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Nathan Fons

@nathan_fons

Postdoctoral fellow at the National Cancer Institute. Ph.D: Yale University. B.S. Univ. Wiscosin-Madison. Sports, Science, and Badgers!

 Washington, DC
Joined November 2017
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Great to catch up with Bindra Lab’s first grad student @nathan_fons! Still as passionate and driven about science when we first met, years ago! @YaleCancer @YaleRadOnc #AACR2023 #science Read about his thesis work in: nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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Sacrificing the rights of the many, for the ideals of the few…
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Excited to announce that our new paper is out, highlighting an alternative cell surface receptor for the binding of HPV prior to infection! doi.org/10.1128/jvi.01857-21
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I know it will go down as a no-contest, but why does this feel like a win for the Gophers? Sad. #Badgers
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@SportsCenter24 Nov 2020
The Minnesota at Wisconsin game on Saturday, Nov. 28, has been called off and will not be rescheduled, per Big Ten policy for this season. The Golden Gophers football team will pause all team-related activities as it responds to positive COVID-19 cases in the program.
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Quite a few million people getting soaked this afternoon #zeta
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Marathon: ✅! Virtual Marine Corps Marathon from White's Ferry -> Harper's Ferry on a beautiful fall day. Big shoutout to my support team of bikers. Couldn't have done it without them. #virtuallyunstoppable #RunWithTheMarines
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You can’t use reason to convince anyone out of an argument that they didn’t use reason to get into.
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As a world renowned ASTROphysicist, I wonder what @neiltyson thinks about the Astros cheating scandal? #sportscience
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Looks like DC finally has a professional football team #Defenders #2-0
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You: This one untested supplement will restore balance to my body Your body:
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Looks like The Almighty has picked a team in the World Series. Go Nationals!... I guess. #nationalcathedral #NatsAstros #WorldSeries
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Promising new findings for children with a rare #braincancer called #DIPG! Research out today in @NatureComms led by @ranjitbindra could lead to new drug therapies to treat this devastating disease. @YaleMed @YNHH @iowamed @TGen
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Our newest story is out! An unexpected NAD metabolic vulnerability in DIPG w/ gr8 clinical potential...much more work 2do, but an entirely new direction 4DIPG+many other tumors w/ PPM1D mutations! #DIPG #GBM @YaleCancer @nathan_fons @TGen @CharlesMBrenner rdcu.be/bPgTk
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Great new paper out on PPM1D mutant DIPGs and synthetic lethality with NAMPT inhibitors! A lot of blood, sweat, (some tears) and hardwork went into this one, but you #cantstopbiology. @ranjitbindra @CharlesMBrenner @TGen @NatureComms nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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Winners of happy hour trivia! Go #BindraLab !! @ranjitbindra
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Amrita Sule@AmritaSule24 Aug 2018
This is our super awesome lab after the annual lab retreat! #theycantstopbiology #bindralab
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Ending a great 2018 Bindra Lab retreat - thankful to have such a great team working towards a cure #cantstopbiology #instatweet
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Trump's gonna get re-elected because of all the new manufacturing jobs as curling rinks are hastily constructed in every Midwestern town >5,000 people.
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Loving the Bindra lab showing at the @YaleCancer RadOnc annual holiday party
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Thesis committee meetings still make nervous...even when one of my grad students!
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