Aileen Suarez

Names, photos, and institutions of 2025 BME UNITE Future Faculty Fellows. Text seminar details with link to presentation schedule.

We are excited to announce our 2025 cohort of BME UNITE Future Faculty Fellows! The BME UNITE seminar series is designed to showcase future faculty candidates from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds in BME. Register here: tinyurl.com/bmeunite25

How can we talk about health disparities to build support for change?

Our new study found that highlighting structural causes for racial differences in health—like housing segregation—rather than just describing disparity rates increases support for addressing inequality, without backlash.

Drug candidate eliminates breast cancer tumors in mice in a single dose

"This effect is robust and independent of tumor size with eradication of even very large tumors."

Open Access
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Recipients of these F31s should ABSOLUTELEY be contacting their research administrators and Office of Sponsored Projects to initiate appeal processes. The cancellation of these contracts may even be illegal. I've heard some institutions even have templates to help w/ the first steps of this process

Research Fellow in Maternal and Fetal Health:Oxford Road

We're looking for a Research Fellow to come join @mfh-research.bsky.social for 3 years to develop their own research ideas and fellowship applications. If you're an outstanding postdoc in reproductive biology (especially immunology!) get in touch :)

This #BMHW25, we’re honoring legacies, fostering healing, and taking collective action to strengthen Black Maternal Health. Black Mamas deserve equitable, culturally affirming care and community-driven solutions that drive lasting change. #BlackMaternalHealthWeek #BlackMaternalHealth #ReproJustice

Single-cell profiling of the human endometrium in polycystic ovary syndrome - Nature Medicine A transcriptomic atlas of the endometrium of women with polycystic ovary syndrome uncovers both disease signatures and potential therapeutic targets.

A transcriptomic atlas of the endometrium (the inner lining of the uterus) of women with polycystic ovary syndrome uncovers both disease signatures and potential therapeutic targets, according to a paper in Nature Medicine. 🧪

I’m excited to be in Charlotte for my first time at #SRI2025 🤩 I’m presenting my work investigating how gestational diabetes impacts the mechanical properties and ECM of umbilical vasculature on Saturday - swing by poster S110 during poster session 3 to learn more! @sriwomenshealth.bsky.social

Faculty members should always assume there are first-generation students in their classrooms, because there almost always are.

First-generation students have unique needs, which can be amplified when they enter graduate programmes. A Comment article in Nature Reviews Psychology argues that faculty members need to be aware of the needs of this population and how to support them. https://go.nature.com/3FkQDs1 #Academicsky 🧪

Feeling the force from within – new tools and insights into nuclear mechanotransduction Summary: This Review discusses new insights and technological advances in understanding how the nucleus contributes to the ability of the cell to translate mechanical stimuli into transcriptional resp...

Interested in nuclear mechanobiology, and how advanced genomic tools can shed light on how the cell nucleus might sense mechanical forces? Read our latest review by excellent Julien Morival and Anna Hazelwood, now published @jcellsci.bsky.social:
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Graphical abstract from Higginbotham et al 2025: It depicts that for male mice in pain, dopamine neuron responses to fentanyl increase with time, and males increase fentanyl use. This does not occur in females and pain does not promote increased fentanyl use over time. Removing ovaries makes females susceptible to pain induced fentanyl use and dosing males w estrogen prevents males from developing maladaptive fentanyl use.

Cool study, I think we know what must be done 🥰✨

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On a desk there is a guava pastry in a container next to a thermos of coffee

Wrapping up your doctoral work is not so bad when @raffae-a.bsky.social makes pastelitos de guayaba 💝

The amount of cis people who think mouse models of gender affirming care are irrelevant or niche is driving me NUTS right now. As a cis woman with endometriosis, I would love more data on how exogenous hormone treatments, gnrh analogues, and surgical approaches affect basic biology in an organism!

Obviously his framing is bigoted but I do want to say that while gender isn't studied in animal models, variables influencing sex are. It's easy to scoff at the concept of "transgender mice" but animal models for hormone therapies DO exist (see our paper). pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35863692/

A Tube with a View: Engineers Build a Precision Model of a Human Fallopian Tube - Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering Johns Hopkins engineers have created an innovative and highly accurate lab-grown model of the human fallopian tube— an innovation that promises to advance research on ovarian cancer, gynecological dis...

In Science Advances: Prof @deniswirtz.bsky.social and team have created a highly accurate lab-grown model of the human fallopian tube. The NIH-supported project promises to advance research on ovarian cancer, gynecological diseases, and fertility. #ResearchMatters engineering.jhu.edu/news/a-tube-...

Yeah, no.

Those AI models depend on the work of actual experts and what they crap out is always inferior to the work of actual experts.

AI work looks expert-ish to outsiders in a field but if you really know a subject it’s almost always bullshit dressed up a bit.

The oestrous cycle stage affects mammary tumour sensitivity to chemotherapy - Nature In three mouse models of breast cancer, we show reduced responses to neoadjuvant chemotherapy when treatment is initiated during the dioestrus stage, when compared with initiation during the oestrus s...

#Medsky🧪 #oncosky #publichealth Ying and Yang: The menstrual cycle influences #breastcancer and its response to treatment. Study show that the reproductive cycle in 🐁 influences their sensitivity to #chemotherapy www.nature.com/articles/s41... @nature.com

"Imagine a DAPI-like stain, but for the extracellular matrix." That's basically how this work was pitched to me by Kayvon and Antonio a year or so ago. Now the final product really delivers. Read about their versatile label for ECM in living tissues here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It's extremely disappointing to see BME colleagues being silent about the imminent danger that the new administration poses to the trans community.

Though one can hardly be surprised when the field has been platforming those who hold explicitly transphobic views.

There's a lot of organizations declaring "we're doing this based on legal advice about EOs" going around. As an administrator I always knew that advice is not a mandate. It takes a leader's directive to convert advice to action. Leaders need to be prepared to own that directive AND its consequences.

a picture of a woman with the words mummy 's going to be fine on it Alt: Moira from Schitt's Creek says, Mummy is going to be fine

The CDC website is back online. Complete w/an inaccurate definition of endometriosis.

Endo is a full body inflammatory disease-it has nothing to do w/the endometrium. A hysterectomy won't cure endo.

And it's a UTERUS, not a womb.

But we've learned now to not rely on government websites
#medsky

ICE On Your Campus Questions to Ask Your Administration 1. What is campus policy with regard to working with federal immigration authorities? 2. Who should faculty contact in the event that they are approached by ICE agents? 3. What private/limited-access spaces can you make available where ICE agents cannot enter unless they have a valid warrant? 4. Are you planning to communicate with students, staff, and faculty about their privacy rights? These rights include the right to deny immigration officers entry to their homes (including dorms) unless officers have a judicial warrant, and the right to not respond to the questions or statements of an immigration officer who is seeking to enter their home without a judicial warrant. 5. Are you planning to communicate guidance that, if a federal immigration enforcement officer seeks to enter a limited-access area on campus, students and workers should ask the officer for their name, identification number, agency affiliation, and business card, and inform the officer that they are not obstructing their process but need to contact the campus legal counsel for assistance? 6. What campus authority should students contact if they are contacted by ICE? What Chapter Leaders Can Do Now 1. Provide to faculty any campus plan or policy and any campus authority contact. 2. Create a list of immigration attorneys who can be contacted in case of emergencies day and night. 3. Distribute a family preparedness plan template to your members. Example: aaup.org/ILRC-plan 4. Conduct Know Your Rights sessions for your members; these do not have to be done by an attorney. Recommendations for Organizing on Your Campus Engage members via a petition, open letter, high-participation meeting, in-person demonstration, or other collective action to demand that your campus administrators: 1. Not comply with ICE to detain or deport students, faculty, or staff unless legally required to do so. 2. Ensure that noncitizens understand the difference between an …

From @aaup.bsky.social, what to do if ICE is on your campus.

So now I have an "F" on my passport and my driver's license. When historians look at government records centuries from now, they will think I was a woman. This is what it means to be made invisible, to have your history stolen from you.

Google Quietly Installed A.I. to My Workspace. Getting Rid of It Was Creepy. Opting out should not be a premium feature. It’s a basic right.

in case your company uses Google Workspace and is despairing at how Gemini A.I. is getting pushed into everything—fear not! Slate's indefatigable IT chief embarked on a successful journey to get it removed from our end and wrote a detailed guide for the curious: slate.com/technology/2...

These programs are legislatively mandated, have enjoyed bipartisan support for decades and are meant to broaden participation in science for multiple underrepresented groups so that we are producing knowledge and technology that benefits EVERYONE in this country.

I love this absolutely volcanic menstruation cover.

If you're interested in the extracellular matrix of soft tissues and the role ECM plays in osteoarthritis then this systematic review is for you!

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