Finally on. Trump suggesting autism researchers lied, withheld information, one of the worst things to ever happen, went from 1:10,000 to 1 in 12 (boys in CA). No autism in folks who don't take vaccines (amish). Going great so far!

My lab recently received a Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) Ovarian Cancer Research Program (OCRP) Early Career Investigator Award, which started July 1st! We are excited to expand our work on molecular profiling of ovarian cancer organoids.

Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

Devastating NIH cuts to infectious disease research, eviscerating our nation’s capacity to fight emerging infections and pandemic threats. From @sanders.senate.gov report out yesterday www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

Billions can be hard to grasp. It is perhaps easier to consider how the grinding erosion caused by inflation affects the spending power of "a grant". From the Archive: drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2020/12/16/u...

“Science is a smart, low cost investment. The costs of not investing in it are higher than the risk of doing so… talk to people about science.” - @kevinochsner.bsky.social makes his case to the field #sans2025

Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women Unreal www.science.org/content/arti...

I'm giving up my smart watch. Deleted my data. There is zero transparency here on how the government is using our health data. www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...

It's time to delete your smart watch or health/fitness wearable data if you have not already. Even if you are not autistic. www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...

A few quotes I love from this article about writing: "There’s no such thing as thinking", "Writing. Is. Thinking.", "Without writing there is no thinking and no real opportunity for exchange in the marketplace of ideas."

See this chart for one stark example: NIH funding has dramatically slowed down. Grant awards are down *$3 billion* so far, compared to same time period last year I asked the White House to explain. “This is not a researcher entitlement program,” said an official, defending their new approach.

The Department of Defense funds me from their Ovarian Cancer Research Program. Valuable science that doesn't get much attention in NIH study sections that are not cancer-specific gets attention in these programs. This is terrible.

There is a forum on the NIH happening right now at the US Capitol, hosted by Senator Tammy Baldwin. You can listen in here (and rewind to the beginning): www.youtube.com/live/JofqSdW...

Wow, a lot has happened in the last 62 days, hasn't it?

@baldwin.senate.gov, so happy to have a senator who fights for the medical research I do each day! Thank you

The NCI grant supporting the Columbia comprehensive cancer center was terminated. Tell me how terminating support for cancer research helps the economy. taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...

"The end of the genetic paradigm of cancer" - a provocative piece in @plosbiology.org from Sui Huang, Ana Soto & Carlos Sonnenschein: "We expect that the diminishing returns from the ceaselessly growing databases of somatic mutations... may soon reach a pivot point" journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Seven of my colleagues and friends at Columbia Law have written a compelling (and, in my view unanswerable) response to the unprecedented Title VI demand letter that the Trump administration recently sent to Columbia University: balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...

I got the monkeypox exposure email yesterday, and an ICE email today with the same structure. Be careful clicking things out there! The phishers and scammers are now preying on our vulnerability.

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.

Pretty please, me too?!?!?

Last year, I was overjoyed to receive an NIH NRSA fellowship to study toddler brains and caregiving effects on memory at Columbia. Last night, my grant was terminated.

I have confirmation from several sources now that all T32s, many F30s and F31s, and most or all Center awards (P30, P50) have been terminated at Columbia. This is quite damaging to research and to individuals. This is pure terrorism and cannot be legal. But litigation will take time...

- Several colleagues are receiving notifications that their federal research grants have been canceled. - CDC, NIH career scientists fired. - University federal grants canceled. - PhD admissions are being canceled as a direct result. Its a terrifying time to be in healthcare or research in the US.

The House will vote soon on a continuing resolution to fund government programs through fiscal year 2025 that proposes a 57% funding cut to the CDMRP! The Ovarian Cancer Research Program is housed within the CDMRP. This cut would significantly disrupt research for ovarian cancer & other diseases.

"One future scientist... a postdoctoral fellow". We have GOT to do better at claiming ourselves as scientists early in our careers. It's only until recently in my own career that I feel comfortable calling myself a scientist...I am faculty. badgerherald.com/news/madison...

The strongest voices in #StandUpForScience2025 have come from graduate students. This could be wonderful for the future of science, but only if we keep the avenues open for people to produce & train in science. The science of tomorrow comes from today. Same for the scientists.

The National Cancer Institute (part of NIH) released new guidelines for "controversial, high-profile or sensitive" keywords that require "review prior to publication" if included in a product or materials. Keywords include abortion, obesity, and peanut allergies.

NEW: The National Cancer Institute will be a no-show this year at the the annual meeting of the American Association of Cancer Reearch, per internal NIH/NCI guidance dated March 4th, 2025.

My Senator used specific language I put in my call to her about concerns over NIH changes in the NIH confirmation hearing. OUR CALLS MATTER! Keep calling your representatives because we can help them frame how it is impacting their constituents and the nation. Make your calls specific.

I'm sorry, the likely next head of NIH (JB = Jay Bhattacharya), which is trying to reduce indirect cost rates on all NIH grants, doesn't understand where indirect costs go ⁉️ Admitted in his own confirmation hearing.....

This is why research funding is important to me.

40% of Americans will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives. 56% of Americans have someone in their immediate family who has been diagnosed with cancer. In my lifetime, research has improved the % of people who can expect to live 5+ years after their diagnosis from 50% to 75%.

Just had a great conversation with my 6yo about the importance of vaccines in preventing illness as we watched the news tonight and saw pictures of measles symptoms. She now understands why we make her get poked at the doctor. Also talked about the difference between prevention and treatment ❤️🧪

This is terrifying.

We've heard a lot about cuts to research funding at the NIH but on a parallel track, hundreds of research projects at the VA have been canceled, veterans have seen experimental treatments for cancer or ALS discontinued, and scientists are being fired. Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early report:

A source familiar with the process estimated that for every 3 days of postponed meetings, $1 billion of NIH funding is put on hold. That’s $1 billion dollars of research on diseases that kill people every day. And this is how they’re going to “Make America Healthy Again.”

Please share: @delauro.house.gov is cochair of the US House Congressional Rapid Response Task Force and Litigation Working Group. They are looking for instances where the impoundment and restriction of NIH/NSF funds is having a negative impact. Submit examples here delauro.house.gov/constituent-...

The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.

This is a wild, WILD situation. The President is at least allowing, licensing these emails though clearly not directing them. Meanwhile parts of the uniformed military are directing civilians within DOD to ignore them. Same at State and according to Dilanian FBI. But DOJ is saying do what the ...

Everyone who ever got funding through NIAID should be aware of this bill and start sending messages to their US legislators. The bill intends to dissolve NIAID. This is Project 2025 www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

The White House has ground NIH operations to a halt. E.g., the NHLBI’s CCHS study section, which evaluates large patient-oriented cardiovascular research proposals, was cancelled at the last minute this week. This is bad for science, scientists, patients/the public, and the economy.

A good summary and excellent set of questions to NIH and NSF leadership from Sens. Markey and Warren here - they ask for answers by 2/26, wonder if they'll get any? www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

This is a great take

Cool, cool....my daughter had a fever for 7 straight days from influenza at the beginning of the year, but yeah, let's not promote the flu shot. I got mine, and while I slept in her bed with her all week, I didn't get sick. www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/c...

My grant is one of these indefinitely delayed for review. This is affecting so many, and is critical for us to maintain our staff and trainees and to keep doing good for the public.

It’s becoming apparent to me through multiple conversations with people over the last 3 days that NIH funding mechanisms that have not already gone through review and council will be delayed by AT LEAST 6 months.

I do not understand how sex can be binary and immutable and fundamental and you're stuck with the one you were born with, but also not a variable worth studying. I... just... one hand argues men and women are fundamentally different and the other says but we don't care?