Rushika M. Perera
@rushika_perera
Professor @UCSF Dept. of Anatomy & Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center | My lab studies #lysosomes #autophagy #metabolism #pancreaticcancer
Incredibly grateful to receive the Gunter Blobel Early Career Award. Thank you @ASCBiology for this recognition. Congratulations to all awardees incl. my former mentor Pietro De Camilli @PDClab who received the EB Wilson Medal ! 🍾🍾🙏 ascb.org/society-news/a…
New @iScience_CP paper by @NinaSteele17 @Pasca_Lab Primary and metastatic cellular landscapes in human #PancreaticCancer cell.com/iscience/fullt… Signatures of pancreatic cancer metastases associated T cells (exhausted), macrophages (complement pathway) and fibroblasts (UPP1 +).
A really important resource in @CCR_AACR from @NinaSteele17 who deserves credit for collating all of these datasets in one place (besides her own de novo single cell and spatial transcriptomics data). Human #PancreaticCancer single cell atlas reveals association of CXCL10+…
Tenure-track faculty search of the @Ucsf_Biochem Department is open for applications! We are looking for creative, innovative scientists asking fundamental questions in any area of biology. Join our vibrant, collaborative, and supportive community! aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF05702
Grateful to Joan and Sandy Weill for their visionary gift, bringing the best from @Stanford @UCSF together to transform cancer care. And excited for our Project FEAST team tackle critically unanswered questions at the intersection of cancer, nutrition, obesity, and GLP-1 drugs.
Launched today- the Weill Cancer Hub West -supporting transformative cancer research collaborations btw @UCSF & @Stanford. Honored to co-lead, with @longlabstanford, our team who will study the impact of diet on pancreatic cancer initiation, progression and therapy response.
More on the Weill Cancer Hub West in the SF Chronicle 👇
This cancer center, the largest of its kind on the West Coast, aims to dramatically improve prevention and treatment over the next decade, with a focus on data-driven AI methods. sfchronicle.com/health/article…
Launched today- the Weill Cancer Hub West -supporting transformative cancer research collaborations btw @UCSF & @Stanford. Honored to co-lead, with @longlabstanford, our team who will study the impact of diet on pancreatic cancer initiation, progression and therapy response.
Backed by a $100M gift from Joan and Sandy Weill, UCSF and @StanfordMed @StanfordCancer are launching Weill Cancer Hub West, a $200M initiative in team science to accelerate cancer research and improve care over the next decade. tiny.ucsf.edu/ppVRqt
New online! A heterotrimeric protein complex assembles the metazoan V-ATPase upon dissipation of proton gradients bit.ly/3GjrXRN
New online! V-ATPase assembly at leaky lysosomes bit.ly/4ln0IVv
Thank you @ZouYilong and Charles David for this thoughtful commentary on our recent study connecting PCSK9 status with PDAC metastatic tropism
New online! A marker for sterol-dependent metastatic tropism bit.ly/4kIhqOc
Between alarms and sheltering, I learned last night that my postdoc mentor, Professor Atul Butte @atulbutte, has passed away, and he is only 55 years old. This is devastating news 💔. Atul was a giant in so many ways. He was a visionary leader in translational bioinformatics…
Happy to have contributed in a small way to this very cool study from Jim Wells lab, led by Fangzhu Zhao. They developed low-density lipoprotein receptor-targeting chimeras (LIPTACs) to promote induced extracellular protein degradation & ADC delivery. 👏 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Big congrats to grad students Claire Goul @clairegoul and Julian Yano @JulianYano on earning their PhDs from @berkeleyMCB. Greater adventures await you!