🚨 AIMBE calls on the scientific community to urge Congress to ensure timely passage of the FY2026 budget 👇 Strong, sustained funding for our nation's health and science agencies is essential for economic prosperity, U.S. global competitiveness, and public heath. takeaction.io/aimbe/protec...

PRESS RELEASE! @mountsinainyc.bsky.social receives $8 million grant from DataPhilanthropy to fuel research into #CADASIL This transformational grant will launch new Center led by Dr @fanny-elahi.bsky.social to pursue trtmnts for understudied neurovascular diseases👉 www.mountsinai.org/about/newsro...

📝NEW STUDY📝 Cancer's first punch when battling the immune system may be rewiring myeloid progenitors in bone marrow so they become suppressive tumor macrophages blunting T-cell attacks. Find out how in @nature.com from @samhegde.bsky.social & @miriammerad.bsky.social 🧐 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

💫Through the #SURP4US program, under the mentorship of @yizhoudonglab.bsky.social, Alister (Jia) Ng gained research experience & developed an interest in drug design & delivery. Inspired by her family's history w/ #Antidepressants; she aspires to pursue a career in pharmaceutical research.

🚀 NY-CURES Launch — Championing State-Wide Investment in Science! 🚀 Our new coalition advocates for sustained public support of New York’s vibrant biomedical research ecosystem — creating cures, economic gains & strengthening communities. Sign up. Stay informed. Join the movement: www.nycures.org/

A big day for preventing mitochondrial diseases from transmitting to the next generation www.nature.com/articles/d41... www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

🚨 Out now in @nature.com: it's time to de-Americanize global science. We need:🌍 Equitable funding 🔄 Shared governance 🔐 Resilient data infra🆘 Emergency support for scientists at risk. The next crisis can’t break global research again. Nova Medical School 🔗 rdcu.be/ewp6K

RNA chemistry and therapeutics www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/ewkq0 This new Review covers synthetic methods applied to RNA therapeutics in multiple classes and chemical modification strategies being used to enhance their properties @yizhoudonglab.bsky.social

Misinformation is winning not because it's true, but because it’s loud, emotional, and everywhere. It’s time for science to fight back. Aaron Mertz and I dissect the issue and offer solutions 👇 📖 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm @sinaiimmuno.bsky.social @aspeninstitute.bsky.social

ONLINE NOW! Neurosurgery & Neurology Special Report 2025. In this issue, Check Out "Mount Sinai Is Among First to Use Blood Tests as Early Detection Tool for #AlzheimersDisease and Related #Dementias in Patients". @fanny-elahi.bsky.social Learn More 👉 reports.mountsinai.org/article/neur...

We have updated our database of funding opportunities for Early-Career Researchers (private foundations, federal, international) We have 456 entries, for which we provide $ amount, deadline, eligibility criteria, etc. Download this massive database here for free: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Evolution-guided protein design of IscB for persistent epigenome editing in vivo - @zhangf.bsky.social @broadinstitute.org @hhmi.org go.nature.com/44XVBph

FRIDAY👉May 9, 2pm, DON'T MISS this #FriedmanBrainInstitute Special Seminar as hosts @ericjnestler.bsky.social & @fanny-elahi.bsky.social welcome @institutducerveau.bsky.social's Dr. Stéphanie Debette. LEARN about cutting edge research on #vascular disease & #VCID #CSVD done at Paris Brain Institute.

PRESS RELEASE | Mount Sinai researchers Arthur Godino, Marine Salery, @ericjnestler.bsky.social, et al. have discovered distinct roles for 2 dopamine receptors located on nerve cells w/in the portion of the brain that controls approach vs avoidance behavior. www.mountsinai.org/about/newsro...

@lizwaynephd.bsky.social @neuroamyo.bsky.social @brianaguado.bsky.social @cosgriffhernandez.bsky.social @kumarlabucb.bsky.social @willitslab.bsky.social @yizhoudonglab.bsky.social @troy-biomechlab.bsky.social @christmanlab.bsky.social @shuvoroy.bsky.social

🚨 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...

An exciting work on brain delivery via the meningeal lymphatic vessels (MLVs)! Thanks @NIH @NIGMS @sinaiimmuno.bsky.social @sinaibrain.bsky.social @ohiostatepress.bsky.social! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

JOIN US & Icahn Mount Sinai in congratulating @ericjnestler.bsky.social for his election to The National Academy of Sciences. This great honor recognizes Dr. Nestler’s cutting-edge work on molecular basis of #DrugAddiction & #Depression & on advancing the field of psychiatry into the molecular era!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Great collaboration with Steve Schwendeman’s lab, showing effective local delivery of immune checkpoint blockers for brain cancer therapeutics @umich.edu @theabta.bsky.social

Research Saves Lives Without research - at Johns Hopkins and at thousands of other universities, medical schools and research institutions across the nation - scientific breakthroughs suffer and the lifesaving treatments of tomorrow are at risk www.jhu.edu

🧐 NEW mRNA LNP from @yizhoudonglab.bsky.social that supercharges the cancer-immunity cycle by inducing tumor cell death while increasing the number & activity of dendritic cells. Want to know how it works? Read the full paper in the Journal of Controlled Release www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A major paper @nature.com this week found a significant decline in dementia after an outdated Shingles vaccine. I've reviewed the study and many other relevant ones here erictopol.substack.com/p/the-shingl...

After ‘coding error’ triggers firings, top NIH scientists called back to work | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

If you or someone you know has been negatively affected by NIH-funded clinical trials being paused, disrupted, cancelled etc., I have a contact with the Senate HELP Committee eager to collect stories of everyday Americans affected by the NIH closures. Please DM me.

New paper from the lab: Accelerated discovery of cell-migration regulators using label-free deep learning-based automated tracking. 840 experiments done in 70h instead of 5.5 years! Read here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New publication out in Digestive Diseases and Sciences in collaboration with @julienguyenlab.bsky.social “Engineered Probiotic Saccharomyces boulardii Reduces Colitis-Associated Colorectal Cancer Burden in Mice” 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Who would've thought you could play Bingo with posters? Introducing #PosterBingo for the Controlled Release Society Annual Meeting! Inspired by an idea #AssafZinger and his students had! See you in Philly! youtu.be/xMpxLsW-2QA?...

Congratulations @miriammerad.bsky.social on receiving the prestigious Sjöberg Prize medal yesterday for groundbreaking work on how innate immune cells influence the body’s ability to fight cancer. Her discoveries have opened new paths for cancer prevention and therapies. www.kva.se/en/news/sjob...

Carnage! www.thetransmitter.org/science-and-...

NOT TO MISS! On Tuesday, 4/29, join host @scottrussophd.bsky.social when he welcomes Dr. Hongzhen Hu, Scientific Director of The Mark Lebwohl Center for Neuroinflammation & Sensation, to the #BrainBody Seminar Series. @mountsinainyc.bsky.social Register Now 👉 mountsinai.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Diana successfully defended her dissertation! We are so proud of you! Congratulations Dr. Kang!!!

A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to @ericjnestler.bsky.social on being named Interim Dean of the Icahn School of Medicine! As we express great enthusiasm for Dr. Nestler becoming Dean & the exciting time ahead, please join us in thanking Dean Charney for his extraordinary service & commitment to Mount Sinai.

"Funding from the NIH was contributed to 354 of 356 drugs (99.4%) approved from 2010 to 2019 totaling $187 billion" Reference: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Did you know the largest collection of neurons in one organ is in the gastrointestinal tract, which scientists call the Enteric Nervous System? CHECK OUT @ananya-p.bsky.social's blog & LEARN MORE about the ENS & why it is referred to as “2nd brain” of human body!👉 www.mindatsinai.com/blog/youarew...

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

First at 🎓 Immunoschool 🎓 today is @miriammerad.bsky.social explaining the inspiration for her studies of the origin of tissue-resident macrophages in Irv Weissman's lab, who is giving the Dean's Seminar at Sinai today on 'Normal and Neoplastic Stem Cells' events.mountsinaihealth.org/event/deans-...

Big congrats to Tereza Clarence for “Multiomic single-cell profiling identifies critical regulators of postnatal brain” now published in @naturegenet.bsky.social @sinaibrain.bsky.social @sinaigenetics.bsky.social #CDNeurogenomics #MountSinaiPsych www.nature.com/articles/s41588-025-02083-8

Congrats @jack-humphrey.bsky.social for isoMiGA now published in @naturegenet.bsky.social @sinaibrain.bsky.social ain.bsky.social @sinaigenetics.bsky.social s.bsky.social @trajnp.bsky.social np.bsky.social #CDNeurogenomics #MountSinaiPsych www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#BrainAwarenessWeek began.. the Brain Fair is today.. & MiNDS just dropped a new blog! CHECK OUT this important #BrainWeek post from Center for Excellence in Youth Education's Wilson Carrasco🧠"Mission (Not) Impossible: Living & Helping Our Seniors w/ #Alzheimers". www.mindatsinai.com/blog/livingw...

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...

Next at 🎓 Immunoschool 🎓 Marc Feldman gave us a big picture view of the history of TNF blockers, how they evolved from early hypotheses to testing in preclinical models of rheumatoid arthritis and eventual clinical use, revolutionizing medicine.

A special issue on #WomensHealth in #ScienceAdvances highlights a growing wave of research focusing on women’s unique biological and psychological experiences. Learn more: scim.ag/3R59fPe (THREAD 🧵)

#BrainAwarenessWeek! On Thursday, March 13, 1pm, DON’T MISS the #FBISeminarSeries' #BrainWeek special lecture when Dr. Xiaoting Wu hosts @uncchapelhill.bsky.social’s Dr. Jessica Walsh. #MountSinaiAlumni Before JOINING US, Learn More about the Walsh Lab👉 www.walsh-lab.org

The 🎓 Immunoschool 🎓 theme is ‘Celebrating a decade of immunotherapy discoveries’ but we’re highlighting centuries’ worth of receipts of the value of science for public good, and how we need to defend funding to power future advances and prosperity!

I will be standing up for science in Washington square in NYC with my lab and many sinai colleagues - Hope to see many New Yorkers there #sciencenotsilence #NoScienceNoCure

Make use of our public database of Postdoc fellowships (private foundations, federal agencies). It's downloadable and free. We list 290 different fellowships and funding opportunities, along with description, deadline, amount, and eligibility criteria Download here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

🎓Immunoschool🎓 Robert Martuza pioneered oncolytic viruses for cancer therapy, showing that genetically engineered HSV can selectively infect & destroy tumor cells while sparing normal tissue, laying the foundation for viral-based cancer immunotherapy. JOIN US: www.eventbrite.com/e/internatio...