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Author of 📚 Where Biology Ends & Bias Begins: Lessons on Belonging from our DNA 🧬 @UCPress Genetics Ed, BUMedical, PastPres APHMG, FulbrightPrgr 🇪🇬 shoumitadasgupta.com
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A member of the NIH staff reacts to today's ruling:
"I'm looking forward to the day that we are so slammed with work trying to reinstate everything that we had to terminate illegally — I'll work 24/7 to make that happen if I can." www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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“How have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?” Judge Young speaks truth.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...
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Because of this complexity, the topic makes for a great classroom debate for med and GC students - we had such great discussions on everything from the science to the cost and the ethics. If anyone is interested in the teaching documents to organize this type of debate, please reach out.
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But newborn genome sequencing is neither the “ethical minefield” referenced in the article or the obviously beneficial strategy some think it is, e.g. www.npr.org/sections/hea...
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And thank YOU too!
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Yup, did so just a couple days ago at a retrospective talk about the last 20 years of the grad program in the context of the last 20 years of genetic science.
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I first learned about Paisley's work at this incredible symposium organized by the NHGRI. Of course, all those outstanding talks have been removed from the website. irp.nih.gov/news-and-eve...
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I initially thought this must be something related to limited funding for clubs at the state school level, but to see that this is happening at Harvard too shows it isn't that simple. "It’s just phenomenally hard to be young right now. There must be an easier way to grow up." 3/3
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I also have learned that some of these exclusive clubs have plenty of funding from private sources (e.g. wealthy corporate sponsors) but choose to gatekeeper so that they can pay for the students to go on free luxury trips rather than opening the doors for more peers to gain these experiences. 2/3
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So sad to be double booked - hope you'll do it again!
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Your field knows how to conference! Great to see you at graduation.
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And original article here: Patient-Specific In Vivo Gene Editing to Treat a Rare Genetic Disease | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Editorial from the author here…Progress in the Development of N-of-1 Therapy | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Love this!
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Love this story! Honestly, did Auntie and Uncle have to listen to you lament turning down the first invite during the whole trip? 😂
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Both red states and blue states are affected because universities and academic medical centers exist everywhere. We can't normalize this. This hurts all of us.
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The NIH is a coalition of multiple institutes in specific areas of study. The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities has been hit the hardest. And this is only looking at grants, not at the people who work in those Institutes in DC.
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There is particularly strong focus on the LGBTQ+ community and on studies that combat misinformation, decimating grant profiles in these areas. “You cannot eliminate a segment of the population by executive order, but you can harm them greatly.” -Tilghman
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Terminated grant tally - targeting grants deemed "no longer in the interests of the agency" and widening knowledge and healthcare gaps for multiple minoritized communities.