Chris Robinson

Ten years ago, my oldest son would come to the lab with me and watch me count "circles," aka viral plaques. Now he's shadowing members of my lab and working on college applications.

The NIH’s 2024 budget of just under $37B generated $95B in economic activity in 2024 alone. 99.4% of new pharmaceuticals approved from 2010-2019 came from NIH-funded research. I’m hard pressed to think of anything that generates as much direct economic benefit as our NIH did before they destroyed it

I may need to get myself a cowboy hat! 😂

I’ll worry about the NIH budget tomorrow. Happy 4th!

Congrats to my grad student, Rachel Tat, on getting the official NOA on her F31 today!

I’m proud of Lorimar! She did a great job presenting her work today at #ASMicrobe.

Great job by Rachel Tat representing the Robinson Lab at #ASMicrobe!

We made it to LA and we’re ready for ASM Microbe!

I’m so grateful for the people in my lab! Thanks for the celebration.

I'm proud to share that I have been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. I'm thankful for all the mentors who have encouraged me over the years. Also, thank you to my lab members, past and present. Without you, none of this would have been possible!

The Robinson Lab is headed to LA for ASM Microbe 2025. See the work of two of our exceptional graduate students!

Rachel Tat
@RachelPTat
: Friday June 20th, HMB 985
Lorimar Robledo Gonzalez: Sunday, June 22nd, HMB 999

We set out to quantify U.S. academic contributions to medicines. The results stunned even us From 2020 to 2024, universities contributed patents underpinning 50% of FDA-approved drugs. 87% of those academic breakthroughs came from American institutions.

A study finds, US based academic research institutes account for 50% of new medical drugs in the last 4 years. 🧪

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#science #savescience #stat

“Is your life a science experiment or an art project?” - Wayne Gretzky - Michael Scott

Another baseball season in the books with my boys!

They’re multiplying 😂

Yu-chi got me a mango cake for my birthday. 10/10 would recommend.

TIL, I’ve almost had enough people work in my lab to fill out a whole baseball team.

Thanks @salonniiiii for creating this!

Sad to see Saloni go, but off to bigger and better things. Good luck in grad school at the University of Colorado!

PS: Unfortunately, the stick’s not going to Colorado.

Robinson Lab adventures!

Welcome, Alex Champa, to the Robinson lab. Alex is a Summer Undergraduate student who joins us from St. Louis University.

Thank you for the birthday present @okcthunder.bsky.social!

Saturday project. I can’t go to the Indy 500 this year, so I guess I’ll have to settle for the Kindy 500 at my son’s school.

Congrats to my grad student, Rachel Tat, on receiving a fundable score on her F31! Exciting science coming from her soon.

I’m coaching my son’s baseball team this season. It’s coach-pitch, and I got to pitch for the first time in years. Threw a 1-hit shutout. Stuck my 6-year-old out twice. I guess he needs to learn how to hit the slider. 🤣

Coming this Fall, the Pattnaik Lab! Congrats to my former postdoc, Aryamav Pattnaik, on accepting a faculty position at Birla Institute of Technology and Science - Pilani in India.

Nothing makes me feel older than a student in my lab calling my music “classic” rock. 😂

Happy Mother’s Day to all the Mothers out there.

Project Transformation – a respected national model of ministry and service

Please consider donating:

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The funding was terminated without warning, despite already being appropriated by Congress.

This especially hits home for me because I served in Project Transformation over 20 years ago and it is where I met my wife.