Ash Alizadeh, MD/PhD 🇺🇸 Profile picture
@Stanford Professor. Hematologist/Oncologist & Cancer Geneticist. Computers, tumor genomes, ctDNA, immunology, lymphoma, diagnostics.
Dec 29, 2023 10 tweets 3 min read
Very excited to share our new study measuring clinical specificity of #immunoglobulin based high-throughput sequencing #IgHTS for #MRD measurement in mature B-cell #lymphomas. #lymsm
ashpublications.org/bloodadvances/… High sensitivity of MRD testing is critical for detecting residual disease, but as sensitivity has increased, the impact on clinical specificity has been less clear.
Aug 24, 2023 12 tweets 3 min read
Do you remember the vigorous April 2023 discussion after #ODAC vote & #FDA approval of #polatuzumab for #DLBCL & #HGBCL? Well, with @ac_palmer & Dave Kurtz, we now tackle this more through meta-analysis @NEJM… 1/n
nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… After >20 years, #POLARIX showed pola-R-CHP as the 1st regimen of available agents to improve PFS over R-CHOP among randomized blinded trials… 2/n Image
Dec 29, 2022 12 tweets 10 min read
Very excited to share our new study on determinants of resistance to anti-CD19 CAR T-cells (CART19) in large B-cell lymphomas (LBCLs)! Out today in @Cancer_Cell /1

cell.com/cancer-cell/fu… A fantastic collaboration from @StanfordMed and @StanfordCancer led by Brian Sworder, David Kurtz, @StefanAlig, and Matthew Frank with David Miklos & @max_diehn to help improve outcomes following CAR T-cell therapy in lymphomas & beyond /2
Jul 22, 2021 21 tweets 21 min read
Delighted to share our new study nature.com/articles/s4158… introducing PhasED-Seq out today @NatureBiotech. A fantastic collaboration from @StanfordMedicine led by Dave_Kurtz & Joanne Soo with @max_diehn to help transform #cancer interception & monitoring by improving #LiquidBiopsy #ctDNA detection of #MRD.