Bruce Levine, Ph.D. 🇺🇦

Announcing the website for the song Ring That Bell 🔔 cowritten w @magsmccarthy.bsky.social an emotional story of a cancer patient facing relapse and the fierce advocacy, support, and groundbreaking science that offer new hope. #cancer #cancerresearch #immunotherapy #hope ringthatbellsong.com

We are actively looking to partner with biotech, pharma, and academic groups If you are advancing a program and need a partner who understands both the science and the realities of clinical translation, we should connect www.med.upenn.edu/cvpf/

We’ve built an integrated platform designed to move programs from discovery into first-in-human studies with rigor, speed, and quality. What differentiates this model is not a single capability, but the integration: • Manufacturing • Process development • QC analytics and correlative science

Heading to the @isctglobal.bsky.social l Annual Meeting in Dublin? Come visit us at the Penn Medicine Clinical Cell and Vaccine Production booth 2505 1st Floor The Liffey across from ISCT Hub and meet our Facilities, Analytics, Operations, Regulatory and Manufacturing Experts.

What the peptide craze reveals about Americans’ relationship with risk. Great piece from @sarah-todd.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2026/04/06/r... It's so odd how many people will not trust proven biomedical approaches but embrace and literally shoot up with unproven things like peptides

🚨Congratulations to Prof. Dr. Carl June & Prof. Dr. Michel Sadelain! 2025 laureates of the Broermann Medical Innovation Award for the development of the CAR-T cell #immunotherapy #cancer #CancerResearch pressreleasehub.pa.media/article/dr-c...

Is Germline Editing Feasible and Should it be Permissible? I joined @urnov.bsky.social, @kiranmusunuru.bsky.social, ISCT President Miguel Forte & Chief Regulatory Officer Bambi Grilley to discuss #ethics #bioethics & technological hurdles of embryo editing www.isctglobal.org/telegrafthub...

My CNBC.com segment on implications for pediatric vaccine schedule from recent politics. 2003 saw ~5,000 cases of pertusis, in 2024 there were over 35,000, and for 2025, some models show 70,000+ We risk a return of communicable diseases in children. www.youtube.com/watch?v=00cI...

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🚨Just published - Multiplex engineering using microRNA-mediated gene silencing in CAR T cells #celltherapy #genetherapy #immunotherapy www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm...

Nearly two dozen people developed food poisoning in Florida after consuming tainted raw milk from the same farm, state health department says (from @reportergoodman.bsky.social) www.cnn.com/2025/08/05/h...

🚨Coming soon! Multiplex engineering using microRNA-mediated gene silencing in CAR T cells. In a single lentiviral vector- multiplex silencing & expression of a CAR, better expansion & viability than gene editing by electroporation www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm...

More disease coming, unfortunately in kids. Adults making the bad decisions for them.

My new 2-minute 5-point short on why one shouldn't go to stem cell clinics or at least seriously weigh risks + low chance of benefit. Good little video for scientists and physicians too looking for clear explanation when people ask #stemcells #stemcell www.youtube.com/shorts/EX9iU...

Cutting NIH to “save” money is fundamentally flawed -Modest annual savings pale compared to multi‑trillion‑dollar health, innovation, and productivity losses www.statnews.com/2025/07/28/n...

From Pink Sheet on continued departures from FDA’s biologics division and challenges backfilling openings. FDA biologics center reported 106 departures from Jan. 1 to June 30. These numbers don’t include the 100-150 who were part of the reduction-in-force insights.citeline.com/pink-sheet/a...

FDA’s cancer review team overseeing breast and gynecological products has lost about 1/3 of its medical review staff and the malignant heme group will lose about 2/3 of its medical review staff—all to voluntary resignations clustered among seasoned reviewers insights.citeline.com/pink-sheet/a...

There should be a cable channel fact checking all the cable news channels and their paid "pundits" in real time

If gifted narrative filmmaker Marwin Gansauge asks, "Can I make a movie about you?", what do you say? More than ever, science communication is desperately needed to convey the importance of research in developing new treatments for patients. Filmed in Vancouver & Dublin youtu.be/YrevpY-DNmw

Is Makary's FDA already heading toward a breaking point? ipscell.com/2025/07/is-m... #stemcells #stemcell #CRISPR what does it mean for the cell and gene therapy field?

How did the pandemic start? I have avoided publicly commenting on this for 5 years. Here's my take as someone who has no stake at all in the game. gidmk.substack.com/p/pandemic-r...

If real facts matter to you

Sign of the times.

A well-placed biotech investor says U.S. policies are straining life sciences startups — and more disruption is coming. www.statnews.com/2025/07/15/b...

Taxing innovation

TFW when UFC is valued > MIT is not AOK

What vaccine skepticism brings👇

After spearheading a 34% cut in cancer mortality, the National Cancer Institute at the NIH is bleeding resources and staff and could see its budget cut by nearly 40%. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

🚨Worse than you think "World’s premier cancer institute faces crippling cuts and chaos" There used to be bipartisan support. Now: -Rat on your colleagues -Silencing the science communicators -A budget to ‘destroy clinical research’ #NCI #NIH #Cancer #cancerresearch www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/h...

Bioengineered immunocompetent preclinical trial-on-chip tool enables screening of CAR T cell therapy for leukaemia. #Tcell #immunotherapy #organonachip 🧪https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-025-01428-2