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Amanda E Garza
@amandaegarza24.bsky.social
Scientist at DFCI, Van Allen CCO Lab
Proud Texan living the dream in Boston!
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Erica Pimenta, MD, PhD, explores opportunities for how GLP-1 based medicines – commonly used for diabetes and weight management – could play a role in cancer prevention and treatment. #ESMO25
October 19, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Deer Island, August 8th. #boston
August 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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The first student from my lab defended her thesis today!!! Huge congratulations to Patricia Rodríguez-Morales, PhD!!!!! 🎉
May 3, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Continued 2: EvA: Molecular oncology almanac is available online [this is cool] #AACRprecmed25 🧪🧬🖥️
The Molecular Oncology Almanac
www.moalmanac.org
March 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Now: Eli @vanallenlab.bsky.social: Multi-omic machine learning models for precision cancer medicine #AACRprecmed25 🧪🧬🖥️
March 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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HEY BOSTON! 📣☀️

MARCH 7TH, MASSACHUSETTS STATE CAPITOL!

Join us to #standupforscience2025 and make your voice heard!

SEE YOU THERE!

www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience20225
February 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Shoutout to the amazing BCH shuttle driver who went out of their way to offer me a ride in this freezing weather! Your kindness made my day a little warmer—literally and figuratively. 🚐❄️💙 #Gratitude #WinterKindness
February 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Here's our latest - jointly with @rhaq1.bsky.social lab & co-lead by Drs. Schiantarelli, Benamar, Park et al - studying why some tumors stop responding to immunotherapy. This continues to be a tough puzzle to solve, but important for science & patients alike...
February 10, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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We are hiring a Senior Research Assistant to join my lab at Gustave Roussy. Please see job description below and, if interested, apply via the following link:

www.emploi.gustaveroussy.fr/offre-de-emp...

drive.google.com/file/d/1L9ze...
GUSTAVE ROUSSY - Chargé(e) d'Etudes H/F
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www.emploi.gustaveroussy.fr
February 5, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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30M users 1B posts
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bluesky milestone
achieved this week
February 1, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Time to turn up the volume 🧠🎧 !
Why is music good for the brain?

Music listeners had higher scores for mental well-being and slightly reduced levels of anxiety and depression compared to people overall.

www.health.harvard.edu/blog/why-is-...

Video: Xiaohongshu
January 19, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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"But in West Texas, unlike anywhere else I’ve lived, flashing is a part of life—a shared ritual of solidarity that flies in the face of the surveillance apparatus that surrounds us." www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
An Ode to High Beams: The Lights That Unite Us on the Road
All over Texas, but especially in border towns, the practice of alerting drivers to upcoming speed traps has a special meaning.
www.texasmonthly.com
January 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Here's our latest, led by Drs. Riaz Gillani & Ryan Collins - we studied a type of inherited genetic event (structural variants) + risk of developing certain cancers in kids:
@danafarber.bsky.social @bostonchildrens.bsky.social @broadinstitute.org @science.org

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Rare germline structural variants increase risk for pediatric solid tumors
Pediatric solid tumors are a leading cause of childhood disease mortality. In this work, we examined germline structural variants (SVs) as risk factors for pediatric extracranial solid tumors using ge...
www.science.org
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How my Christmas started…

Mom: “What do I do with 18 oranges?” 🍊

Me: Finds her 1976 juicer in the pantry.

Fast forward to:
• 2+ cups of fresh OJ 🧃
• 1 cocktail 🍹

And that’s the holiday vibe now! 🎄

48-year-old appliance in action: “They don’t make them like this anymore.”
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