Huge congrats to Kevin Meli for his outstanding Harvard Medical School BBS at Harvard PhD defense, and even more for all of the thoughtful, exciting and collaborative science he has led during his graduate training over the years Dana-Farber Broad Institute - thrilled for you!

It's that time of year - congrats once again to Dr. Samantha Hoffman, PhD (PhD in BBS at Harvard at Harvard Medical School), now back to medical school!

Here's our latest, looking at somatic structural variants in melanoma genomes, their impact by molecular subtype, effects in 3D genome space, and (unexpected) source of possible actionability involving DNA repair therapies jci.org/articles/view/… Journal of Clinical Investigation Dana-Farber

Announcement of new Felix Feng Endowed ASCO YIA by President-Elect Eric Small

This is amazing. Huge tribute to the super friend, mentor, far-sighted, generous, leader, trailblazer and kindest! #FengSymposium

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🚨🔊Interested in structural variants? Genome sequencing? Pediatric cancers? Germline variants+cancer risk? Rare variants+rare diseases?

If so (or even if not!), I'm delighted to share the first paper from my postdoc Eli Van Allen Dana-Farber:

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Well, the Dana-Farber Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology is hiring again:

Apply at:
nejmcareercenter.org/job/760635/gen…

Just published for today's #AACR24 Plenary Session: #ArtificialIntelligence in Oncology—
Current Landscape, Challenges, and Future Directions, a review by Ethan Cerami et al.
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Huge congrats to Dr. Nicita Mehta on your outstanding PhD defense! So excited for your next steps back on the MD side of the journey and the cross cutting science you’ll do… Harvard Medical School Dana-Farber

Here's our latest - a deep dive into inherited (germline) rare pathogenic mutations in kidney cancer. Congrats Seunghun Saud AlDubayan, M.D. د.سعود الدبيان et al! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Huge congrats to Dr. Samantha Hoffman, PhD on your outstanding PhD thesis defense! So excited to see all you will do in research and clinical care on behalf of cancer patients everywhere….

My lab is still has an open clinical research coordinator position. Apply if interested! careers.dana-farber.org/job/clinical-r…

Excited to share our review on computational tools in immuno-oncology published in Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer! bit.ly/4aLDKTb

New #JITC review: Historical perspective and future directions: computational science in immuno-oncology bit.ly/4aLDKTb Eli Van Allen Kevin Meli

Happy holidays! We just sent our first ever newsletter. You can also read a Google Docs version here (docs.google.com/document/d/133…) and sign up for future news letters at moalmanac.org.

Our November data release is now live on moalmanac.org! View the release notes on GitHub: github.com/vanallenlab/mo…

Med students, come work with us at Dana-Farber Division of Population Sciences!

We have a 1-year mentored training experience in cancer health services research. Med students from backgrounds traditionally underrepresented in medicine preferred.

Applications due Nov 14. More info:
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Great panel on AI in cancer research at the US Senate, led by Norman Sharpless and organized by Senator Mike Rounds Chuck Schumer Martin Heinrich Senator Todd Young - key engagement & thoughts from the organizers and other Senators, and a chance to share our exciting science Dana-Farber and beyond!

Here’s our latest - a joint project btwn Dana-Farber & Boston Medical Center led by superstar Harvard Medical School student Samantha Hoffman, PhD, dissecting the cellular complexity of GI neuroendocrine tumors

Check out Sam’s posts below for details! Science Advances George J. Murphy et al 👇

Researchers Dana-Farber & Boston Medical Center conducted one of the first-ever analyses of neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) at single cell resolution, unlocking new insights into this rare and often hard-to-treat cancer. CC: Eli Van Allen, Dana-Farber Division of Population Sciences

Here, we built biologically interpretable computer vision models with H&E + multiplex kidney cancer pathology images to learn key tumor and immune states that also inform immunotherapy response - congrats Dr. Nyman Toni Choueiri, MD et al! Dana-Farber News cell.com/cell-reports-m…