Grant Schulert, MD, PhD

Trump Administration Puts New Chokehold on Billions in Health-Research Funding The National Institutes of Health can’t award grants to outside researchers under a new White House restriction.

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The White House is blocking the NIH from awarding new research grants for the rest of the fiscal year

Chokes off billions in research funding

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Trump Administration Puts New Chokehold on Billions in Health-Research Funding The National Institutes of Health can’t award grants to outside researchers under a new White House restriction.

WSJ story about OMB blocking NIH spending and grant making

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Review Article Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Christy I. Sandborg, M.D., Grant S. Schulert, M.D., Ph.D., and Yukiko Kimura, M.D. Photos showing the common clinical manifestations of juvenile idiopathic arthritis

A new review discusses the features of oligoarticular, polyarticular, systemic, and psoriatic JIA and enthesitis-related arthritis, as well as advances in treatment for these conditions. Read the full review: nej.md/4lJMkq4

#MedSky #PedSky

As we all know, anything bad that ever happens to anyone after vaccination is due to the vaccine. But most people hospitalized with #COVID19 are really sick with something else.

Great live comments on #ACIP meeting:

16 years ago today - starting residency at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital and shaving for fit testing in the #H1N1 pandemic year)!

Relatedly: I went to @reds.com last night and wanted to buy their cool pride hat, but they don’t sell them. Can get all sorts of Reds hats including pot themed, vintage, and lots of Rose tributes. But 🌈? Nope

So no matter what a certain failson says, kids should get the COVID-19 vaccine.

Patients with highest COVID-19 severity had highest risk for new autoimmune disease vs. those with least severe disease - more than 3-fold increased compared to mild in children!

On the PEDSnet side, we found type 1 diabetes and hematological autoimmune diseases were the most common new autoimmune diseases in children with COVID.

Severity of acute SARS-CoV-2 infection and risk of new-onset autoimmune disease: A RECOVER initiative study in nationwide U.S. cohorts - PubMed SARS-CoV-2 infection has been associated with increased autoimmune disease risk. Past studies have not aligned regarding the most prevalent autoimmune diseases after infection, however. Furthermore, t...

Since we’ve apparently decided that #COVID19 is NBD, I’ll just leave this here, our latest from RECOVER. Severity of acute SARS-CoV-2 infection and risk of new-onset autoimmune disease: A RECOVER initiative study

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Another fantastic Schulert Lab day at the Florence Y’all’s- and a Y’all’s win! Thanks again to Gabe and the whole team for a great time!

Rebellions are built on hope.

Crazy for Americans to be talking about IL-18 in Japan, but luckily @grantschulert.bsky.social already warmed up the crowd.

RFK Jr’s autism study collecting Americans’ private medical records The National Institutes of Health claims it is fulfilling RFK’s promise to find cause of autism by September

An autism "registry" culled from private medical records could potentially violate federal privacy laws and runs the risk of abuse.

It also harkens back to a time when disabled people were labeled, segregated, and excluded. We won't go back.

Breaking from the NIH: advancing DEI, DEIA, or boycotting Israel is now grounds for cancelling your grant:

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NIH moving to ban grants to universities with DEI programs, Israeli boycotts The policy applies to “domestic recipients of new, renewal, supplement, or continuation awards” issued starting April 21, the notice said.

NIH moving to ban grants to universities with DEI programs, Israeli boycotts | Click on the image to read the full story

Jackie Robinson Day is pure celebration — and that’s the problem MLB’s failure to champion the entirety of Robinson’s legacy has never been more glaring or more damaging.

“The past is never dead. It’s not even the past.” —Faulkner

Happy Jackie Robinson Day

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Thanks to Texas Children’s and the WTS Center for Human Immunobiology for a great visit to Houston!

Rebecca Marsh and Grant Schulert on allogeneic HSCT for children with refractory sJIA and associated lung disease - The Lancet Rheumatology in conversation with The first episode of a mini series on cell-based therapies in rheumatology, with Prof Rebecca Marsh and Grant Schulert discussing the use of allogeneic haematopoietic stem-cell transplantation for chi...

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The first episode of a mini series on cell-based therapies in rheumatology we spoke with Rebecca Marsh and @grantschulert.bsky.social about allogeneic HSCT for children with refractory systemic #JIA and associated lung disease bit.ly/423cNYM

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Nintendo just announced that they're delaying preorders for the Switch 2 due to Trump's tariffs, meaning they'll likely be raising the price from the $450 they announced on April 1.

American gamers are a *big* group.

Collecting my thoughts at the end of one of the worst days of my life...

At NIH, > 1300 people were RIFed. These range all across the board from institute directors to low level administrative staff.

Communication staff and procurement appear to be hardest hit as anticipated from the HHS plan

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He was a delight to work with, and devoted his career to protecting Americans from first HIV as well as influenza, Ebola, and COVID. Thank you for your service Cliff!

His sin of course was directing a fiercely independent and evidence-based approach to COVID treatment, under a new boss who promised vengeance

H. Clifford Lane, M.D. H. Clifford Lane, M.D., is the Deputy Director of Clinical Research and Special Projects, the Director of the Division of Clinical Research Clinical Director of NIAID, and the Chief of the Clinical an...

Among those fired at NIH today was H. Clifford “Cliff” Lane, our leader on the NIH COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines. Dr. Lane is a National Academy of Medicine member, and was clinical director of NIAID and led the Clinical and Molecular Retrovirology section

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‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs In shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts.

On health economist Jay Bhattacharya’s first day as head of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), the chiefs of four of the 27 institutes and centres that make up his agency were removed from their posts.

https://go.nature.com/3QZ8GGT

‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs In shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts.

🚨🚨🚨 Four NIH institute directors have been removed from their posts and some offered reassignments to the Indian Health Service, effective today.

These institutes include NIAID (Jeanne Marrazzo), NIMHD (Eliseo Pérez-Stable), NICHD (Diana Bianchi), and NINR (Shannon Zenk).

Vacation

Ozturk's attorney tells me they still have no idea where she is. ICE says only that she is in the agency's custody. www.salon.com/2025/03/26/d...

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