Scientist and administrator. Director of Research Planning and Development, James P. Allison Institute

Houston, TX
Joined January 2014
Senior postdocs: if your work touches cancer, apply to the Allison Institute NextGen Colloquium before July 3. Competitive. Fully funded. Sept 2-3 in Houston. Alumni are now faculty at MD Anderson, NYU, Berkeley, and Peter Mac. Link in replies.
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Senior postdocs: if your work touches cancer, apply to the Allison Institute NextGen Colloquium before July 3. Competitive. Fully funded. Sept 2-3 in Houston. Alumni are now faculty at MD Anderson, NYU, Berkeley, and Peter Mac. Link in replies.
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Visited @B2science today with the family. Been fascinated by the place since first hearing about it as a much younger guy. It didn’t disappoint. @elonmusk , are we going to build one on the moon?
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Speaking of only possible here, James P. Allison Institute Next Gen Colloquium January 22–23, 2026 TMC³ Collaborative Building | Houston, TX Apply here: submit.mdanderson.org/?event… Deadline is November 20, 2025.
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Understanding how nanoparticles interact with biological systems is crucial for their clinical application. Wen Jiang, Betty Kim et al discuss multi-omics approaches to decipher their interactions with biological systems @BettyKimLab @wenjiang_nano go.nature.com/41Ev9Q8
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‘Enigmatic’ cave art was made by ice age children | Science | AAAS - i see kids have not changed at all in 14k years. Mine do some ‘enigmatic’ work as well science.org/content/article/…
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India-United States Cancer Moonshot Dialogue. Forging collaborations to tackle cancer together. With @PamSharmaMDPhD @JimAllisonPhD #globalmoonshot #USIndiacancerdialogue ⁦@catgyoung⁩ @MDAndersonNews⁩
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The Allison Institute will be hosting a Next Gen Colloquium in Houston ahead of SITC in November. Details in photo. Please sign up or contact me with any questions.
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Excellent #AllisonInstitute journal club by Ken Hu who presented @ScheiermannLab recent Cell paper on circadian effects on CD8 T cell antitumor response. It was a fun conversation. I certainly learned something. @ChaibImmune is happier than he appears.
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The James P. Allison Institute’s Immunotherapy Platform is again up and running in the tmc3 collaborative building. The IMT performs and array of immune monitoring assays on patient tissues in collaboration with MD Anderson researchers and alliance partners.
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Wonderful appreciation luncheon with the Allison Institute family. Wonderful and fun event. Thanks to Sheba Hopkins
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Excellent Allison Institute seminar this week from @samirzaidi . Looking forward to hearing more about cancer cell plasticity.
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Congratulations, @MDAndersonNews Director @JimAllisonPhD, on your well-deserved induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame® for your pioneering work on immune checkpoint blockade therapy! #NIHF2024
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Incredible feature on ⁦@JimAllisonPhD⁩ and ⁦@PamSharmaMDPhD⁩! ⁦@MDAndersonNews⁩ ⁦@parkerici⁩ #endcancer #thunderthewonderdog youtu.be/oQlKJBS9CaQ?si=Qof-…
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