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My laboratory performs innovative work developing bacterial vaccines while understanding pathogenesis. Champion faculty/students development. Comments my own

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Check out my latest article: What are the Current Challenges for Faculty to get Tenured and Promoted in Medical Schools in Texas? via @LinkedIn My personal take on current challenges faculty members are experiencing to get tenured and promoted.
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@Yasazul22 Que foto mas bonita Yasmin
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Why do Universities require @NIH indirect cost 💲. Somebody explain this to the government “unofficial” people
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It seems few people know what an “indirect cost” is or why it has to be 40-60%. The reason the government forced universities to raise their indirect costs up to (typically) 40-60% was to force a huge amount of regulations on the universities while also minimizing the bookkeeping to comply with those regulations. This includes the work by contract managers, compliance lawyers, accountants, safety management, etc., who are required by the government per the terms of the contract. If universities had to allocate all those categories of labor to each contract hour-by-hour it would require too much bookkeeping, which would waste money. (I’m setting aside for now the question of whether or how much the regulations are wasting money and only discussing how you bookkeep the effort to comply with the regulations.) So to save money, while also requiring universities to do these types of work, the government requires universities to roll those categories of labor into “cost pools” that must be allocated as a percent of the technical work in each of the contracts. While the actual “overhead” might be only 15%, these pooled labor charges that are required by the government are typically much more. Second, the government doesn’t allow the universities to figure out their own indirect rates. These rates are determined by the federal government through audits every couple of years. The government then sends a document telling the university what rate to use for its cost pools. For example, the University of Colorado was told by the DHHS to use 54% ( and U. Nebraska was told by DHHS to use 55.5% (. 40-60% is not only reasonable to fulfill the terms of the contract, it is the rate that the government tells the university it can charge for all the work the government requires the university to do. So if the government wants to reduce the indirect rate to 15%, then it needs to do one of these two things: Either (A) eliminate all the federal regulations that force the universities to do those categories of work (compliance, accounting, management, safety management, tracking harmful chemicals, etc.) Or, (B) stop requiring universities to pool those real costs into the “indirect cost” category and allow universities to include them in the “direct costs” of the contract. If the government chooses (A), then the safety rails have been entirely removed. (Even if the government lowers the regulations without entirely eliminating them, the costs they impose will still be real costs that probably come out to more than 15%.) Or, if it chooses (B), then the direct costs will go way up and research will actually be less efficient because all the bookkeeping, not more efficient. But if the government caps the indirect rate at 15% without doing either (A) or (B), then it will be impossible to do research for the federal government without going bankrupt. That’s the worst possible choice. It will kill research in the US. Is that what we want? I can explain it for you but I can’t understand it for you. It’s up to the reader not to be ignorant.
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What a nightmare with the traffic yesterday. Up to 4h backup traffic, even at San Luis island because the toll guy wanted to collect 2 dollars? @TxDOTHouston
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GALVESTON COUNTY (UPDATE): Traffic switch work on I-45 Gulf Freeway northbound north of the Galveston Causeway has been completed much sooner than anticipated. All mainlanes are now back open.
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@TxDOTHouston What a nightmare with the traffic yesterday. Up to 4h backup traffic, even at San Luis island because the toll guy wanted to collect 2 dollars?
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The United States of America is looking more like Mexico in Science support. I do not think the President of USA wants to be like @Claudiashein
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@TxDOTHouston @GalvNews @GalvestonIsland @GalvCoTx @galvcountyoem @i45now @utmbhealth I saw the announcement and saw your employees just chatting instead of accelerating the process. Where are the police patrols helping with the traffic and making the process easier? I did not see any on the road
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RT @DrEricDing: 💣TORPEDOING MEDICAL RESEARCH—NIH indirect grant funding just got slashed by Trump to 15%. What does this mean for you? Coll…
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@nenaorantes Para un consulado, su funcion deberia ser apoyar a la juventud mexicana por igual, sean mujeres u hombres
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@PeterHotez Congratulations well deserved
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@ArturoErdely el de la derecha firma con plumon
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@nanoprofe Solo lo pondre aqui y me retiro, todos los proyectos cientificos y tecnlogicos que beneficien a cierto instituto politecnico gracias a los contactos de su director, seran apoyados en el gobierno actual, al igual que se hizo en el pasado gobierno. evidencia hay mucha
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@chayito09 🥲😂
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Y pensar que @conahcyt @Secihti_Mx bajo la administracion pasada gasto tsantos recursos para vender la idea que el maiz transgenico era malo para Mexico. Ahora estaran obligados a usarlo despues de gastar millones de pesos por @lopezobrador_
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México elimina restricciones al maíz transgénico tras perder disputa comercial con EU. #Latinus #InformaciónParaTi
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I am unapologetic a proud product of the @NIH Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research as PhD student and Postdoctoral fellow. I have demonstrated my value as a scientist and contributor to the well-being of Americans with my science discoveries.
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Executive order puts STEM diversity efforts on hold | Science | AAAS
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