lizconnolly.bsky.social
@lizconnolly.bsky.social
Medical oncology fellow @COBLH | PhD candidate - sarcoma proteomics @ ProCan @CMRI_AUS @myESMO YOC | @ausyoungoncs YOGA | 🇦🇺 🇮🇪 Sarcoma | Rare Cancers | AYA
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Fascinating discussion about the role of mentorship in developing a career in rare tumors!
#ESMORareCancers25 @lizconnolly.bsky.social
March 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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#mRNA meets cell therapies! It was great to collaborate with Fernando Guimaraes's team to develop mRNA CARs and delivered them to NK cells. NKs transfected with EphA2 CAR mRNA elicited a strong anti-tumour response in animal sarcoma models.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Enhancement of anti‐sarcoma immunity by NK cells engineered with mRNA for expression of a EphA2‐targeted CAR
Human NK cells can be efficiently transfected with mRNA to safely express an EphA2-CAR without genomic alterations. EphA2-targeted CAR-NK cells exhibit enhanced cytotoxicity against paediatric sarco...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Bizarre story.

Genetic Analysis of a Sarcoma Accidentally Transplanted from a Patient to a Surgeon | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Genetic Analysis of a Sarcoma Accidentally Transplanted from a Patient to a Surgeon | NEJM
Modern concepts of cancer immunology originated from the classic observations by Jensen, Loeb, Tyzzer, and Little in the early years of the 20th century of the rejection of transplanted allogeneic ...
www.nejm.org
January 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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I'm delighted to announce that ESMO Rare Cancers is now open for submissions! For more information on our aims & scope, please have a look at the introductory Editorial by the Co-Editors-in-Chief #ESMO #Oncology

www.esmorarecancers.org/article/S305...
November 26, 2024 at 12:24 PM
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🎨 In case anyone need…

The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏!

Check it out 👇
bioart.niaid.nih.gov
November 23, 2024 at 3:50 PM