I'm looking forward to attending my first SFB Annual Meeting next week! Don't miss @aimbe-official.bsky.social's advocacy workshop on March 25. We still have complimentary registration codes available. Even if you've already registered for the meeting, you can apply one of these codes!

Hey #Seattle, come join the National Day of Action on March 7 from 12-3pm at #SeattleCenter and rally around Science, Health & Democracy with @standupforscience.bsky.social

University of Washington vs. Ohio State: rivals on the field, partners under the microscope. 🏈 🔬 Meet the scientists who’ve spent 20+ years working together to solve some of the toughest problems in infectious disease.

This summer, 8 @gonzagauniversity.bsky.social undergrads joined @uwmedicine.bsky.social @uwsom-wwami.bsky.social labs through the UW–Gonzaga Summer Research Program, gaining hands-on biomedical research experience. We are so very proud of their work + UW–GU partnership! #WWAMI #BiomedicalResearch

Michael Martin gave a great talk on his project @uwdermatology.bsky.social testing new Rx for #HaileyHailey disease, a #genetic #skin #blistering disorder. Thx @drsakiyama.bsky.social & @amyserafino.bsky.social for fostering undergrad collab @uwmedicine.bsky.social & @gonzagauniversity.bsky.social!

🎉 Thrilled to announce the #NCI has renewed a $14.3M project grant — “Immunobiology & Immune Therapy for Merkel Cell Carcinoma” — led by Dr. Paul Nghiem! 🔗 tinyurl.com/y62adf2f Funding will support 60 scientists at: @fredhutch.bsky.social @uofwa.bsky.social @uofmichigan.bsky.social Uni of Virginia

Medical discovery has the power to improve lives — but research needs support to continue. #ResearchImprovesLives

BME UNITE @bmeunite.bsky.social is launching Year 5 of our Future Faculty Program! BME Faculty candidates from marginalized groups on the job market - apply here by July 11th to present your work and receive mentorship to successfully navigate the academic job market: forms.gle/sVto2GRQauNA...

What? Some good news on a Friday? Parent Fellowship Notices of Funding Opportunities are up! F30, F31, F32, F33 grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

The potential exodus of scientists could impact domestic medical innovation for generations to come. @uwmedicine.bsky.social @drsakiyama.bsky.social

We've launched the Armamentarium, a new toolkit for targeted gene delivery to the brain and spinal cord. This #OpenScience resource was made possible thanks to support from the NIH BRAIN Initiative and teamwork with our collaborators. 🧠📈 www.nih.gov/news-events/...

Top scientists are cutting staff. Postdocs are leaving the country. Promising students – can't find labs. How the Trump cuts to science are playing out. @uwnews.bsky.social www.nbcnews.com/science/inno...

Federal research funding flows to all 50 states and is a critical part of the economy in many college towns around the US. Federal research funding "has now become one of the few drivers of innovation that is widely distributed across the country". www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The National Institutes of Health, the largest funder of biomedical research in the world, has fired 1,300 employees and cancelled more than $2 billion in federal research grants. https://cbsn.ws/4daiCrv

This is a great 60 Minutes piece on the impact of NIH cuts on patients including those with Alzheimer’s. Great job by Kristin Weinstein from University of Washington highlighting the impacts on students (9:00). @uwmedicine.bsky.social www.cbsnews.com/news/scienti...

Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI. “Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

Visiting 9 WA legislative offices today with some awesome BioE colleagues to stand up for science! #AIMBE2025 @uwbioe.bsky.social @neuroamyo.bsky.social @lizwaynephd.bsky.social

Jennifer West, the 2025 winner of the Pierre Galetti Award from AIMBE.

Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵

A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved

Many families including mine have been impacted by Alzheimer's disease. NIH funding delays and cuts could set research back by decades, including key funding for Alzheimers's disease research centers across the US. Almost half of these centers are up for renewal now! www.kuow.org/stories/how-...

This is heartbreaking and enraging.

There really aren’t words for how moronic (but harmful) this is. And I am confident that this isn’t an isolated example… (Gift link) wapo.st/4hDlvkS

The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought: - 1.65 million deaths from AIDS - 500,000 from lack of vaccines - 550,000 from lack of food aid - 290,000 from malaria - 310,000 from TB

‘With the current turmoil, China could surpass the U.S. in the near future,’ Nobel Prize winner David Baker warns www.wsj.com/articles/bio...

David Baker captures the long term impacts of the current federal funding uncertainty very clearly. "NIH cuts hit young scientists the hardest." timmermanreport.com/2025/03/davi...

Bluetorial: My NIH grant got funded; The money is in the bank What happens behind the scenes with NIH fund transfers

The Washington Research Foundation awards $10M to SeaBridge - a program at #SeaSynBio dedicated to DNA recording research, training scientists, and launching startups pursuing disease therapies. 🧪 Thanks to @geekwire.com for covering this great news! www.geekwire.com/2025/seattle...

The no cost extension button is back and at least some are being granted. If this applies to you, go for it. PLEASE SHARE

Make sure you, your trainees, and anyone else who might listen to you understands what "indirects" actually are, how they are established, and what Universities contribute. H/T @rodallab.bsky.social Please share widely! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxTD...

AIMBE has developed a new advocacy letter on the changes to NIH indirect cost rates: aimbe.org/advocate/wri... We urge the broader biomedical research community to customize this letter (<1 minute) to contact your congressional representatives about the severe consequences of this new policy 👇

Trials abandoned due to the stop-work order on USAID-funded research:

Watch the moments when David Baker @uwmedicine.bsky.social, Demis Hassabis & John Jumper from GoogleDeepMind step up to receive their 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry from Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf during award ceremony Dec. 10 in Stockholm.

ICYMI This a.m. David Baker @uwmedicine.bsky.social gave his #NobelPrize Lecture on designing proteins to perform new functions. He forecasts applications in immunotherapies, harvesting sunlight, growing semiconductors, stopping cell damage tied to Alzheimer's & more.

The 2024-2025 BME TT Faculty jobs list has 126 positions. #FacultySearch #BME #BMEJobsList Add a job: forms.gle/HPzAKkS1x44t... Jobs list: ericaprattlab.com/bme_jobs_list/

Wonderful evening celebrating Nora Disis’s trailblazing work in cancer vaccines with the Wayne Kuni Award for Innovation in Cancer Research. Amazing to meet patients alive today thanks to her persistence. @uwcvi.bsky.social @uwmedicine.bsky.social

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

Anyone else divorcing Twitter? @santicorreaphd.bsky.social started a Biomaterials Starter Pack to find folks in our community! Follow this growing list of #biomaterials and #tissueengineering researchers!! go.bsky.app/DymaVAp