Tax Day - round 3 - NIH 🩻🧠🧬 🧬 The average U.S. taxpayer contributes $105/year to NIH, helping fund: • Cancer & rare disease breakthroughs • Pandemic preparedness • Children’s health • Medical tech innovation • Mental health science & more NIH powers the science behind the healthcare we rely on.

Sustained support for the NIH, NSF, FDA, and other science agenices is what has made American the best place in the world for biomedical innovation. It's important that we preserve it. Watch Portal's John Flavin on CNBC!

In light of disruptions to federally-funded science, one program with bipartison support has fallen through the cracks. In December, Congress let the priority review voucher program expire. The PRV program incentives companies to develop drugs for pediatric rare diseases.

Thank you to the 1,500+ people who battled the wet snow to attend the @standupforscience.bsky.social Chicago rally! If you weren't able to attend, watch the rally here: lnkd.in/gRhwH9nW

Without NIH funding for research, "your mother's cancer will wait for a cure. Your child's genetic disorder will wait for a breakthrough. The research that could save lives may be delayed or never come." ~Melissa Byrn, UChicago @standupforscience.bsky.social #StandUpForScience2025

If you want a great nation, you don't eliminate research - medical, agricultural, across the board. Research looks into the future and gives us hope. We need to stand together! ~US Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov @standupforscience.bsky.social #StandUpForScience2025

Join us, tomorrow (Friday)! @standupforscience.bsky.social 📍 Federal Plaza, Chicago 🕛 March 7, 2025 | 12 PM 📋 Register: lnkd.in/gguRyePu 🔗 Learn more: standupforscience2025.org

Thank you Chicago Sun-Times for featuring me and some of my co-organizers of Stand Up for Science Chicago. It's critical we advocate for protecting federally-funded science and highlight what's at stake for patients.

I'm helping to organize this. Spread the word. Reach out to me to get involved. 📍 Federal Plaza, Chicago 🕛 March 7, 2025 | 12 PM 🔗 Learn more: standupforscience2025.org

They screwed this all up.

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

The NIH funding crisis has been stressful and potentially damaging to US science. America has the best innovation ecosystem in the world, and for any complex ecosystem, disruption can have cascading effects. Read this piece by my colleague Steven Lehmann on how the innovation landscape might change.

There’s no argument that should reassure anyone enough to go back to business as usual, because none of these actions are happening in isolation. The war on US science won’t end with a court order on indirects.

Speaking of healthcare. Let's make @bsky.app the platform that fights misinformation. Some great follows are @drsusanoliver.bsky.social @jsm2334.bsky.social @therealtruther.bsky.social Let's get them more followers and engagement than other platforms and let health science accounts find a home

This is the former dean of Harvard med school. He defended several pandemic misinformation doctors from “uncivil” tone, while dunking on those of us who tried to sound the alarm about misinformation agents. I tried to warn him and he got furious with me.

Wow, sci-fi Black Mirror stuff

Happy Holliday Junction for those who celebrate

unusual for NIH directors — most have experience in basic, translational, and/or clinical research not to mention records of leading large biomedical research enterprises, pioneering their field of study, and a combination of visibility and service to the research community

Nice interview from @biotechtv.bsky.social Brad Loncar with CEO Sarah Hein of March Bio, which raised a $28M series A. Portal invested in the seed round. March Bio is making T cells that kill other T cells. www.biotechtv.com/post/march-b...

Aside from how horrible this is for public health this might be the only time you will see words like “neocortex” or “mitochondrial mutations” in a statement from Trump

Poseida acquisition is good news for allogeneic cell therapy companies. www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

I was surprised a Biotech Investor starter pack wasn’t available, so I made one. Please help grow this community. go.bsky.app/GV6usnz

Earlier this week had had our 2nd ever Portal Innovations book club on Breaking Through, the autobiography of Katalin Karikó who won a Nobel Prize for her work on modified mRNA that enabled the COVID vaccines.

So glad to see a critical mass of a science community here! 🧬🔬🧫 ❌ to X Blue skies ahead! ☀️