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“Say it’s 1955 and we’re funding Jonas Salk. We might have just canceled his grant,” says a program director at a small institute at NIH who spoke on condition of anonymity. “That’s hard to sleep with.” Great coverage @laureloldach.bsky.social cen.acs.org/policy/resea... #[email protected]

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Nominate a chemist with disabilities for C&EN's Trailblazers 2025! Please tell us about your chemistry heroes, mentors, mentees, and inspirations—or nominate yourself. 👉 cenm.ag/nominatetrai... #chemsky 🧪 #phdsky #academicsky #STEM #phdchat #academicchatter

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I am grateful to @rowanwalrath.bsky.social, @helenbranswell.bsky.social, @melodyschreiber.com and all the other reporters covering this today for giving me a chance to book a CVS appointment today before the bottom falls out, which would leave my 3rd trimester unboosted cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic...

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They’re here! Introducing the Talented 12 Class for 2025. These early-career scientists are taking on big global #chemistry challenges. Meet the 2025 Class: cen.acs.org/people/profi... #CENT12 #chemsky🧪

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The FDA’s new COVID-19 vaccine guidance is here. Now what? cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic...

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For @cenmag.bsky.social this week, @rowanwalrath.bsky.social took a look at what's been happening re COVID-19 vaccines in the US

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Makary and Prasad have a sounding board piece written in NEJM about the future of COVID-19 vaccine regulation at the FDA. Some thoughts:

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“With the Trump administration, there’s so many different things all at once,” says Zach Weinberg, CEO of biotech investment firm Curie.Bio. “Come next week, I’m sure there’ll be a whole new set of facts.” Chaos ably chronicled by @rowanwalrath.bsky.social today: cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic...

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Today marks my 22nd work anniversary at @cenmag.bsky.social. My colleague @rowanwalrath.bsky.social points out that copper is the traditional gift for 22nd wedding anniversaries, so I thought I'd celebrate by posting this photo of the copper ball Barry Sharpless gave me.

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ICYMI 💡 @rowanwalrath.bsky.social covered what the FDA's shift away from animal testing could mean for companies pioneering #NAMs 🧪 With input from leaders at: @emulatebio.bsky.social @wyssinstitute.bsky.social @jhucaat.bsky.social & more In @cenmag.bsky.social cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic...

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Two excellent pieces of news about @cenmag.bsky.social reporters and their stories: First up, Priyanka Runwal's excellent article on efforts to treat sickle cell disease in India has won a AAJA 2025 Journalism Excellence Award. You can read that story here: cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic...

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I am so honored that a feature I published in @cenmag.bsky.social in September, "R&D for long COVID is collapsing," was selected as a finalist among trade publications in the 2025 @nihcm.bsky.social Awards in Journalism and Research. I am in some great company here. nihcm.org/news/finalis...

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Lol. They released their 400 page US version of the Cass Review and refused to even name who the authors were. It's a glorified book report. Anyway, this is out now y'all. I'll be looking it over today. opa.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...

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The FDA's shift away from animal testing could be a windfall for makers of nonanimal models like organ chips, organoids, and computer simulations. But there will be challenges, especially given the FDA's outlined 3-5-year timeline. @cenmag.bsky.social #chemsky #biosky cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic...

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Just how actively is Secretary Kennedy's #HHS going to disrupt vaccination regulation & policy? Multiple decisions that must come in the next couple of months will tell us lots. www.statnews.com/2025/04/30/r...

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The stop work orders affect the development of an intranasal vaccine for COVID-19 and an intravenous shot for immunocompromised people. cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic... 🧪

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Flagship Pioneering has unveiled a new start-up that aims to find, then drug, targets that are specific to different states of diseases. The company, Etiome, will begin with metabolic, neurodegenerative, and inflammatory illnesses. #chemsky #biosky @cenmag.bsky.social cen.acs.org/business/sta...

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‪If you're a researcher with an NSF grant that has been terminated or with a proposal now stuck in limbo, I'd like to hear from you. My signal is kvasquez.12. Anonymity is always an option.

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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

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Scoop for @reuters.com: On Friday, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission will stop collecting data on injuries from incidents like car accidents and adverse drug effects due to staff cuts at the CDC. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

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Good reporting here. Student paper gets what the bigs have missed. White House is actually threatening to defund all of bostons major hospitals www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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A little thread of my catch-up reading.

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#MIT, other schools sue Department of Energy for slashing funds to support research grants www.universalhub.com/2025/mit-oth... #CambridgeMA #lawsuits

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I am back after 2 weeks away!

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Anyway, I'm about to be away for two weeks and genuinely worried this will be me: www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/o...

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Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator. In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”

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C&EN: 'NIH restores some long COVID grants' 'The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) appears to be reversing course on its decision to abruptly cancel a spate of grants for long COVID research earlier this week' cen.acs.org/policy/resea...

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NEW: The NIH appears to be reversing course on its decision to abruptly cancel a spate of grants for #longCOVID research earlier this week. @cenmag.bsky.social #chemsky #biosky cen.acs.org/policy/resea...

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Update on Long COVID research funding: Per researcher and advocate @themegascope.bsky.social, funding for at least 45 different RECOVER studies have been terminated. RECOVER is a $1.7 billion program that serves as the single largest federal funding mechanism for long COVID research.

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