So proud of my graduate student @brandonleon95.bsky.social for discussing the importance of science funding for our community! medium.com/scitech-fore...

Exceptional #SNO2025 talk from UM MSTP student @j-mitchell.bsky.social on the role of mitochondria transfer in GBM! Proud PI moment w/ @dionysioswatson.bsky.social 💪🏻

🚨 Attention immunologists 💉: We are seeking a postdoctoral fellow to lead projects on tumor-targeted cytokines and bacterial extracellular vesicles for cancer immunotherapy (focus - brain and lung cancers). 😎 🏖️ University of Miami www.DiscoverTME.com . Please DM if interested.

few outcomes, except for 99% of FDA-approved drugs, 174 recipients of 104 Nobel Prizes, training ~30K MDs and ~10K PhDs per year to enter the workforce, and a 34% reduction in age-adjusted cancer deaths since 1990 -- the largest decrease in history

73% of mothers with kids under 18 are in the workforce. More than flowers or brunch, working moms need: -Paid family leave -Equal pay -Universal childcare (But get your mom flowers, too)

1/3 PLEASE READ, LIKE, REPOST this "1/3" post There is a Senate Hearing May 14th with RFK Jr to discuss Trump's proposed HHS budget. Please find call/email the members of the committee every day until then (I have compiled contact info for the members in post 2/3)

Lookin for a good read in between experiments? Check out the commentary article in @neuroonc.bsky.social @dbayik.bsky.social and I wrote on an insightful study on myeloid cells in gliomas 🙂‍↔️ link here: academic.oup.com/neuro-oncolo...

The information I am receiving is consistent with the STAT story. The boards are being purged of women and minoritized scientists with no other obvious pattern. And for the cases where I have some information, the effects are not subtle...Boards going from 35% women to 10% women. 3/n

Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs. It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎

Richest guy in the world telling us we can’t afford to have our government fund cancer research.

Taking a cue from @cantlonlab.bsky.social, I have written an op-ed for my local newspaper about the impact of the NIH funding chaos. I'd appreciate it if you read and share. #NIH #Research #Science #Worcester www.telegram.com/story/opinio...

Good resource about your state... www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

Today, the study section I am a member of is one of 26 out of 26 canceled. No new post on the federal registry and councils are postponed indefinitely. Universities focused on overhead cuts considering these a challenge to their survival. But *no grant at all* seems like the issue to battle first..

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.

#TackleCancer #OneTeamOneFight #DCCXV #SylvesterCancer dolphinscancerchallenge.com/index.cfm?fu...

Almost all grant-review meetings under Trump 2.0 remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget. https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4

NEW: The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep funding frozen at the NIH - a move that some legal scholars say is illegal. Federal Register notices are blocked, so no grant-review sessions can be scheduled. All the gritty details here, and a short 🧵: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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?

41/47 (87%) of NIH study sections are cancelled this week Frustrating to see all this good research stalled (& not funded) You can search for study sections that ‘did not meet as scheduled’ here with ones with * ⤵️ www.csr.nih.gov/RevPanelsAnd...

I just covered this for @thetransmitter.bsky.social — will keep following! www.thetransmitter.org/funding/fede...

Very important to get this word out!

I have not seen a crisis of this magnitude since yesterday

Congratulations @brandonleon95.bsky.social for getting selected to represent University of Miami Miller School of Medicine at the 2025 CASE Workshop organized by AAAS! Can't wait to see what you will achieve in #SciPol #MakingOurCASE 💪

With 25 days to go, please consider supporting our efforts to fund cancer research 👇 dolphinscancerchallenge.com/participant/...

Well, the mug says otherwise…

Welcome to #Miami! @brandonleon95.bsky.social @pathaka.bsky.social @orianateran.bsky.social @j-mitchell.bsky.social @iremkaraman.bsky.social are waiting for their grandpa!

With 2024 drawing to a close, @naturecancer.bsky.social released a small collection of #NewPI Viewpoints on starting a new lab. Check it out for a peek into our #UMiami laboratory at #SylvesterComprehensiveCancerCenter rdcu.be/d3R8r

Celebrating lab’s 2nd anniversary with the first successful QE from @j-mitchell.bsky.social 🥂🍾🎊! Congrats! Cheers to an amazing lab @orianateran.bsky.social @pathaka.bsky.social @brandonleon95.bsky.social along with the partner lab @dionysioswatson.bsky.social @iremkaraman.bsky.social

The U presence at the #SNO2024 @neuroonc.bsky.social ! Checkout posters from @pathaka.bsky.social (IMMU-04), @orianateran.bsky.social (IMMU-32), @j-mitchell.bsky.social (TMIC-35) and connect w/ @brandonleon95.bsky.social Proud PI moment w/ @dionysioswatson.bsky.social

And the crew @orianateran.bsky.social @pathaka.bsky.social @brandonleon95.bsky.social @j-mitchell.bsky.social meets academic grandpa @gbm-maestro.bsky.social ! #SNO2024 @neuroonc.bsky.social

Starting off #SNO2024 with a reunion! Cheers to @gbm-maestro.bsky.social & @oconnor-lab.bsky.social 🍻

Our NCI-funded SURF program applications are open! Pls share w any rising juniors or seniors who want to spend 10 weeks next summer doing research with our med school faculty and living on our beautiful Coral Gables campus. More info and app link here: med.miami.edu/graduate-stu...

I would like to introduce our lab at the University of Miami, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center to our new followers. We are interested in studying tumor-microenvironment interactions in brain tumors. Some ongoing projects that are led by an amazing group of talented researchers include👇

Favorite #bluesky 🌄 @dionysioswatson.bsky.social

It was a great opportunity to attend the Mark Foundation and Sontag Foundation joint #glioblastoma workshop as an Early Career Awardee!

Hello Justin Lathia! @gbm-maestro.bsky.social @ssmitra.bsky.social and @dionysioswatson.bsky.social I finally convinced him!!!

Hate brain tumors? Love #SwissCheese? Then check out our Perspective on the Swiss Cheese model as a framework to think about interconnected protumorigenic mechanisms in #glioblastoma! @dbayik.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/cance...

Happy Thanksgiving from our lab family! 🍂🍃🍁