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Professor at @UniofOxford. We use zebrafish to study how cancer starts and spreads.
Oxford, UK ndm.ox.ac.uk/team/richard-w… Joined October 2012
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In defense of basic science - my new video about how we balance basic vs. translational science: youtu.be/yl6ETxRfQn8?si…. . And why we should encourage a culture of wandering to solve problems:. A team effort between @UniofOxford and @OxfordSparks.
www.youtube.com Trying to cure cancer by not trying to cure cancer “I’m a scientist and I study cancer. But sometimes I go for a wande...
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Congrats @leonard_zon and the @ScholarRock team - from bench to bedside (and back again to keep learning more), this is the way it should work.
Dr. Len Zon @leonard_zon Sep 12
Every so often, a major event happens in your life to validate years of work. SRRK’s ISEMBYLD was FDA approved. Having participated in its development from basic science to approval, as a physician-scientist, this is one of my best days. Happy for ISEMBYLD to help SMA patients.
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richard white Verified account @whitefishlab
ooh this is very cool!
Mara Sherman Lab Verified account @MaraShermanLab Aug 6
Neural niches are recurrent features of human cancer that may relay signals to nearby cells, to the immune system, + to the brain. So what’s in these niches, and what happens when cancer cells barge in? We take a look under the hood in our new preprint 1/ biorxiv.org/content/10.648…
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