Vivian Weiss MD, PhD

So proud of @maloberg.bsky.social. Matt led an incredible collaborative team. Can’t wait to see what he will accomplish in the future!

So excited to see my PhD work published in @insight.jci.org!! I can't thank @vivianweiss.bsky.social enough for her mentorship both with this paper & throughout my PhD! This was an incredibly collaborative project, and there are many additional people to thank.

ICYMI: Presenting data from the largest integrated thyroid cancer single-cell sequencing atlas

@vivianweiss.bsky.social et al. highlight stromal tumor-dynamics occurring across the spatial evolution of thyroid cancer from indolent to lethal disease: doi.org/10.1172/jci....

Congratulations @mtigue13.bsky.social for the superb presentation at #PAS2025. More exciting work to come from this stellar student!

Congratulations to @maloberg.bsky.social for the excellent work presented at AACR 2025!! Big thanks to our incredible research collaborators!

Congratulations to Dr. Heather Hartmann on your wonderful thesis defense! We look forward to hearing about your great post-doctoral research in the Guengerich lab!! @hartheat.bsky.social #vumc #pmi

Congratulations to Dr. Matthew Loberg on a fantastic thesis defense! Good luck as you transition back to medical school! Don’t forget to stop by the lab and say hello! @maloberg.bsky.social #vumc #mstp

We had a fantastic time yesterday walking in support of the many warriors with juvenile arthritis. The work done by the arthritis foundation to raise awareness is really amazing. #WalktoCureArthritis, #ArthritisFoundation

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🔬 Tenascin-C (TNC) enhances Wnt signaling in #thyroidcancer, driving tumor invasion and metastasis. Understanding TNC’s role could pave the way for novel biomarkers and targeted therapies.

Excellent work led by a talented MSTP student, @maloberg.bsky.social, our superb biostatistical team, VU and VUMC collaborators, and collaborators at Hopkins, MD Anderson, and U Washington. Thanks to all!

An integrated single-cell and spatial transcriptomic atlas of thyroid cancer progression identifies prognostic fibroblast subpopulations Thyroid cancer progression from curable well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma to highly lethal anaplastic thyroid carcinoma is distinguished by tumor cell de-differentiation and recruitment of a robus...

We are excited to share our recent pre-print exploring cancer-associated fibroblast (CAF) phenotypes as thyroid cancers progress from treatable well-differentiated tumors to highly lethal anaplastic thyroid cancer! @vivianweiss.bsky.social @hartheat.bsky.social

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CD137 agonism enhances anti-PD1 induced activation of clonally expanded CD8+ T cells in a neoadjuvant pancreatic cancer clinical trial Successful pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) immunotherapy requires therapeutic combinations that induce quality T cells. Tumor microenvironment (TME) analysis following therapeutic interventions can identify response mechanisms, informing design of effective combinations. We provide a reference single-cell dataset from tumor-infiltrating leukocytes (TILs) from a human neoadjuvant clinical trial comparing the granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF)-secreting allogeneic PDAC vaccine GVAX alone, in combination with anti-PD1, or with both anti-PD1 and CD137 agonist.

Woo hoo! Our latest neoadjuvant clinical trial results are out! www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Bridging the “Valley of Death” with Modern Clinical Drug Development: AACR President Patricia M. LoRusso addressed this topic in a keynote address to close the AACR Special Conference on Optimizing Therapeutic Efficacy and Tolerability through Cancer Chemistry. #AACRchem24 #AACRCICR

Thanks to @cuendocrinology.bsky.social for a wonderful visit! I learned so much from your amazing multidisciplinary team. Looking forward to many collaborations in the years ahead!

Congratulations to Dr. Jane Freedman #EditorInChief #CircRes @ahascience.bsky.social on official appointment as #Chair of #VUMC_Medicine & Deputy CEO & Chief Health System Officer 2025! Your visionary #Leadership inspires us all! Excited for the remarkable journey ahead! @vumc-insights.bsky.social

O is for #organoid

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Report: Every dollar of NIH research funding doubles in economic returns Research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) generated $2.46 in economic activity for every $1 of funding in 2023, a total of $92.9 billion, according to an

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Closing the scissor-shaped curve: Strategies to promote gender equality in academia. #Cell

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