative careers: researchers, who leave academia are NOT failed academics.

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@DamonRunyon

1 year

On May 2-4, hear from leaders in #Cancer #Immunotherapy Dr. James Allison ( @MDAndersonNews ), Dr. Nina Bhardwaj ( @IcahnMountSinai ) and Dr. Robert D. Schreiber ( @WUSTLmed ) @NYASciences 10th Annual Frontiers in Cancer Immunotherapy symposium. Register:

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@DamonRunyon

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We're delighted to share that Levi Garraway, MD, PhD, and Carlos Arteaga, MD, are joining the Damon Runyon Board of Directors! We're honored that these two well-respected leaders in #cancerresearch will be lending their experience to Damon Runyon’s mission:

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@DamonRunyon

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“Be brave and challenge your expectations,” says Damon Runyon alum Kathrin Leppek, PhD. Read more about her bold exploration on how the ribosome [delete itself] can have a role in regulating gene expression. Great profile @RNASociety @KatLeppek

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@DamonRunyon

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We couldn't let #WomeninScience Day end without highlighting two scientists who are part of our #braveandbold campaign - @AmaiaLujambio , PhD, @IcahnMountSinai , and Sakiko Suzuki, MD, @UMassMedical . They both embody our mission to fund high-risk, high-reward cancer research.

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@DamonRunyon

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Thank you @MiriamMerad for sharing your experience as a scientist and parent so openly and honestly. "It is imperative that we align childcare costs with income, or attracting these brilliant minds to science will become increasingly difficult."

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@DamonRunyon

3 years

Join us in congratulating Matthew Vander Heiden, MD, PhD, on being named the next director of MIT’s @kochinstitute ! This is truly well-deserved—as a former Damon Runyon Fellow and Innovator, Dr. Vander Heiden has been a great mentor to many of our #braveandbold scientists!

Koch Institute at MIT

@kochinstitute

4 years

Matthew Vander Heiden, MIT professor of biology and a pioneer in the field of cancer cell metabolism, has been named the next director of MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research.

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@DamonRunyon

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Tonight’s Alumnus Speaker: William C. Hahn, MD, PhD of @DanaFarberNews shares his top 10 list of things you need to do to succeed in academics. One tip that stuck out to us - “Quality and clarity counts more than quantity.” #DamonRunyonRetreat

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@DamonRunyon

4 years

Help us welcome this year's Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovators! This award funds #cancerresearch by exceptionally creative thinkers with high-risk/high-reward ideas lacking sufficient preliminary data to obtain traditional funding. Read about their work:

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@DamonRunyon

5 years

July is Sarcoma Awareness Month. Hear from Damon Runyon Physician-Scientist Lillian M. Guenther, MD, whose research focuses on developing new treatments for Ewing sarcoma, a cancer that affects primarily children and young adults. @DanaFarber @DanaFarberNews

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@DamonRunyon

6 years

Congrats to former Damon Runyon Scientist, Costas A. Lyssiotis, PhD for being honored by @AmerGastroAssn with the Young Investigator Award in Basic Science. His research has contributed to immunotherapy for pancreatic cancer and new drug therapies that target cancer metabolism.

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@DamonRunyon

5 years

Welcome to day two of the #DamonRunyonRetreat . Early AM session with our Sohn Fellowship Fellows and Committee Members, Peter Cole, MD of @RutgersCancer and Andrew Kung, MD, PhD of @sloan_kettering on “Advancing #pediatriccancer research.” @SohnConf (thread)

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@DamonRunyon

6 years

Exciting news for former Damon Runyon mentor Dr. Tim Chan and former Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Luc Morris: New study points to best way to assess which cancer patients immunotherapy will help via @statnews @sxbegle @sloan_kettering @lgtmo

New study points to best way to assess which cancer patients immunotherapy will help

In the study’s main surprise, what counts as a high mutational burden differs markedly from one type of cancer to another.

www.statnews.com

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@DamonRunyon

3 years

Damon Runyon Fellow Tyler Starr, PhD of @fredhutch has been selected as a 2021 #STATWunderkind —an award that honors the best early-career researchers in health and medicine in North America! Congratulations, @tylernstarr !

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@DamonRunyon

5 years

He’s not just a lifesaving surgeon. He’s an American @NinjaWarrior . Don’t miss Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator, @MarkShrime , MD, MPH, PhD, compete on the upcoming season of NBC's American Ninja Warrior. (Premieres tonight at 8/7c on NBC) #IAmDamonRunyon

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@DamonRunyon

3 years

Congratulations to former Damon Runyon Fellow Nik Joshi, PhD, on his recent publication identifying killer T cells in the tumor draining lymph nodes. Amazing work, @Joshilabyale ! 👏🥳

Nik Joshi

@Joshilabyale

3 years

Excited to see this Online in @SciImmunology describing a reservoir of stem-like T cells in draining LNs. Congrats to @KelliAConnolly and colleagues in @Cui_Lab and @KrishnaswamyLab and Zhao lab. Thanks also to @YaleCancer for highlighting our work.

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@DamonRunyon

6 years

Congratulations former Damon Runyon Innovator Feng Zhang @zhangf of @broadinstitute , newly elected #NASmember ! #NAS155 @theNASciences

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@DamonRunyon

2 years

Congratulations to distinguished Damon Runyon alumna, board member, and mentor Elaine Fuchs, PhD ( @ElaineFuchsLab ), who has been honored with the 2023 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science!

Elaine Fuchs

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@DamonRunyon

4 years

#RunyonRetreat2020 has officially ended! We’re grateful to all of our presenters and attendees. We hope this is only the beginning of many fruitful discussions between our #braveandbold Damon Runyon Fellows! A final word from our President and CEO Yung S. Lie:

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@DamonRunyon

5 years

Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator, @joshuabrodyMD and his @IcahnMountSinai colleagues report a promising new cancer vaccine that activates the immune system to fight tumors throughout the body. Read more: #lymphoma #cancerresearch

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@DamonRunyon

3 years

We ❤️ seeing this full-circle moment from former Damon Runyon Sohn Fellow @yadirasotof ! Yadira did her PhD at @MITBiology . Now, she returns as an asst. professor! Congrats Yadira, we’re looking forward to the amazing science that comes out of the Soto-Feliciano lab @kochinstitute

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