Why is #NIHfunding critical to early-stage clinical research? @ucsandiego.bsky.social #bioengineering professor Karen Christman explains. Biomaterials from the @christmanlab.bsky.social are in clinical trials to heal heart conditions, from heart attacks to congenital defects.

AIMBE has launched our new Citizen Advocate for Science Letter: takeaction.io/aimbe/scienc... We ask the broader scientific community to widely share this letter (✍️ <1 minute) with friends, family, and other concerned citizens to urge their elected officials to protect biomedical research funding 👇

The latest tissue we are tackling is the mammary gland www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The astounding contribution of US academic science to new medicines www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/u...

Huge congrats to Brandon Vogt & friends on our on Science Advances @science.org paper!!! We leveraged hydrogel biomaterials & AI tools from Dean Ho’s lab at NUS to determine sex-dependent drug combinations that target valve myofibroblasts! 🎯 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @jacobsschool.bsky.social

Congratulations Professor Shi (@stimulatedraman.bsky.social) for your outstanding work imaging diseased tissue. Your contributions will no doubt lead to life-saving cures. Our gratitude to you! today.ucsd.edu/story/a-clea...

Could be huge. Especially for those terminated in the anti-DEI purge. "...NIH will allow individuals whose mentored career development awards prematurely ended on or after January 1, 2025, to be eligible to apply for a new mentored career development award" grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025

The 80-year recipe stoking America’s Prosperity: 1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas… 2) enabled by Engineering Innovations… 3) based on Science Research in Universities… 4) funded by Grants from the US Government. It’s time more people understood this.

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

Well this is truly insane...

One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects. It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this. The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.

New Notice on No Cost Extensions (or lack thereof) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

🚨 AIMBE is calling on the biomedical research community to take a minute to send our 3 new advocacy letters urging Congress to: 1. Protect the STEM Training Pipeline (e.g., NIH MOSAIC, T32s, MARC, etc.) 2. Oppose Indirect Cost Caps 3. Support Research Funding in FY2026 aimbe.org/advocate/wri...

Great work with our long time collaborator Nathan Gianneschi, PhD on a new minimally invasive treatment strategy for acute myocardial infarction with implication for other inflammatory and ischemic conditions. Our outstanding former PhD students Josh Mesfin and Kendal Carrow, PhD led the work.

Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH. Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH. HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH. 99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH. Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.

Big milestone for the Cyphert lab - check out our first publication in npj Antimicrobials and Resistance! This paper was led by a team of amazing grad students: Tanya, Aryak, and Yumie and undergraduates Julie, Arlene, and Sidhant. @jacobsschool.bsky.social #newPI www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Congratulations to #computerscience Professor Ryan Kastner, honored for exceptional undergraduate mentorship by there Computing Research Association! This is a first for @ucsandiego.bsky.social! Kastner is also a @qi-ucsd.bsky.social affiliate. today.ucsd.edu/story/comput...

ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM Implementation of Schedule F This is what a lot of us have been worried about. This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs. BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD... 1/n

POV: Plenary lecture at the Society For Biomaterials - definitely my best SFB selfie yet! 📸 Thank you to the SFB community for the 2025 Young Investigator Award - my lab is committed to our mission to understand sex chromosome biology & develop better treatments for all! @jacobsschool.bsky.social

Next week, I will be at Humanities Unlocking Biomaterials' inaugural meeting and 50th Annual Meeting of Society For Biomaterials in Chicago! Come meet me to discuss your work and learn about Cell Biomaterials! #HUB, #SFB, #Biomaterials

On a letter I signed www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/s...

As I was saying #RFKJr, #Trump, #Musk and #Vought are intent on destroying science, public health and healthcare in America.

Honored to be elected an AAAS fellow. I've been very fortunate to work with a great team of staff, students, and postdocs at UC San Diego. Funding from the NIH has led to our work being translated to patients, and I'm hoping this critical funding can continue so we can further impact patient lives.

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

If you are attending #SFB, please consider joining our Biomaterials Network Meeting!

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...

At UC San Diego, Dr. Dan Kaufman is developing immune-based therapies using engineered natural killer (NK) cells to combat aggressive liver cancer. With NIH support, his work offers new hope—but without it, life-saving advancements could stall. bit.ly/4bwGHrG

DEI initiatives remain lawful under federal law and Supreme Court precedent - see public memo nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Why I Study Cancer The cancers that are fatal today don't have to be tomorrow. Support for biomedical research enables generational shifts in how we treat cancer. What a privilege to work at @cancercenteril. Work funded by National Institutes of Health www.instagram.com/reel/DGTUxwD...

It’s @katherinejwu.com with the receipts. The NIH memo undercutting the NIH came directly from Trump officials. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Very important to get this word out!

My statement regarding the decision to drop the second round of the CZI Science Diversity Leadership Award funding opportunity:

I expect that most academic biomedical researchers have considered leaving the US—if only in theory for now. What a colossal mess! Our representatives need to hear this. Please amplify so they know this matters. @levin.house.gov @repscottpeters.bsky.social @schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov

For decades, NIH funding has fueled breakthroughs in cancer, heart disease and more. But a new policy puts progress at risk. We’re asking Congress to oppose this abrupt change. Email your lawmakers! 🔗 Learn more & advocate: bit.ly/42Y7Ukv

CZI announced today they decided to not continue with the second round of the Science Diversity Leadership Awards. I am beyond upset for the applicants that held on to hope that CZI would continue supporting the necessary work.

Well said @dereklowe.bsky.social. Academia produces two vital products: (1) knowledge, and (2) human capital that knows how to use it. If we can’t train enough young creative US scientists to fulfill biopharma industry needs… “I think they're being short-sighted, because fear does that to you.”

Receiving the 2025 Society For Biomaterials Young Investigator Award is a dream come true! 🏆 SFB has always been my career home - I’ll showcase my lab’s work and commitment to understand sex as a biological variable at multiple length scales using biomaterials! 🙏❤️ biomaterials.org/publications...

Bluetorial: The rationale for the “NIH” indirect cost “plan” is based on misunderstood (unintentional or intentional) accounting and math The value of real government transparency

Join us at the HUB annual meeting! It's directly before the #SFB annual meeting - so easy for you biomaterials folks. one day meeting, packed with great speakers and networking, and an opportunity for pilot grant $$!!!

Register for free to attend the inaugural @hubcenter.bsky.social Annual Meeting on April 8, 2025: forms.gle/3b5mtqhrXdmf... We encourage faculty and trainees attending the Society for Biomaterials (SFB) conference to check out the HUB's pilot grant and networking opportunities 👇

Congratulations to @ucsandiego.bsky.social Professor Kiana Aran, a faculty member in our #bioengineering department and in the @ucsdmedschool.bsky.social! She is one of 3 inaugural winners of the Sony #WomeninTechnology Award with @nature.com! today.ucsd.edu/story/uc-san...

$100k in pilot funds! Come and get it. Join us for the *free* HUB annual meeting, April 8 day before SFB. See more below.

Come join us at the HUB meeting and learn about biomaterial translation and computational approaches, plus learn how to apply for $100K pilot grants! April 8th, Day before Society for Biomaterials meeting in Chicago. Registration is free.