Dear UNC-CH Board of Trustees Chair Preyer and members of the Board:
We are writing as concerned members of the UNC-CH chapter of the American Association of University
Professors (AAUP). AAUP has a 100-year commitment to academic freedom. Ten days ago, faculty
learned from Faculty Chair Moracco that at your May meeting the Board of Trustees (BOT) decided not to
consider pending tenure and promotion recommendations other than those in Health Affairs schools.
Further, no personnel actions have been approved from the College of Arts and Sciences this year,
something that is highly unusual. Every continued delay threatens the very heart of our mission to “serve as
a center for research, scholarship, and creativity,” denies students’ the enriching collegiate experiences they
deserve, and erodes faculty trust in a fair and timely tenure process. We urge the BOT to reconsider its
decision and move forward now with pending tenure and promotion actions.
Promotion and tenure are central pillars of our university and universities around the nation. As you know,
each promotion and tenure decision has been carefully vetted, with external letters obtained from experts in
the faculty members field, followed by review at many levels. Faculty here are hired with an explicit
expectation that if their teaching and scholarship meet the high standards of their Department, their
College, and the Provost, they will be granted tenure.
Students at UNC-CH and people across the state expect that our flagship university will recruit the best
faculty in the nation. These actions threaten the bedrock foundations of Carolina and our status as a leading
public university. Tenure is not something unique to Carolina but is the norm at virtually every college and
university across the nation. Each time we search for a new faculty member, UNC-CH is competing with
top universities across the nation, like our peers at Duke, Berkeley, or the University of Michigan. Further,
tenured faculty members up fo…
@aaup.bsky.social & @unc-ch-aaup.bsky.social act for faculty. Below is the letter we sent to the UNC-CH Board of Trustees today about their shocking decision to delay action on tenure & promotion recommendations except those from the Health Affairs schools. Join us to advocate for academic freedom.
03.06.2025 23:24 — 👍 36 🔁 18 💬 2 📌 1
Really interesting study!
18.05.2025 12:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What happens when you trap probiotic bacteria inside gels? Turns out, not all bugs react the same way.
We trapped gram-negative and gram-positive probiotic bacteria in gels with varying stiffnesses and saw what they did.
Here's the study - tinyurl.com/Probiogel
TLDR highlights in this thread 👇
18.05.2025 10:41 — 👍 25 🔁 8 💬 4 📌 0
One of the absolute highlights of my job is getting to hood my PhD students at graduation. This summer, I’m thrilled to celebrate three amazing students who are finishing their PhDs. Can’t wait to see what they do next!
17.05.2025 15:46 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment
A gene-editing treatment used on a 9½-month-old boy with a rare condition has the potential to help people with thousands of other uncommon genetic diseases #NBTNewsBeat www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...
16.05.2025 01:38 — 👍 37 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 2
Special Issue in @JCRnEDITORS honors Dr. Leaf Huang—a pioneer in drug & gene delivery. Pioneering advances from liposomes to immunotherapy.
doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...
Kudos to @kristy-ainslie-lab.bsky.social, @julienguyenlab.bsky.social, Dr. Olivia Merkel & Dr. Yunching Chen for curating it!
14.05.2025 21:29 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Friends of NIBIB (FoNIBIB) Membership Interest
Organizations interested in joining FoNIBIB may complete the interest form below. For general information about FoNIBIB and its planned activities, please visit our website here.
Please note that f...
If your institution/organization is interested in joining FoNIBIB, please fill out our interest form here: aimbe.wufoo.com/forms/q1td4w...
Follow @friendsofnibib.bsky.social to learn more about coalition activities and NIBIB-related updates.
Researchers, your voice is more important now than ever.
08.05.2025 19:15 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
We are concerned about the proposed NIH budget cuts and possible consolidation of NIBIB. Related statement: friendsofnibib.org/letter-writi...)
We urgently need collective advocacy for policies that support the development of NIBIB-funded life-changing medical & biological engineering technologies.
08.05.2025 19:15 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Honored to have @julienguyenlab.bsky.social and Brian Miller be awarded a UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Breast SPORE Developmental Research Program Award to help support breast cancer research. Great work!
18.04.2025 14:42 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
New publication out in Digestive Diseases and Science Journal, in collaboration with @julienguyenlab.bsky.social
“Engineered Probiotic Saccharomyces boulardii Reduces Colitis-Associated Colorectal Cancer Burden in Mice”
rdcu.be/eibPU
18.04.2025 14:45 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Thrilled to announce that @julienguyenlab.bsky.social
in collaboration with Dr. Tom Egan received an
NIH R21 grant. This funding will support work on “Novel innovative ultra-elastic and instantly adhesive hydrogel patches to prevent air leak after lung surgery”
18.04.2025 14:57 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Controlled Release Society CRS
CRS 2025 Annual Meeting & Exposition: Meet Our Director of Abstract Judging, Juliane Nguyen, PhD!
Who would've thought you could play Bingo with posters? Introducing #PosterBingo for the Controlled Release Society Annual Meeting! Inspired by an idea #AssafZinger and his students had!
See you in Philly!
youtu.be/xMpxLsW-2QA?...
04.04.2025 01:34 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
New publication out in Digestive Diseases and Sciences in collaboration with @julienguyenlab.bsky.social
“Engineered Probiotic Saccharomyces boulardii Reduces Colitis-Associated Colorectal Cancer Burden in Mice”
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
03.04.2025 20:54 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
A fact sheet of NIH FY2024 economic impact.
AIMBE's new fact sheets highlighting the NIH & NSF as economic engines have dropped at lnkd.in/ePRGWqnC!
Did you know that every $1 in NIH research funding yielded $2.56 in new economic activity in the U.S.?
NIH-funded research also supported over 400,000 jobs across the nation in FY2024!
18.03.2025 14:45 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Support Strong FY25 Funding for Biomedical Research by March 14
Use AIMBE's letter template below, edit as needed, or create your own message to your Members of Congress on issues that matter. Enter your contact information on the left, and your letter will be rou...
The 3/14 deadline to finalize the FY2025 budget is fast approaching! ⌛
AIMBE has developed a new advocacy letter (<1 min to send) for the scientific community to urge Congress to support our federal science agencies, including NIH, NSF, FDA, ARPA-H, CDMRP, and more 👇
takeaction.io/aimbe/suppor...
11.03.2025 14:29 — 👍 29 🔁 25 💬 2 📌 1
Thanks Kristy!
28.02.2025 01:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great talk by @julienguyenlab.bsky.social at 19th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Drug Delivery Systems (RADDS) at Univ of Utah in beautiful Salt Lake City!
27.02.2025 16:39 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Write Your Lawmakers - AIMBE
AIMBE has developed a new advocacy letter on the changes to NIH indirect cost rates: aimbe.org/advocate/wri...
We urge the broader biomedical research community to customize this letter (<1 minute) to contact your congressional representatives about the severe consequences of this new policy 👇
10.02.2025 18:28 — 👍 75 🔁 33 💬 4 📌 6
Congrats! Great study!
07.02.2025 00:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Check out this publication on a pharmacy initiative co-led by some of our @aimbe-official.bsky.social Fellows, Drs. Kristy Ainslie and Juliane Nguyen!
Featuring insights our own AIMBE Executive Director, Dr. Dawn Beraud (@dawnberaud.bsky.social), about the importance of advocacy 👇
#SciencePolicy
05.02.2025 17:30 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
It was great to connect with this group. Science advocacy is more important now than ever!
05.02.2025 22:22 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
@julienguyenlab.bsky.social & I organized leaders from Pharmacy Schools to discuss AI in grad ed, financial support challenges & science advocacy w/ @dawnberaud.bsky.social. Also a NextProf PharmSci program.
Many of these discussions are relevant to all grad ed.
Open Access: rdcu.be/d8D7A
05.02.2025 12:28 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 2
Funding delays and policy changes are disrupting labs, jeopardizing jobs, and putting the future of science and biomedical engineering at risk. Trainees and early-career researchers are being hit hardest. @aimbe-official.bsky.social is taking action.
Read our statement & send a letter to Congress
04.02.2025 22:26 — 👍 8 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Write Your Lawmakers - AIMBE
AIMBE has posted a public statement on the impact of federal policy changes on biomedical research: aimbe.org/advocate/wri...
Above, we have also developed an advocacy letter for members of the medical & biological engineering community to send to their congressional representatives on this matter.
04.02.2025 22:10 — 👍 168 🔁 67 💬 1 📌 5
Thanks Kevin!
29.01.2025 11:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Excited to share that our work on #adhesive #auxetic #patches for dynamic organ repair has been funded by the NHLBI! These patches are highly stretchable and adaptable, making them suitable for a variety of organs, and they can deliver therapeutics while providing sustained release.
22.01.2025 12:28 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
@glassmanlab.bsky.social is leading this special issue titled "Pharmacology of Next Generation Therapeutics," which I am excited to co-edit! ASPET & the PhRMA Foundation will provide a $5,000 Challenge Award to up to five trainees for outstanding papers accepted for this JPET special collection!
09.01.2025 10:54 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Sending Warm Holiday Wishes from Our Lab to Yours!
20.12.2024 03:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congrats to my PhD student Omar Budayr on his 1st author review titled: Harnessing extracellular vesicle-mediated crosstalk between T cells and cancer cells for therapeutic applications
Use this link for 50 days of free access to the article: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kHALcI2-5...
16.12.2024 17:57 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Associate Professor at Westlake University l Associate Editor of SmartMat @smartmat.bsky.social. Focus on Molecular-Strain Engineering / Supramolecular Organic Functional Assembly
liu.westlake.edu.cn
Global Healthcare Services Manager @ Hyland | Passionate about healthcare, digital health, AI & cloud | BSc, PRINCE2, MSP, L6σ Green Belt | Opinions are my own | https://linktr.ee/paulcochrane
Cancer Killer | Engineering RNA medicines to End Cancer | Potentially sarcastic | Honey-badger
Associate Professor at University of Silesia; Poland, Husband; Father of 3; postdoc @RiceUniversity; @uchicago Nanomedicine of fullerenes
We're the Alexander Pietras Lab, exploring the complexities of the brain tumor microenvironment. We study how therapies like radiotherapy reshape it and seek innovative ways to outsmart tumors.
AP posts @ Lund University
trained @ MSKCC and @ Fred Hutch
Husband, Father and grandfather, Datahound, Dog lover, Fan of Celtic music, Former NIGMS director, Former EiC of Science magazine, Stand Up for Science advisor, Pittsburgh, PA
NIH Dashboard: https://jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.github.io/index.html
Group leader @igmm-montpel.bsky.social studying viruses - ERC Stg- Amateur athlete and musician- Husband and father- Europtimist @biolum-montpellier.bsky.social
https://www.igmm.cnrs.fr/en/team/rna-viruses-and-host-factors/
Researcher at DTU Health Tech and Stanford School of Medicine | Nanoparticle formulation | Oxygen carriers | Tissue engineering
We study how micro-environmental and epigenetic mechanisms drive cancer cells into dormancy. We seek to control this biology to prevent and treat metastasis. https://einsteinmed.edu/faculty/16974/julio-aguirre-ghiso
Biomaterials engineer and group leader at Uni Bayreuth, Germany. Research focus is on biofabrication and tissue engineering of soft tissues.
An interdisciplinary research group at TU Delft, Aerospace Engineering, exploring: additive manufacturing, bio-inspired materials, and engineered living materials.
Led by Kunal Masania (@kmasania.bsky.social)
https://www.shapingmatterlab.com/
Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Entrepreneur, Mother, and Cancer Survivor. Ohio State University, AIChE Board Member. My thoughts and opinions are my own. go.osu.edu/winterlab
Scientific Editor at Cell Biomaterials, a monthly journal by Cell Press. We focus on publishing innovative biomaterials that interfaces with health and living systems, including bioengineering, biomedical engineering, and biotechnology.
Associate Professor in Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology and Drug Development @ Uppsala University and SciLifeLab. ERC CoG grantee.
Physics professor at California State University, Long Beach. Interested in knots, DNA, and knotted DNA.
Woke European educator (Chemistry and Higher Education) he/him
Biomed Eng, PhD | @i3suporto.bsky.social Junior Postdoctoral Researcher, Bruno Sarmento Lab, Portugal | Controlled Release Society YSC Past Chair | Pint of Science Co-Coordinator | She/her/hers
Assistant Professor @RiceBioengineering
https://swingle-lab.com