A goofy PI and an amazing team of scientists using genomics, epigenetics, bioinformatics, and immunotherapy to address the challenges of breast cancer

Salt Lake City, UT
Joined April 2019
Thanks @huntsmancancer for sharing my story of hope through research for #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth !
After losing her mother to #breastcancer, Katherine (K-T) Varley, PhD, dedicated her life to finding answers. Now as the leader of her own lab at HCI, she is providing answers to those with breast and #ovariancancer: bit.ly/3V6ImLA @VarleyLab #HCIproud
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Congrats to Rachel Stewart, 1st author on our @SciReports paper! Spatial protein profiling w/ @nanostringtech #GeoMxDSP in triple negative breast cancers revealed immune microenvironment changes associated with tumor cell MHCII expression & good prognosis nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
Thanks @huntsmancancer, @UUtah, and @ARUPLabs for fostering the collaborative environment that makes our translational research possible. It takes a village to develop a clinical test.
A personalized prognosis for patients diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer was the goal of a new study by Katherine Varley, PhD, researcher at HCI and assistant professor of oncological sciences at the @UUtah healthcare.utah.edu/huntsman…
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Thanks Debby @DebzNewz for the beautiful write-up of our research, and congrats to Rachel Stewart and our collaborators @huntsmancancer @UUtah for our recent paper in @CR_AACR : A multigene assay determines risk of recurrence in patients with TNBC cancerres.aacrjournals.org/c…
It was such a pleasure interviewing and getting to know Dr. Varley. Fascinating and pretty awesome work she's doing to try to make the quality of life better for triple-negative breast cancer patients.
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Congrats to @megsconway for earning an honors pass on her prelim exam today! #HardWorkPaysOff #milestone #ProudPI
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Hello Twitterverse! Thanks to @GertzLab @mjsikora @Myers_lab and @AlanaWelm for convincing me to stop being a social media hermit. Looking forward to hearing about the latest research discoveries and highlighting my terrific trainees’ accomplishments.
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