Krishna Komanduri
@drkomanduri.bsky.social
Physician in Chief @UCSFCancer; Chief Hem/Onc @UCSFHealth; @ASTCT Past-President. Father of four, husband, shutterbug, aspiring pizzaiolo. Views here mine only.
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Thrilled today with the experience of being invited to the White House for today’s Forum on Cell and Gene Therapy.
Such a privilege to represent @ucsfcancer.bsky.social and @astct.bsky.social to work with other key leaders to advance development and access of transformational therapies.
Such a privilege to represent @ucsfcancer.bsky.social and @astct.bsky.social to work with other key leaders to advance development and access of transformational therapies.
Nice to hear some good @fda.gov news today. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/s...
F.D.A. Names Agency Veteran to Run Drug Division
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November 12, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Nice to hear some good @fda.gov news today. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/s...
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Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
Does he understand how health insurance works? Serious question.
This is, unsurprisingly, nonsensical. Is he suggesting eliminating health insurance and giving people a few thousand dollars instead? And then when they get a cancer diagnosis they just go bankrupt?
He is so unserious. That's why we are shut down and Americans know it.
He is so unserious. That's why we are shut down and Americans know it.
November 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Does he understand how health insurance works? Serious question.
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A great way to stand up to cancer is voting in politicians who will fund scientific research.
October 26, 2025 at 1:38 AM
A great way to stand up to cancer is voting in politicians who will fund scientific research.
A view of the (now razed) Jacqueline Kennedy Rose Garden from the #EastWing from my visit to the #WhiteHouse in January, 2025.
October 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
A view of the (now razed) Jacqueline Kennedy Rose Garden from the #EastWing from my visit to the #WhiteHouse in January, 2025.
Posting this picture from my January trip to the beautiful and historic East Wing of the White House for no particular reason today.
October 20, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Posting this picture from my January trip to the beautiful and historic East Wing of the White House for no particular reason today.
This is an obvious example of why honest public health data are needed and how data-driven health policy changes can have a real impact on outcomes. #allergies #publichealth #peanuts www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/w...
Peanut Allergies Have Plummeted in Children, Study Shows
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
This is an obvious example of why honest public health data are needed and how data-driven health policy changes can have a real impact on outcomes. #allergies #publichealth #peanuts www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/w...
The two latest additions to the @ucsfhealth.bsky.social inpatient ecosystems now have new names: UCSF Health Stanyan and UCSF Health Hyde Hospitals.
And both will play a big part of our expansion to best meet the needs of residents of San Francisco and beyond.
www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/10...
And both will play a big part of our expansion to best meet the needs of residents of San Francisco and beyond.
www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/10...
UCSF Health Marks New Chapter in Strengthening Community Hospitals
UCSF Health is advancing a new chapter in its commitment to San Francisco by strengthening two long-standing community hospitals through targeted investments in facilities, technology, and operations ...
www.ucsf.edu
October 16, 2025 at 1:04 AM
The two latest additions to the @ucsfhealth.bsky.social inpatient ecosystems now have new names: UCSF Health Stanyan and UCSF Health Hyde Hospitals.
And both will play a big part of our expansion to best meet the needs of residents of San Francisco and beyond.
www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/10...
And both will play a big part of our expansion to best meet the needs of residents of San Francisco and beyond.
www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/10...
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NHANES is an invaluable tool that many researchers including myself use to report on conditions in the general population.
Like the fact that ~40% of 12-21yo females are iron deficient.
Tinyurl.com/JAMAFe
And so much more important work.
But they’re destroying it all.
Like the fact that ~40% of 12-21yo females are iron deficient.
Tinyurl.com/JAMAFe
And so much more important work.
But they’re destroying it all.
October 15, 2025 at 1:17 AM
NHANES is an invaluable tool that many researchers including myself use to report on conditions in the general population.
Like the fact that ~40% of 12-21yo females are iron deficient.
Tinyurl.com/JAMAFe
And so much more important work.
But they’re destroying it all.
Like the fact that ~40% of 12-21yo females are iron deficient.
Tinyurl.com/JAMAFe
And so much more important work.
But they’re destroying it all.
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These large national cohorts provided data that supported healthcare policymaking across the public and private sectors. They were some of the most important works that only CDC was able to perform - and execute well - as a nationally representative survey.
www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...
www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...
CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off
NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.
www.statnews.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:42 PM
These large national cohorts provided data that supported healthcare policymaking across the public and private sectors. They were some of the most important works that only CDC was able to perform - and execute well - as a nationally representative survey.
www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...
www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...
I asked ChatGPT to draw me a map showing where Columbus actually landed and glad my historical gaps are all cleared up now.
October 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I asked ChatGPT to draw me a map showing where Columbus actually landed and glad my historical gaps are all cleared up now.
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Yes, America - the president is telling you you’ll be paid to take your meds.
FFS
FFS
Trump: "Drug prices are going to be going down 100%, 400%, 600%, 1,000% in some cases."
October 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Yes, America - the president is telling you you’ll be paid to take your meds.
FFS
FFS
Good for my alma mater. apple.news/Aa2I29qo-SVq...
MIT refuses to accept White House terms for funding, other schools still mulling — Reuters
Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth on Friday said she
apple.news
October 11, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Good for my alma mater. apple.news/Aa2I29qo-SVq...
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About this Florida vaccine story:
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
September 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
About this Florida vaccine story:
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
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Italian photographer Ray Giubilo with a one-in-a-million shot of Jasmine Paolini at the US Open.
August 27, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Italian photographer Ray Giubilo with a one-in-a-million shot of Jasmine Paolini at the US Open.
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Vaccines are safe and effective. RFK Jr. isn’t.
August 28, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Vaccines are safe and effective. RFK Jr. isn’t.
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👏 The rankings are in! We’re proud to be among the nation’s #BestHospitals — and the No. 1 hospital in California and San Francisco, according to @usnews.com! 🎉
UCSF Health Ranks Among Nation's Best for 2025-26
U.S. News & World Report ranked UCSF No. 1 in CA & Top 20 in the nation.
www.ucsfhealth.org
July 29, 2025 at 4:19 AM
👏 The rankings are in! We’re proud to be among the nation’s #BestHospitals — and the No. 1 hospital in California and San Francisco, according to @usnews.com! 🎉
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There’s a deli in south Minneapolis that’s North Stars themed (complete with showing old games) 35 years after the team relocated to Dallas. Pretty badass.
August 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
There’s a deli in south Minneapolis that’s North Stars themed (complete with showing old games) 35 years after the team relocated to Dallas. Pretty badass.
Make America Salmonella Again.
"The Agriculture Department will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products, halting a Biden Administration effort to prevent food poisoning from contaminated meat."
www.seattletimes.com/business/usd...
www.seattletimes.com/business/usd...
USDA withdraws a plan to limit salmonella levels in raw poultry
The Agriculture Department says it is withdrawing a plan to limit salmonella bacteria in poultry products.
www.seattletimes.com
August 25, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Make America Salmonella Again.
This work and that of Edward Chang at @ucsfhealth.bsky.social is staggering in its implications of how we understand speech generation and wiil map its output in individuals unable to form words. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
What a world this is and why we need #SCIENCENOW for a better tomorrow.
What a world this is and why we need #SCIENCENOW for a better tomorrow.
Inner speech in motor cortex and implications for speech neuroprostheses
Inner speech is robustly represented in the motor cortex and can be decoded in real
time to restore communication to people with paralysis. Unintentional decoding of
private inner speech can be preven...
www.cell.com
August 16, 2025 at 7:38 AM
This work and that of Edward Chang at @ucsfhealth.bsky.social is staggering in its implications of how we understand speech generation and wiil map its output in individuals unable to form words. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
What a world this is and why we need #SCIENCENOW for a better tomorrow.
What a world this is and why we need #SCIENCENOW for a better tomorrow.
Quite surprised to learn that cytomegalovirus was this into football.
August 15, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Quite surprised to learn that cytomegalovirus was this into football.
I hope it wasn’t sentient so they don’t send the ships from the home planet tomorrow.
Look at this fucking tomato we ate for dinner. It's four dimensional. Hypercube ass tomato
August 15, 2025 at 6:55 AM
I hope it wasn’t sentient so they don’t send the ships from the home planet tomorrow.
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Innumerate
Trump: You know, we've cut drug prices by 1200, 1300, 1400, 1,500%. I don't mean 50%. I mean 1400, 1,500%
August 4, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Innumerate
Not a surprise to anyone with a basic understanding of economics and trade.
Prices rose in June on items heavily exposed to tariffs, such as home furnishings, toys and appliances, government data show.
After a Lag, Consumers Begin to Feel the Pinch of Tariffs
There are growing signs that President Trump’s levies are filtering through to consumer prices, as companies exhaust options for keeping them stable.
nyti.ms
August 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Not a surprise to anyone with a basic understanding of economics and trade.
One thing I’ve learned in leadership is regardless of position about where strategy should go, decisions should be based on transparent, reliable data.
This is deeply disturbing. And Orwellian.
This is deeply disturbing. And Orwellian.
August 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
One thing I’ve learned in leadership is regardless of position about where strategy should go, decisions should be based on transparent, reliable data.
This is deeply disturbing. And Orwellian.
This is deeply disturbing. And Orwellian.