Senate appropriators approve Labor-HHS bill with NIH bump
The vote and lawmaker comments show that most senators aren't going along with the White House's proposed 40% budget cut to NIH.
BIG NEWS:
βSenate appropriators on Thursday approved an FY26 Labor-HHS bill that included a slight bump in funding for the NIH, with a strong 26β3 bipartisan vote.β
Thank you to members of the Senate Appropriations Committee on both sides of the aisle!
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The NIH budget will INCREASE by $400 million β not slashed by 40%, as Trump proposed β according to a proposal by Senate appropriators, says Sen Murray.
"Some have asked if there will even be an NIH by [2029]. The commmittee's resounding message is yesβCongress has your back", she says.
31.07.2025 13:53 β π 259 π 78 π¬ 8 π 15
In preparation of today's mark-up of the NIH appropriations bill in the Senate and other activities, I sent this note to Senator Susan Collins' office.
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31.07.2025 12:58 β π 195 π 31 π¬ 11 π 13
Extra kudos and thanks to all the staff at NIH and NSF and other federal funding agencies for working extra hard in very small windows of opportunity to get grants reviewed and funds released before the attention-addled federal policies change again (on an hourly basis).
30.07.2025 20:41 β π 394 π 85 π¬ 2 π 3
Brown University's campus. A headline reads: "Brown University Makes A Deal With the White House to Restore Funding." Photo credit: lan MacLellan for The New York Times.
Breaking News: Brown University was said to have reached a deal with the Trump administration to restore federal funding. nyti.ms/459nQzY
30.07.2025 20:54 β π 62 π 29 π¬ 61 π 66
Reviewer #3 feedback.
23.07.2025 10:53 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
holy shit lmao
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New paper! Combining epidemiology and experiments uncovers surprising drug-host-microbiome-pathogen interactions. Congrats @amankumar25.bsky.social, Robyn Tamblyn, and the rest of the team.
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16.07.2025 19:59 β π 12 π 6 π¬ 3 π 1
Miss Rachel continues to have more of a moral backbone than 99% of public figures
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Very depressing to hear that. How can this be happening at NIH? It defies belief.
03.07.2025 16:00 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Lunch outing with the lab to celebrate Jordanβs brilliant qualifying exam (she passed with flying colors)! And, also celebrated a 1%ile score on the labβs R01 on mucosal vaccines for respiratory viruses. Fingers crossed for the NOA!
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βThe 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia was one of the most severe in American history, killing around 5,000 people, or 10% of the city's population. The outbreak began in August near the Delaware waterfront and spread rapidly throughout the summer and fall.β The rich fled to the countryside
21.06.2025 02:53 β π 14 π 4 π¬ 1 π 1
Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Rules N.I.H. Grant Cuts Illegal, Orders Funds Restored
ππΌ praise be for the judicial branch putting the brakes on the illegal actions of this current administration.
Judge Rules N.I.H. Grant Cuts Illegal, Orders Funds Restored www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
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Real vaccine science, check it out
12.06.2025 14:36 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Nonstabilized SARS-CoV-2 spike mRNA vaccination induces broadly neutralizing antibodies in nonhuman primates
Nonstabilized SARS-CoV-2 spike mRNA vaccination elicited distinct antibodies to either Omicron variants of concern or preemergent sarbecoviruses.
A paper from our pancoronavirus vaccine P01 grant group is now out in Science Translational Medicine.
Here we show that non-stabilized spike delivered as mRNA is sufficient to elicit broadly neutralizing antibodies in monkeys.
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12.06.2025 14:15 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 2
Kennedyβs ACIP 2.0 is as expected. Headlined by charlatans that have nothing to lose and will rubber stamp ludicrous policies.
I strongly urge my fellow healthcare providers to speak up and be unafraid. We must ensure there is accountability through collective action.
11.06.2025 22:08 β π 956 π 294 π¬ 19 π 11
The process for ACIP membership usually takes years of vetting, particularly for conflicts of interest. Have these people undergone the same level of scrutiny? I'm pretty sure Malone has made money from saying falsely that mRNA vaccines are unsafe.
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RFK Jr.βs attack on vaccine experts endangers every American
βOur nationβs top health official cannot be trusted to protect Americaβs children and their families,β writes Richard Besser, pediatrician and president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
RFK Jr.βs attack on vaccine experts endangers every American www.statnews.com/2025/06/10/a... via @statnews.com
"Kennedy is not fit for the office he holds."
"Congress must act. The medical and public health community must speak out. And the public should demand better."
10.06.2025 20:15 β π 295 π 96 π¬ 3 π 3
Jay Bhattacharya is decimating health research
Here in my state, his cuts are MASSIVE ($566 million in lost funding
NC is #2 in terminated grants
The impact will be horrific
Bhattacharya took $129 million from Dukeβs HIV vaccine development efforts; see www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...
10.06.2025 14:51 β π 34 π 15 π¬ 1 π 0
NIH details how Trump budget would cut support for grants, training, and research centers
President Trump's 2026 budget proposes cutting NIH grants to universities, academic medical centers, and other institutions by 43%
~40% cuts to NIH research awards.
~35% cuts to training programs.
~27% cut to internal research.
~30% fewer grants awarded overall.
The Common Fund will be cut in half.
American science has never faced a threat like this.
www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/n... via @statnews.com
06.06.2025 22:31 β π 48 π 37 π¬ 3 π 8
Remember the day when the cyber truck was unveiled by Elon Musk trying to channel his best Steve Jobs? When he took a hammer to the βbulletproof windowsβ which were not?
Today is better.
05.06.2025 21:38 β π 33 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
Losing the US contribution to GAVI is predicted to lead to 1.2 million additional preventable child deaths globally. From our new piece about measles: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
04.06.2025 16:37 β π 32 π 21 π¬ 1 π 1
I grew up in the US in the 1980s, so exceptionalism is a defining trait. My default setting is USA #1.
I canβt accept that making America great again means voluntarily stepping off the podium and relinquishing our medals. Itβs the least American thing we could ever do.
31.05.2025 11:50 β π 112 π 23 π¬ 7 π 0
RFK has always a history of making his own reality which requires making stuff up to support his fantasy-reality
29.05.2025 22:35 β π 30 π 8 π¬ 3 π 0
π¨ In a stunningly short-sighted move, HHS just canceled its contract with Moderna to test mRNA vaccines for #H5N1 and other pandemic threats.
When the next big outbreak hits, whatβs the planβbleach again?
This will come back to bite us. Hard.
#BirdFlu #PublicHealth #PandemicPreparedness
28.05.2025 23:32 β π 168 π 92 π¬ 14 π 6
Definitely foolβs gold. Pun intended.
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