I feel extremely grateful to have been part of our amazing parasitology community for the last 25+ years and for the many friends, collaborators, and colleagues I met along the way. ❤️
🧵 6/n
None of this would have been possible for the amazing mentorship over the last 25 years from @verncarruthers.bsky.social, @llinaslab.bsky.social, @kirkdeitsch.bsky.social, and so many others. 🧵 5/n
The government shutdowns and the administration’s continued antipathy towards higher education and research, especially on infectious disease & global health, have severely limited the chances for funding here. 🧵 4/n
While Weill Cornell has always been supportive during my time there, this meant that there was no bridge funding available from the university and as an Associate Professor I didn’t yet have tenure at Cornell. 🧵 3/n
Unfortunately, my grants ran out right while Weill Cornell Medicine had a $100M+ annual deficit followed by Trump’s subsequent suspension of NIH & NSF payments to Cornell. 🧵 2/n
After 10 years, my position at Weill Cornell has officially come to an end at the begging of the month. I am so grateful for the amazing people who spend time in my lab during the last decade and extremely proud of their work. 🧵 1/n
It's missing the long line of mini-figures...
I came to the US as an exchange student when I was 16 and have been here ever since. Finally got my citizenship earlier this year, so at age 47, I got to vote for the first time today.
Never! This heirloom will be passed down to each first-born in perpetuity.
He's right. "Nothing short of devastating"
By @holdenthorp.bsky.social @science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Little confused: Doesn't the letter specifically state that the NIH director lacks the ability to dismiss Advisory Committee members since they serve at the discretion of the HHS secretary?
Little confused: Doesn't the letter specifically state that the NIH director lacks the ability to dismiss Advisory Committee members since they serve at the discretion of the HHS secretary?
Came across this gem from @fad1.bsky.social while packing up my office.
Great collaboration between GSK Tres Cantos, Weill Cornell and the Sanders Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute.
Great collaboration between GSK Tres Cantos, Weill Cornell and the Sanders Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute.
As standard screens for new antimalarials yield diminishing new targets and chemotypes, GSK Tres Cantos used media that mimics nutrients in serum & found many new hits. We then id'ed the targets and, amazingly, every one of the 29 new chemotypes found blocks PSAC!🤯
shorturl.at/dCCO8
The end of the Joe Visone era at WCM is upon us!
It's been an absolute delight! 😍
Just substituted "transgenic" for "genetically modified" and "diverse/diversity" for "varied/variation" in all parts of my R01 submission. 🤯
Pulling the F31 Diversity applications from evaluation instead of converting them to regular F31s is just so cruel.
So sorry for everyone who worked so hard putting their applications together for them be vaporized by the vicissitudes of these malicious minds.
The NIH just pulled all the F31 Diversity fellowship applications from the study section I'm on ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=McV4...
Exciting pre-print from the Soares Lab at the Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine showing that increased bilirubin is protective in humans, mice and in vitro. 👏👏👏
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=McV4...
Does that link work for anyone else?
Really cool work! Thanks for a great talk ParaFrap and Gretchen.
“Two-thirds of the staff of the President’s Malaria Initiative…the largest donor to anti-malaria programs…worldwide, have been fired…incl some of the most senior and respected scientists working on malaria control in the world.”