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Spread the word. CHRI is cohosting the Midwestern Symposium on Environmental Determinants of Pediatric Cancer and Congenital Anomalies. @aandersonberry.bsky.social www.unmc.edu/newsroom/202...

Add this to your calendar and pass it on! You do not want to miss out on the 4th Annual CHVR Retreat! April 17 & 18, 2026! @gundrylab.bsky.social @unmc.bsky.social @unmccom.bsky.social @unmcphysiology.bsky.social @aandersonberry.bsky.social @maalfaidi.bsky.social @lyndakharris.bsky.social

@chriresearchne.bsky.social @aandersonberry.bsky.social last photo, new lab at Celerion finally done

CHRI member and associate professor of Pulmonology, Ashley Deschamp, MD, received a grant of over $100k from the Societies for Pediatric Urology to study for the Therapeutics Development Center Award. 🤩🤩🤩 @aandersonberry.bsky.social @unmccom.bsky.social

Our executive director, @aandersonberry.bsky.social, has a great piece on effective mentorship, including five proven strategies to maximize the experience for the mentor and mentee. Check it out! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Congratulations Dr. Aditya Bade on your recent R01 grant! @aandersonberry.bsky.social @unmc.bsky.social

It's a good day to register for the August 20, Pediatric Cancer Research Symposium. Join stakeholders in the medical, research, philanthropy and government sectors to connect and hear about the latest breakthroughs. @aandersonberry.bsky.social app.smartsheet.com/b/form/01977...

Have you added this to your 2026 calendar yet? Our 4th Annual CHVR Retreat is scheduled for April 17 & 18, 2026! @gundrylab.bsky.social @unmc.bsky.social @unmccom.bsky.social @unmcphysiology.bsky.social @maalfaidi.bsky.social @aandersonberry.bsky.social

Each summer we have the honor of introducing pediatric research to bright, young minds through the Summer Undergraduate Research Program. Congratulations and good luck to our SURP graduates. Can't wait to see what the future holds. @aandersonberry.bsky.social @unmccom.bsky.social

Today CHRI and @aandersonberry.bsky.social are representing Children's Nebraska and @unmc.bsky.social at the Children's Hospital Association's Family Advocacy Day Science Fair. Her poster describes the research of Sidharth Mahapatra on brain tumors and how it has been empowered by federal support.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is preparing to roll back rules that limited mercury, lead, and arsenic emissions from coal plants, protections designed to safeguard brain development and prevent heart and respiratory disease.

Mark you calendar! 📅 We have a date for our #Pediatriccancer Research Symposium. We will see you Wednesday, August 20 at the Truhlsen Event Center on the UNMC campus. @aandersonberry.bsky.social

Let's hear it for Joshua Bies, MD. This CHRI member received a grant from the Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant Consortium. Congratulations! Looking forward to seeing the results of your research! @aandersonberry.bsky.social

This is one of our favorite weeks of the year! CHRI and the Department of Pediatrics welcome our Summer Undergraduate Research Program students. For many students, this is their introduction to pediatric research and the start of their healthcare journey. So exciting! @aandersonberry.bsky.social

The Department of Pediatrics Neonatology fellows showed out at the Graduate Medical Education Research Symposium. Congratulations research winners Drs. Caleb Cave and Pramod Shrestha. @aandersonberry.bsky.social @unmccom.bsky.social

It’s been a great April! Thanks to Nebraska Cures for the Woman In Science Award! They promote science through advocacy so important in today’s environment. And presented in the Tiny Baby Collaborative’s @PAS on parenteral nutrition practices! @chriresearchne.bsky.social @unmc.bsky.social

Exciting news - CHRI member, Paul Trippier, PhD, has received an R21 grant for his work developing safer medications that will improve the chemotherapy experience for cancer patients! Kudos and thank you for this valuable research! #cancer #cancerresearch #NIH @aandersonberry.bsky.social

Kind of a big deal!! CHRI Director of Research Informatics, Ellen Kerns, PhD, received a grant from the American Academy of Pediatrics as a consulting contract. Congratulations! 👏👏👏 @unmccom.bsky.social @aandersonberry.bsky.social

Today is the day for the CHRI Seminar Series featuring these two great speakers! Email [email protected] if you need the link! @aandersonberry.bsky.social @unmccom.bsky.social

Congratulations to Neonatology faculty member Melissa Thoene, PhD. She received a grant of $25,000 from ASPEN Rhoads Research Foundation for her research, "Evaluation of the Nutritional #Antioxidant Content of Feedings for Hospitalized Infants . . ." @aandersonberry.bsky.social

Attendees at this morning’s Pediatric Academic Workshop are receiving some valuable information on working with media, maximizing social media, using effecting visuals, and working with philanthropic foundations. @aandersonberry.bsky.social @unmccom.bsky.social

Put in our your calendar! @unmccom.bsky.social @aandersonberry.bsky.social

On April 18, our seminar series will feature an intriguing pairing of speakers. Dr. Jabeen Taiba will discuss environmental associations with pediatric cancer. Elizabeth Reisher will present her research on rural pediatric care. See you then! @aandersonberry.bsky.social

We love a science festival. What a great opportunity to engage with the power and value science. Check out these fun and informative opportunities throughout April. @unmc.bsky.social @aandersonberry.bsky.social www.unmc.edu/newsroom/202...

Happy #nationaldoctorsday! Thank you to all of the physicians of CHRI for your contributions to pediatric science on top of your care for children. @aandersonberry.bsky.social @unmccom.bsky.social

Time has flown by. We have less than and hour left in our For the Greater Good fund raising campaign. Click the link below to help us support CHRI research and researchers! Thank you to everyone who has donated so far! @aandersonberry.bsky.social @unmccom.bsky.social @unmc.bsky.social

I’m offering a match giving challenge for UNMC’s giving day! Consider supporting life saving child health research at CHRI today! @unmc.bsky.social @unmccom.bsky.social

#GreaterGoodGivingDay is off and running. Is the perfect time to make a donation to CHRI. We have two open match opportunities to maximize the impact of your donation. Click the link below to support CHRI. Thank you!! www.greatergoodgivingday.org/organization... @aandersonberry.bsky.social

Tune in this Friday! So-Youn Kim, PhD, associate professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Ram Mahato, PhD, Parke-Davis professor, UNMC Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, will present their research at the CHRI Seminar Series. @aandersonberry.bsky.social @unmc.bsky.social

CHVR members learning from each other! 🫀 @gundrylab.bsky.social @unmc.bsky.social @unmccom.bsky.social @aandersonberry.bsky.social @lyndakharris.bsky.social

Don’t miss this at noon today! @unmc.bsky.social

We’ve heard from a wide range of researchers this afternoon at the Brain Tumor Mini Summit. Promising information being shared and important connections being made. @aandersonberry.bsky.social

Today is the day for the Brain Tumor Mini Summit where we will be bringing together the top researchers at UNMC to discuss their current projects to understand and treat both adult and pediatric brain cancer. @aandersonberry.bsky.social @unmc.bsky.social

Our 3rd Annual CHVR Retreat was a success! Thank you to all who attended to help make it great! We had a little bit of fun, too! 📷 @gundrylab.bsky.social @maalfaidi.bsky.social @windy-alonso.bsky.social @aandersonberry.bsky.social @unmccom.bsky.social @unmc.bsky.social

One in five new parents deal with mood or anxiety issues during pregnancy or postpartum, according to national data. In Colorado, 1 in 11 women experience postpartum mood and anxiety disorders.

Musk’s baby DOGE team is paying themselves 6-figure salaries with our tax dollars while firing federal workers. Jeremy Lewin is making >$167,000. Kyle Schutt is making $195,200. Nate Cavanaugh is making >$120,500. www.wired.com/story/doge-g...

It's National Rare Disease's Day. Many of our CHRI members are dedicated to finding cures for and improving the care of patients living with rare diseases. One such member is William Rizzo, MD, one of the leading experts in Sjogren-Larsson syndrome. @aandersonberry.bsky.social @unmccom.bsky.social

The Trump administration terminates funding for polio, HIV, malaria and nutrition programs around the world. “People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”

One month away! More information to come on your opportunity to support CHRI through the For the Greater Good campaign. www.greatergoodgivingday.org @aandersonberry.bsky.social @unmccom.bsky.social

We met with our community partner organizations, Completely KIDS, Girls Inc., and NorthStar to discuss how our efforts to support them are working. Thankful to engage with these great groups and for the impact they make in our community. @aandersonberry.bsky.social

Happy House Officer Week! Thank you to all the residents and fellows who are pushing #pediatric #research forward! @aandersonberry.bsky.social #pediatricresearch

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

Pritzker: If we don’t want to repeat history, then for god’s sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.

DOGE Cuts 9/11 Survivors’ Fund, and Republicans Join Democrats in Rebuke www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/n...

The court ordered that NIH grant funding be unfrozen, so The Regime found a way around it. For NIH grants to be funded, a review panel must rank them. In order for a review panel to meet, they must post it on the Federal Register. Submissions to the Federal Register are now on hold “indefinitely”.

Kudos to current CHRI Scholar, Christopher Cummings, MD, PhD, who received funding for this fiscal year from the @unmc Alcohol Center of Nebraska-Research Pilot Projects program. Looking forward to your research! @aandersonberry.bsky.social @unmc.bsky.social

Health officials — who are scrambling to get a handle on the vaccine-preventable outbreaks of measles in TX— suspect 200 to 300 people may be infected. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... #BlueSky  #MedSky 🧪 #IDSky #scisky #medtwitter #EMSky #EMedSky #nursesky #MedEd #fmsky #pedsky

On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...