Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years. What are we doing?

Congratulations to my amazing graduate student, Noah Perry, for earning his PhD degree from the University of Virginia Biomedical Engineering Department. He is an outstanding scientist, colleague, and a mentor. Watching him grow has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my career.

🚨 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...

The new administration’s Make America Health Again push clearly excludes LGBTQ people. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/h...

Congratulations Brian 👏

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...

In an alternative universe, every scientist who submits an NIH grant would deliberately use the forbidden words in their applications so that all grant submissions are flagged and this stupid system breaks down.

Looks like I will be part of a class action lawsuit along with a lot of scientist friends. 👇

Cowards

Every immigrant scientist 👇

Is it true that @hhmi.bsky.social abruptly cut funding to the Inclusive Excellence program?

Excited to introduce the HUB and our free inaugural Annual Meeting! Attending this meeting offers an opportunity for $100k pilot grants for faculty! The new innovative program is also great for students and post docs. Register TODAY by clicking the link below: forms.gle/fdviGSeY1epo...

AIMBE has posted a public statement on the impact of federal policy changes on biomedical research: aimbe.org/advocate/wri... Above, we have also developed an advocacy letter for members of the medical & biological engineering community to send to their congressional representatives on this matter.

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Here is a nice write-up about my PhD student Jordan Reed’s latest paper. news.virginia.edu/content/its-...

Associate Professor no more! I have been promoted to Professor of Genome Sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. I am grateful to my all my previous and current trainees, my colleagues at @UVA and elsewhere, my letter writers, and my family. 🙏

Congratulations to my wonderful postdoc fellow, Dr Kelsey Watts. She not only received a fundable score on her F32 application but also received the ⁦‪@AHAScience‬⁩ postdoc fellowship. She is co-mentored by ⁦‪@prodriguezmd

Travel Award Announcement! @lolaumich.bsky.social and @kellystevens.bsky.social have won an NIH center grant, Humanity Unlocking Biomaterials (the HUB): www.humanityunlockingbiomaterials.org

Of course, this is obvious bigotry from the South Carolina Representative Mace. But leaving that aside, how does one enforce this rule of banning transgender women from using women’s bathrooms? Are they going to ask for sex chromosome tests from everyone who wants to use women’s bathrooms?

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The passionate debate about leaving X and joining bsky among scientists reminds of the left v fully justified debate for grant submissions 😄

The first time I “fixed” cells for immunofluorescence, I put a drop of cells in suspension on a microscope slide and let them dry! And I was surprised they didn’t look like cells when I looked at them under the microscope 🔬

Now, do pangenome 👇

Introducing the Humanity Unlocking Biomaterials (HUB) national coordinating center. Opportunity to become involved with an incredible community, $100k research grants, core resources, and much more. Come join us! See more at our new website, here: www.humanityunlockingbiomaterials.org