Immunologist trying to make IU a little less immunodeficient. Nicole Brown Chair, Department of Microbiology & Immunology

Indianapolis, IN
Joined August 2019
This is your friendly reminder to call your senators today, wherever you are, and urge them to prevent this multi-year funding scheme. The future of my lab, and so many others, rely on this 🙏🙏
“The new policy means that the number of grants that can be funded this year will drop dramatically. And that will decimate US biomedical science labs across the country, and set back medical research and cures for disease by years.” “Sources inside NIH say that this rigid and sweeping multi-year funding policy did not come from NIH, but instead from political appointees at HHS or the White House.” open.substack.com/pub/donmoy…
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An editorial by Editor-in-Chief, Gail Bishop, Ph.D., discusses the negative pressures that early-career scientists face to publish their work in journals with high impact factors, both to achieve career metrics and to support grant applications. 🔗 ow.ly/HTKW50WbYX3
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“Diversifying assets” sounds a little too much like DEI. So does “biodiversity.” Please try to refrain from anything that sounds like you are promoting diversity in your teaching and research.
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.@OestreichLab @OSUWexMed pinpoints transcription factor Aiolos as a high-priority therapeutic target for manipulating TH1 immune responses and provides mechanistic insight into Aiolos-dependent CD4+ T cell subsets– findings have the potential to inform novel immunotherapeutic treatments. insight.jci.org/articles/vie…
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Your computer is working fine. To protect the network, we put in safeguards that keep you from doing anything that might look like data analysis or transfer.
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Dr. W. Kimryn Rathmell will step down as @NCIDirector, effective Monday, January 20. Read Dr. Rathmell’s thoughts in her announcement below.
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We are looking for pediatric residents who want to make research and academic medicine their long term goal and make that wish come true!
Congrats to @GCHAllergyChief for helping to launch this exciting initiative to mentor a new generation of pediatric researchers!
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Charging your personal phone on campus is basically stealing from the university. Electricity cost money! Also, you’ll need to use your personal phone number for two factor authentication on all university apps.
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Mark Kaplan retweeted
Bill Sullivan@wjsullivan24 Nov 2024
Friendly reminder:
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Research funded by the US NIH generated $2.46 in economic activity for every $1 of funding in 2023, a total of $92.9 billion unitedformedicalresearch.org…
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We appreciate that your strategic plan was generated by AI, it helped us realize we don’t really need a department chair.
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To decrease the size of the university, we need a dean of university efficiency. We’ll fix everything by creating a new dean!
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So my budget has a $75,000 hole. Here’s how your budget will help me fill it.
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I need you to fire the staff you need in order to hire the staff you can afford.
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The USA is powerhouse of scientific innovation and potential to dramatically improve human health. RFK Jr. being in control of HHS/@NIH?! What do you think that means for any future for the US in science? Vote blue down the ticket, let's keep being leaders in science and health!
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