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Katherine Aird

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Associate Prof & science nerd at University of Pitt/Hillman Cancer Center. Fascinated by senescence, metabolism, epigenetics, ovarian cancer, and more! She/her.

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Thrilled to share a new lab preprint spearheaded by superstar postdoc @ApoorvaUboveja in collaboration with @mzspectrum! We discovered something totally unexpected – aKG is important for histone acetylation!
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If you are worried about the constitutional crisis, NIH/NSF funding, diversity issues, or anything else: CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES. For those in PA: Dave McCormick: 202 224 6324 (..) John Fetterman: 202 224 4254 (
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RT @dr_andrealove: Nearly every medicine we benefit from started with NIH-funded research. Early discovery work starts in academia. Immuno…
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RT @ocrahope: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a new policy for indirect cost reimbursement for research grants that could…
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RT @lydfinley: Things I wish more people knew about doing science in the US (thread):
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RT @TristanSnell: CFPB - closed USAID - closed Medicaid - under attack NIH cancer funding - frozen Department of Education - under attack…
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RT @StevenSalzberg1: 98% of NIH grants that should have gone out this month, didn't. Despite court orders 'unfreezing' the funds, they are…
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RT @baym: We live in an age of (NIH-funded) biomedical miracles Within your lifetime, prion disease was considered potentially impossible…
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RT @Caroline_Bartma: Want to get new cancer drugs in the next ten or twenty years? Impressed by the power of glp-1 obesity drugs? Fund the…
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@ArashKheradvar Cutting indirects is a cut to research funding
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@ArashKheradvar It absolutely is cutting funds
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RT @biorxiv_cancer: CDKN2ALow cancer cells outcompete macrophages for microenvironmental zinc to drive immunotherapy resistance https://t.c…
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If you want to know more about what the NIH does:
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RT @bitlerlabucd: University of Colorado Ovarian Cancer Innovations Group website is live!! Check it out! @CUGynO
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@AdamsBioAging Thanks Peter!
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RT @Aiims1742: Reflections on Advances in Cancer Research in 2024 Featuring @airdlab @aadel_chaudhuri @JennGuerr
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