UC San Diegoβs Collaborative Research Efforts, Community-Based Care Initiatives are in its DNA
Victor Nizet, MD, discusses how students can thrive at the universityβs Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. He discusses the school's features including its rigorous coursework, foc...
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UC San Diego is the ideal place to receive your dream education or pursue a faculty career in collaborative medical or pharmaceutical sciences
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Congrats Mimi and team!
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Before coming to NIH, Collins identified the gene that is mutated in cystic fibrosis (CF). Years later, this discovery led to the development of an innovative therapy for CF that's saved countless children.
This is why we fight.
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Prensner: βBig Beautiful Billβ betrays children with cancer
In the United States, weβve fought to achieve the worldβs best care for children with cancer.
As a #childhoodcancer doctor, I'm proud to be able to advocate for children with cancer in any way that I can.
Here is a piece that I recently wrote for #TheDetroitNews, who kindly published it.
#PEDCan
#CANSky
www.detroitnews.com/story/opinio...
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Prebys Foundation Announces $7 Million in Emergency Support for Biomedical Research
This rapid action by the Prebys Foundation is the kind of thing I hope other regional philanthropies are doing. It isn't the entire solution by far but it is great to see them chipping in to help investigators in the San Diego academic science community.
www.prebysfdn.org/stories/blog...
03.07.2025 21:38 β π 23 π 9 π¬ 0 π 0
How Health Care Remade the U.S. Economy (Gift Article)
Medicine is now the nationβs largest employer, but its growth may be slowing.
Beyond taking #healthcare away from millions of kids, families, and the elderly, the Budget-Busting Bill would mean the loss of thousands of jobs in hospitals, research centers, nursing homes, clinics, doctorsβ offices.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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βI represent 67,000 pediatricians, and let me be clear: this bill will devastate childrenβs health,β said Dr. Susan Kressly, President of @ameracadpeds.bsky.social βKids are 22% of our populationβbut 100% of our future. We cannot afford to fail them.β
Call your senators and demand a NO vote.
29.06.2025 23:31 β π 2431 π 1090 π¬ 43 π 33
Nice to see this important translational hurdle- crossing the BBB- highlighted in Nature! Of note is the point that it would be ideal to not only cross the BBB, but deliver therapeutics specifically to the CNS site of disease which current brain shuttles donβt do. Stay tuned:) #SelectinTherapeutics
04.06.2025 13:25 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
My quote of the day
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Arthur C. Clarke
01.06.2025 13:05 β π 96 π 19 π¬ 4 π 1
CBTN offers pediatric brain tumor data and samples to researchers worldwide for free. Request these resources to accelerate discoveries for kids: https://monkeylink.co/5c6c96
#WeAreCBTN #OpenScience
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Cuts to NIH funding have dire consequences!
Neuroscience Professor Robert Greene shares why efforts to treat brain disease will suffer due to recent changes in U.S. government policies.
#Neurosky #AcademicChatter
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Medicaid Covers
β’ 42% of all children nationwide
β’ 77% of children living in poverty in the U.S.
β’ 44% of children and youth with special health care needs nationwide
β’ 41% of births in the U.S.
β’ 37% of U.S. children with cancer
β’ 99% of children and youth in foster care
07.05.2025 16:48 β π 68 π 28 π¬ 6 π 1
A Characterization of the Immune Cells in Immunocompetent and Immunodeficient Mice with Orthotopic Brain Tumors. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.29.651335v1
05.05.2025 03:49 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Cell classification should be based on more than just DNA
Letter to the Editor
Cell classification should be based on more than just DNA
29.04.2025 10:10 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
This bottleneck in research funding threatens research that took decades to build, as well as the cures of tomorrow. Publicly-funded research is the highest economic yield there is, with 2.5X of economic gains for every $.
Call your Senator and Rep to ask them to protect federal research!
02.03.2025 21:55 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
The NIH grant that has supported 38 years of training the best pediatrician-scientists in the country (Iβm a proud former recipient) was cancelled. It was just approved for a 5 year renewal. The PSDP has supported the careers of many NIH-funded pediatrician-scientists and thought leaders
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We need more support now, not less, to train the next generation of pediatric-scientist leaders to give them the needed runway to develop novel therapies that will significantly impact the health and outcomes of children and their families.
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This is a really disappointing decision by the NIH to cancel the longstanding Pediatric Scientist Development Program (PSDP-K12) grant that has funded the early career development of numerous pediatric physician-scientists who have become the pediatric leaders in the US and the world.
26.03.2025 13:43 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
Pediatric research. When grants are pulled, the infrastructure suffers
www.wcvb.com/article/bost...
20.03.2025 00:08 β π 54 π 20 π¬ 2 π 2
Who benefits from US funding uncertainty? Hours after posting this, I got an email inviting me to China with a βpackage to support my research for 20 years.β Apparently, generous offers are available to all good scientists!π§ͺπ§
23.02.2025 22:35 β π 150 π 61 π¬ 3 π 2
Opinion | American Science is Under Attack (Gift Article)
The Trump administration hobbles research and endangers the public health.
American science is under attack
Opinion piece by Dr Harold Varmus, Nobel Prize winner, former director of the #NIH and the #NCI π§ͺ
βPerhaps whatβs most disheartening is what feels like the absence of widespread opposition to this unravelingβ
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...
14.02.2025 13:58 β π 102 π 52 π¬ 3 π 3
Statement on the NIH Imposed Standard Indirect Cost Rate
The NIHβs new imposed standard indirect cost rate threatens life-saving brain & behavior research that benefits millions of Americans. SfN, with other scientific organizations,urge reversal of this policy & implore Congress to protect critical research infrastructure.
Full statement: bit.ly/4jVJnCL
11.02.2025 22:28 β π 150 π 72 π¬ 1 π 5
how the NIH contributes to the economy in my home state β
find yours www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
dollars cut is a 2.5x economic return nullified, many good jobs lost, and locally economies and their healthcare weakened
no savings to our country, but rather incredible losses
08.02.2025 04:39 β π 21 π 10 π¬ 2 π 1
Science is absolutely key to the US's success but this government's intention to now dramatically reduce the part of the federal grants that go to the university (in addition to the researchers; the "indirects") is like removing the unseen roots of a tree and expecting it to continue to flourish.
08.02.2025 04:40 β π 101 π 32 π¬ 3 π 2
βNIH produces an astounding return on investment to the American taxpayer. In Fiscal Year 2022, NIH research funding supported 568,585 jobs and generated $96.84 billion in economic activity β thatβs $2.64 of economic activity for every $1 of research funding.β
www.researchamerica.org/2023-oped-us...
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We are a biomedical research lab at UC San Diego, seeking to create artificially intelligent, mechanistic models of cancer and neurodegenerative diseases for translation of patient data to precision diagnosis and treatment. https://idekerlab.ucsd.edu/
Personalized targeted #glioblastoma therapies by ex vivo drug screening
ATTRACT is an Austrian π¦πΉ Clinical Research Group dedicated to improving therapy for glioblastoma, the most aggressive brain tumor in adults π§ π
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Pediatric oncologist and Physician-Scientist at MSKCC. Receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) fusions and condensates in cancer. DNA repair. Pediatric sarcomas. https://www.mskcc.org/research-areas/labs/asmin-tulpule
Pediatric Neuro-Oncologist and researcher @childrensnatl. Director Rare brain tumor program| Assistant Professor of Pediatrics GWU |Vice Chair of @youngsiop NA| Luckiest wifey and mom of two wonderful humans
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pediatric & adult neuro-oncologist at @ucsfhealth.bsky.social | east coast transplant in california | #NF #SWN #AYA | ππ°π·πΊπΈ
Our mission is to enable the promise of genomics to better human health by creating the worldβs most advanced sequencing technologies.
Research, news, and commentary from Nature, the international science journal. For daily science news, get Nature Briefing: https://go.nature.com/get-Nature-Briefing
We study how micro-environmental and epigenetic mechanisms drive cancer cells into dormancy. We seek to control this biology to prevent and treat metastasis. https://einsteinmed.edu/faculty/16974/julio-aguirre-ghiso
Chairwoman and Nancy C. Paduano Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatrician in Chief at NewYork Presbyterian Komansky Children's Hospital. Lab research goal: Develop vaccines to prevent neonatal viral infections such as #HIV and #CMV
CBTN accelerates discovery and advances new treatments through open science and global collaboration to improve outcomes for children and young adults with brain cancer. Learn more at https://linktr.ee/wearecbtn.
Pediatrician-scientist & genome editor β’ Assistant Professor of Pediatric Allergy/Immunology @UCSF β’ @Doudna_Lab and Puck Lab
European Association of Neuro-oncology, multidisciplinary society, Clinical Trials, Research, Education #EANO2025 #btsm #neurooncology #braintumor #cancer | www.eano.eu
Trends in Cancer is a leading reviews journal covering advances in cancer research and oncology published by Cell Press. Tweets by Editor Danielle Loughlin.
Reporter at CNN, Francesca, Maya, and Taliaβs dad, founder of the Team Beans Infant Brain Tumor Fund. Donate at TeamBeansFund.com to help end infant brain cancer.
Principal Investigator
Lead of Cancer Metabolism Lab at @NCI.
Studying lipid metabolism in brain tumors.
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Iβm interested in central nervous system immunity in high-grade brain tumors and chronic viral infection. Assistant prof at Univ. of Virginiaπ§ rossbrainlab.com