Incoming surg onc fellow @COH_SurgOnc @YaleSurgRes. Father, husband, dog dad. Ideas my own.

New Haven, CT
Joined May 2014
David Su retweeted
Honored to be alongside so many amazing colleagues and grateful to my lab and mentors for their partnership and inspiration. This is for them, and for fundamental research
Announcing the 2026 National Laureates of the @Blavatnikawards, tonight each will receive $250,000 at the 20th Anniversary Gala: 🧪David Nagib @Nagiblab @OhioState, 🧬Patrick Hsu @pdhsu @ArcInstitute @Stanford, ⚡Jonathan Rivnay @jrivnay @NorthwesternU blavatnikawards.org/news/ite…
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BREAKING NEWS The 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
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53min 🤖 Whipple resection in a straight forward case, sped up 4x unedited 👇🏻 youtu.be/Cq5z1A9Wy18?is=MFIT… IMO the SMA-first approach with specimen hanging left is the hack. Deal with the uncinate as step 1 while you’re fresh & uncinate not congested. C&C welcomed. Short version:
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Impressive Phase III results on personalized mRNA vaccines +IT in ⬆️ RFS and DMFS in stage IIB-IV melanoma. Justifies the stock surge but Qs remain: - how do we improve neoAg prediction? - reproducible in immunologically cold cancers? - sequencing vaccines w neoadjuvant IT?
Moderna just became the first company in history to pass a Phase 3 trial with a personalized cancer vaccine. Every single dose is a different drug. Here's how it works. Surgeons remove the melanoma, then sequence the tumor's DNA and RNA. An algorithm compares it against the patient's healthy cells and picks up to 34 mutations unique to that one person's cancer. Those mutations get encoded into a custom mRNA strand, wrapped in lipid nanoparticles, and injected. The immune system reads the code, learns what that specific tumor looks like, and hunts down whatever cells surgery missed. Paired with Keytruda, which releases the brakes on T cells, the earlier trial showed a 49% cut in recurrence risk that held steady from year 3 all the way to year 5. The manufacturing is what pharma people can't stop thinking about. Drug factories are built to stamp out identical pills by the billion. This requires designing, synthesizing, and quality-testing a brand new drug for every patient, in weeks, from biopsy to injection. A batch size of one. Scientists have chased therapeutic cancer vaccines for 40 years. A handful got approved. None were mRNA, and none were built per patient. The Phase 3 covered 1,137 melanoma patients. Nine more trials are already running in lung, bladder, kidney, pancreatic, and gastric cancer. Moderna was worth $25 billion yesterday, down more than 85% from its COVID peak. Wall Street had priced mRNA as a one-pandemic technology. The repricing took one morning.
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Glad to co-organize the Cold Spring Harbor Asia Meeting: Frontiers in Single-Cell & Spatial Omics (Oct 19-23). Abstract deadline Sept 4, 2026. Looking forward to seeing you near the beautiful Dushu Lake in Suzhou this fall! Meeting website: csh-asia.org/?content/3118
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The future of biology is agentic. We're proud to work with NVIDIA on the Evo series of models and are excited to see the NVIDIA BioNeMo Agent Toolkit launch to accelerate programmable biology.
Science is entering a new era - one where AI agents can do scientific work. 🧬 Today NVIDIA is launching the BioNeMo Agent Toolkit - an open, agent-ready toolkit that gives any AI agent callable tools for protein structure prediction, molecular docking, generative chemistry, genomic analysis, and more. (1/2)
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David Su retweeted
🧬 New paper out in @Nature! We used CRISPR to selectively kill cancer cells based on a single-letter mutation in their RNA. The story I want to highlight: KRAS — one of the most notorious drivers of human cancer. A short thread on what we found 🧵
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David Su retweeted
it is hard to get @SKonermann to do media - she is a true lab rat - so I am excited for more of the world to hear from her directly!
Arc Co-Founder and Executive Director @SKonermann discusses what motivates her to use AI to understand complex human disease in this video from @TheAudaciousPrj. youtube.com/watch?v=Ikc3u438…
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📢 Abstract submissions are open for SAAS 2026! It's not too late to submit your exceptional work. 🗓 Deadline: April 1, 11:59 PM PST 🔗 Submit here: saas2026.exordo.com/ #SAAS2026 #AcademicSurgery @JSurgRes
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Dartmouth is so lucky to have you @DrRoyHerbst! Thank you for your 15 years of Thoracic Oncology and SPORE leadership at Yale! You have been such a wonderful mentor and supporter, we will miss you!!
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The highest honor bestowed within our organization, the Yale Cancer Center Lifetime Achievement Award, was presented to Dr. Mario Sznol @MSznol by @DrRoyHerbstYale. Dr. Sznol was recognized for 40+ years of extraordinary contributions to oncology. We are proud to celebrate his remarkable legacy. @SmilowCancer
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Beyond honored and excited to be heading to @pennsurgery for residency! Words cannot describe how grateful I am for my mentors, family, and friends who helped make this possible! #MATCH2026 @WomenSurgeons @AmCollSurgeons
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1/ When starting a🤖Whipple program, struggle is always balancing patient selection for safe completion vs⬇️volume w being selective. We asked if it was safe w being liberal w pt selection w a lower threshold to convert for non-progression. Results in🧵! sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Ismail Ajjawi @YaleMed ’27 @YaleBreast presents data on premenopausal women with early-stage HR+/HER2– node-negative #breastcancer at #SABCS25 • Chemo use declined from 35%→24% • 72% omitted chemo, with no difference in 5-yr OS (98.1% vs 97.6%) Chemotherapy omission is rising without observed survival impact. Trials like OFSET will help define when omission is safe. @OncoAlert @SABCSSanAntonio @SmilowCancer @maryam_lustberg
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🔥off the press🔥 Cholangiocarcinoma 2026: status quo, unmet needs and priorities @NatRevGastroHep doi.org/10.1038/s41575-025-0… 👉get the lastest, most comprehensive summary on cholangiocarcinoma 👏fantastic team effort! @myESMO @EASLedu @ILCAnews
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‼️Proud to recognize Drs. Johannes Kratz & Jeroen Roose, Co-PIs on their proposal “Advancing Two-Hit Therapy Approaches for K-Ras Mutation Cancers,” selected by the Lopker Family Foundation from 30 proposals. Awarded $250K, this project unites @immunox & @UCSFCancer researchers💫
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