Jason Sheltzer

@JSheltzer

Assistant prof at @StanfordMed. Interested in aneuploidy, mitotic kinases, cancer therapeutics, and drug development. Co-founder x2.

sheltzerlab.org

Joined February 2016

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Jason Sheltzer
@JSheltzer
Jul 6, 2023
Check out our new study in @ScienceMagazine, where we take on a 100-year-old debate: what’s the role of aneuploidy in cancer? We discovered that genetically removing extra chromosomes blocks cancer growth - a phenomenon we call “aneuploidy addiction”.
science.org
Oncogene-like addiction to aneuploidy in human cancers
Specific aneuploidies benefit cancer cells and may be sensitive to treatment
Jason Sheltzer
@JSheltzer
Aug 7
At-home pregnancy tests were invented in 1967, but for years the FDA prevented them from being sold to consumers. Regulators believed that it was dangerous for people to be able to obtain this information directly - medical information had to come from a doctor, of course.
Claude
@claudeai
Aug 7
We’re updating Claude Fable 5’s biology safeguards to reduce false positives. In our testing, this update reduced biology-related fallbacks by about 85% across our product surfaces. Fable can now assist on a wider range of everyday health and educational questions. We believe
Jason Sheltzer
@JSheltzer
Jun 9
Still interviewing for these positions! Experience with mouse cancer models is preferred but not required.
Jason Sheltzer
@JSheltzer
May 12
My lab at @Stanford is looking to hire postdocs for multiple projects on cancer biology and therapeutics. Our recent work has uncovered some truly remarkable mechanisms for cytotoxic small molecules and we're looking to build on this research. If interested, see below:
Jason Sheltzer
@JSheltzer
Jun 4
imagine what we could accomplish if we decided that expanding the grant program that produced Google was a national priority.
U.S. National Science Foundation
@NSF
Jun 3
NSF-supported graduate students created a tool in the early 1990s to map links between webpages, helping people navigate the growing internet. That prototype laid the groundwork for what would become one of the world's largest companies: Google. brnw.ch/21x34io 📸:CQIM
Jason Sheltzer
@JSheltzer
May 26
Sounds great - we're recruiting right now! x.com/JSheltzer/stat…
Dr. Thomas Ichim
@exosome
May 26
Replying to @JSheltzer and @genomeresearch
Your research is amazing....when I sell my next company maybe I can do a sabbatical in your lab !