I agree with the concerns except I do support no chair summaries. The chairs can significantly inject their own biases into the discussion when they haven't even reviewed the grant at length like the assigned reviewers. I think there is merit to that move.

Some shit is about to go down with NIH study sections, friends. Keep your eyes peeled for change that may affect your grant submissions.

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

"We have resigned because: We protest the hypocrisy of an NIH leadership that claims to protect academic freedom while censoring grants and staff communication."

The #NIH is the biggest public funder of biomedical and behavioral research in the world. It has always received bipartisan support. Sad.

NIH leadership turmoil adds to politicization concerns NIH director was prevented from reappointing institute head

"NIH leadership turmoil adds to politicization concerns"

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Kennedy Scales Back the Number of Vaccines Recommended for Children

🚨Doubtmongering horror show.

"The abrupt change to the entire U.S. childhood vaccine schedule is alarming, unnecessary and will endanger the health of children..."

Kennedy Scales Back the Number of Vaccines Recommended for Children www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/h...

This is simply criminal.

Molecular, Cellular, Tissue, and Organismal Functions of Type III Interferons Type III interferons are essential immune mediators playing pleiotropic roles during health and disease. In this review, we highlight the molecular and cellular pathways that lead to the production of...

💥New paper alert!💥 What’s better than starting 2026 with an @annualreviews.bsky.social #Immunology, often a once-in-a-life honor ❤️?! Check it out if you want to know everything about type III interferons #IFN! Thanks to my wonderful team for their amazing work 🤗 doi.org/10.1146/annu...

I think we all need some good news for global health and infectious diseases!

NEW PREPRINT!

We systematically reviewed molecular epidemiology studies looking at strain discordance in pairs of people with TB disease and history of household contact

We found 30 studies from 18 countries. Excluding 4 studies at high risk of bias, we had data on 1544 household case pairs

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Exciting!!

The Bryson Lab | Vaccine Development & Research at MIT Developing effective accessible vaccines to end tuberculosis worldwide. Combining immunoengineering, molecular microbiology & systems biology at MIT.

Two pieces of fun news:

1. We've launched a new website for our lab: www.brysonlab.org

2. With some new funding, we are recruiting for new postdocs and graduate students. The projects build upon our previous studies of antigen presentation and phagosome biology and go into new exciting dimensions!

The pipeline of scientists is cracked at every level now: recent grads can't get jobs/research experience because we're all conservative about hiring in this climate, fewer grad school spots, killing many fellowship pipelines, and now the early career investigators are disproportionately impacted.

Y'all!

These NIH AIDS cycle due dates though..

Why are there any deadlines for anything first week of Jan?

My end of 2025 rant. Thank you for listening to my podcast.

AAI offers travel grants for immunology researchers to attend the 2026 annual meeting in Boston, covering travel expenses to support career advancement.

Upon submitting your abstract, you may apply for a Travel Award by 11:59 PM ET, December 16. These awards assist with travel expenses to #IMMUNOLOGY2026™ in Boston, MA, from April 15-19, 2026. https://ow.ly/lbwR50XKocE

Senators should have the same health care as their constituents.

South Carolina measles outbreak is 'accelerating,' driving hundreds into quarantine Some students who remain unvaccinated are now in a second 21-day quarantine since the beginning of the school year.

The measles outbreak in South Carolina is “accelerating” with no end in sight following Thanksgiving and other large gatherings, state health officials say.

To celebrate today's presentation of the #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine to Mary E. Brunkow, Frederick J. Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi, we present a special collection highlighting important JEM studies by Shimon Sakaguchi on regulatory T (Treg) cells. 👉 rupress.org/jem/collecti...

Good morning 😡

Very disturbing news at work today..

Hey friends. I’m looking for a postdoc interested in studying host-pathogen interactions and immunology of tuberculosis. Send me some good people! We have a great group here! Email me joanne@pitt.edu. Thanks!

A Threat to Evidence-Based Vaccine Policy and Public Health Security at the FDA | NEJM Twelve former commissioners of the FDA express concern that the agency’s recent moves will undermine a regulatory model designed to ensure vaccine safety, effectiveness, and availability.

Important and timely read in the New England Journal of Medicine:

Twelve former commissioners of the FDA express concern that the agency’s recent moves will undermine a regulatory model designed to ensure vaccine safety, effectiveness, and availability.

Check out our new paper with @nelson-lab.bsky.social. We used scRNAseq to profile the function of Mtb peptide-specific T cells from NHP and human lung granulomas. Beyond IFNγ, Mtb-specific T cells make a bunch of unexpected stuff, and human and NHP cell are really similar.

The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article) A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.

New York Times article on science funding with some depressing but familiar curves with interactive graphics.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The antigen-presenting molecule MR1 binds host-generated riboflavin catabolites, say Mohamed Abdelaal, Nicholas Gherardin, Jamie Rossjohn, Wael Awad @waelawad.bsky.social and colleagues @monashuniversity.bsky.social @unimelb.bsky.social: rupress.org/jem/article/...

#InnateImmunity #MAIT

Well this is not good..

It's awful that the world we live in is capable of causing so much suffering.

One of many reasons the department of education is being gutted.

YouTube video by KeystoneSymposia Tuberculosis Meeting Promo

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