Selma Masri
Associate Professor @UC Irvine studying how circadian clocks impact immunity, metabolism, stemness, and cancer. Obsessed with wine and my plants.
https://masrilaboratory.com
- Reposted by Selma MasriExcited to share work published in @cp-cancercell.bsky.social by @yijuan.bsky.social showing that macropinocytosis inhibition drives myCAF-to-iCAF conversion, enhancing therapeutic responses in pancreatic cancer. Thank you to our collaborators that contributed! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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- Reposted by Selma MasriScience story about termination of terminations... www.science.org/content/arti...
- Reposted by Selma MasriA number of firsts this year including my first time participating in commencement @ucirvine.bsky.social and hooding my first 2 graduate students that have earned their PhDs!! Congratulations Valeria and Melissa! You are both amazing and this is only the beginning! 💪🧬🧪🦸♀️🦸♀️
- Reposted by Selma MasriThe findings at the recent trial and today's Columbia chaos is pushing me to the edge. I just sent the following email...
- Reposted by Selma MasriHere is a link you can blast out to all of your networks to ask them to consider signing on in support of our NIH heroes. actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na... We are at 5000 folks who have signed on. But we can do better Only for people who have ever been sick or knows someone who has been.
- Looking forward to sharing our recent work at #SLEEP2025! Circadian Medicine session starting in about an hour and I’ll be discussing approaches to timing cancer immunotherapy. See you there!
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- Reposted by Selma MasriThanks to @npr.org and the Shortwave podcast for covering circadian research! It was very cool to be on the podcast and on All Things Considered. And Kudos to Chris Hall for the exciting work. www.npr.org/2025/05/29/n... www.npr.org/2025/05/30/1...
- Reposted by Selma MasriCheck out our latest story @natcancer.nature.com co-led with @masrilab.bsky.social that reviews how the circadian clock intersects several aspects of cancer biology. Excited to be part of this collaborative team effort to understand impacts on DNA repair, early onset cancer, and cancer treatment 💪🧬🕔
- Super happy to share our latest in @natcancer.nature.com co-led by @pannunziolab.bsky.social! We review the complex role of the circadian clock in genome integrity, DNA repair, immunity, metabolism, and cancer with a specific focus on early-onset cancer. Check it out! www.nature.com/articles/s43...
- Super happy to share our latest in @natcancer.nature.com co-led by @pannunziolab.bsky.social! We review the complex role of the circadian clock in genome integrity, DNA repair, immunity, metabolism, and cancer with a specific focus on early-onset cancer. Check it out! www.nature.com/articles/s43...
- Congratulations to first author Bridget Fortin, a true rockstar! Also, a huge shout out to our phenomenal collaborators on this piece, @yincaoscd.bsky.social and Katja Lamia. This was a true team effort!
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- Reposted by Selma MasriWe had previously shown that TBX3 and #WNT cooperate in limb #DevBio We now have a shocking finding, just published in @pnas.org TBX3 physically engages with β-catenin to drive metastasis genes in #ColorectalCancer (CRC) www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....
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- Reposted by Selma MasriNew preprint! 🧓⚡️ Aging drives immune exclusion & metastasis in PDAC by rewiring the tumor stroma. Young CAFs ♻️ rejuvenate the aged microenvironment & restore immune infiltration. Read: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #PDAC #Aging #TumorMicroenvironment #Preprint
- Just watched this episode. John Oliver did an outstanding job breaking everything down, even what indirects costs are! It’s our job to get all this information out, especially to inform the general public. This needs to stop. Now.
- Here is the link to the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver about RFK, Jr, public health, and HHS (including NIH) www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H34...
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- Reposted by Selma MasriPresident Donald Trump’s administration appears to be killing much, if not all, of a historic initiative that was the first, and is still the largest, National Institutes of Health effort centered on the health needs of women. scim.ag/4jLeLTJ
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- Reposted by Selma MasriNew STAT story about the possible new NIH grants terms and conditions www.statnews.com/2025/04/21/t...
- Reposted by Selma Masriwww.ucdavis.edu/research/lab... @ucdavis.bsky.social @ucdavishealth.bsky.social @ucdavisplants.bsky.social @ucdaviscns.bsky.social @ucdavispsych.bsky.social
- Reposted by Selma MasriSTAT story about freezing all payments to Columbia, Harvard, Brown, Northwestern, Cornell, and Cornell-Weill Medicine. www.statnews.com/2025/04/18/n...
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- Reposted by Selma MasriThe cast and crew of Pannunzio Lab season 6! Despite everything going on we continue to grow and be productive. Their excitement about science is contagious. These are the people that keep me coming in every day 💪🫀🧬
- Reposted by Selma MasriMy story about @kevinh-phd.bsky.social, nutrition and metabolism scientist at N.I.H., who felt compelled to take early retirement after experiencing censorship of his work under the new administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...
- Reposted by Selma MasriToday, we report that APOBEC3B targets unprotected single-stranded DNA at replication forks upon ATR inhibition, triggering a reaction cascade involving UNG2 and APE1 that leads to fork collapse and hyperactivation of PARP1, causing replication catastrophe. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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- Reposted by Selma MasriIf a student you know received an honorable mention for the NSF GRFP, encourage them to contact their Congressional representatives! 🧪
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- Reposted by Selma MasriThey are now estimating 2.3 million across the country. Keep it going folks. #handsoff #50501protests
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- Reposted by Selma MasriFinally got the notice. Very sad day for the MOSAIC program that supported some of the most amazing scientists I know, as well as some of the awesome people on my lab.
- Reposted by Selma MasriAfter getting some rest, I am in awe of everyone who continues to lift their voice and speak out. This is a moment for our country, and we must make a choice about the America we want to be.
- Please vote and support our work @ucirvine.bsky.social!! @statnews.com
- We need your support! @ucirvine.bsky.social has made it to the semifinals in #STATMadness @statnews.com. We need your support to send us to the finals!!! Let’s goooooo!!!! www.statnews.com/feature/stat...
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- Please vote and send us to the next round!!! @ucirvine.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Selma MasriA sad day for Columbia and for our democracy. "Additionally the school believed there was considerable overlap between needed campus changes and Trump’s demands" has got to be one of the most depressing sentences ever written. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
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- Reposted by Selma MasriIn 2024 NIH grant awards supported 407,782 jobs and $94.58 billion in new economic activity nationwide, the largest figure in the history of the report. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
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- Reposted by Selma MasriBluetorial: Women, courage, and leadership What follows will include some generalizations based on population averages of what I have experienced over the course of my career. There are, of course, exceptions in every group who are substantially more to one extreme or the other.
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- Reposted by Selma MasriBy crushing cancer research, what are Elon & Trump making more efficient? Their NIH funding cuts are illegal—so instead, they're suffocating the grant approval process for cancer researchers with so much red tape that labs & clinical trials will be forced to shut down.
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- Reposted by Selma MasriAlmost all grant-review meetings remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health, preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget. go.nature.com/418B5Pm
- Reposted by Selma MasriGuardian story about Federal Register issue is up. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
