
Gena Foster, MD
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Gena Foster, MD
@DrGenaGFoster
Hematologist and PhD student at @YaleIBIO @joshilabyale studying T cells in cancer



Excited to be chosen by @psscra and be part of this phenomenal group of scientists. Very honored.




HELLO! Our latest story is now out online @CellCellPress showing tumor neoantigens with B cell-epitopes promote B cell-TFH interactions and IL-21 that drives CD8 T cell effector function in tumors. Congrats @cancuiyale, Joe Craft, and our co-authors! cell.com/cell/fulltext/…


Check out this important work by @LGlimcherMD News&Views by Mark Gower and @DrGenaGFoster Blockade of IL-22 signaling reverses erythroid dysfunction in stress-induced anemias | Nature Immunology nature.com/articles/s4159…

Here is an animation showing a normal pancreatic tissue obtained using CODA, a method to produce 3D maps of large volumes of tissues and tumors. From serially cut H&E sections to digital volumes, spanning cm to micron length scales. More details here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…


Congratulations to Carrie L. Lucas, Ph.D. (AAI ’16), who has been named 2020 recipient of the Christina Fleischmann Award for Young Women Investigators! bit.ly/3n4rC5Y







Excited to participate in the 3rd @Yale_CIO symposium on Friday. It rivals any #immunooncology meeting this year w/ Rafi Ahmed, @MaxKrummel, @theLundLab, Crystal Mackall, Steve Rosenberg, Padmanee Sharma, Arlene Sharpe, @aaronmring, @EJohnWherry and me! Free to join, link below.

#ASCOQLTY20: An Oncology Urgent Care Unit can reduce average charges by $8,000 (although ED visits increased despite access to a specialized urgent care) by Dr Christopher A'vella @ASCO




