John David Spencer

SUPER mentor, Ashley Jackson, PhD, with one of our SUPER mentees

The NIH-funded Student Urinary Tract Program in Education & Research Summer Training Program is for undergraduate, graduate and medical students interested in research and clinical experiences. Application period with rolling admissions is open until December 24. Apply today https://bit.ly/43JV09k

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Trends in US Children’s Mortality, Chronic Conditions, Obesity, Functional Status, and Symptoms This study aims to determine how US children’s health has been changing from 2007 to 2023 using multiple data collection methods and a comprehensive set of health indicators.

US children's health has worsened from 2007 to 2023 across various indicators, including mortality, chronic conditions, and mental health. ja.ma/4owq0T8

A new publication from our team showing that PTEN modulates bladder antimicrobial defenses against UTI @globaluti.bsky.social

Alert: The Trump administration is quietly slashing new NIH grant awards, and it's not via the budget NIH’s sudden move to multiyear grant funding is forcing shocking cuts in the number of grants funded. This is an effective budget cut. It's bad, folks.

New, from an anonymous NIH insider: Trump is being pushed to spend more NIH money. The White House is ordering NIH to do multi-year budgets for awards. This budget trick means fewer awards, fewer labs funded, and lower paylines for researchers. 🧵
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"As a pediatrician, it's important to highlight the established risk factors for UTI in kids. As a scientist it's important to highlight recent clinical and translational UTI research"

Sound interesting? You can catch Dr. @kidneytweets.bsky.social' #UTIhour talk on UTIGA.org/upcoming

Diabetes mellitus affects urinary tissue tropism of group B streptococci in a sex-dependent manner https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.02.651940v1

Navigating the Challenges of IgA Nephropathy and IgA Vasculitis Nephritis in Children Written by: Henny Adriani PuspitasariIntroduction:IgA nephropathy (IgAN) and IgA vasculitis nephritis (IgAVN) are kidney diseases that can significantly impact children's health. While they share some...

For all my little beans out there, don’t forget to read the latest recommendations on IgAN and IgAVN by @mdabdulqader83.bsky.social on @kireports.bsky.social

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Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50...

Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.

Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I've also now made a Starter Pack for the #AntimicrobialPeptide field here:

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Please let me know who I am missing! This is a very incomplete list so far. I also expect many will join Bluesky later. I will happily keep populating this list! 📣🧬🦠

That’s good! I was uploading reviews and it crashed. Hopefully it goes back up later today.

Yes - it was working for me 15 min ago as I was typing up a review. No longer able to access…

Same here

Bonus effect. When a drug for diabetes significantly reduces kidney stones, results of a randomized trial of empagliflozin (Jardiance), a SGLT-2 inhibitor, in people without diabetes
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The Student Urinary Tract Program in Education and Research The National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded Student Urinary Tract Program in Education and Research (SUPER) Summer Training Program is for undergraduate students interested in an integrated researc...

Hello #nephsky and #urosky! If you know of undergraduates or medical students looking for summer research and clinical experiences in nephrology or urology, please guide them to check out our #nih funded programs - now accepting applications! www.nationwidechildrens.org/research/are...