Kathleen Helen Burns
@KathleenHBurns
Chair of Pathology @DanaFarber | Professor of Pathology @HarvardMed @broadinstitute | physician-scientist studying #transposons in disease
Application now open: Career Awards for Medical Scientists (CAMS) is a highly competitive program that provides $700,000 awards over 5 years for physician-scientists, who are committed to an academic career Deadline: 10/07/25 buff.ly/VdljzxQ #bwfcams
The 2025 SMaHT Annual Meeting brought together researchers from across the network and the globe. 🌎 A wonderful few days of collaboration, conversation, and connection. To hear directly from SMaHT members: youtube.com/@smahtnetwork
Our Residency Program Ranks #1! Over 30k physicians participated in a survey to nominate residencies that offer “the best” clinical training. We are proud that once again, Johns Hopkins ranked as the #1 residency program in Anatomic & Clinical Pathology! doximity.com/residency/prog…
The Balancing Genome Fidelity and Plasticity series is back for its second meeting with Fusion, chaired by the fantastic Agnel Sfeir, @KarleneCimprich and @ChowdhuryLab What a wonderful group of scientists, it's lovely to see so many familiar faces as well as lots of new ones!…
Application now open: Career Awards for Medical Scientists (CAMS) is a highly competitive program that provides $700,000 awards over five years for physician-scientists, who are committed to an academic career. buff.ly/VdljzxQ #bwfcams
Excited to welcome 🎉 a new class of Oncologic Surgical & Subspecialty Fellows to @MSKPathology - looking forward to a wonderful 2025-2026 academic year!
Delighted to share moments from the Harvard Medical School retreat with the Bertarelli Rare Cancer Initiative (BRCI), led by Dr. Marcia Haigis and Dr. George Demetri. 📸Pictured are members of the BRCI team with Dona Bertarelli, whose visionary support through the Bertarelli…
The cells in our bodies constantly acquire mutations. But what are the patterns of mutations across tissues? How do mutations in normal cells lead to disease? These and other questions we will tackle within the SMaHT Network, now described in @Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…
This work is now published with @ScienceAdvances with some new and exciting results. Please check out: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
Vertebrate retrotransposons are the future of gene therapy. But how do they insert their genes? 🔥🔥 Thrilled to present part 2 of my postdoctoral work with @NogalesLab @CollinsRNPLab @berkeleyMCB where we investigate this using #CryoEM and transgene insertion in 🧪 and cells!
Announcing the 2025 Career Awards for Medical Scientists buff.ly/ckIDVde #bwfcams
Big news! Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have been ranked #1 and #2 globally for research impact among healthcare institutions by the 2024 @NatureIndex. Proud to be part of a pathology department at the forefront of discovery! 🧪🔬 #PathTwitter
A brilliant, kind, thoughtful and courageous human, “Fletcher” was/is the gold standard for excellence in pathology and mentorship. He is greatly missed by so, so many! @MGBpathology @BWHPath #ChrisFrenchArt
Honoring a legend: A beautiful tribute to Dr. Christopher Fletcher—visionary leader, world-renowned soft tissue pathologist, and mentor to many. Portrait by Dr. Christopher French. Thank you, Dr. French, for capturing the spirit of a true icon in pathology. 💫 #PathTwitter
📢Calling all #RNA researchers! Interested in epigenetics, DNA repair, transcription & genome organisation? Registration is now open for #GenReg26! The majority of talks will be selected from abstract submissions - apply before 04 Sep 2025 to join us in Mexico🇲🇽☀️ More…
🎉 Congratulations to our Early Career Researcher Pilot and Feasibility Awardees! 👏 Yilei Fu – @sedlazeck 👏 Cheuk-Ting Law – @KathleenHBurns 👏 Yang "Young" Zhang – @Zonglab 👏 Elliot Swanson – @stergachislab 👏 Andy Russell – @insitubiology 👏 Hang Su – @broadinstitute
#CGCecDNA has begun! And what a fitting location at the historic @royalsociety. Paul Mischel (@mischellab @Stanford_ChEMH) got us started with a fascinating opening plenary.
Day 2 of #CGCecDNA is underway! Organiser Mariam Jamal-Hanjani got things started by discussing tracking ecDNA in patients from early through to late-stages and the role of ecDNA in tumour evolution.
@HowardYChang (@StanfordMed @Amgen) continued the proceedings at #CGCecDNA presenting his game-changing work on cancer genes beyond chromosomes and ecDNA as a platform for gene innovation.
Powerful piece on the dominance of NIH-funded science and its role in drug discovery. Cutting the NIH budget puts all the U.S. has built at risk. We urge @RFKJr_Official & @NIHDirector_Jay to champion U.S. science and defend NIH funding statnews.com/2025/06/06/us-… via @statnews
Without its international students, Harvard is not Harvard. hrvd.me/IntStudents25t
Our @DanaFarber folks @AACR ! #AACR25 with Cathy, Bruce and Matt!