Raj Batra, MD

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Raj Batra, MD

Raj Batra, MD

@MdBatra

Physician-Scientist. Cancer expert. Inventor. Theorist (cancer is a disease of genetic/eoigenetic hypermosaicism), autism advocate. Humanist. Tweets are own.

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Raj Batra, MD
Raj Batra, MD@MdBatra·
Anonymous Tsunami An Introduction to how, when, where and by whom the cure to cancer was developed in 2009, and how the employer-Institution(s) and Nation buried the developer and the development. open.substack.com/pub/rbatra/p/a…
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Raj Batra, MD
Raj Batra, MD@MdBatra·
@vektorcapital @PhoenxLights @DrPatrick To characterize PSS as the architect or chief promoter of N=1 trials is an inaccurate representation of his work, and an insult to those who have long preceded him in that fight, albeit out of the public eye.
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Vector@vektorcapital·
Dr. Patrick is a polymath and N of 1 biotech pioneer. He is relentless and won’t stop until Immunity Bio makes a huge dent in cancer care. @DrPatrick wsj.com/business/media…
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Raj Batra, MD
Raj Batra, MD@MdBatra·
The scales have now been weighted towards public promotion. Whereas “expert opinion” was the frying pan, the adoption of direct marketing of ideas and products from the PharMa playbook to the public is now the fire. Although scientific research and evidence was always legally characterized as “promotional advertising”, the institutions that monitored the accuracy with long binding ethical principles of academia have been eroded, and this is the outcome. There will be NO generational or long term plans built into tackling lethal disease because we have bowed to the dollar as the proxy for excellence, and those with proximity to that public dollar have betrayed the public trust.
Wafik S. El-Deiry, MD, PhD, FACP@weldeiry

In cancer research, breakthrough ideas don’t get tested without resources. We can’t build on existing knowledge and get to the next treatments and cures for diseases like Li-Fraumeni Syndrome (where p53 mutations are inherited and predispose to a very high risk of various cancers or multiple cancers in younger individuals) if ideas don’t get tested. What’s worse is that great ideas get forgotten. It is important for the US government to invest much more in biomedical research so that ideas or new treatments can help people rather than whither away in a graveyard.

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Raj Batra, MD
Raj Batra, MD@MdBatra·
The scales have now been weighted towards public promotion. Whereas “expert opinion” was the frying pan, the adoption of direct marketing of ideas and products from the PharMa playbook to the public is now the fire. Although scientific research and evidence was always legally characterized as “promotional advertising”, the institutions that monitored the accuracy with long binding ethical principles of academia have been eroded, and this is the outcome. There will be NO generational or long term plans built into tackling lethal disease because we have bowed to the dollar as the proxy for excellence, and those with proximity to that public dollar have betrayed the public trust.
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Wafik S. El-Deiry, MD, PhD, FACP
Wafik S. El-Deiry, MD, PhD, FACP@weldeiry·
In cancer research, breakthrough ideas don’t get tested without resources. We can’t build on existing knowledge and get to the next treatments and cures for diseases like Li-Fraumeni Syndrome (where p53 mutations are inherited and predispose to a very high risk of various cancers or multiple cancers in younger individuals) if ideas don’t get tested. What’s worse is that great ideas get forgotten. It is important for the US government to invest much more in biomedical research so that ideas or new treatments can help people rather than whither away in a graveyard.
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Raj Batra, MD
Raj Batra, MD@MdBatra·
@WSJopinion “An ally doesn’t mean they’re on your side” A great line from a recent character played by Russell Crowe.
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Wall Street Journal Opinion@WSJopinion·
Whatever one thinks of Israel’s domestic politics, Gavin Newsom’s call to cut off an ally in wartime ought to be disqualifying for someone who wants to be the U.S. Commander in Chief. on.wsj.com/47wlOvF
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Raj Batra, MD@MdBatra·
Bayh-Dole simply substituted an Academic complacency for Government complacency. I was denied its enforcement even though the US government determined that the strategy I sought federal resources for was highly disruptive and important. Because the US Government has never enforced the act, the torch of scientific stagnation has been passed to academia.
Toby Rogers@uTobian

What's astonishing about American science and medicine is that, for the most part, American scientists and doctors do not care at all about science and medicine. The rituals of sci-med are just a castle wall that protects the mafiosos who operate behind it. Bayh-Dole did this.

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Raj Batra, MD
Raj Batra, MD@MdBatra·
Bayh-Dole simply substituted an Academic complacency for Government complacency. I was denied its enforcement even though the US government determined that the strategy I sought federal resources for was highly disruptive and important. Because the US Government has never enforced the act, the torch of scientific stagnation has been passed to academia.
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Toby Rogers
Toby Rogers@uTobian·
What's astonishing about American science and medicine is that, for the most part, American scientists and doctors do not care at all about science and medicine. The rituals of sci-med are just a castle wall that protects the mafiosos who operate behind it. Bayh-Dole did this.
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Jessica Adams
Jessica Adams@RxRegA·
Here we have the “Godfather of biotech” expressing dissatisfaction with the FDA, but pharma isn’t the customer. The American people are. And pharma being happy doesn’t necessarily mean the American people benefit. Right now, pharma being dissatisfied may just mean the FDA isn’t rubber-stamping things.
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Noah Kaufman, MD
Noah Kaufman, MD@noahkaufmanmd·
Maybe we should hire even more administrators to help fix the problem of administrating more administrators.
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Raj Batra, MD
Raj Batra, MD@MdBatra·
@anish_koka The targets are increasingly becoming bullet proof!! This a a war physicians cannot lose to Pharma interests. Pharma provides a tool for service; physicians provide the central coherence.
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Raj Batra, MD
Raj Batra, MD@MdBatra·
A NK-CAR therapy targeting mesothelin derived from a cell line. “The most striking results came from mouse models of endometrial cancer”. ….. Intratumoral heterogeneity of mesothelin expression, whether its expression is limited to the “aggressive subsets”, and what replaces the target when the tumor down regulates it is left to conjecture. Identifying the key reproducible targets within the aggressive endophenotypes, and cluster bombing them is a far superior and lasting strategy!
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UCLA@UCLA·
UCLA researchers Lili Yang and Sanaz Memarzadeh have developed a ready to use CAR NKT therapy that destroys endometrial cancer, with doses estimated at about $5,000. newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/unive…
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Joseph Marine
Joseph Marine@DrJMarine·
@RWMaloneMD To save time and reduce legal costs, they should just ask these folks whom they want on the committee:
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Robert W Malone, MD
Robert W Malone, MD@RWMaloneMD·
ACIP has been disbanded. The government’s response to the AAP lawsuit and judge Murphey’s injunction is to disband and then recreate a new ACIP committee, as this will take less time than would be required to file and prosecute an appeal. There will be no action from the government to respond to the defamatory characterization of the former ACIP members.
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Raj Batra, MD
Raj Batra, MD@MdBatra·
It’s worse than that Jason. 1) “Administrators” are chosen precisely because they have proven adept at accessing funds to maintain the garden that is the University. 2) they are selected because of connections with government officials at both the state and federal levels to bring in gardeners to maintain the gardens. 3) when government agencies fail to do that, the pivot goes directly to provate donors and commercial/biotech entities. In this respect, the Public University grounds are repurposed to develop on-campus incubators, leased by private businesses. 4) the university has abandoned its mission for the betterment of lives and training of its students, it has abandoned the promises made to its wealthy donors, and to the society at large. The university grounds are the property up for bidding, and the administrators reap their rewards by the privatization of public resources.
Jason Locasale@LocasaleLab

I’m sorry you’re dealing with this. But when a university taking in billions in revenue chooses not to buffer even short-term funding delays or prioritize its resources around science, while administrators expand their offices and take in seven-figure salaries, it says everything about the model. Scientists are treated less as scholars to be supported and more as revenue generators for indirect costs, with all the financial risk pushed onto them.

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Raj Batra, MD
Raj Batra, MD@MdBatra·
1) “Administrators” are chosen precisely because they have proven adept at accessing funds to maintain the garden that is the University. 2) they are selected because of connections with government officials at both the state and federal levels to bring in gardeners to maintain the gardens. 3) when government agencies fail to do that, the pivot goes directly to provate donors and commercial/biotech entities. In this respect, the Public University grounds are repurposed to develop on-campus incubators, leased by private businesses. 4) the university has abandoned its mission for the betterment of lives and training of its students, it has abandoned the promises made to its wealthy donors, and to the society at large. The university grounds are the property up for bidding, and the administrators reap their rewards by the privatization of public resources.
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Jason Locasale
Jason Locasale@LocasaleLab·
I’m sorry you’re dealing with this. But when a university taking in billions in revenue chooses not to buffer even short-term funding delays or prioritize its resources around science, while administrators expand their offices and take in seven-figure salaries, it says everything about the model. Scientists are treated less as scholars to be supported and more as revenue generators for indirect costs, with all the financial risk pushed onto them.
Katayoun Ayasoufi@KAyasoufi

@LocasaleLab Maby have lost their labs and more continue to lose them with delays and lack of funding in hand. I, myself, have had to downsize and could also lose my lab by the end of the year if none of my in process grants happen. There are real consequences to NIH not fundings grants.

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Raj Batra, MD
Raj Batra, MD@MdBatra·
And again, the chasm between information-“knowledge” to wisdom in action has never been greater…..
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Raj Batra, MD
Raj Batra, MD@MdBatra·
@jaweedkaleem If you’re going to cite numbers, please include all the relevant ones. What proportion of the approximately 5500 UCLA-faculty members is Jewish? What proportion of the “tenured” faculty is Jewish? What proportion of the executive faculty administrators is Jewish?
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Jaweed Kaleem
Jaweed Kaleem@jaweedkaleem·
NEW: Two Jewish groups released open letters this week on antisemitism at the University of California. Both include faculty members -- but they have vastly different views on the subject: latimes.com/california/sto…
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Raj Batra, MD@MdBatra·
@wallyrashid @Rebecca21951651 Tribal politics playing out in Washington. Makes one wonder where Americanism truly lies, except perhaps in the minds of the “huddled masses yearning to be free”……
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Wally Rashid
Wally Rashid@wallyrashid·
Last night, Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin both stated former Israeli PM Ariel Sharon pushed Bush against war in Iraq. Meanwhile, here is Sharon pressuring Bush to go to war in Iraq, stating Saddam has WMD’s, and providing Bush “intelligence” to justify war in Iraq:
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Raj Batra, MD@MdBatra·
Dr Pearl, the greatest fraud of the the 21st century occurred within your own institution. An individual (SM Dubinett, sitting Dean, UCLA School of Medicine) who recruited and kept his “tenure track” faculty on federal grounds to amass tens of millions of dollars from their work product in UCLA controlled coffers, and who then buried the development of the cure to cancer by that same faculty member, and assasinated his career. A story worth being told.
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Dutch The worst part is that the argument they make hinges on quality of care and faculty innovation…. “Advancing Medicine”. But as you know, when an individual who did more for a top tier research institution (@UCLAchancellor ) is fired precisely because of that work, the argument for the “betterment of mankind” holds no water either. Off with their heads; rhetorically speaking.
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Raj Batra, MD@MdBatra·
Wholly agree that “meritocracy” should prevail. Unfortunately, the measure of merit is highly biased by its assessors. How is it that someone who created a disruptive cure for epithelial cancers for less than 400K of federal funds was fired, while the individual who stole his work posing as an academic “mentor” was celebrated and made Dean of the Medical School that jointly employed them? @ucladgsomdigest
Richard H. Ebright@R_H_Ebright

@ksorbs DEI destroys all it touches. It must be extirpated.

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