Christine Chaffer

Cancer biologist. Studying cancer cell plasticity and how it impacts cancer progression. Designing new therapeutic strategies.

[Phan Lab @LabPhan]

Please check out this opportunity to work with amazing scientist @seyhanyazar unraveling GxE interactions in complex autoimmune diseases. Come work in exciting supportive cross-disciplinary environment in #PrecisionImmunology program @GarvanInstitute! Please share & retweet!

[Phan Lab @LabPhan]

A recent paper describing a neuroimmune circuit that connects painful inflammation to enhanced GC responses in the spleen has @ElissaDeenick @GarvanInstitute @KirbyInstitute & me in awe! Please see our Research Highlight @cell_res & tweetorial below. 1/5
https://t.co/fwhUoMfTVD

[Phan Lab @LabPhan]

@Cancer_Cell Not just the tumour draining lymph node. Please consider local and systemic effects of treatment on the whole extra-tumour immune microenvironment. The EXTRA-TIME includes TDLN, bone marrow, skeleton and metastatic sites. Everything is connected!
https://t.co/ZG9XYll271

[Phan Lab @LabPhan]

EOI is open @ASImmunology Clinical Translation School hosted by @GarvanInstitute! Towards in vivo human experiments in the post-genomic AI era! We have an amazing line up of faculty mentors to help you navigate PhD life. How to pick & design projects & much more! Please share.🙏

[Georgia McCaughan @gjmccaughan]

Thanks @AngeliqueOpie7 for this story about our trial evaluating the use of romosozumab in patients with multiple myeloma who experience skeletal related events including fracture - which is currently open at @SVHSydney @kinghorncancer @GarvanInstitute

[Phan Lab @LabPhan]

Very exciting to see first patient enrolled in this pilot study for myeloma patients who have failed anti-resorptive Rx. Great showcase for close partnership btw clinic @SVHSydney and lab @GarvanInstitute.

🙏🙏🙏 @tourdecure_aus @CellularFutures @UNSWMedicine @CancerSPHERE!

[Garvan Institute of Medical Research @GarvanInstitute]

Eight researchers from Garvan have been awarded highly competitive National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator Grants.

Find out more: https://t.co/xHg4xUvDE6

@‌drjosephpowell @stutangye @‌thomasrcox @jodieingles27

[Cancer Discovery @CD_AACR]

Read a Special Commentary from the April issue—
Chemotherapy and the Extra-tumor Immune Microenvironment: EXTRA-TIME, by @LabPhan, K. Weilbaecher, R. Aft, P. Croucher, & @c_chaffer.
https://t.co/asgtiq6qYo
@GarvanInstitute @UNSW @UNSWMedicine @UNSWScience @WUSTLmed @WashUSurgery

[Christine Chaffer @c_chaffer]

@LabPhan @WUSTL @GarvanInstitute @NBCFAus @cancerNSW @nhmrc @UNSWMedicine https://t.co/4c0oxr7Ru8

[Christine Chaffer @c_chaffer]

Dear Chemo, we need to talk…

What if therapies used to control primary tumor growth increase the likelihood of metastatic relapse?

And how do they impact disseminated cells that have already seeded distant organs at diagnosis?

Why do we need to understand EXTRA-TIME....

[Elizabeth McKenna @ElizSMcKenna]

✨Highlighting a @CD_AACR Special Issue Commentary for #AACR24 - Chemotherapy and the Extra-tumor Immune Microenvironment: EXTRA-TIME - by @LabPhan, Katherine Weilbaecher, Rebecca Aft, Peter Croucher, and @c_chaffer https://t.co/IvAXHuB8Os @GarvanInstitute @UNSWScience

[Christine Chaffer @c_chaffer]

Thank you to wonderful colleagues and co-authors @LabPhan, Peter Croucher, Rebecca Aft, Kathy Weilbaecher, @WUSTL , @GarvanInstitute , @NBCFAus , @cancerNSW , @nhmrc , @UNSWMedicine

[Phan Lab @LabPhan]

Excited to contribute to April Issue @CD_AACR. Led by @c_chaffer & Peter Croucher @GarvanInstitute & Kathy Weilbaecher & Rebecca Aft @WUSTLmed we ask does chemoRx promote metastases through effects on immune microenvironments outside tumour ie EXTRA-TIME?
https://t.co/vkvYU40IlT

[Phan Lab @LabPhan]

Thrilled to see mum & dad featured in Two of Us @GoodWeekendMag in @smh. Amazing interview & article by Fenella Souter. 🙏

58 years later...
"I wouldn’t say we argue all the time...It’s just that my husband can take a long time to agree with me."

😅

https://t.co/IPUZVMjSDM

[Phan Lab @LabPhan]

NEW TOOL! Congrats @wunniess & team on major work from PhD co-supervised by Peter Croucher @GarvanInstitute @UNSWMedicine & John Murray | School of Mathematics & Statistics @UNSWScience. Funded by @nhmrc, @CellularFutures, Kinghorn Foundation & EHFF. 1/5

https://t.co/QojCBnZQBb

[Elissa Deenick @ElissaDeenick]

Looking for an exciting new challenge in 2024? @DeenickLab is looking for postdoc keen to study the mechanisms of immunodeficiency and autoimmunity. Working with a great team of scientists in the precision immunology program @GarvanInstitute
https://t.co/AyYwmhoTVd

[Christine Chaffer @c_chaffer]

@ElissaDeenick @DeenickLab @GarvanInstitute Awesome opportunity. Wonderful mentor and exciting science!

[Christine Chaffer @c_chaffer]

Congrats Abi!!

[Australasian Cell Death Society @AusCellDeathSoc]

In case you missed it: We are pleased to award this year's #ACDS Prize for Outstanding ECRs to Abigail Grootveld of @GarvanInstitute! 🏆
With @LabPhan, @AbigailGroot129 discovered that #apoptotic B cell fragments activate tingible body macrophages 👏 Congratulations Abigail!

[Christine Chaffer @c_chaffer]

Looking forward to this book launch!

[Phan Lab @LabPhan]

Dad's first-hand account of history is filled with wisdom & compassion filtered thru Vietnamese proverbs & folk tales. As history repeats, it is a reminder of the restorative power of love, family & values to heal & dream of a better life for eeryone.