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Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology in the Center for Alzheimer's and Neurodegenerative Diseases at UT Southwestern. My lab studies damaged things. Sometimes we fix them. Usually we make them worse. https://www.davidwsanders.com
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Okay. Kudos to whoever is in charge of Politico's headline layout:

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Is rescission politically viable? Josh Marshall muses on upcoming budgetary showdown between Russ Vought and congress as it pertains to unpopular NIH funding impoundment.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Important thread on avoiding NIH budget shortfall. Cmon. Fund those borderline/flawed grants!

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Again. Re-emphasizing this brilliant bureaucratic maneuver. NIH should do anything, everything to fund any and all discussed/scored grants, rubber stamping if need be, to avoid a major budget shortfall. Foreign component cuts are the latest bureaucratic slow-walk of the budget. 15 percent of it.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

How do you cut 44 percent of the NIH budget without saying you’re pro-cancer? Bureaucracy at its most brilliant: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nih-bu...

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Here is a link to 60 Minutes NIH segment... www.cbsnews.com/news/scienti...

submitted 17 days ago • 14 comments

Nearly 800 NIH grants have been terminated so far, including some focused on HIV and AIDS, trans health, and COVID-19, after researchers were told their work was no longer an agency priority. https://cbsn.ws/3YkDndI

submitted 17 days ago • 19 comments

I am excited to share the latest paper from my lab where we leverage the selection bias of condensate-promoting oncofusions to uncover molecular rules governing condensate specificity and function. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex....

submitted 20 days ago • 5 comments

In agreement with WaPo article from yesterday. Payment management system must be modified for "loyalty pledge memos" to be added to every small transaction (e.g., how does purchase of these gels advance the Trump administration's national priorities). Efficient.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Per source, NIH has been instructed to hold off from issuing ALL awards to Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Brown, and Northwestern (including med schools) Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants

submitted 27 days ago • 78 comments

sounds bad: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

so sick of my favorite journal, CHEST, rejecting my PERFECT lumbar puncture manuscripts! about time Johnny law cracks down on their ABSOLUTELY UNFAIR "peer" review!

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

American voter: we are doing everything you wanted. We solved the cat fur color problem. Imagine how many cat-related discoveries might lie ahead if you continue to fund our science! Two? Three? Time will tell. www.sciencealert.com/secret-of-or...

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

FYI: Frozen NIH grants (see Harvard, etc) count as properly spent, congressional appropriations. They are just on hold! Unlike terminated NIH grants (see Columbia; DOGE cuts), which must be reallocated. #noImpoundment #flatNIHbudget

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Yay, Regina!

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Happy to share our new study that was just published in Neuron! www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Goddamnit. Phase separation is back. In space form. 😡https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2403981121

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