Wow!
Thrilled & hugely grateful for this immense honour 😌
Francis Crick Medal & Lecture 🧬!
Thank you
@royalsociety
!
Thank you 🙏 to all that have taught, supported, pushed & mentored me.
So appreciative!
My wonderful TEAM 💖- this is for us!!
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Mum 🤍💖
1946-2020
For 27 years, I had afternoon chats with her
Every.Single.Weekend.
Suddenly.. she’s not there... 😔😭
#metastaticBC
makes weekends hard for me
My rock, confidante, grounding force.
Her quote after any major paper:
#AndThisBenefitsMankindHow
😆🥺😭😚
Two roles available in our team😁! Postdoc & RA.
Looking 4:
decent human
hungry to learn
just
reflective
listener
team-player
able 2 treat others the way they'd expect 2 b treated themselves.
EVERYTHING else can be learned😉
This is poor
@BBCNews
1) Use her title: Professor. Not Ms.
2) she had the courage to be honest, many bury the truth - your article style (shaming) doesn’t help
3) many a titled, white male in UK academia have done much worse & u look the other way
My WhatsApp, FB & twitter accounts have exploded!
Please forgive delayed responses!
Altho’ I am going to🇨🇭pick up this
#JosefSteiner
award, it represents collective effort, laughter, tears, enthusiasm, passion, energy, hard work from my wonderful
#TEAM
😭
#WishUWereWithMe
OMG... Damn you autocorrect!!
I submitted a session proposal for a conference.
Have just spotted autocorrect changed a word in the proposed title for my Invited Guest from:
“Omics” to “Comics” 😳
It says :
Translating COMICS into biological insights.
😱😱😱
Diary of a
#UKimmigrant
In an amazing twist, thru the kindness of people I’ve never met, I have been able to get home to my mom in 🇲🇾 on compassionate grounds, in spite of
#covid19
Thank you so very much 🙏😭!
So so so very grateful to be getting this
#precioustime
with her
Our paper is out! 😊
Showcasing the complexity of
#mutationalsignatures
A practical framework and online tool for mutational signature analyses show intertissue variation and driver dependencies
@NatureCancer
👇
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Our paper on clinical value of whole genome sequencing (WGS) of triple negative breast cancers (TNBC) is out!
@NatureMedicine
#SCANB
@Cambridge_Uni
@lunduniversity
Can our mutational-signature-based algorithm HRDetect predict outcome? Find out👇
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PAPER OUT!! 🥳😁
Let me share a
#tweetorial
about how a nerd moment 🤓when
@foad_rouhani
& I were PhD students >10yrs ago (!)
has (finally) arrived
@NatureGenet
with implications in using
#hiPSCs
in clinical studies & research modelling
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Wow. 👇 is a story you have to read! 💪🏼
Casual mentions of what tough moments she must have had to endure.
“titles, promotions, older men, power, it all gets in the way…”
Her impact is on millions!🤩
Admitted as an Honorary Fellow of my alma mater
@MECCambridge
today.
Feeling super grateful to be part of this community.
Thank you!!😊
PS: Cambridge gowns are a minefield...
It's an IQ test to figure out where to to put your hands😂
(Good deep pockets for hiding stuff tho')
We’re increasing the minimum earnings threshold for skilled workers by 48% to £38,700, encouraging businesses to look to British talent first and invest in their workforce.
29th October.
My dad died suddenly on this day 15 years ago.
I didn’t make it home in time to see him before he was buried.
My mum was diagnosed with
#mbc
on this day 8 years later.
There’s them👇 enjoying life! 🥲
Live your best life folks! 💖
Paper accepted!!!!
WOO HOO!! 🕺💃🏻🕺💃🏻🕺💃🏻
(No matter how old I get, it’s still very exciting to get this sort of news!!
It just makes me wanna BOOOOOGIEEE... )
😆🥳😃😄😎
Thank you
#reviewer2
!!!! 🕺💃🕺💃
So rare to get a plain positive review.
You've just made two people
@xueqing_zou
and I, very happy little bunnies... 😁😭🤩😁
🙏
🕺💃🕺💃 🕺💃🕺💃 🕺💃🕺💃
💃🕺💃 🕺💃🕺💃 🕺💃🕺💃🕺
🕺💃🕺💃 🕺💃🕺💃 🕺💃🕺💃
😆😆
That’s us sealing a pact on this day yonks ago 💖
Hope you are ok holding the fort
... with the kids... 🤪.. while I am away.
Just feed them pizza sometimes & take away the XBox controls from time to time...
Luck.
So much of what happens in
#academia
is sheer, damn luck.
Of course hard work and mentoring and all that, yes, but a stroke of good luck sure helps
PAPER OUT!!🥳
It's on kids with
#XP
A DNA repair defective syndrome where patients are unable to fix UV damage in skin.
Used 2 die as kids from Skin Cancer.
No longer, thx 2 surveillance!
But now some live 2 adulthood & develop early-onset dementia..
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PAPER ACCEPTED !! 🥳
This one means a lot😭
(It’s not in
#cancer
)
It is in early-onset
#neurodegeneration
in young adults with DNA repair defects…
So humbling.. that these kids r 2day saved from cancer, but succumb to neurology as young adults… we set out to understand why..
A new one from our team!!
Dissecting mutational mechanisms underpinning signatures caused by replication errors and endogenous DNA damage
Kudos to
@xueqing_zou
and
@GeneChChKoh
for all their efforts here!
Signature 18 walks into a bar.
The other Signatures say:
😱 What’s happened to you?
Why have you got so many C>A/G>T mutations?
Sig 18: what can I say… Oxidants happen.
#SignatureDadJokes
🤓
Oh my word. What an inspiring thread! 👍🏼
THIS is the UK I believe in.
Medics, parents, teachers and media that care enough to make a positive change from the ground up!!
Go Matt! Love it!
If we can't vaccinate our kids, at least fund schools to do this below!
How can schools reduce the spread of Covid-19 even in the colder months?
The below 6 clips are from this morning's BBC Breakfast where I, my kids (et al) and the most excellent
@RaeSnape
show some of the things our Primary school will be doing. Part 1
I was invited to write this
#turningpoints
piece about how/why I became a physician-scientist.
There was no light bulb moment! 😆
I am here because of the people who have inspired me along the way
#grateful
WOOHOO 🎉!
Cool.....
thank you
@webofscience
!!
V honoured..
Shout out to my
#AweSomeTeam
😍without which none of this would be possible!! 💪🏼💃🏻🕺🤓
Now let’s make it matter for patients 😉☺️
Bursting with pride!
My
#BigBrother
👇 given an honorific by the King today.
Dead proud, BRUV 🤩!
(And about 3 decades previously👉, my dad was conferred the same title !) 😍😭💓
Two young women of mixed ethnicity
in the
#USOpen
final!!
Raducanu vs Fernandez
Romanian/Chinese and Ecuadorian/Filipino-Canadian
Amazing
All the brown girls the world over (including this one🙋🏻♀️) will be squealing & sharing in your delight.
So exciting!!!
For our next mutational signatures study,
we will endeavour to perform systematic gene-editing of vegetables.
For tempura.
They’ve got to be CRISPR.
#2022resolutions
WOW! Spectacular piece!
Differences in somatic alterations in haematopoietic clones between Japanese & UK populations predispose to different types of🩸cancers.
Also large-effect modulating germline variants...
Returning to the UK soon...
I feel much safer here in 🇲🇾,
superb
#TTI
process,
airport day-0 testing, quarantine,
day-13 testing,
a working app,
daily updates of all new cases (not just sick cases),
NOT outsourced....😏
5-letter & 6-letter seq 🤩
@CEGX_news
published today!
Find more from one assay with no change to sequencing machines, just a tweak to library prep and informatics (processing provided 😅)!
What an exciting time ahead in the omics field!
Inherited this dying twig-thing in a huge pot 18 years ago from the previous owners of our home.
Didn’t have the heart to throw it out then.
Now it BLOOMS every May in my favourite colour too! 😆🥳
💖
Well now..... what a privilege.
I get to be part of an enormous non-ethics-approved experiment, conducted by the non-expert government that I didn’t vote for.
When I was younger, I used to 🙄 cuz my mom fussed over me when I went home - CONSTANTLY feeding me.
#AsianMom
Today my eldest comes home from Uni for the weekend, and all I can think of is plan food, prep food, what else I am going to feed him… 😂
#AlsoAsianMom
Lovely night out with the wonderful team 💗🤩💖💝
#academicMedicine
Celebrating:
People coming & going😘🥲🥰
Distinction graduates😇
Papers/Signal website updates😅
Promotions 🤓
BABIES 👶👶👶
And just being together
🎉🎉🥳🙌🏼
#Grateful
#Happy
#LoveYouAllToBits
Paper accepted!!!
🥳🥳
💃🏻🕺🏻💃🏻🕺🏻
(Shocking scientific story. Needs telling. )
🙏 to the amazing
#Team
that pulled this together quickly led by
@GeneChChKoh
(including the editors that pushed us with their advice! )
A cancer cell videoed through a microscope. It has three nuclei (blue). The mitochondria (yellow) and a cytoskeletal component (VASP;red) are also shown.
#CellBiology
#microscopy
#SciArt
Work smart, travel alone, eat out fast: South Korea's prescription for 2 year post-coronavirus recovery
Yes... that’s right folks... That timeline indeed..
This is how we need to think too
Leaving soon 2 go 2
#JosefSteiner
ceremony. Wish I had family here!
Sokay, I have
#SemangatRakyat
behind me today💪 !
Completely humbled by the response from 🇲🇾!
😭😊😄😁
#MalaysiaBoleh
Thank you 2 the Josef Steiner foundation 4 giving us the opportunity 2 do more work like👇
Our paper on clinical value of whole genome sequencing (WGS) of triple negative breast cancers (TNBC) is out!
@NatureMedicine
#SCANB
@Cambridge_Uni
@lunduniversity
Can our mutational-signature-based algorithm HRDetect predict outcome? Find out👇
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Deflated
#AcademicMedicine
No matter how hard you try sometimes, it’s just not enough.
Bureaucracy has gotten the better of our efforts to submit an innovative grant.
Just circulated an email around our consortium to give them the bad news.
Sorry team ☹️…
Thank you for coverage!! 🥲🙏
It is the greatest privilege of our lives to do research on these samples. Thank you 2 all who donate samples, recruit patients, came up with the visionary project, & the consortia that shared their data 4 validation!
Opportunity!!
5 year UL Clinical Genetics post with me
#fiftyfifty
clinical/academic 🥳
Come do cancer/general genomics🧑🏻💻
Broad spectrum academic/NHS exposure🧑🏻🔬
Consultant level🧑🏻⚕️
Email/DM me
Attitude valued +++
Everything else can be learned ☺️🤓💪🏼
Pls can someone explain 😇
Why have we moved away from having CVs in grant applications in the UK?
Why is it being replaced by a ‘narrative CV’?
It makes serving on grant panels decidedly difficult…
facts replaced by endless waffle…
Here’s a clip of the woman who confronted the panel. I deeply admire her courage.
“It is nothing compared to the systematic and structural discrimination have to face, especially in the stem fields”
Wow! They’re DOUBLING the numbers..... wait for it.........
from 62 to 120 a year.....🙄🙄🙄
FFS.
Priti, hold the exit door open
cuz a whole bunch of us
will fast-track our way out of the UK at a much higher rate than that.
The UK is a world leader in science, that’s why I’m introducing fast track entry to the UK for more scientists so we can attract the brightest global talent.
Last sunset before turning a year older.
It’s a
#privilege
to be alive, to live in a place of peace, and to pursue interests of the mind… 😌🙏💖
#grateful
Well I needed a break to reflect, consider what’s important in life, and what are social constructs that are not.
We are but a speck in evolutionary time.. 💖
Live, do no harm, don’t judge, success is in our heads, mind your ego, have a purpose, everything in moderation
If you have met me in person, you will know what a wee dot I am, often dismissed as small & meek on appearance
Today I was told that I can be intimidating👌
Brilliant!
I am taking this as positive feedback😆
💃🏻🕺🏻💃🏻🕺🏻
#WillCallOutMisogyny
#DontAskMeToUnderstand
#NoMorePanels
Amazing case report. The medicine of tomorrow. 5 week old boy admitted to NICU. Within 37 hours he had his whole genome sequenced, gene defect identified, treatment ordered and received by patient. Within 6 hr symptoms resolved.
@BallouxFrancois
I'm not part of this debate at all.
As a mum of two, I don't remember many supporting school closures.
I do remember loud voices calling for improved mitigations in school tho.
The problem with your tweet is that it creates a polarising situation out of a non-argument.
@acmedsci
@Cambridge_Uni
@CR_UK
@sangerinstitute
Thank you Foulkes Foundation for this immense honour.
My team and I are thrilled to bits! 🥳
Thanks to all our supporters, mentors, sponsors, funders, collaborators and friends! 🙏
Huge gratitude to all the patients and families that make our research possible!
🥲
My dad mentioned early in the article below💖.
Pioneering, visionary man.
Sowed the seeds of the National Heart Institute in 🇲🇾.
Recruited, got funding for, fought for (in this article) cardiothoracic surgery & lots more (cath, CHD screening, etc)✊
UK Clinical Genomics 2021 tomorrow!
Three AMAZING women in my team giving talks💪
@xueqing_zou
- signatures of environmental mutagens
@SophieMomen
- XPC sarcoma responding 2 immunotherapy
Helen
#BRAF
Davies - retinoblastoma genomics
I am Dead Proud! ☺️💖
#allworkingmums
Am particularly delighted as a rock solid mentor is also on the list 👇 as a Croonian lecture medalist!! 🤩
#SadafFarooqi
And I am so impressed at the gender balance in the 2021
@royalsociety
awards! 👏🏼
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