Pauline Funchain
Melanoma oncology @Stanford. Study hereditary genetics and irAEs. LA explant in SF via Ohio State, NIH/NHGRI, Harbor UCLA, and Cleveland Clinic. Sports fan, geek and mom. APD Hem/Onc fellowship. ASPirE founder, Checkpoint Now. COI bit.ly/43UCDOz
- Day 30 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 557 mins writing 📝 Not 12 days of Christmas, but 30 days of November: -5 pgs cut ✂️ -4 talks in 3 days 🎤 -2 manuscripts, 2 abstracts edited ✔️ -rainsoaked @scoutingamerica.bsky.social campout 🏕️ - @dodgers.com WS win 💍 and -1 aims page 📃 #grateful
- Day 29 #NaGraWriMo: 25 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 542 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: Cut 0.5 pg! Down to 7.5... Now in the cuts that hurt 😅😂
- Day 29 #NaGraWriMo: 25 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 542 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: Cut 0.5 pg! Down to 7.5... Now in the cuts that hurt 😅😂
- Day 28 #NaGraWriMo: 25 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 517 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: Black Friday changed the schedule but not the commitment. Day shopping and night writing ftw 🏆
- Day 28 #NaGraWriMo: 25 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 517 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: Black Friday changed the schedule but not the commitment. Day shopping and night writing ftw 🏆
- Day 27 #NaGraWriMo: 27 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 492 mins writing 📝 Happy Thanksgiving! Grateful for the opportunity to write and represent @stanford-cancer.bsky.social 🦃 Also, totally unintentional numerology in writing 27 mins for the 27th day 🍀
- Day 27 #NaGraWriMo: 27 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 492 mins writing 📝 Happy Thanksgiving! Grateful for the opportunity to write and represent @stanford-cancer.bsky.social 🦃 Also, totally unintentional numerology in writing 27 mins for the 27th day 🍀
- Day 25 and 26 #NaGraWriMo: 10 (gra) and 15 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 465 mins writing 📝 Rounding the bases...3 more pages trimmed ✂️
- Hugely impactful work addressing the toughest of diagnoses - leptomeningeal disease. Early trial discontinuation due to significant benefit of proton craniospinal irradiation (pCSI). Kudos to the authors including @drbetofmdphd.bsky.social @stanford-cancer.bsky.social 🙏🧠
- Proton craniospinal irradiation significantly improves survival outcomes compared to involved-field radiotherapy for patients with leptomeningeal metastases from non–small cell lung cancer and breast cancer. ja.ma/4puO9sK
- Day 25 and 26 #NaGraWriMo: 10 (gra) and 15 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 465 mins writing 📝 Rounding the bases...3 more pages trimmed ✂️
- Day 23 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 440 mins writing 📝 3 weeks down, 1 to go! Challenging myself in the home stretch to cut 1 page per day to make the material fit the grant guidelines 😅🏋️
- Day 24 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 465 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: I tend to look at both forest and trees, which is a skill in and of itself but also is time consuming. If #NaMaGraMo has taught me anything, you don't (shouldn't) have to keep doing it the way you always have 🙏
- Day 23 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 440 mins writing 📝 3 weeks down, 1 to go! Challenging myself in the home stretch to cut 1 page per day to make the material fit the grant guidelines 😅🏋️
- Author's note: Did btw successfully cut over a page today! Excited to try again tomorrow 🥳
- Day 23 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 440 mins writing 📝 3 weeks down, 1 to go! Challenging myself in the home stretch to cut 1 page per day to make the material fit the grant guidelines 😅🏋️
- Day 21 and 22 #NaGraWriMo: 20 (ma) and 15 (ma) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 425 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: This is the first year I've had to double-day post regularly. Reflecting that as feedback (and grace) for exactly how challenging this year has been in comparison to the last 4 yrs I've done this 🕊️
- Day 21 and 22 #NaGraWriMo: 20 (ma) and 15 (ma) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 425 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: This is the first year I've had to double-day post regularly. Reflecting that as feedback (and grace) for exactly how challenging this year has been in comparison to the last 4 yrs I've done this 🕊️
- Day 19 and 20 #NaGraWriMo: 25 (ma) and 15 (ma) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 390 mins writing 📝 2 more manuscript edits down 🥳 2/3 of November and #NaGraWriMo is in the books! 😅
- Day 19 and 20 #NaGraWriMo: 25 (ma) and 15 (ma) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 390 mins writing 📝 2 more manuscript edits down 🥳 2/3 of November and #NaGraWriMo is in the books! 😅
- Day 18 #NaGraWriMo: 20 (ma) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 350 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: As much as I want edits to take less time as I have more editing years under my belt, they still take a lot of time! On day 3 of what I thought would be 1 day of editing...
- Day 18 #NaGraWriMo: 20 (ma) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 350 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: As much as I want edits to take less time as I have more editing years under my belt, they still take a lot of time! On day 3 of what I thought would be 1 day of editing...
- Day 17 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (ma) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 330 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: Oops transposed a day, so adding that day back to the total. Too tired for math, but not too tired to write! ✍️💪
- Day 17 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (ma) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 330 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: Oops transposed a day, so adding that day back to the total. Too tired for math, but not too tired to write! ✍️💪
- Day 14 + 15 #NaGraWriMo: 50 (ma) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 290 mins writing 📝 Real talk - gave 4 talks in 3 days, followed by a rain soaked @scoutingamerica.bsky.social campout. I'm exhausted, happy, and should NEVER repeat a stretch like that again 🫠 Also HALFWAY DONE 🥳
- Reposted by Pauline FunchainSign up now! 2026 ASPIRE-IOTOX Symposium at MDAnderson April 24-25, 2026. Join us to discuss #irAE! mdanderson.cloud-cme.com/course/cours... @funchainmd.bsky.social @kerryreynoldsmd.bsky.social @kmittalmd.bsky.social
- 🚨irAE aficionados - ASPIRE+ IOTOX CME 2026 - hosted by @mdanderson.bsky.social - open for registration! Abstract submission is also open 📝 Register below 👇 mdanderson.cloud-cme.com/course/cours...
- Day 14 + 15 #NaGraWriMo: 50 (ma) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 290 mins writing 📝 Real talk - gave 4 talks in 3 days, followed by a rain soaked @scoutingamerica.bsky.social campout. I'm exhausted, happy, and should NEVER repeat a stretch like that again 🫠 Also HALFWAY DONE 🥳
- Day 13 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 240 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: Giving myself enough time to put away crucial pieces of writing (e.g. aims) and come back to them with fresh eyes, and repeating the process multiple times - I've had new thoughts each time #IterationWorks 🏆
- Good morning Mountain View 🌞 Nothing like starting the day jumping into the great academic debate over surveillance strategies for uveal melanoma. Esp if one of the debaters is an old friend and colleague Arun Singh @clevelandclinic.bsky.social Whatever it takes to knock out cancer 🥊 #rarediseases
- Amazing night celebrating the inception of the Alan Adler Center for Ophthalmic Oncology and Prithvi Mruthyunjaya, the Alan Adler Professor of Ophthalmology @ Byers Eye and @stanford-cancer.bsky.social member 🍾🎊
- Day 14 #NaGraWriMo: 25 (ma) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 265 mins writing 📝 Abstract edits ✅ Manuscript edits 1/2 way… Two weeks down 🏋️♀️
- Day 13 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 240 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: Giving myself enough time to put away crucial pieces of writing (e.g. aims) and come back to them with fresh eyes, and repeating the process multiple times - I've had new thoughts each time #IterationWorks 🏆
- Day 13 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 240 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: Giving myself enough time to put away crucial pieces of writing (e.g. aims) and come back to them with fresh eyes, and repeating the process multiple times - I've had new thoughts each time #IterationWorks 🏆
- Day 12 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 225 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: Noise does matter... Tomorrow recommitting to writing before everyone else wakes up 😇
- Day 12 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 225 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: Noise does matter... Tomorrow recommitting to writing before everyone else wakes up 😇
- Day 11 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 210 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: consistency is its own skill and reward (inspo from @dodgers.com, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and Shohei Ohtani 💙)
- Reposted by Pauline FunchainAbstract submissions for Spring Scientific are open through Jan. 15, 2026. Don’t miss this opportunity to share your research with your colleagues and fellow immuno-oncology professionals. Learn more about the program and register: sitcancer.org/edu/2026-spring-sci…
- Day 11 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 210 mins writing 📝 Today's insight: consistency is its own skill and reward (inspo from @dodgers.com, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and Shohei Ohtani 💙)
- Day 10 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (gra) + 25 mins (ma) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 195 mins writing 📝 Post vaccine recovery day (Day 9)...learned that sleeping in kills the writing for me. Up early today and punched it out 🌞 #BeginAgain #RealWorldWriting #MondayMotivation
- Day 10 #NaGraWriMo: 15 (gra) + 25 mins (ma) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 195 mins writing 📝 Post vaccine recovery day (Day 9)...learned that sleeping in kills the writing for me. Up early today and punched it out 🌞 #BeginAgain #RealWorldWriting #MondayMotivation
- Day 8 #NaGraWriMo: 15 mins (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 155 mins writing 📝 Exhausted on a post vaccine day, but committed and completed 👊
- Day 8 #NaGraWriMo: 15 mins (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 155 mins writing 📝 Exhausted on a post vaccine day, but committed and completed 👊
- Day 7 #NaGraWriMo: 15 mins (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 140 mins writing 📝 Routine broke yesterday, but as they say in meditation circles, #BeginAgain 🌬️ Back on track! One week down! 💪
- Day 7 #NaGraWriMo: 15 mins (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 140 mins writing 📝 Routine broke yesterday, but as they say in meditation circles, #BeginAgain 🌬️ Back on track! One week down! 💪
- Day 5 & 6 #NaGraWriMo: 15 +15 mins (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 125 mins writing 📝 Argh, forgot to post yesterday - living a life that I will appreciate for its fullness... 🙃
- Day 5 & 6 #NaGraWriMo: 15 +15 mins (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 125 mins writing 📝 Argh, forgot to post yesterday - living a life that I will appreciate for its fullness... 🙃
- Day 4 #NaGraWriMo: 15 mins (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 95 mins writing 📝 #GoVote 🗳️
- Is this explosive growth in publications good for science: Fabulous questions posed and thoughtful summary on the state of publications today by @kbibbinsdomingo.bsky.social editor in chief @jama.com Medicine Grand Rounds @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social
- 🚨 irAE aficionados! This Friday! @aspire-cop.bsky.social is at @sitcancer.bsky.social 🥳 ⏱️4-6p 📍Chesapeake Rm 2-3 More details below:
- AI in Clinical Science - amazing data being presented today by @jason-fries.bsky.social Sylvia Plevritis @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social @akshay-chaudhari.bsky.social but still feel like we are just barely cracking the egg in this field. So impatient for the omelette…! @stanford-cancer.bsky.social
- Ever wonder why our HLA specified cancer therapies are only for HLA02:01 thus far? @possuhuanglab.bsky.social presents the scope of the problem at the inaugural @stanford-cancer.bsky.social AI and Cancer Research Symposium 🧬
- Seeing the future: from Election Day straight to AI and Cancer Research @stanford-cancer.bsky.social Keynote speaker Michelle Mello @law.stanford.edu with involved Q&A over the use of AI in prior auth
- Day 4 #NaGraWriMo: 15 mins (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 95 mins writing 📝 #GoVote 🗳️
- Day 3 #NaGraWriMo: 20 mins (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 80 mins writing 📝
- Day 3 #NaGraWriMo: 20 mins (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 80 mins writing 📝
- Day 2 #NaGraWriMo: 20 mins (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 60 mins writing 📝 Still soaking in the #WorldSeries joy and recovering from the exhaustion of 74 innings of fandom while traveling over the last week #WorthIt
- Reposted by Pauline FunchainSo wonderful to be in this group with you! Congratulations to you as well @funchainmd.bsky.social 🥰
- Reposted by Pauline FunchainAnd what an honor to be recognized alongside @funchainmd.bsky.social and all of these other outstanding oncologists @ascocancer.bsky.social!
- To be in the company of @mikkaelsekeres.bsky.social @crisbergerot.bsky.social is wild! Congrats to my fellow Fellows. I am so honored to be in your company and to be recognized by @ASCO
- Day 2 #NaGraWriMo: 20 mins (gra) ✅ Nov 2025 total: 60 mins writing 📝 Still soaking in the #WorldSeries joy and recovering from the exhaustion of 74 innings of fandom while traveling over the last week #WorthIt
- Day 1 #NaGraWriMo: 30 mins (sm) + 10 mins (gra) ✅ This year, it's winning the #WorldSeries on Day 1 (and also Day 2 for you on EST) and then editing grants (gra) and social media (sm) copy for the rest of the month. #DodgersWin #BackToBack #Champs
- Day 1 #NaGraWriMo: 30 mins (sm) + 10 mins (gra) ✅ This year, it's winning the #WorldSeries on Day 1 (and also Day 2 for you on EST) and then editing grants (gra) and social media (sm) copy for the rest of the month. #DodgersWin #BackToBack #Champs
- It's Nov 1! #NaMaWriMo and #NaGraWriMo are back! ✍️ In the month of November, challenge yourself and oomfs to write daily to complete a manuscript or grant: 117 words/day = 3500 word manuscript 200 words/day = 12 page R01 Research Strategy RIP #NaNoWriMo - thank you for the inspo, the 🔥 is alive
- Reposted by Pauline FunchainFor the first time in 25 years, Major League Baseball has a repeat champion, and of course it’s California’s own Dodgers. Congratulations!
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- It's Nov 1! #NaMaWriMo and #NaGraWriMo are back! ✍️ In the month of November, challenge yourself and oomfs to write daily to complete a manuscript or grant: 117 words/day = 3500 word manuscript 200 words/day = 12 page R01 Research Strategy RIP #NaNoWriMo - thank you for the inspo, the 🔥 is alive
- Challenging @smittay07.bsky.social @macmartinmd.bsky.social @prakashlab.bsky.social @mullallylab.bsky.social Bring that science and your beautiful words to life! 🧬🔥
- To be in the company of @mikkaelsekeres.bsky.social @crisbergerot.bsky.social is wild! Congrats to my fellow Fellows. I am so honored to be in your company and to be recognized by @ASCO
- Join us in congratulating the following members on earning the Fellows of ASCO (FASCO) distinction last quarter! We are grateful for their extraordinary volunteer service, dedication, and commitment to ASCO. Learn more about FASCO distinction: brnw.ch/21wX0Hi
- “A child does not pay for his mother’s milk.” 🙏 Profound global cancer lessons from Dr. Miriam Mutebi Nothing like #ESMO25 back-to-back with a deep dive into cancer in Africa to understand cancer as a truly 🌍 global effort @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social Grand Rounds 👏 @stanford-cancer.bsky.social
- Pledge allegiance to your hands, your team, your vibes/all the airports you have been/Caffeine, you’re mine/ it’s ‘bout to be the sleepless night/ because of ESMO #yayjetlag #LifeofanAcademicGirl
- The Mount Rushmore of @stanford-cancer.bsky.social leaders past and present at a fireside chat, reflecting on their career paths, their pivotal choices, how they maintain high achievement with non-academic life #Asilomar25
- Pearls: -Central nodes and far flung networks. Go learn and meet people outside of your expertise -Be a voracious reader -Are you a pole fisher or fly fisher? Know who you are and fit your work with your tendencies -Get out of your comfort zone, this is where the growth happens
- Fangirling here - Sumbul Desai VP of Health at Apple, previously worked at Disney, now bringing access to health information to the masses with a small metal and glass box that sits on your wrist #MGR @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social
- #CCRTP25 cancer immunotherapy session covering the breadth of anti tumor immunity - immune tolerance incited by lymph node involvement @retickerflynn.bsky.social, cytokine conditioning of T cells - A Kalbasi, and synthetic engineering of cytokine receptors - K Daniels @stanford-cancer.bsky.social
- Good morning Redwood City 🌞 Rise and shine to Day 2 of the #CCRTP25 @stanford-cancer.bsky.social Still unbelievable to be colleagues with Dr Ron Levy and see how integrated and committed he is to educating the next generation of cancer researchers
- Great 💎s on GI cancers at #CCRTP25 @stanford-cancer.bsky.social @corsello.bsky.social -drug discovery w better yield from unexpected hits, then subsequently modified -negative results so important to publish -environmental factors like weight most likely culprits of young onset colon cancer
- So far we have talked about non smoking Asian females (lung cancer) and people in their 30s and 40s (colon cancer) and I’m feeling a bit targeted in the worst way 😂 #CCRTP25 @stanford-cancer.bsky.social
- The amazing breath of nicotine products today, with significantly higher amounts of nicotine than cigarettes, covered by keynote speaker Carly Kajiwara from the Halpern-Felsher Lab @stanford-cancer.bsky.social #CCRTP25
- Good morning Redwood City 🌞 Rise and shine for an action packed day at the Comprehensive Cancer Research Training Program @stanford-cancer.bsky.social - Day 1 of 2 for soaking in cancer research 🤓🥳
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- Reposted by Pauline FunchainThis program reflects our commitment to fostering meaningful partnerships and supporting the next generation of leaders in cancer research. We’re proud to be part of their journey and look forward to the ideas and energy they bring to our community this summer. @funchainmd.bsky.social
- Wrapping up #ASCO24 with this thought: let’s get more people under the survival curve and lift it up - it might be prolonged survival, it might even be cure. Every moment counts. May we all walk into our post ASCO lives inspired ✨ 📈 @ascocancer.bsky.social @aspire-cop.bsky.social
- SCI leader @funchainmd.bsky.social & others review treatment strategies for #MetastaticMelanoma: BRAF/MEK inhibitors improve survival; #TILtherapy shows 30% durable response; novel TCR-T & CD3 bispecifics emerging; ICI viable even with irAEs, age, or transplant history.
