Débora Vendramini-Costa, Ph.D

#AACRPan25 @theaacr.bsky.social
Being a #ProudisimaPI & the opportunity of becoming a #ProudisimaColleague
is the best feeling ever!

#pancreaticcancer #foxchasecancercenter @jayeperview.bsky.social @debvendramini.bsky.social @saumyamarumdphd.bsky.social #AlexDolskii @brookepereira.bsky.social

Amazing talk by Dr Jaye Gardiner @jayeperview.bsky.social new PI at Tufts University, on the biology of ECM/CAFs in pancreatic cancer. I’m so proud of you, Jaye!

10 faculty positions!

Henry Ford + MSU is seeking up to 10 CANCER researchers to join our Detroit campus, who will collaborate closely with scientists and clinicians across MSU and Henry Ford Health.

henryfordmsu.infoready4.com#freeformComp...

The new Defense department budget erases $20 MILLION DOLLARS for pancreatic cancer research. $20,000,000 gone, for a disease with a 5-year survival rate of 13%.

Elbows up, Canada.

Overseas universities see opportunity in U.S. ‘brain drain’ But many U.S.-based scientists seeking to leave may struggle to find positions in countries grappling with funding issues of their own

“If large numbers of academics working in the U.S. do decide to leave, Gold doubts other countries will be able to absorb them all. The end result, he warns, could be an exodus of talent from global science. “My biggest fear,” he says, is that “we’re going to lose a cohort of researchers.”” 🧪

One of the day’s highlights was hearing from @debvendramini.bsky.social thank you for speaking up and sharing why research is so important!!

Thank you for sharing 💖

Anyone have experience doing phosphoproteomics with a company?

There are many options out there, so looking to see if anyone had a good experience with a company.

We have a relatively simple experimental design: Pancreatic cancer cell lines +/- our gene of interest (a kinase).

Will send ours! Can’t wait to connect with cancer researchers in Europe!

I beg my science colleagues to speak with the media about what's happening now.

When I was given the opportunity, I spoke with Nature about HHMI massive cut. I am an immigrant on a working visa, and I am not a professor. Anyone can talk. Silence in the face of injustice is injustice in action.

teal background with white text that says, standing up for science is standing up for individuals with cancer.

We're Standing Up for Science on March 7th, in DC & Nationwide!

The future of science is bright, but we need to protect it—because science benefits everyone.

More information: www.standupforscience2025.org

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Michigan! Stand up! Lansing, Flint, Wayne State!

I will be in Lansing, MI!!!!!

First CDC vaccine meeting under Trump administration is postponed The panel of vaccine experts were supposed to hold their first meeting under the Trump administration in late February. It's not clear when that meeting will now take place.

www.npr.org/sections/sho...

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE March 7, 2025. Washington DC and nationwide. Because science is for everyone.

standupforscience2025.org

Michigan time to stand up!!!

5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

Ok scientists & those who love science 🧪: here is another exhortation. Call Congress TODAY about the freeze on NIH Council Meetings and Study Sections. Emphasize that this means NO new grants are being funded & labs will soon start to shut down and fire employees. Phone numbers are at:
5calls.org

Sign the Petition Restrict ICE Operations in Sensitive Locations such as Schools and Churches

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The NIH’s drastic cut to indirect cost rates is a critical threat to U.S. research infrastructure The drastic reduction in indirect costs is not a path to innovation or cost savings — it’s a threat to U.S.’s position as global leader in medical research.

My #Yale colleague Harlan Krumholz explains why the cuts to indirect costs are a disaster for biomedical research in the United States. Want to do something about it? I'll list those who have to hear from us below. Share, recruit friends and family to help. 1/ www.statnews.com/2025/02/08/n....

I wrote this just two weeks ago - could not have imagined how broadly #science and #researchers in the US have been impacted since then



Science is a #global community 🌍 🌎 🌏

We're all very concerned for our friends, colleagues, and young researchers in the US right now



#solidarityforscience 🧪

NSF grantees - people who have already received their grants based on a previously funded and approved research proposal - are being told to stop any activities related to DEI and accessibility.
Call this what it is: government censorship of ongoing research projects.
www.opm.gov/policy-data-...

Ultra-processed food? Forever chemicals? Declining birth rates? What’s behind rising cancer in the under-50s? Research into the disease has never been more far-reaching, but there is little consensus as to what is causing the rocketing rates of diagnosis in young adults

Rates of #cancer in #young #adults have risen dramatically in recent years - as discussed in this article..

We urgently need to invest in #research 🧪 on early-onset cancers to understand - why?

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

George Thin's 1891 global map of leprosy.

My #WorldLeprosyDay essay has just dropped. My theme this year: seeing leprosy's globalization during the Middle Ages as a slow pandemic. As w/ all of my infectious disease historical work, combining traditional history, bioarchaeology, and genetics transforms what's possible. #histmed 🧪

The antidote for despair is action ❤️

* Dial (202) 224-3121
* Enter zip code
* Leave voicemail
* Say “My name is ___, I’m a constituent in [town]. (If clinician/scientist, say so)

“The NIH freeze harms research and patients and must be lifted immediately.”

Be brief. Staffers tally all calls. Go! ✅

Michigan snow is so much better for your flow cytometry ice bucket, no slushiness in right bucket.
#immunosky #dermsky

Thank you for your support, Mara!!

Fernanda Torres - Winner

#GoldenGlobes2025
#FernandaTorres
#ImStillHere
#Brazil