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Vijay Sankaran

7,102 posts

Vijay Sankaran

@bloodgenes

Pediatric Hematologist/Oncologist, Geneticist, Stem Cell Biologist - @HHMINEWS, @BostonChildrens, @DanaFarber, @broadinstitute

Boston, MA

Joined August 2015

Vijay Sankaran
@bloodgenes
Nov 16, 2023
Remarkable to see that our discoveries over 15 years ago would enable such tremendous advances for sickle cell disease and thalassemia!!! Incredible to think that the final sentence of our 2008 paper would be prophetic (science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…)... statnews.com/2023/11/16/u-k…
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Vijay Sankaran
@bloodgenes
May 31, 2024
20 years ago I was finishing my first year at @harvardmed... Never did I imagine I would be here today. Grateful to all the incredible lab members past and present, amazing mentors, remarkable colleagues, and others who have made this possible! 🙏 for all those who wrote letters!
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Vijay Sankaran
@bloodgenes
Jul 23, 2024
I am tremendously honored to join this amazing cohort of @HHMINEWS Investigators! I am incredibly fortunate to have worked with incredible people in our laboratory and excited for all that we will be able to do in the coming years!
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Vijay Sankaran
@bloodgenes
May 2, 2023
Delighted to have our paper, led by @jmartinrufino, on conducting massively parallel base editing screens in primary human hematopoietic cells out in @CellCellPress today. Can help improve therapeutic approaches for #leukemia and #sicklecell disease: cell.com/cell/fulltext/…
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Vijay Sankaran
@bloodgenes
Oct 13, 2022
Interested in how cellular barcoding can help us better understand and treat human diseases? Please check out this review from @leonard_zon, @JswLab, and I in @ScienceMagazine today: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
Vijay Sankaran
@bloodgenes
Dec 5, 2020
Enjoying Dr. Fauci and #ASH20 at home!
Vijay Sankaran
@bloodgenes
Sep 17, 2020
Our review on how advances in #genomics have impacted our understanding of #hematopoiesis was published in @CellCellPress today. Grateful to the reviewers and editors for valuable guidance. We tried to cover a lot and apologize for all that we missed: cell.com/cell/fulltext/…
Vijay Sankaran
@bloodgenes
Feb 22, 2022
Incredibly honored to receive the 2022 @SocPedResearch E Mead Johnson Award, which many of my mentors and heroes have been prior recipients of! This recognizes the incredible work of past and current lab members, as well as tremendous collaborators and colleagues! 🙏
Dana-Farber/Boston Children's
@DFBC_PedCare
Feb 22, 2022
Congratulations to Vijay Sankaran, MD, PhD, (@bloodgenes) on receiving the 2022 E. Mead Johnson Award from @SocPedResearch for his research using human genetic variation to advance our understanding of blood cell production! ms.spr.ly/6010wuiOE
Vijay Sankaran
@bloodgenes
Jan 22, 2024
Fantastic to have our paper "Deciphering cell states and genealogies of human hematopoiesis" published today in @Nature as an Accelerated Article Preview! We describe ReDeeM! Awesome work led by @chenweng1991 in a wonderful collaboration with @JswLab! nature.com/articles/s4158…
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Vijay Sankaran
@bloodgenes
Apr 3, 2025
Delighted to have our Perturb-multiome paper, led by @jmartinrufino and #AlexisCaulier from our lab, published today in @ScienceMagazine. Please check out this powerful approach to decipher gene regulatory networks enriched for genetic variation:
science.org
Transcription factor networks disproportionately enrich for heritability of blood cell phenotypes
Most phenotype-associated genetic variants map to noncoding regulatory regions of the human genome, but their mechanisms remain elusive in most cases. We developed a highly efficient strategy,...
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Vijay Sankaran
@bloodgenes
Jan 12, 2024
Wonderful to have our paper, "Inherited blood cancer predisposition through altered transcription elongation", published (open access) in @CellCellPress today! cell.com/cell/fulltext/… 🧵 (1/n)
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Vijay Sankaran
@bloodgenes
Feb 16, 2023
Really delighted to have our paper led by @ZHAOJiawei9 showing how human hematopoietic stem cells are vulnerable to ferroptosis published in @CellCellPress: cell.com/cell/fulltext/… 🙏 to our awesome reviewers and editor for helping us improve this work significantly!
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Vijay Sankaran
@bloodgenes
Jan 25, 2022
Are you interested in how we can learn more human biology by integrating #singlecell genomics and #GWAS? Please check out our preprint: #V2F mapping at single-cell resolution through network propagation biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Led by @fulong_yu! A short 🧵 (1/n)
Vijay Sankaran
@bloodgenes
Nov 1, 2019
Incredibly honored to receive the Lodish Family Chair from @BostonChildrens! Would not have been possible without the many tremendous trainees, colleagues, and mentors that I have been fortunate to work with! Particularly meaningful that this was given by Pam and Harvey Lodish!
Dana-Farber/Boston Children's
@DFBC_PedCare
Nov 1, 2019
Congratulations to Vijay Sankaran, MD, PhD, who was named the inaugural recipient of the Lodish Family Career Development Chair at @BostonChildrens last month. Learn more about @bloodgenes on our website: ms.spr.ly/6013TrC9U