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Early-stage investigators proposed innovative high-impact research ideas for the @NIHDirector’s New Innovator Award. See the projects the awardees will pursue: #NIHHighRisk
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Early-stage investigators proposed innovative high-impact research ideas for the @NIHDirector’s New Innovator Award. See the projects the awardees will pursue: #NIHHighRisk
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Find out what innovative, high-impact #biomedical or behavioral research projects early career investigators are pursuing with @NIHDirector’s New Innovator awards: #NIHHighRisk
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Early-stage investigators proposed #innovative high-impact research ideas for the @NIHDirector’s New Innovator Award. See the projects the awardees will pursue: #NIHHighRisk
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The @NIHDirector’s New Innovator award supports early career researchers. Meet the 2018 awardees. #NIHHighRisk
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Find out what innovative, high-impact #biomedical or behavioral research projects early career investigators are pursuing with @NIHDirector’s New Innovator awards: #NIHHighRisk
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A #haiku for you about this #_HuBMAP lymph node that looks like a crab:. Do not feel crabby,.Crab-tastic image will make.Emerge from your shell. #lymphnode, @yale.
Does this lymph node look suspiciously crab-like to you? This is actually a CODEX image of a #lymphnode, made by #_hubmap researcher Archie Enninful @Yale. The different colors represent 26 cell types within! Crab-solutely amazing! #cellmapcrew
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The @NIHDirector's Pioneer Award funds researchers from all career stages pursuing groundbreaking new ideas to tackle significant challenges in behavioral, #SocialScience, & #BiomedicalResearch. Meet this year’s awardees: #NIHHighRisk
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Here’s our gift to you.HuBMAP Holiday Haiku.Our yearly review. HuBMAP researchers.Show where molecules are with.CODEX images. Urine good hands now.With Drs. Askhar and Jain.They keep it renal. Antibodies stain.Cell structures in the kidney.I kid-ney you not.
Does your stream of consciousness ever lead you to wonder what the kidney beans to you? Then check out this #CODEX image, part of the urgent work done by @IU's Dr. Tarek Ashkar and @WUSTL's Dr. Sanjay Jain. Urine in for a treat, and we aren’t kidney-ing! @_hubmap @kpmproject
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Check out work by @NIHDirector’s 6 awardees, and @Yale, scientists using #NIHHighRisk awards to study a variety of pioneering research topics.
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The @NIHDirector's Pioneer Award funds researchers from all career stages pursuing groundbreaking new ideas to tackle significant challenges in behavioral, #SocialScience, & #BiomedicalResearch. Meet this year’s awardees: .#NIHHighRisk
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Did you know that the @NIHDirector’s Early Independence Award supports junior #scientists to launch independent careers? Look at how this year’s awardees are “skipping the postdoc” and will pursue their own #biomedical and #BehavioralResearch.#NIHHighRisk
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The @NIHDirector’s Pioneer awardees pursue exciting new ideas to tackle challenging research questions. Meet the 2018 awardees. #NIHHighRisk
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Did you know? The @NIHDirector’s Early Independence award provides support to junior scientists looking to launch independent research careers. Meet this year’s awardees: #NIHHighRisk
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Congrats to Dr. Jonathan Kipnis @uvahealthnews for receiving the 2018 @NIHDirector’s Pioneer Award to explore how the immune system & brain interact and impact each other’s function. #NIHHighRisk
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The @NIHDirector's Pioneer Award funds researchers from all career stages pursuing groundbreaking new ideas to tackle significant challenges in #behavioral, #SocialScience, & #BiomedicalResearch. Meet this year’s awardees: #NIHHighRisk
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Are you a part of the #BiomedicalResearch community and interested in using a new and powerful #cryoEM method to visualize intact cells and tissues? Learn more about the new national #cryoET network funded by @NIH: #CryoelectronTomography
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With two new #NIH funding opportunities comes the hope of accelerating the enhancement of diverse and inclusive environments for all faculty to thrive in. Read full press release:
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Check out how #CFHealthDisparities awardee, .@PennMedicine, is pursuing a “big push” to implement interventions in 60 Black neighborhoods with the goal of improving overall health, psychosocial distress, food insecurity, social connectedness, & violence:
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With their @NIHDirector’s Transformative Research Award, awardees will pursue groundbreaking science that has the potential to shift traditional scientific paradigms: #NIHHighRisk
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The @NIH has launched a new Common Fund program: Bridge to Artificial Intelligence. Read how #Bridge2AI will bridge the gap between #biomedical & behavioral research and #ArtificialIntelligence to help solve pressing challenges in human #health: @NIBIBgov
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Discover how investigators who received the @NIHDirector’s Pioneer award will pursue exciting new ideas to tackle challenging questions within #biomedical and #BehavioralResearch: #NIHHighRisk
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Did you know? The @NIHDirector's Early Independence award allows mature early career scientists to “skip the postdoc” and launch independent research careers. Meet this year's awardees: #NIHHighRisk
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Learn more about our Transformative Health Disparities Research initiative, in partnership with @NIH’s UNITE, that aims to address #HealthDisparities & support research on highly innovative interventions. Research #FundingOpps coming soon!
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Ryan Flynn @raflynn5 of @HSCRB, an #NIHHighRisk Transformative Research Awardee, will explore how and why #RNA and RNA-binding proteins function on cell surfaces. This research could lead to transformative insights in cell #biology and disease mechanisms.
Congratulations @raflynn5 for receiving @NIH_CommonFund's Transformative Research Award! #NIHHighRisk
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The @NIHDirector’s New Innovator award supports early career researchers. Meet the 2019 awardees. #NIHHighRisk
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What Behavioral and #BiomedicalResearch will this year’s #NIHHighRisk awardees conduct? From #AI and #VirtualReality to #antibioticresistance, see the award-winning, innovative projects early career and seasoned #scientists proposed:.
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Did you know the @NIHDirector’s Early Independence Award supports junior #scientists to launch independent careers? Take a look at how this year’s awardees are “skipping the postdoc” & will pursue their own #biomedical & #BehavioralResearch: #NIHHighRisk
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The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) program created a reference data set to study genetic changes and gene expression. Did you know that all GTEx data are publicly available through the @GTExPortal?
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.@NIH issued 19 awards to support research and training activities for our #DSIAfrica program! Learn how the program and awardees will work towards advancing #DataScience and spurring health discoveries across Africa: @NIBIBgov
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The #Glycoscience program is hosting a webinar May 1, 2020, 1-5PM EST to explore the roles glycans play in #SARS-CoV-2 infection & introduce new tools to help speed research on vaccines, therapies & diagnostics. Register here #glycotime #COVID19
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Dr. Catherine Leimkuhler Grimes is part of the #Glycoscience program. She works on making tools that mimic #sugars found on #bacteria. She wants to answer questions on how the human body senses & responds to bacteria to help treat disease! #womeninscience
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.@NIH issued multiple awards to help our Nutrition for Precision Health initiative powered by @AllofUsResearch recruit 10,000 participants for a new, dynamic study to inform more personalized nutrition recommendations: #NIH_PrecisionNutrition
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Our FIRST program has funded its first set of awardees! Check out the new awardees here: #NIHFIRST
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Guess what? The @NIHDirector's awards for #NIHHighRisk research have been announced! Read about innovative #biomedical and behavioral research early career, and seasoned scientists will conduct through these awards:
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Learn how #TechDev and #TissueMapping can work together to support efforts of the Human BioMolecular Atlas Program (#HuBMAP) @Caltech
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Dr. Jennifer Phillips-Cremins (@CreminsLab) of @Penn is creating research tools as part of our @4DNucleome program. Learn how a passion to help people with #NeurologicalDisorders drives Dr. Phillips-Cremins and her #4DNucleome research! #WomenInScience
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The @NIHDirector’s awards for High-Risk, High-Reward research have been announced for 2017! #NIHHighRisk
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Dr. Ayres (@theayreslab) of @Salkinstitute studies co-operative interactions between a microbe and its host. This innovative research may yield new therapeutic approaches for infectious diseases that don’t rely on #antibiotics. #WomenInScience #NIHHighRisk
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See the 2019 New Innovator Awardees #NIHHighRisk
The @NIHDirector’s New Innovator award supports early career researchers. Meet the 2019 awardees. #NIHHighRisk
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We’re looking for ideas from YOU! Share what you think is the greatest opportunity in #biomedical and #BehavioralResearch today and why it should be pursued as an NIH Common Fund program:
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Dr. Jennifer Phillips-Cremins @CreminsLab @Penn is a @4DNucleome investigator creating tools to alter chromatin structure on demand over short time scales. Learn about Dr. Phillips-Cremins and her #4DNucleome research! #NIH
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The Cellular Senescence Network charts a path to its ambitious goals of characterizing and providing an atlas of #SenescentCells in humans and mice! Read more about how our #SenNet program plans to contribute to improving human health:
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Investigation time! Read how #NIHHighRisk Awardee Dr. John Lee from @fredhutch will be researching new ways of making scientific research models of cancer better represent real-life conditions to advance #CancerResearch:
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Way to go Dr. Carmona-Fontaine @nyuniversity! As a 2019 New Innovator, he will use experimental and computational approaches to study factors that affect the rise of malignant cells and accelerate their progress into aggressive tumors #NIHhighrisk.
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The Human BioMolecular Atlas Program (#HuBMAP) issued its first awards! The program will catalyze development of an open, global framework to map the human body at the level of individual cells. Learn more in the press release #SingleCell
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An Integrative Human #Microbiome Project research study from the @BroadInstitute, @MassGeneralNews, @HarvardChanSPH, found that gut microbiomes in participants with #InflammatoryBowelDisease (#IBD) were unstable over time. #CrohnsDisease #UlcerativeColitis
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#Glycans play a critical role in biology, like how our bodies recognize & fight viruses such as #COVID19. Our #Glycoscience program is making & using tools to learn more about COVID-19’s spike protein function. #glycotime More at: &
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Have you heard? The National Centers for #CryoelectronMicroscopy are hosting a monthly webinar series featuring #cryoEM research. Sign up for the first one this Thursday & hear Dr. Priyamvada Acharya talk about her work on the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein:
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In the largest #ExerciseResearch program of its kind, the Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Consortium (#MoTrPAC) is poised to collect and turn data from ~2600 volunteers into comprehensive maps of the molecular changes in the body due to exercise
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Want to know how @NIHDirector, Dr. David Liu, a researcher a part of our Somatic Cell #GenomeEditing program, and their colleague Dr. Jonathan Brown treated #progeria in an animal model? Watch them describe their work in this video: @somaticediting
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The @NIHDirector’s New Innovator award supports early career researchers. Meet the 2017 awardees: #NIHHighRisk
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#NIH announces new program to develop new & improved #CRISPR and other #GenomeEditing tools to treat human genetic diseases. #CFGenomeEditing
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#NIH funding announcements expected this summer for more than $58 M to support "Harnessing Data Science for Health Discovery & Innovation in Africa" #DSIAfrica w/ 1st due date November 2020. #NIHAfricaData #NIHDataScience #GlobalHealth
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First #HuBMAP Consortium paper “The Human Body at Cellular Resolution: the NIH Human Biomolecular Atlas Program” published in @nature today Check us out! #singlecell #datascience #bigdata #techDev #tissuemapping
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Did you know that the @NIHDirector’s Early Independence Award supports junior #scientists to launch independent careers? Look at how this year’s awardees are “skipping the postdoc” to pursue their own #biomedical, #SocialScience, and #BehavioralResearch
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.@4DNucleome researchers from @SCSatCMU developed an algorithm to understand how #chromatin is organized in individual human cells at unprecedented resolution. Read how their method “Higashi” helps make the connection between genes & health: #ML @jmuiuc.
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We’re looking for ideas for new programs. Common Fund programs: .☑️accelerate #EmergingScience .☑️enhance the #BiomedicalResearch workforce .☑️remove research roadblocks .☑️support high-risk, high-reward #science .Submit your response by 9/30:
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Dr. Pua at @VanderbiltU will explore a new form of cell communication using an #NIHHighRisk New Innovator Award to study ribonucleic acids #RNA involved in allergic airway inflammation. @exRNA
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Are you an early-stage researcher? Check out the newly released #FundingOpportunity for the #NIHHighRisk Research Program’s New Innovator Award to fund exceptionally creative scientists proposing innovative, high-impact projects. Learn more:
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NIH awards to test ways to store, access, share, and compute on biomedical data in the cloud #CommonsPilot #FAIRdata
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Urine good hands with @_hubmap’s Image of the Week from Dr. Martin Dufresne! Here is a #MALDI #IMS image of a human kidney on their new matrix, allowing you to see the different types of cells that make up the organ. We kidney you not! #SciArt @SpragginsLab
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Early Independence Awardee Jacob Zavatone-Veth of @Harvard's Society of Fellows is researching how neural networks model large-scale #NeuralData to advance our understanding of #DeepLearning. Read more:
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How do organs use energy to communicate information? Dr. Tania Reis of @CUMedicalSchool & @molbcu intends to use her #NIHHighRisk Pioneer Award to discover the answer. #endocrinology #metabolism
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Dr. Whitehead (@KWhiteheadLab) at @CMU_ChemE will use her New Innovator award to see how we may use #BreastMilk to deliver therapies to infants. #NIHHighRisk
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#NIHFIRST released its second round of awardees to enhance #diversity and #inclusion among #biomedical faculty. These awardees will recruit diverse cohorts of early-stage research faculty & establish #inclusive environments to help those faculty succeed.
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With their @NIHDirector’s Transformative Research Award, awardees will pursue groundbreaking science that has the potential to shift traditional scientific paradigms: #NIHHighRisk
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Discover how investigators who received the @NIHDirector’s Pioneer award will pursue exciting new ideas to tackle challenging questions within the #biomedical and #BehavioralResearch community: #NIHHighRisk
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Dr. Nicola Allen of @salkinstitute has won the #NIHHighRisk Pioneer Award for her work investigating ways to enhance brain plasticity through manipulating #astrocytes
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The @NIHDirector's Transformative Research Awards support groundbreaking biomedical, behavioral or social science that has the potential to shift traditional scientific paradigms. Check out this year’s awardees: #NIHHighRisk
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.@NIH launched one of the largest #nutrition studies, run by our Nutrition for Precision Health program powered by @AllofUsResearch. Learn how the study will drive advances in #PrecisionNutrition to enable increasingly tailored advice on #HealthyEating.
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Our #NIHFIRST program will support recruitment of diverse cohorts of early-career faculty committed to #InclusiveExcellence in NIH mission areas. Reissued final cohort funding announcement for the program has been published. Check out the new #FundingOpp:
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Groundbreaking study with @NIHDirector & Dr. David Liu, a researcher from the #NIHCommonFund Somatic Cell Genome Editing program! Learn how #GenomeEditing tools may help treat rare, genetic diseases like Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome:
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Congratulations to Drs. Isha Jain, Evan Feinberg, Stephen Floor, Luke Gilbert, Kole Roybal, and Tiffany Scharschmidt @UCSF! These early career scientists received 2018 @NIHDirector’s Awards for their ground-breaking research! #NIHHighRisk
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@NIH issued a Request for Information to gather ideas that may be of interest to the @NIH_CommonFund. Your innovative ideas in #biomedical or #behavioral research that address NIH-wide challenges & opportunities could inform future Common Fund activities:
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April 25 is #NationalDNADay & our @H3Africa initiative & @genome_gov have put together something VERY special! Register for “Centering Science and #HealthEquity in #Genomics” to hear some exciting findings from @UCT’s Dr. Munung on 4/13: #DNADay2022
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Get ready #AI and #ML researchers! NIH plans to publish two #FundingOpps as part of our new #Bridge2AI program. Learn more about how you can apply your #ArtificialIntelligence & #MachineLearning skills to address challenges in #BiomedicalResearch:
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Guess what? The @NIHDirector’s awards for #NIHHighRisk research have been announced. Read about innovative #biomedical and behavioral research early career, junior, and seasoned scientists will conduct through these awards:
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Passionate about #SciComm & #HealthCommunication? Don’t miss out on our May 16 workshop featuring discussions from #researchers, #ScienceCommunicators, & #CommunityLeaders about innovative approaches to making #HealthInformation more accessible:
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Learn about two #NIHHighRisk New Innovator Awardees at @UCSanDiego! Read more about how they intend to use #bioengineering to treat #cardiovascular disease and study #neurobiology here:
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Are we fishing for compliments with this #MERFISH image that shows the spatial localization of RNA transcripts from different cells of the human lung from @_hubmap researchers at @UCSanDiego and @UofR? Maybe, but doesn’t it leave you gasping for breath? It’s a great catch!
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Excited to announce that the #NIH has made the first awards for the new Somatic Cell Genome Editing program! #GenomeEditing
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Learn how Dr. Ijeoma Opara of @stonybrooku will use an Early Independence award from the #NIHHighRisk High-Reward Research program to address #SubstanceUse and #MentalHealth among urban youth:
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Have an affinity for highly multiplexed tissue imaging methods? Come see the March issue of @naturemethods Perspective by @hubmap’s Affinity Reagent Imaging and Validation Working Group, & be awed at the “cathedral” cover image. We are sure it will ring your bell! @NIAIDnews.
A Perspective from @SinemKSaka1, Andrea Radtke, and colleagues offers guidance for obtaining robust and reproducible imaging data with antibody-based multiplexing approaches.
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2018 @NIHDirector’s New Innovator Awardee, Dr Gemma Carvill, has devoted her career to finding the underlying genetic causes of #epilepsy. In mouse models of epilepsy, she hopes to ID DNA fragments indicative of brain injury after a seizure #NIHHighRisk
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#ICYMI: NJ girl, 9 yr. old Bobbi Wilson donates spotted lanternflies to @Yale and #NIHHighRisk Early Independence awardee, @IjeomaOparaPHD, hosted an event to honor her.
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#CommunityOrganizations, check out this #ResearchOpportunity from #NIHComPASS! Our Community Partnerships to Advance Science for Society Program is looking to support develop & assess community-led #HealthEquity structural interventions. Learn more:
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The work from @NotreDame's Patricia Clark, #NIHHighRisk Pioneer awardee, will use new approaches to understand how molecules are made, which may improve the #BiomedicalResearch's community understanding of diseases like #Alzheimers & #cancer:
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Researchers studying #HealthDisparities & #HealthEquity, our Transformative Health Disparities Research Initiative’s pre-application webinar is only one week away! Register and learn more about #FundingOpps for this initiative:
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Come play in #NIH_Common Fund #HuBMAP’s new Data Portal. We have imaging, microscopy, and sequencing data from 7 different organs for you to peruse to your heart cells’ content! #single-cell, #microanatomy
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It's Gastroparesis Awareness month! Learn how #NIH_SPARC researchers are using electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve to help improve #gut function! #GastroparesisAwarenessMonth #Gastroparesis @PurdueHHS
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Drs. @BradyLabUPenn, @GMBurslem, Luca Busino, Terence Gade of @PIGIlab, and Eric Witze from @PennMedicine will use their #NIHHighRisk award to establish a new way to explore tumor proteins and uncover pathways in #cancer research. Read more here:
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Interested in #opportunities in #ClinicalResearch and #HealthEquity? Dr. Monica Bertagnolli, @NIHDirector, discusses in an editorial in @ScienceMagazine a new initiative called CARE for Health™ that's meant to connect the lab, clinic, and community.
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"develop novel methods that improve use of adult stem cells in gene therapy" #NIHHighRisk
Congrats to @apannier2, the first #Husker to win an NIH Director's New Innovator Award! #NIHHighRisk @NIH_CommonFund
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Dr. Rodriguez explains about her #NIHHighRisk Early Independence Award research: “This research is about understanding the diverse experiences of parents and ensuring that every family has the resources they need to support their children’s health."
Assistant Professor Violeta J. Rodriguez has been awarded the (@NIH) Early Independence Award from the NIH Common Fund’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program. Rodriguez’s project is titled, Optimizing the Assessment of Parenting: A Multi-Method and Multi-Informant Approach
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The @NIHDirector’s awards for High-Risk, High-Reward research have been announced for 2018 #NIHHighRisk #NIH #NIHHIGHRISK
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New #FundingOpps from our #DSIAfrica program are here! They will support research education programs and partnership projects to expand the consortium & help spur health discoveries in Africa using #DataScience. Apply by 9/28/2022:
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Can #electromagnetic signals be harnessed to improve health? #NIHHighRisk New Innovator Awardee Dr. Calvin Carter of @uiowa will be researching this innovative idea and more.
Congrats to Calvin Carter, PhD, recipient of the prestigious @NIH Director's New Innovator Award. He plans to map the biological effects of electromagnetic fields and explore their potential for treating disease. #NIHHighRisk @UIowaNeuro @NIH_CommonFund
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#CommonFundHighlights2020: Our Acute to Chronic Pain Signatures (#A2CPS) program launched its new website! Head to to learn more about #PainResearch.
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