Bioinformatician, cancer researcher, cure hunter...

Toronto, ON (43.602539,-79.506
Joined May 2008
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Historic day for builders in bio: We’ve open-sourced @vevo_ai’s #Tahoe100M, largest single-cell atlas ever—by a wide margin—as the inaugural contribution to @arcinstitute’s Virtual Cell Atlas, ready for download today. A leap forward for AI models of cells & drug discovery. 🧵
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Congratulations to the finalists of the Databricks Generative AI Startup Challenge: @ChipStackAI, @orbyai, @vevo_ai and Flagler Health. These startups are doing groundbreaking work to solve real-world customer problems. dbricks.co/4fN1JTI
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Indeed: finding and optimizing drugs in rudimentary in vitro assays is like “finding the best sprinter and sending them to run a marathon” Thank you @Nature Biotechnology and @eisensteinium for featuring our work in this great piece. As Michael elegantly outlines, we at Vevo Therapeutics believe that the root of many failures in the clinic is how we model disease preclinically. We need better disease models that capture the fact that disease happens in a living organism and in extremely heterogeneous patients that can not be reduced to a single driver gene or protein target. Disease models that can capture this at scale will not only lead to better therapeutics but also unlock new business models that can change the economics of drug discovery. nature.com/articles/s41587-0…
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Richard is a Sunday volunteer with Child Life & adored by caregivers & kids. 2-year-old Mya always enjoyed a visit from Richard during her 6 months of chemo. Her mom Julia is forever grateful for his support in those tough times. Thanks Richard & happy #VolunteerWeek! #NVW2023
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In late 2000, Meagan was diagnosed with an inoperable and malignant brain tumour. In her honour, the @meaganshug #Neurooncology Fellowship was established to further #paediatric clinical and research training. We encourage all to apply by April 30th! siop-online.org/sp_job/meaga…
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Check out our most recent publication in Nature Medicine that was published today! #Immunotherapy #Glioblastoma
Hypermutation and microsatellite burden determine responses & long-term survival following PD-1 blockade in children and young adults with refractory cancers resulting from germline DNA replication repair deficiency @Uri_Tabori #Immunotherapy #Glioblastoma nature.com/articles/s41591-0…
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Thank you to my lab for the amazing nanopolish socks! I hope there's no bugs in this code, it would be very hard to fix now
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🤯 Opt + click to place your cursor wherever in Terminal 🤯 And to think that for YEARS I've been holding down the arrow keys like a caveman... 🤪
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"The coronavirus is mutating — and that can help us track it" @CBCNews reports on #coronavirus sequencing happening at OICR and other labs across the province. @jaredtsimpson is one of the scientists contributing to this near real-time tracking. ow.ly/D0eP50zHdgZ #COVID19
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A funny Data Science meme, Matlab is my favorite reaction 😄 #datascience #memes
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Can anyone suggest a place to get onesies for my baby nephew? They have to be extremely cute, but funny enough to make my sister question why she had to have me as a brother 😂
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Working from home isn't so bad when @beanfield is providing crazy speeds.
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For the first time ever, I had to take off my prescription glasses for distances so that I could clearly read a book I was holding. #oldmanmoment
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“In open science, you need to constantly be building the architecture of participation. You can facilitate ways to build open leaders from discovery to leadership.” -Abby Cabunoc Mayes of @MozOpenLeaders
Nice review on the omics of #preeclampsia: sciencedirect.com/science/ar… References likely limited by journal, so if you are looking for DNAm papers on preeclampsia, see my supp. table A.1 on P.187 in my thesis! open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/c… #epigenetics #placenta #dnamethylation
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Went for a #run this morning and and a car slid right through the intersection trying to stop. Be careful out there! #TorontoWeather
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Life is an incorrigible optimist.
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This is Murphy’s 14th & last Christmas with me. Tragically, the cancer is now all through his nose and into his throat. There’s nothing else I can do except make him comfortable & happy ☹️ He’s on his last days now... please make him famous, Twitter 🙏🏻 #ForMurphy #MyBestFriend – at Toronto, Ontario
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