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Elihu Professor of Biostatistics—Cancer, Infectious Disease, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Fungi, sometimes Running ➗🦀*🐒🍄🏃♂️ but headed for bluer skies
Yale University
Joined May 2009
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Jeffrey Townsend retweeted
Thanks for the offer, @mcuban! I appreciate your innovative work in this space as we bring all ideas to the table.
No more kicking the can down the road in New Jersey. I want accountability and results.
We’d love to have you on Team Jersey as we tackle this challenge. Let’s talk – we'll reach out today!
@GovSherrillNJ
I’ll volunteer to be on the committee that cuts your health benefits cost. You need someone from the outside that is objective, and can stand up to the big healthcare conglomerates
nj.gov/governor/news/2026/20…
Jeffrey Townsend retweeted
Facts !
Well done, @GovSherrillNJ! Your healthcare reform will save both money and lives.
Please take @mcuban up on his offer to help. He has shown the benefits of replacing opaque PBM middlemen with transparency. He gave our team all of his data the same day we asked. Our projections show that if NJ paid Cost Plus Drug prices, the state would save over $460 million every year.
Jeffrey Townsend retweeted
@GovSherrillNJ
I’ll volunteer to be on the committee that cuts your health benefits cost. You need someone from the outside that is objective, and can stand up to the big healthcare conglomerates
nj.gov/governor/news/2026/20…
Jeffrey Townsend retweeted
Well done, @GovSherrillNJ! Your healthcare reform will save both money and lives.
Please take @mcuban up on his offer to help. He has shown the benefits of replacing opaque PBM middlemen with transparency. He gave our team all of his data the same day we asked. Our projections show that if NJ paid Cost Plus Drug prices, the state would save over $460 million every year.
@GovSherrillNJ
I’ll volunteer to be on the committee that cuts your health benefits cost. You need someone from the outside that is objective, and can stand up to the big healthcare conglomerates
nj.gov/governor/news/2026/20…
Jeffrey Townsend retweeted
Over and over again, we hear that Medicare for All is just “too expensive.” That is demonstrably false.
Not only would my legislation save lives, it would save money.
This isn't just me talking. Hear it from leading healthcare experts at the Yale School of Public Health.
Jeffrey Townsend retweeted
Breaking News: Major TV networks — ABC, CBS, Fox News and NBC — agreed to suspend their pooled coverage of President Trump after the White House blocked CNN from its duties. nyti.ms/4yLP5O9
Jeffrey Townsend retweeted
We’re grateful for the @Yale College Class of 1961 #CancerEndowment, which has grown to more than $3.5 million, awarding over $900,000 in research grants to young scientists at @YaleCancer.
medicine.yale.edu/news-artic…
@SmilowCancer
Jeffrey Townsend retweeted
This tree and its fantastic mushrooms are the stars of our @NSF outreach program on fungal ecology, evolution and diversity, bringing the fascinating world of fungi to students at a local magnet middle school through the @YaleSPH @JeffTownsend lab!
Jeffrey Townsend retweeted
An American beech tree near campus never disappoints me. Every year, it produces hen-of-the-woods mushrooms, and this year there are probably more than 20, perhaps because of all the rain and the recent cold spells.
Jeffrey Townsend retweeted
The Russians secretly paid for Donald Trump Jr.’s private island wedding reception. Yes, you heard that right.
I went to the Senate floor last night to talk about the corrupt Trump-Russia alliance - so that we never start feeling like this is normal.
Jeffrey Townsend retweeted
.@HenryParkMD will present a research poster at #WCLC in Seoul Sunday on "Androgen Receptor Mutations in #NSCLC are Enriched in Females and Predict Better Immunotherapy Response."
cattendee.abstractsonline.co…
@SmilowCancer @IASLC @YaleRadOnc
People say #Medicare4All is “too expensive” yet Americans already pay huge sums through taxes, premiums, deductibles, copayments, and prescription costs. The real question is: should our health-care system should serve patients or profits.
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youtu.be/BPOq6oup228
Jeffrey Townsend retweeted
Early onset cancer is the topic tonight on #YaleCancerAnswers, and guests Dr. Nancy Borstelmann and @vedangiri, directors of the @SmilowCancer #earlyonsetcancer program, talk about diagnosis and family history, and the unique challenges young patients face.
🎧Listen live @wnpr
▶️Available on @ApplePodcasts, @Spotify, @YouTube
@YaleMed @YNHH
Jeffrey Townsend retweeted
In #livercancer, some of the most important drivers of cancer are not the most frequent. A new study from @JeffTownsend shows how ranking mutations by cancer effect size, not frequency alone, can surface rare, potentially high-impact variants overlooked by standard approaches.
medicine.yale.edu/cancer/pub…
@SmilowCancer @PLOSONE @YaleSPH
Jeffrey Townsend retweeted
Making science the sole arbiter of public policy and ethics
250 years young, let’s keep our republic academic.oup.com/bioscience/…
Jeffrey Townsend retweeted
Analysis from @JeffTownsend et al. suggests continued investment in #mRNA #cancer #immunotherapy could have substantial population-level benefits with an estimated 49,000 deaths averted across NSCLC, pancreatic cancer, RCC, and melanoma.
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
@SmilowCancer @YaleSPH @OncoAlert
Jeffrey Townsend retweeted
.@JeffTownsend shares an editorial in @IntJCanc on the analysis from Vaeyens et al. of BRAF, KRAS & EGFR, showing why co-mutation patterns are hypotheses and not proof of biological interaction. Genomics + epistasis + functional validation can reveal the biology behind the patterns.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
@SmilowCancer @YaleSPH
250 years young, let’s keep our republic academic.oup.com/bioscience/…
Jeffrey Townsend retweeted
Heather Cox Richardson convinced me that waiting it out for now is the right course. If Beshear appointed someone, THAT would become the story. As it is, the GOP non-answer/possible cover-up is the story.
Kentucky’s constitution gives Gov. Beshear the power to appoint a Democrat to McConnell’s seat. I signed — tell him to use it: petition.edwardswire.com/bes…
