Sruthi P. Thomas, MD, PhD

Listening and Sharing Sessions Visit the post for more.

SAVE THE DATE: 7th November 2025 -> "Moving to adulthood: Finding and navigating support pathways." Travel the globe with us for 24 hours of virtual Listening and Sharing sessions! iaacd.net/kh-home/list...

Show Your Support for Cerebral Palsy! Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

Urge Congress to support CP Research! The US Cerebral Palsy Research Program Authorization Act 2025 has officially been introduced in the House. We need signatures by 4/18!

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I started following this account years ago because of a sweet rescue cow named Crouton. One of Crouton’s moms just died of a brain aneurysm, and during their tragedy they thought of others and gave the gift of life through organ donation. To Beth: you and D saved people. So much love 💚 #donatelife

Word of the Day: zhuzh This word has appeared in 14 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?

Word of the Day: zhuzh www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/l... -> definitely never knew how to spell this word 😅

Texas currently receives $2,634,516,414 from #NIH annually and 1/3 goes to the #TexasMedicalCenter, including #BaylorCollegeofMedicine. Medical research is an important contributor to our local economy!!!

Welcome immigrants from X interested in science to the friendlier skies of @bsky.app, as documented by a new @nature.com survey (but you already knew that 😉)
"Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Study sections are the review panels that allocate NIH research grants. They bring in experts from around the country and have to be scheduled many months in advance; they provide the funds that keep the nation's biomedical research going.

It's hard to overstate the disruption this causes.

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring Researchers facing

Scientists in the US have won a lot of Nobel Prizes because of world-leading research funding and immigration. I guess we're giving that up to China now.

I heard from an SRO that only a small number of study sections have been canceled so far. Until further notice, they are proceeding assuming Feb/March meetings are still on.

No question that this week’s cancelations are devastating and more may follow.

But we also need to stick to facts.

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NIH funding supports the vast majority of all biomedical research in the United States. Virtually every advance in American medicine and biological science comes from NIH. This is a blow against American science.

Call Congress, 202-224-3121.

Sex Differences in Long COVID This cohort study examines whether there are differences in the risk of developing long COVID, or post-COVID condition, by sex.

New study in JAMA Network Open finds females are at higher risk for #LongCOVID compared to males. The risk peaks in ages 40-55 and is influenced by pregnancy and menopause. Biological differences matter for understanding and treating Long COVID!

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

I truly hope this is brief and not a complete course correction but anything is possible with this ill-informed administration. #nih

Amazing - Norepinephrine release from the locus coeruleus drives glymphatic clearance from the brain during sleep! 15 years ago I studied how NE release from the LC modulates critical periods in the olfactory bulb 🤯

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