Nick Vulpescu

The NCI grant supporting the Columbia comprehensive cancer center was terminated. Tell me how terminating support for cancer research helps the economy.

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18.03.2025 22:28 — 👍 397    🔁 241    💬 19    📌 39

Eric Green is out as head of National Human Genome Research Institute The longtime director of the National Human Genome Research Institute is stepping down, as the larger NIH braces for more changes.

Still processing what this means. www.statnews.com/2025/03/17/t...

18.03.2025 11:21 — 👍 59    🔁 36    💬 8    📌 7

Wow. "NIH" canceled my co-mentored (with Dave Sulzer) PhD student's F31 funding. His work is on understanding the genetics and neuroscience of language learning disorders. F31 provides no indirect $ to Columbia, just pays his salary. Not that it should matter, but he's an American citizen. W.T.F.

11.03.2025 12:41 — 👍 521    🔁 220    💬 21    📌 17

Much will be written about how 4 PhD students and a PhD –Colette Delawalla, Sam Goldstein, Emma Courtney, Leslie Berntsen & JP Flores – organized @standupforscience.bsky.social to
unite scientists in the US and worldwide. Now let's keep the momentum going to defend science!
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09.03.2025 12:57 — 👍 384    🔁 60    💬 3    📌 4

In front of the US capitol building, holding a sign saying “Every $1 of NIH funding returns $2.46 in economic activity”

Speaker at the Stand Up for Science rally in Washington DC

Very proud to join thousands of scientists and concerned citizens to protest in DC. The time for action is now, before we lose the institutions that work towards a better world

08.03.2025 02:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This third suit includes 13 schools:

IL: UChicago
PA: UPenn, CMU
CA: UC California, Caltech,
NY: Cornell, U of Rochester
MA: MIT, Brandeis,Tufts
DC: GWU
MA: Johns Hopkins
RI: Brown

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11.02.2025 01:01 — 👍 23    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 4

Trump officials exerting unprecedented control over CDC scientific journal "The MMWR has lost its autonomy," one health official told CBS News.

“Efforts by Trump officials to control the publication have stalled the release of three studies about bird flu for weeks, as the virus continues spreading through wild birds, poultry farms and cows around the country.” www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-o...

08.02.2025 03:23 — 👍 1825    🔁 941    💬 87    📌 84

NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.

I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.

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08.02.2025 00:18 — 👍 7036    🔁 4107    💬 258    📌 902

American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12

28.01.2025 03:58 — 👍 1825    🔁 1137    💬 57    📌 189

Francis Collins standing at a podium, presenting the title slide from his talk “The Central Role of Genomics in the Future of Health and Medicine”

Big thanks to Dr. Collins for delivering an inspiring talk on the future of genomics in healthcare! And for sticking around afterwards to meet with students

04.12.2024 22:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Such a great experience to deliver a talk at the AACR special conference on liquid biopsy! Looking forward to sharing more results from this project soon @theaacr.bsky.social

23.11.2024 21:14 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0