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Sam Fenske
@samfenske.bsky.social
PhD student @yalecbb.bsky.social in the lab of @hattaca.bsky.social | interested in single-cell genomics, drug discovery, and AI | former data analyst at Northwestern PCCM | alum of WashU BME
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Our lab at Yale @yalemedicine.bsky.social seeks #postdocs with in vivo expertise to pioneer research at the intersection of tissue remodeling & aging. Work with us to uncover immunological & vascular drivers of ovarian aging, applying single-cell, spatial omics, and ML! jobrxiv.org/job/yale-uni...
Postdoctoral Fellow, Hattie Chung Lab (Yale School of Medicine)
Post a job in 3min, or find thousands of job offers like this one at jobRxiv!
jobrxiv.org
August 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
🚨 Our paper is out in Scientific Reports! Amazing collaboration with Alec Peltekian, @catgaohow.bsky.social, and Ankit Agrawal.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Developing and validating machine learning models to predict next-day extubation - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Developing and validating machine learning models to predict next-day extubation
www.nature.com
July 30, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Today "a milestone in the evolution of personalized therapies for rare & ultra-rare inborn errors of metabolism"
—the 1st human to undergo custom genome editing
—from decades of NIH funded research
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
@nejm.org
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...
May 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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What if LLMs could “read” & “write” biology? 🤔
Introducing C2S‑Scale—a Yale and Google collab: we scaled LLMs (up to 27B!) to analyze & generate single‑cell data 🧬 ➡️ 📝
🔗 Blog: research.google/blog/teachin...
🔗 Preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Teaching machines the language of biology: Scaling large language models for next-generation single-cell analysis
research.google
April 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA
March 22, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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"Despite being preventable and highly curable, TB continues to have devastating health, social, and economic impacts globally." - Cenyun Guan, MPH '25 (@yaleemd.bsky.social)

#WorldTBDay2025
Happy World TB Day! 🙌

Today, we have EMD MPH student Cenyun Guan at @yalesph.bsky.social to discuss the current tuberculosis (TB) situation and the urgent need to raise public awareness and further invest to end TB.

Read more here! ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

#PublicHealth
#WorldTBDay
March 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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99% of new medicines developed by the pharmaceutical industry depend on NIH research jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Comparison of Research Spending on New Drug Approvals by the NIH vs the Pharmaceutical Industry
This cross-sectional study examines National Institutes of Health and pharmaceutical industry investments in recent drug approvals.
jamanetwork.com
March 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Anne Carpenter writes about the science cuts: “this is like suddenly announcing that you will pay for doctors and nurses but not the hospital building they work in” for the LaPorte Herald Dispatch in IN 🌽
🧪🧬🔬🏠
@drannecarpenter.bsky.social
www.lpheralddispatch.com/opinion/gues...
Indiana’s health and economy depends on U.S.-funded science
When people ask me what city I’m from, I say I’m not from a city – I’m from a county!
www.lpheralddispatch.com
March 1, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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@thejohnnyyu.bsky.social, @therealnima.bsky.social, and I, are excited to tell you about Tahoe-100M! The largest publicly available single-cell dataset that measures the effect of 1200 genes on 50 cell line models. The Vevo team has outdone itself. #Tahoe100M www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Tahoe-100M: A Giga-Scale Single-Cell Perturbation Atlas for Context-Dependent Gene Function and Cellular Modeling
Building predictive models of the cell requires systematically mapping how perturbations reshape each cell's state, function, and behavior. Here, we present Tahoe-100M, a giga-scale single-cell atlas ...
www.biorxiv.org
February 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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A very innovative approach to cancer: engineering fat cells to convert to beige fat to starve tumors, outcompeting 5 types of cancer in experimental models
www.nature.com/articles/s41... @naturebiotech.bsky.social y.social @nadavahituv.bsky.social tuv.bsky.social
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 2:56 PM
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Post the amazing science things you have done with federal funding.
January 28, 2025 at 8:51 PM