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Two positions open in the Parker Lab @umich:
🔬 Postdoc: single-cell multi-omics & statistical genetics
🧪 Lab Specialist: molecular biology & Seahorse assays
Great team, supportive culture, exciting science on metabolic disease.

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years.

Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.

Great news: DEADLINE EXTENDED. The submission deadline for our new pilot funding opportunity has been extended. This funding aims to advance data-driven pancreas and type 1 diabetes research, focusing on AI, LLMs, and RAG. Check out the details on our funding page: pankbase.org/funding.html

YouTube video by PanKbase PanKbase Single Cell Browser Tutorial - June 2025

Welcome to Chicago! If you're at the 85th Scientific Sessions of the #ADA, stop by the PanKbase booth 1047 in the exhibit hall to learn about the our updated single cell browser, ask questions, or give us feedback. youtu.be/sNEGvSIjh3M?...

PanKbase #ADA spotlight: PanKbase PI, Dr. Jie Liu, Associate Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics
Michigan Medical School will be presenting during the session "Decoding Diabetes—AI-Driven Advances in Genetic Research". June 23rd 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM. Look forward to seeing you there!

Thank you so much for posting this and keep up the fantastic work!

Stephen C.J. Parker: NIH funding critical to North Carolina economy My home-grown roots and education drive my love for North Carolina, but new executive orders that block federal science funding have me deeply concerned about the health and economy of

Steve Parker, professor of Computational Medicine, writes to NC ⛰️: “The stunning landscapes & kind-hearted people make this place magical” but a looming threat to federal science funding could undermine both their health & economy. 🧪🏠
@theparkerlab.bsky.social

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America First: Protect home-grown ingenuity When my grandmother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in the mid-1990s, there were few options for therapies and treatments. As her disease progressed over the next decade, there was little

Biomedical research is an American success story. Alabama native 🏴‍☠️ & NIH-funded researcher Will King warns that science cuts threaten American breakthroughs that save lives—advances that have come so far since his grandmother’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis.

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Letter to President from Sigma Xi regarding the future of science.
#neuroskyence

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🔬 How do molecular pathways drive islet dysfunction in T1D? 🔬Join to explores islet cell dysfunction in human T1D.

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#DiabetesResearch #T1D #IsletBiology #MolecularPathways #BetaCells #Bioinformatics #Autoimmunity #Endocrinology

🔬 Th1nk Tank Alert! 🔬

How does mitochondrial signaling shape metabolic tissue identity? 🧬

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#DiabetesResearch #T1D #Mitochondria #BetaCells #IsletBiology #CellMetabolism #BiomedicalScience

DOGE ends America’s golden age of biomedical research Biomedical research impacts all of us. I became curious about how drugs work after my mom was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis when I was a small boy. She received “gold shots” as treatment, which ...

I’m a biomedical researcher who lost his wife to cancer. Finding cures is personal to me. What’s happening at the NIH is devastating. Here’s my editorial in my hometown newspaper.

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Eric Green is out as head of National Human Genome Research Institute The longtime director of the National Human Genome Research Institute is stepping down, as the larger NIH braces for more changes.

Eric Green is out as head of National Human Genome Research Institute www.statnews.com/2025/03/17/t... #genomics #NIH #NHGRI

NIH Reporter data through this morning (grants funded up to March 8th)

First, new and competitive renewal grants...

2/n

On RePORTER earlier today, I identified >3k active grants responsive to the list of >70 unpublished NOFOs. This is a broad list (includes grants whose end date is this year), but this means there are potentially thousands on the chopping block per the “tiers” reported last week.

Long letter from NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan, available here: https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/Letter-to-the-Community.pdf

🧪 The NSF director is lying to you.

Let’s fact check 7 claims from yesterday’s letter to the community, while pointing out 3 critical omissions. 🧵

Listen to every word.

I keep saying this and I keep violating it and I keep reminding myself. If you are pointing your gun at other academic scientists instead of at the rising fascist regime, this is not helping.

Stephen C.J. Parker: NIH funding critical to North Carolina economy My home-grown roots and education drive my love for North Carolina, but new executive orders that block federal science funding have me deeply concerned about the health and economy of

I’m a professor at University of Michigan with roots in North Carolina, so I wrote about importance of NIH funding to health and economy of the state. Hope you’ll read and decide to stand with me in standing up for science. Thanks Daily Reflector for publishing: www.reflector.com/opinion/edit...

48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science 48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science

Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs.

It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎

I actually think the dems should attend the SOTU, wait till the 2nd sentence, and then walk out en masse, that'll do it, there'll be no address, he'll just have a meltdown on national Tv

Full page in today’s Anchorage Daily News:

Inside the Collapse at NIH Administration officials pressured NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.

I talked to NIH officials, current and former, about what's been happening inside the agency since the Trump administration shut down their grantmaking pipeline in January. Their stories showed just how willing our new leaders are to break the law: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...