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Physician-scientist; Director, Pediatric Neuro-Oncology @radychildrens, @UCSDNeuroDept, @UCSDCancer, #medulloblastoma,#DIPG,#infantbraintumors, #NF1
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On the front page of @cnn.com is a feature on how #NIH funding cuts might impact #childhoodcancer. Thanks to MJ Lee for spotlighting this issue, and I was glad to be able to contribute. These kids deserve the best, not cuts! #CANSky #PEDSky www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/h...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Who benefits from US funding uncertainty? Hours after posting this, I got an email inviting me to China with a “package to support my research for 20 years.” Apparently, generous offers are available to all good scientists!🧪🧠

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

American science is under attack Opinion piece by Dr Harold Varmus, Nobel Prize winner, former director of the #NIH and the #NCI 🧪 “Perhaps what’s most disheartening is what feels like the absence of widespread opposition to this unraveling” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

The NIH’s new imposed standard indirect cost rate threatens life-saving brain & behavior research that benefits millions of Americans. SfN, with other scientific organizations,urge reversal of this policy & implore Congress to protect critical research infrastructure. Full statement: bit.ly/4jVJnCL

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

how the NIH contributes to the economy in my home state — find yours www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-... dollars cut is a 2.5x economic return nullified, many good jobs lost, and locally economies and their healthcare weakened no savings to our country, but rather incredible losses

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Science is absolutely key to the US's success but this government's intention to now dramatically reduce the part of the federal grants that go to the university (in addition to the researchers; the "indirects") is like removing the unseen roots of a tree and expecting it to continue to flourish.

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

“NIH produces an astounding return on investment to the American taxpayer. In Fiscal Year 2022, NIH research funding supported 568,585 jobs and generated $96.84 billion in economic activity — that’s $2.64 of economic activity for every $1 of research funding.” www.researchamerica.org/2023-oped-us...

submitted 87 days ago • 28 comments

As a pediatric hematologist oncologist I’d like to remind y’all that federal funding for ALL childhood cancers combined is only 4% of overall cancer research funding. CHILDREN with CANCER. Who deserve every single chance they can get yet are shown over and over how little our society cares.

submitted 69 days ago • 23 comments

This is a really exciting paper on improving therapeutic index using dual-payload nanomedicines for combination therapy in cancer. Congrats Satchi-Fainaro lab and team! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39671487/

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Limited activity in CDK4- or CDK6-amplified tumors, although central nervous system tumors warrant future investigation from this phase II trial of palbociclib in cancer patients. Results from NCI-MATCH ECOG-ACRIN Trial EAY131 Subprotocol Z1C @uofpenn.bsky.social aacrjournals.org/clincancerre...

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

A number of #AYA cancer survivors experience insurance and financial hardships, including foregoing medical care due to financial constraints, problems paying medical bills, and difficulties accessing loans or insurances. #survonc #ayacsm link.springer.com/article/10.1...

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Enjoying the Rady Invitational holiday tournament with some big time college hoops teams in town. Purdue/NC State & Ole Miss/BYU. Next year - Kansas/Florida/Wisconsin/Providence are scheduled to play!!!!

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments