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Trishna Das
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PhD candidate studying cancer cachexia at White Lab, Rutgers Cancer Institute | Interested in Cancer Metabolism, Caloric Restriction and mTOR
Honored to be part of this year’s Future Leaders’ Conference in Milan! Sharing science, hearing new ideas, and meeting inspiring people made it unforgettable. Thank you @cancergrand.bsky.social , #TeamCANCAN and Eileen White lab for this opportunity ✨

#CancerGrandChallenges #WomenInCachexia
November 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Reposted by Trishna Das
A new @nature.com Reviews Drug Discovery article highlights the first candidate drug to combat #cachexia — a major step toward treating cachexia, a devastating condition affecting many people with cancer.

🔗 Read the full article: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#CancerResearch
October 22, 2025 at 9:01 AM
If you swung by our Molecular Biosciences trivia booth, hope you enjoyed the trivia and the stickers are now proudly displayed — happy Rutgers Day! @sayoni.bsky.social
April 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Reposted by Trishna Das
New @science.org
Discovery of a mechanism for cancer cachexia (components of severe apathy, depression) explained by a neuroimmune circuit
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
April 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Reposted by Trishna Das
Ludwig Princeton Associate Director Eileen White discusses the importance of the clinical component connection of Ludwig’s mission to advance the prevention and control of cancer.

#CancerResearch #CanSky #OncoSky

youtu.be/L5xLxO7qAAI
Eileen White, Ludwig Princeton Associate Director
YouTube video by Ludwig Cancer Research
youtu.be
March 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Reposted by Trishna Das
Happy to share the final version of this work where we incorporated isotope labeled CO2 data into mass spectrometry based flux analysis, resulting in a flux model that depicts at the whole-body level functioning of energy metabolism in health and disease.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
An organism-level quantitative flux model of energy metabolism in mice
Mammalian tissues feed on nutrients in the blood circulation. At the organism level, mammalian energy metabolism is comprised of the oxidation, storag…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Reposted by Trishna Das
Congratulations to @rutgerscancer.bsky.social & @rwjbarnabashealth.bsky.social's Dr. Eileen White on being the keynote speaker at the European Association for Cancer Research (EACR) #EACR2025 Congress!
February 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Reposted by Trishna Das
Tumors need a lot of nutrients to grow. By engineering and implanting fat cells to outcompete cancers for nutrients we can suppress them. Novel cancer therapy called Adipose Manipulation Transplantation (AMT). AMAZING work led by and dedicated to Hai Nguyen.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Implantation of engineered adipocytes suppresses tumor progression in cancer models - Nature Biotechnology
Adipose manipulation transplantation can reduce tumor growth and proliferation in vitro and in mouse models.
www.nature.com
February 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Reposted by Trishna Das
A new Science study in mice identifies cross-talk between muscle and the reproductive system and raises questions about interventions to increase muscle mass that might affect fertility.

Learn more in a new #SciencePerspective:
Myostatin's flex on the reproductive hormone axis
A muscle hormone controls the mammalian reproductive system
scim.ag
January 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Snow turns College Ave into a winter wonderland ❄️ @rutgersuniversity.bsky.social #Rutgers
January 20, 2025 at 2:38 AM