Raquel Espin

🚨 There is ONE WEEK left to submit a late-breaking abstract for #ISEH2025 🏯! Submit your research by 28 July for a chance at a short talk or poster presentation. www.iseh.org/2025abstracts

The Myeloid Workshop is back in ASH! Please contact the organizers if you have an exciting story that will not be out by December they are: Zuzana Tothova ,
@ernstlaboratory.bsky.social
@steidluli.bsky.social
@ericpietras.bsky.social
@kathrinbernt.bsky.social
@gritsmanlab.bsky.social

DANIO-CODE DCC This Data Coordination Center allows DANIO-CODE consortium members to submit and view their data sets annotated with standard metadata nomenclatures.

#IZFC2025 #zebrafish #DANIO-CODE data coordination centre is back online. Note changed address: danio-code-dcc.genereg.net

Congratulations Sofia!!! 🎊🍾🎉

Remembering James Till, 1931-2025 It has been 64 years since the publication of the classic 1961 Till & McCulloch paper that described spleen colonies in lethally irradiated mice following a bone marrow transplant [1]. On May 18, 2024...

Beautiful tribute to Dr. James Till by Dr. Norman Iscove. Truly honored to serve as editor for this legacy in @isehsociety.bsky.social, as a proud scientific descendant of Dr. McCulloch. Tx to Norman for insights into the early HSC era & Jim’s pivotal role. bit.ly/45NPeWb @einsteinmededu.bsky.social

Congratulations Teresa! Very well deserved! 🎊🎊

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Congrats!

Enjoyed watching this great perspective and advice from Len Zon!

Thanks for the kind words!

Thank you #ISEH @macnamaralab.bsky.social for featuring the Espin lab at Lab Spotlight! 🩸 🐠

It was so much fun to participate!

Thank you @drsalinaslab.bsky.social for your visit to #ISU! You and your science are such an inspiration. Lungfish, new immune populations and ways to fight pathogens. I loved learning about your innovative biology, plus all the fun you brought!

Beautiful work by our colleagues here at #ISU and collaborators

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A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved

The Bridge Grant is a unique program that can be a lifeline to mid-career hematologists who are between funding. This grant supports well-established and promising projects.”

ASH understands it's a tough time for #hematology research due to #NIH funding cuts.

To support #researchers during this time, ASH's Bridge Grant now offers $150K funding, with waived critiques and no match needed. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4kBeGmR



#ASHAwards #MedSky #Hemesky

Gordon Keller Receives the 2025 ISSCR Achievement Award for his Seminal Work in Regenerative Medicine — International Society for Stem Cell Research The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) is honoring Gordon Keller, Ph.D., with this year’s ISSCR Achievement Award. Dr. Keller is the Director of the McEwen Stem Cell Institute at t...

Well deserved award for Dr. Gordon Keller! Gordon was a member of my thesis committee when I was a PhD student and his helpful suggestions made me a better scientist :)
www.isscr.org/isscr-news/g...

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Bluetorial: Non-Competitive Renewal (Continuation) Awards

Normally, multiyear NIH grants are paid with awards each year, pending administratively reviewed progress reports. “NIH” has been slow in making these awards. This has led to $1.83 B being withheld from institutions through February 2025.

Confirmation!!

And including open sessions!

2025 Study section tracking

Updated the NIH CSR study section tracking sheet to include meetings originally scheduled for 03/17-03/21. There are now over *two hundred* study sections that didn't meet as scheduled. Likely an undercount due to things I couldn't scrape orig date was removed. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.

New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024.

That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved.

Show me a better investment than that.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50...

Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.

Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

UMass Chan rescinds admission for biomedical sciences PhD program amid funding concerns UMass Chan Medical School is rescinding admission offers to candidates for its biomedical sciences PhD program over concerns about federal funding cuts.

A troubling moment for the next generation of scientists.

UMass Chan Med School is rescinding dozens of PhD offers in biomedical sciences due to fears over federal research funding cuts.

www.nbcboston.com/news/local/u...

As federal funding for research is uncertain, we need to diversify funding sources for our PhD students.

Here is a comprehensive list of >160 PhD fellowships and funding opportunities, mostly from private foundations and scientific societies.

Download it here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Mandatory high school civics class that isn’t just like “how a bill becomes law” or whatever but also “how NOAA powers your phone’s weather app” and “NIH helped make your asthma inhaler”

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ATTENTION: TALENT AVAILABLE

It appears that termination of SROs from institute review branches at NIH is underway (or worse).

There are also program officers and SROs who have been terminated over the past month.

IF YOU HAVE POSITIONS FOR SKILLED SCIENTIST-ADMINISTRATORS, PLEASE POST INFO HERE

Judge issues preliminary injunction blocking Trump cuts to NIH research overhead payments A federal judge issued a nationwide preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration from slashing NIH payments for research overhead

Preliminary injunction in nationwide indirect cost rate case.

This means that the judge found that the plaintiffs (AAMC, et al.) are likely to win on the merits when the ruling is finalized.

www.statnews.com/2025/03/05/n...

NIH announces some key grant-review meetings will restart in late March Trump policy blocking required notices has frozen reviews of thousands of grants

Some good news: The Federal Register has just posted NIH study sections, which are to meet in late March.

NIH announces some key grant-review meetings will restart in late March | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Center for Scientific Review; Notice of Closed Meetings Search, browse and learn about the Federal Register. Federal Register 2.0 is the unofficial daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as e...

Study Section meetings actually announced in the Federal Register today!

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

US science is under threat ― now scientists are fighting back Researchers are organizing protests and making their voices heard as Trump officials slash funding and lay off federal scientists.

Thanks to @nature.com for featuring Stand Up for Science! ☀️🧬🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Another Orwellial this morning

But with some good news...