Santiago Correa, PhD (he/him)

Extracellular vesicles as dynamic crosslinkers for bioactive injectable hydrogels Extracellular vesicles (EVs) offer potent biological functionality but are challenging to integrate into materials. Using scalable EVs from yogurt whey, the authors define key parameters for forming E...

Here is a link to the paper www.cell.com/matter/fullt...

The lab's first paper is out now in @cp-matter.bsky.social

We explored whether extracellular vesicles (EVs) could serve as structural elements in biomaterials—and whether doing so would confer intrinsic bioactivity.

Artemis' thread explains how we used yogurt EVs to answer both these questions! 🧪

BWF Announces 2025 Postdoctoral Diversity Enrichment Program Recipients - Burroughs Wellcome Fund Research Triangle Park, N.C. — The Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) is proud to announce the 2025 recipients of its Postdoctoral Diversity Enrichment Program (PDEP), which provides critical support to…

BWF is proud to announce the 2025 recipients of its Postdoctoral Diversity Enrichment Program (PDEP), which provides critical support to postdoctoral researchers pursuing careers in biomedical and medical research. www.bwfund.org/news/bwf-ann... #bwfpdep

BWF is pleased to announce the 2025 recipients of its Career Awards at the Scientific Interface (CASI). buff.ly/WDswUnt #bwfcasi

BWF Announces 2025 Postdoctoral Diversity Enrichment Program Recipients - Burroughs Wellcome Fund Research Triangle Park, N.C. — The Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) is proud to announce the 2025 recipients of its Postdoctoral Diversity Enrichment Program (PDEP), which provides critical support to po...

I am super proud of our postdoctoral fellow @roberthincapie.bsky.social who has been selected as one of the @bwfund.bsky.social PDEP recipients! This is such a well-deserved recognition of Robert's research potential and commitment to making academia a better place 🧪

www.bwfund.org/news/bwf-ann...

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Are you from one of these states? Then we need your help to save American science!

The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic

Thanks Jessica! Hope you're doing well

Thanks John!

I'm honored to join the amazing community of Beckman researchers! I want to thank all the mentors and friends who helped me reach this milestone -- it's too many to list!! This funding will support our work integrating synthetic and natural nanomaterials to develop new cancer immunotherapies

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.

Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

This is a project and an area I've been working in for years. We've published numerous papers on the topic, and recently went through a competitive renewal in which the science of the grant was rigorously evaluated and supported.

And it was cut for cheap political points

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A screenshot of the termination notice with "This award is terminated effective the date of this award, due to unsafe antisemitic actions that suggest the institution lacks concern for the safety and wellbeing of Jewish students." highlighted

Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab

Vaccine research is out. Cancer research is out. How are immuno engineers thinking about what role federal funding can now play in this work? Is there any facet of our field that hasn't become villainized? 🧪

One of the few powers we have as individual citizens, particularly between elections, is our consumer power. Effective boycotts could really make a difference, and I'd love to see guides for the top 5 companies to boycott. I for one cancelled Prime today and closed my Amazon credit card.

The Trump NIH is banning hires of new students and postdocs. This is devastating for NIH research and will result in a lost generation of researchers at the institution.

Heard from a applicant today: "A lot of people are banking their entire careers on the [NIH student programs]..."
#NIH 🧪
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Hero lawyers in state AG offices busted their asses over the weekend to get this done. Now do your part: call your Representative and Senators TODAY. Call your AG AND governor and voice your support for these lawsuits.

The NIH 6 months ago, vs the NIH now. 🧵

Video 👇🏼 NIH 6 months ago. A hallway full of colorful posters profiling women and POC researchers.

Shared by @amritalaxshmy.bsky.social on the bird site.

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Destructive Banality: NIH Indirect Costs Move Sounds Boring, Could Kill You Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

My latest from inside NIH as well as universities that get its funding. I think it is important to say clearly what moves like this will actually do to people.

The NSA's "Big Delete" Today, the National Security Agency (NSA) is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion." The "...

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Today, the NSA is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion," a NSA source tells Popular Information.

The massive purge is creating chaos, taking down "mission-related" work

Over and over, the new GOP shows a shocking shift towards a highly controlling government that is obsessed with what people do and think. And what seems like a very technical policy change right now is just another step towards gutting what they see as the biggest threat to them - education

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This plan also opens the door to more insidious impact - a way to hit and control universities in Blue States as well.

While Blue States could decide how their block funds are spent, the GOP-run congress could massively slash funds to these states to punish the universities in that state

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Ppl have focused on how recreating the NIH's complex system for reviewing/awarding grants would be inefficient.

True, but I think the real story here is the political control over this money - so Red States can enforce what they've done in public universities in their private universities too

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But consider the end goal under Project 2025 - to dismantle the NIH and replace it with block grants to states, which would then decide independently how those funds are distributed.

So now, Red States would finally have power over a huge part of private universities' funds.

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So how can you control these private unis that the GOP sees as an existential threat to their ideology? Find a way to control their funding too.

The NIH is the largest funder of universities. So, if the GOP can break the NIH then they can crush private universities financially

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However, even in FL the ability for the government to control universities is primarily limited to public unis where the state controls their funding and policies.

Private unis have way more autonomy proportional to how much State-independent funding they bring in - like NIH funds.

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Sports Are In, Gender Studies Are Out at College Targeted by DeSantis (Published 2023) An influx of athletes is among many changes since Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida vowed to transform New College, a public institution, into a bastion of conservatism.

This includes completely replacing the boards of universities with political appointees, elimination of diversity efforts, and even denial of tenure to faculty seen as enemies to far-right ideology.

www.nytimes.com/2023/09/22/u...

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To see what the GOP wants to do to the USA, look no further than Florida which is a glimpse into our far-right future. In FL for years under Desantis, universities have been brutally targeted, dismantled, and subjected to highly political control

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I wondered why Trump's Project 2025 took such a technical interest in NIH funding - but now I think it is clear this is all window dressing for the bigger goal of destroying American universities... or to be more exact, to find a way to control them 🧪 #SciSky #MedSky #AcademicSky

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What is going to happen next with regard to NIH from the administration?

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And now back to our regularly scheduled $hitshow

The dismantling of NIH programs to increase diversity in the biomedical workforce and the abhorrent treatment of talented young scientists