#CCRNews : Congratulations to Dr. Ramaprasad Srinivasan for being appointed as a CCR Deputy Director! 👏 Dr. Srinivasan's commitments to developing targeted treatments for #KidneyCancer and increasing diversity in our #ClinicalTrials are greatly admired.

Kudos to Ram Srinivasan- a new Deputy Director of the NCI Center for clinical research! Eric A. Singer, MD, MA, MS, FACS, FASCO and I got to catch up with our long term mentor at the Aua. We learned so much about systemic tx and RCC trials under him NCI Urologic Oncology Branch Kimryn Rathmell @gulleyj1 Kidney Cancer

Join us in congratulating Peter Pinto who was recently awarded the Barringer Medal by the American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons ( #AAGUS ).

The Barringer Medal is awarded “for distinguished achievement by an early career AAGUS member”.

#AUA24

Happy Sunday. Our #UOB lineup for today: #AUA24

Congratulations, William Azar Georgetown Medicine on best poster for Time to abandon the transrectal probe in pca biopsy”. Proud of our #MRSPs

Surgery in the time of #belzutifan ?

NCI Urologic Oncology Branch YUO fellow #DanNethala presents our experience with surgery after Hif2a inhibition.

-small subset of pts grow on drug 📈
-most are anemic pre-op 💉
-no increased transfusions or surgical morbidity 🩸
-hold drug 7-10

Fancy predictive algorithm to predict renal functional outcomes after PN? Ain’t nobody got time for that.

Nityam Rathi Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine presents simplified eGFR calculation:

GFR_new = .9 * GFR_pre

performs as well or better than multivariable algorithms.

Nice work from

As our year at the NIH comes to a close, I feel so appreciative for the wonderful friends and future colleagues I have made along the way. #AUA2024 NCI Urologic Oncology Branch CCR Molec Imaging

Saturday #AUA24 #UOB talks. Come hear this exciting work!

Always a good day when the #UOB family gets together.

Great work, Jessica Hsueh (she/her)! Side-by-side posters at #aua24 (and both manuscripts just accepted too Urologic Oncology Urology Practice). Another rockstar and testament to the NIH CC MedEd #MRSP program.

#ai can help you build your outcomes database - but still needs considerable human

Artifical Intelligence at #AUA2024 Charles Hesswani reviews the NCI Urologic Oncology Branch expertise in using whole mount pathology to calibrate AI models of MRI interpretation to focal therapy expert Stephen Scionti, MD . These tools will make prostate cancer treatments more accurate and safer!

A closer look at Friday #AUA24

Congrats to these 3 outstanding National Cancer Institute researchers honored by HHS.gov! 👏 go.nih.gov/6TqWsGJ
▪️️ Marston Linehan: Secretary’s Award for Distinguished Service
▪️ Brigitte Widemann: Secretary’s Award for Meritorious Service
▪️ ️Andre Nussenzweig: Career Achievement Award

Grateful for the pivotal first funding support for #RenalMedullaryCarcinoma by Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation & Kidney Cancer MD Anderson Cancer Center. It takes a village for progress in #RareCancers & appreciative of trailblazing efforts by NCI Urologic Oncology Branch Mark Ball, MD, FACS across #kidneycancer subtypes.

Our W. Marston Linehan updates #AAGUS on the importance of the FLCN TFE3 pathway in multiple types of #kidneycancer . Highlights the contribution of his many past YUO fellows.

Happy to share some work just published in Urologic Oncology that we did while I was at the National Cancer Institute NCI Urologic Oncology Branch looking specifically at delayed bleeding events in patients undergoing Multiplex Partial Nephrectomy.

Dr. Mark Ball Mark Ball, MD, FACS Urologic Oncologist National Cancer Institute presents Surgical Intervention for Hereditary RCC #kidneycancer at GU Pathology Society (GUPS) Virtual Education Series event HAPPENING NOW!! #gupath
Sounak Gupta ROHIT MEHRA manju aron

Always fun to be out with #UOB fellows. Let’s go Washington Capitals!

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