Liron Bar-Peled
liron1bar-peled.bsky.social
Liron Bar-Peled
@liron1bar-peled.bsky.social
Associate Professor at MGH Krantz Center for Cancer Research and Harvard Medical School Department of Medicine. Intersection of signaling, metabolism and chemical biology.
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September 18, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Hot off the presses! Was an honor to team up with Scott Dixon @stanforduniversity.bsky.social on this Nature Cancer review. We reflect on hurdles that have slowed translation of ferroptosis-directed therapies and share ideas on what it will take to bring these therapies to the clinic. rdcu.be/eBbqV
August 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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July 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Honored to receive @bwfund.bsky.social Career Award for my research on #mitochondria #peroxisomes and be 1st neonatologist awardee! The $700K for starting my lab will enable exciting research on #organelles #metabolism to help medicine’s smallest patients. #neonatal www.bwfund.org/news/bwf-ann...
BWF Announces 2025 Career Awards for Medical Scientists - Burroughs Wellcome Fund
The Burroughs Wellcome Fund is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 Career Awards for Medical Scientists (CAMS). This award supports early-career physician-scientists as they transition from...
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June 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Last night, past Mark Foundation Emerging Leader Award winners gathered with this year’s recipients, @marasherman.bsky.social , @liron1bar-peled.bsky.social, Kai Kessenbrock, Ansu Satpathy, and Dan Wahl, to celebrate seven years of this transformational program. #MarkSymposium
April 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I’m excited to share the latest work from our lab, led by a group of three amazing scientists: Junbing Zhang, Yousuf Ali and Harrison Chong, who describe @nature the discovery of a ROS sensor, VPS35, which links cytosolic H2O2 levels to regulation of mitochondrial translation and
Oxidation of retromer complex controls mitochondrial translation - Nature
Systematic base-editing and computational screens identify specific cysteine residues on VPS35 in the retromer complex as key sensors that decrease mitochondrial translation in response to reactive ox...
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March 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Today in @nature.com we share our back-to-back stories with Ning Zheng’s lab revealing chemical-genetic convergence between a molecular glue degrader & E3 ligase cancer mutations. 1/5
February 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Excited to share our new study on translocation RCC (tRCC) in collaboration with @liron1bar-peled.bsky.social. We reveal how the TFE3 fusion drives a key oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) metabolic program in this rare kidney cancer. trebuchet.public.springernature.app/get_content/... 1/
February 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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@liron1bar-peled.bsky.social will use his ELA to develop "molecular staples," a new class of drugs designed to disrupt oncogenic fusion proteins, which form when two genes abnormally join together and can drive many different types of cancers. @massgeneralbrigham.bsky.social
January 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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We’ve preprinted a small follow-up to our identification of MFSD12 as a mediator of lysosomal cysteine import. Would love to discuss, so please get in contact if you have comments or suggestions!
Lysosomal reduced thiols are essential for mouse embryonic development https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.26.630348v1
December 27, 2024 at 8:55 PM
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🧪 Ready, set, degrade!

So proud to share our work in the @jclinical-invest.bsky.social, establishing a versatile approach for creating transgenic dTAG mice to degrade oncoproteins. We showcase that KRAS G12V degradation triggers antitumor immunity in lung cancer.

Link: www.jci.org/articles/vie...
December 27, 2024 at 5:04 PM
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We are moving one step closer to our goal to develop a general method to red-shift photoswitchable ligands as a foundation for in vivo photopharmacology with our latest work: "A platform for the development of highly red-shifted azobenzenes". Link: doi.org/10.26434/che....
December 3, 2024 at 9:26 AM
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“NIH produces an astounding return on investment to the American taxpayer. In Fiscal Year 2022, NIH research funding supported 568,585 jobs and generated $96.84 billion in economic activity — that’s $2.64 of economic activity for every $1 of research funding.”
www.researchamerica.org/2023-oped-us...
Research supported by NIH has led more than 100 Nobel Prizes and has supported more than 99% of drugs approved by federal regulators from 2010 to 2019.
But come January, NIH may face a wrecking ball
nytimes.com/2024/12/01/h...
Long a ‘Crown Jewel’ of Government, N.I.H. Is Now a Target
nytimes.com
December 1, 2024 at 11:58 PM
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Like ‘old Twitter’: The scientific community finds a new home on Bluesky

another incredible piece of news!

www.science.org/content/arti...
Like ‘old Twitter’: The scientific community finds a new home on Bluesky
After recent changes to Elon Musk’s X, a gradual migration turns into a stampede
www.science.org
November 21, 2024 at 10:07 AM