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Professor @TuftsMedSchool, Co-Founder @Naveris_inc. Dedicated to understanding the biological, molecular, and genetic underpinnings of cancer & prevention.
Boston, MA gsbs.tufts.edu/faculty-resear… Joined August 2015
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Charlotte Kuperwasser, PhD Verified account @KUPERWASSERLAB
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Wafik S. El-Deiry, MD, PhD, FACP Verified account @weldeiry 4d
Cancer diagnoses in England hit record high of more than 1,000 people a day

“According to the latest cancer registration statistics, more than 373,000 people were diagnosed with cancer in England in 2024, the highest figure on record. On average, NHS England diagnosed 1,021 people a day with cancer in 2024, up from 972 a day in 2023.”

theguardian.com/society/2026/n…
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Charlotte Kuperwasser, PhD Verified account @KUPERWASSERLAB
Here's the issue....the second sampling period overlapped with Germany's COVID-19 vaccination and booster campaigns. If vaccination was not measured or adjusted for, the study cannot distinguish potential vaccination-associated epigenetic changes from other exposures occurring during the same period.

And here's empirical evidence showing COVID-19 mRNA vaccination inducing a measurable systemic inflammatory transcriptional response in humans.
Notice that the second dose elicited a distinct inflammatory transcriptional program that was much more pronounced than the response to the first dose?!?

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
www.science.org High–temporal resolution profiling reveals distinct immune trajectories following the first and... Blood transcriptome profiling at a high temporal frequency precisely delineates the immune response elicited by mRNA vaccines.
Prof Jeffrey S Morris Verified account @jsm2334 3d
She is not "observing potential issues" -- she is strongly implying there IS an issue by saying we are "pretending" there is not.

And, yes, especially when you have ZERO empirical evidence to link the reported effects to vaccines, in that case it is important to at least propose some plausible mechanism to even lend credence to speculation.

If there is no plausible mechanism and no empirical evidence, then it is truly a "throwing spaghetti against the wall" exercise.
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Charlotte Kuperwasser, PhD Verified account @KUPERWASSERLAB
“Since Zolgensma was approved in 2019 for children under two years old with SMA, nine tumors have been reported in patients previously treated with the therapy”

“Of those, two cases to date have shown evidence of vector integration into the DNA of the patients.”

biospace.com/drug-developme…
www.biospace.com Novartis confirms 9 reported cases of tumors in patients treated with Zolgensma Advocates are sounding the alarm on social media as they learn from their doctors that Novartis has received reports of tumors in patients who have been treated with the spinal muscular atrophy gene...
Charlotte Kuperwasser, PhD Verified account @KUPERWASSERLAB
So @adamfeuerstein -there was no benefit in overall survival with the addition of the mRNA vaccine and “… the question about what exactly was driving the vaccine’s benefit — was it the specific targeting of the neoantigens, or was it the general immune boost that studies have suggested mRNA vaccines generally provide?”

This suggests that the immune reaction to mRNA vaccines is actually driven by the response to the LNPs and not the mRNA target…. what follows is the obvious question: What is the future of this platform and technology ?

Maybe this might explain investors’ reaction…
Adam Feuerstein ✡️ Verified account @adamfeuerstein Oct 24
About the intismeran presentation at #ESMO26 $MRNA $MRK

My impression of discussant talk given by Inge Marie Svane of the University of Copenhagen was that she was positive if not overly enthusiastic about INTerpath-001.

"Measured" might be the best, single adjective.

"Brutal" is how an investor in the audience described the tone of her talk to me. (He was short Moderna, so there's that.) I disagree. Brutal is too harsh. If people were expecting Svane to jump for joy, then yes, she did not meet that expectation. To me, she played it mostly straight down the middle.

She took no position on the mRNA vaccine vs neoadjuvant debate. (Slide below)

She noted the lack of intismerna OS benefit, but said the same about neoadjuvant therapy. She also noted greater toxicity associated with neoadjuvant.

For intismeran, Svane also raised the question about what exactly was driving the vaccine’s benefit — was it the specific targeting of the neoantigens, or was it the general immune boost that studies have suggested mRNA vaccines generally provide?
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