Vinay Varadan

With profound sadness, we announce the passing of Nathan Berger, MD, founding director of Case CCC. His contributions to oncology have been immense, marked by groundbreaking research and compassionate patient care. Please join us in remembering Dr. Berger. dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/cle…

We are profoundly grateful that Dr. Ruth Gottesman, Professor Emerita of Pediatrics at @EinsteinMed, has made a transformational gift to #MontefioreEinstein—the largest to any medical school in the country—that ensures no student has to pay tuition again. bit.ly/3wvBj7y

1. Thrilled and proud to announce our latest preprint: Spectra -Supervised discovery of interpretable gene programs from single-cell data. It is a factorization method that really works and is already in intensive use across projects in my own lab --> doi.org/10.1101/2022.1…

This is probably THE largest KRAS focused mutational database across human cancers I have seen, courtesy of @FoundationATCG & linked to outcomes. 23% of >426,000 adult cancers carry KRAS mutations. #OpenAccess in @Nature_NPJ #PrecisionOncology Details 👉🏽 nature.com/articles/s4169…

@Salendra_Singh_ @caseccc @cwru Wishing you the very best, Salendra, in your new role!!

And that's a wrap, folks!! Thanks a lot, @caseccc and @cwru for providing me an awesome environment to grow and contribute to the great sciences.

@nicholas_navin @MDAndersonNews Congratulations, Nick! This is super exciting news!

Big news: I have accepted the offer at @MDAndersonNews to be the next Chair of Systems Biology, standing on the shoulders of the previous chairs Andy Futreal and Gordon Mills. We will build a technology-driven department focused on solving the biggest problems in cancer research!

Gastroesophageal, like @PanCAN cancers, are highly aggressive/refractory malignancies. We discovered a new RTK signaling axis active early in the cancer development; opening new Rx and chemo prevention avenues for patients. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

@KishoreGuda @PanCAN Super excited to see this in print @KishoreGuda - a new therapeutic opportunity in an area of high unmet clinical need!

@SirvanKhalighi @BriefingBioinfo Glad to see this in print @SirvanKhalighi! Thank you for your dedication and grit!!

Thrilled to share our latest work in @BriefingBioinfo. SYSMut, an extendable systems biology framework that can infer the biologic consequences of #somatic_mutations by integrating #multiomics profiles in primary tumors. academic.oup.com/bib/advance-ar…

Congrats to our productive team who published a research article on ICAM1 driving CTC stem cluster formation in Nature Communications (rdcu.be/ctQtH ) @RokanaTaftaf, Xia Liu, @VinayVaradan @Salendra_Singh_ @MCristofanill @ReduzziCarol @LurieCancer @NorthwesternMed

@LiuCluster @RokanaTaftaf @Salendra_Singh_ @MCristofanill @ReduzziCarol @LurieCancer @NorthwesternMed It was a sheer delight to collaborate with you, Huiping!

@satishev @CDMRP @slsteinmd1 @anantm @DavidLiskaMD @Purysko @smitha42 @MardersteinEric Congratulations, Satish!!

Excited to receive NOA for new @CDMRP grant to develop and validate novel #radiomics-based companion diagnostics for chemoradiation response in #rectalcancers, in multi-institutional collaboration with @slsteinmd1 @anantm @DavidLiskaMD @Purysko @smitha42 @MardersteinEric

@nicholas_navin Congratulations, Nick!!

Very honored to receive the Grady Saunders Distinguished Professorship at MD Anderson, thank you for supporting my career at every stage!

We are growing! Seeking an experienced Data Scientist to build out an extensible data analytics platform that enables mining of petabyte-scale biological datasets for drug discovery. jobs.merck.com/~xXMkaX

@Harvey_W_Smith Thank you, Harvey - Certainly hoping to engage with all of you at McGill!

Great opportunity, working with fantastic people like @VinayVaradan !

@DesaiLabCWRU Thank you for your kind vote of confidence, Amar! Can’t wait for the day when the next generation of Desais join the scientific workforce! 😀

Rare opportunity! Vinay is not only a brilliant scientist but also an incredibly dedicated mentor.

We are hiring! Join us if you are interested in integrating spatially-resolved/single-cell multi-omics tumor profiles and functional genomics screens to decode multi-scale disease mechanisms in cancer jobs.merck.com/us/en/job/R124…

@Drjcullen808 Thank you, Jenny! I anticipate our paths will cross again

I’m excited to share that after a fantastic journey at @caseccc, I will be moving to @Merck Research Labs to continue to explore ways to prevent and treat cancer!

@koyuturkm @caseccc @Merck Thank you, Mehmet! I’d be delighted to collaborate - definitely will be reaching out for your expertise in integrative network modeling of phospho-proteomic and other omic profiles - can’t wait to see the next iteration of RoKAI!

@VinayVaradan @caseccc @Merck Congratulations Vinay, this is a big win for Merck. Hoping to seeing and working with you always wherever you are.