The Trump Administration is waging war on universities by suspending their funds. N.I.H. grants to universities are down by more than 90 per cent in the current fiscal year; so far in 2026, the National Cancer Institute hasn’t made a single grant. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/oxA7Ey
At Immunoschool, Eicke Latz will discuss targeting inflammasomes, the innate immune sensors linking lifestyle exposures - from Western diet to metabolic stress - to the chronic inflammation that impacts healthspan.
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The second speaker will be Vishwa Deep Dixit of the Yale Univertsity Center for Research on Aging
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Exactly. Goal is tumor control, right?
Let them dominate
Easy 2
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When you have paylines that are that low (e.g. NCI R01: 4%), does it still make sense to discuss half of the applications?
It means < 10% of *discussed* applications will be actually funded.
Not that I am happy with any of this.
Check out our highlight of an exciting new preprint by Dr. Claudia Rivera from Dr. Yasmine Belkaid's group 👇
Interesting study from the ppl @solvingforsci.bsky.social. Very much in line with our earlier findings with @preprintclub.bsky.social (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...) :
1/ Reviewers can distinguish quality and impact (+novelty in our model)
2/ Trainees want to review
3/ Authors love the experience
Very exciting to finally see clinical data where viral mimicry provides survival benefits
Short, noncoding YRNA can activate pathological variants of the innate sensor RIG-I, causing autoinflammation and #lupus nephritis in mouse models.
Learn more in #ScienceImmunology: https://scim.ag/43ewTiV
It was a great experience to present our latest work on cancer vaccines in front of an audience of TE experts
Proud of our Yu-Chan Chih for receiving the Trainee Innovation Idea Award for his work on cancer vaccination 👏🥇
Y RNAs getting some of the recognition they deserve
This is a fast moving field and new mechanisms are uncovered (almost) every week.
Check out our latest in @cp-trendscancer.bsky.social where rockstar PhD student @laurarosenberg.bsky.social reviews cancer therapies known to induce innate immune responses through the reactivation of Transposable Elements.
Check out our review on the role of #retroelements and #viralmimicry during cancer treatment! @neoviral.bsky.social
America’s cancer research system is under threat in one of its most productive moments. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
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Latest from us: we detail the protocol we use to generate mRNA-LNPs and to study immune response in preclinical setting.
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Read about her work on HERV expression in B-cell lymphomas here 👇
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🎉 Congrats to student extraordinaire @bhavyasighs.bsky.social who earned a scholarship from #CIHR AND got a paper accepted in the same week!
Another nice example of a host-acquired gene in poxviruses, which modulates the host immune response.
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More great content from @preprintclub.bsky.social @epelmanlab.bsky.social. This @biorxiv-immuno.bsky.social preprint from Liu et al. reports that resident tissue macrophages in the conventional outflow tract regulate intraocular pressure.
