Denis Wirtz
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VP for Research @JohnsHopkins, T.H. Smoot Professor @HopkinsEngineer & @HopkinsMedicine, Co-founder @INBT_JHU, Lab: https://t.co/9OtmgB6InU Tweets are my own.
Baltimore, MD
Joined March 2009
More than ever, researchers need to explain how they use taxpayer money to provide tangible benefits. My lab has developed a completely novel way to make cellular therapies a lot more effective. Our approach shows promising results in pancreatic, ovarian and lung cancer.
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Our databases for PhD/postdocs/early-career faculty featured in @nature. “We had a choice to reserve the information or make it available to everyone,” the dude says. “I reminded myself that the university’s mission is knowledge for the world.”.
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Interesting. Number of highly cited scientists/engineers by country among top 100K most cited in the world and those numbers normalized by size of country. (Source:
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We updated our database and now list 385 postdoc fellowship opportunities (w/ description, deadline, amount, eligibility, etc). Getting one means a lot more freedom to do the work you want to do.
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JUST UPDATED: our massive database of POSTDOC fellowships is available for download. We list 383 different fellowships with description of the award, eligibility criteria, deadline and amount. A fellowship gives you more freedom. Download for free here:
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The Senate just voted 68-32 for: . 1. Doubling of the NSF budget over 5 years. 2. 40% increase in funding for NSF’s core basic and fundamental research activities, from $8.5B $12 billion . 3. $29B over five years for a new NSF Directorate for Technology and Innovation
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UPDATED: our massive database of PhD fellowships is available for download. We list 195 different fellowships with description of the award, eligibility criteria, deadline and amount. Download for free here:
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Looking for a postdoctoral fellowship? .We list 390 different types of fellowships in our new updated list. Download our list here:
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Early-career faculty: do yourself a favor and download our huge (updated) database of funding opportunities with have your name on it. We list 572 (!) funding opportunities, along with description, deadline, amount, eligibility, etc. Download here:
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Here is our largest database of PhD fellowships yet: we found 195 fellowships and funding opportunities. For each fellowship, this searchable database lists description, deadline, amount, and eligibility criteria. Download it here:
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Download our free database of POSTDOC fellowships. 373 different types of postdoc fellowships. For each entry, we provide description, deadline, $ amount, and eligibility. Download here:
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My team has just updated our already large database of PhD/Graduate fellowships and graduate student research funding opportunities. We found 200. For each fellowship, we provide link, description, deadline, eligibility, etc. Download here:
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NIH funding by institution for FY 2023 . 1 Johns Hopkins U $518M.2 UCSF $451M.3 U Michigan $436M.4 Penn $434M.5 UCLA $424M.6 Stanford $407M.7 Mass General $406M.8 Wash U. $404M.9 Yale $390M.10 Pitt $382M.11 Columbia $362M.12 Duke $360M
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A well-written scientific paper does not build up suspense, it blasts the main results in at least 7 ways, starting with the title. The main results are also stated in the abstract, the introduction, the results section, the discussion, the conclusions, and of course the figures.
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Our database of PhD/graduate fellowships has been updated. We list 200 different types of fellowships with description, eligibility, amount, duration, deadline. Download here:
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We just updated our large searchable database of funding opportunities for graduate (PhD) students. We have identified 196 types of PhD fellowships, many open to international students. Download here:
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If you are an early-career faculty, check out our updated database of funding opportunities specifically focused on you. We found 567 funding opportunities! (w/ description, deadline, amount, eligibility). Here:
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Just updated! Our massive database of postdoc fellowships. In a table comprising deadline, field, $ amount, eligibility criteria, we list 364 different fellowships. Fellowships in STEM fields, medicine, humanities, and social sciences. Download here:
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We just updated our large database of PhD fellowships. For each of the 190 entries, we provide description of the fellowship, link, amount, deadline, and eligibility criteria (e.g. citizenship). Downlonad this database here:
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Providing COVID-19 data to the world, @JohnsHopkins Prof. Lauren Gardner is the creative powerhouse behind the COVID CSSE dashboard. It has been used by natl/interntl governments and no-gov. organizations, to set policy and goals. That's impact most academics can only dream of
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Download our free database of funding opportunities for EARLY-CAREER RESEARCHERS/FACULTY. We list 546 (!) funding opportunities. For each entry, we provide including description (with a link), $ amount, eligibility, and deadline. Download here:
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Our gift to the entire research community: a downloadable database of 314 different types of postdoc fellowships. This file contains detailed info for postdoc fellowships across the natural sciences, engineering, humanities, & social sciences
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Just updated: Download our massive database of postdoctoral fellowships (316!). For each fellowship, we provide a description, link, $ amount, eligibility criteria, and deadline. download this database here:
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Cumulative incidence of COVID-19 illness as a function of days after one dose of the Pfizer vaccine vs. placebo. 37,586 participants. Remarkable.
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Look at this!. Here is our updated massive database of postdoc fellowships. Provides description, amount, deadline, eligibility. 386 fellowships. Gives you a lot more freedom to pick where you want to go. Download it here: #postdoc #Fellowship
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Johns Hopkins files federal lawsuit in support of international students.
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Remarkable:. More than 155 vaccines against the coronavirus are currently under development and 22 vaccines are in human trials. Four vaccines are in Phase III, including AstraZeneca/@UniofOxford (Sweden/UK), Sinopharm (China), Sinovac Biotech (China), Murdoch Institute (Aus.)
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Just updated and expanded: our massive database of postdoctoral fellowships. These are all fellowships NOT attached to any specific university. We include description, $ amount, deadline, field, and eligibility criteria. Download it here:
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Europe bans American travelers, starting July 1. I can't say I am surprised given the inability of many US states to control COVID-19. The metrics is the average number of new infections — over the past 14 days/100k people, which is currently 16 for the EU and 107 for the US.
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We just updated our large database of 387 postdoctoral fellowships, listing description of the fellowship, $ amount, deadline, and eligibility. Download the database here:
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Michael Bloomberg gives $1.8 billion to Johns Hopkins University to allow low- and middle-income students to be admitted loan-free. Bloomberg's combined philanthropy to Hopkins is $3.35 billion. This constitutes the largest philanthropic investment ever made to US university.
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Percentage of undergraduate students who are legacy (US private universities). Harvard 36%.Duke 23%.U. Penn 22%.Stanford 16%.Cornell 15% .Princeton 14%.Yale 12%.Columbia 12%. Johns Hopkins U. is just 3.5% and legacy plays no role in admission
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Interestingly, ALL early papers on HIF and its role on O2 sensing by @NobelPrize Semenza and colleagues were published in non-glamour society journals, including JBC and Molecular and Cellular Biology.
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You are a postdoctoral fellow OR you mentor or advise a postdoctoral fellow?. Check this comprehensive list of 346 funding opportunities for postdocs (eligibility, deadline, amount, source, etc):.
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Johns Hopkins University requires vaccination AND masking at all times indoors for all. Any university policy that does not require both is dangerous to students, faculty and staff.
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Just updated: our massive database of funding opportunities for EARLY-CAREER RESEARCHERS/FACULTY. We have identified 496 opportunities. For each, we provide description, deadline, $ amount, and eligibility criteria. Download this database here:
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Subject line for an email from one of my PhD students. 😀. "Prepare to have your brains blown. Fig. 1 has landed.".
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NIH funding for FY2022: Ranking of universities/institutions. 1 Johns Hopkins U. $840M.2 UCSF $824M.3 Pitt $675M.4 Duke $673M.5 Penn $668M.6 Stanford $652M.7 U Michigan $644M.8 Leidos Biomed. Res. $625M.9 Wash U $621M.10 Columbia U $617M . (Source: NIH RePORT)
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New paper where we integrate 3D histology (CODA) with IHC and imaging mass cytometry (IMC) to produce 3D single-cell immune maps in the vicinity of pancreatic precursor lesions (PanINs). Read about CODA+IHC/IMC = 3D immune maps here:
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They get it done!. Clinical microbiologists Professors Heba Mostafa and Karen C. Carroll of the Johns Hopkins Dept of Pathology have developed a rapid test for COVID-19 that will soon be able to assess 1000 patients a day.
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My team has created a new database: .Postdoc opportunities entirely dedicated to cancer research (oncology, cancer cell biology, etc). We list 59 postdoc fellowships w/ eligibility, deadline description of the fellowship, amount. Here (scroll down):
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UPDATED: our database of POSTDOC funding opportunities and fellowships. For each of the 316 fellowship opportunities, we provide link to funder, deadline $ amount, and eligibility criteria. Download this database here: .
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We updated and expanded our expansive database of graduate fellowships. We have found 198 different types of PhD fellowships, listing the focus, eligibility criteria, amount, and deadline. Here:
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How to go from H&E slides to full 3D reconstruction of a tumor or normal tissue at single-cell resolution?. Here is the case of pancreatic tissue containing precursor lesions. More here:
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Rare geodesic architecture of actin (green) on top of the nucleus (blue). Mouse embryonic fibroblast
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That was quick. Trump administration rescinds foreign students rule
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Heaven on earth?. @JohnsHopkins Prof. Richard Macksey's home library in Guilford, Baltimore.
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Updated and expanded!.Download our curated list of 375 postdoctoral fellowships: The database lists the dollar amount, eligibility criteria (such as citizenship), deadline, and description for each fellowship. Good luck.
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We just updated our extensive list of funding opportunities for early-career faculty. We now list 553 funding opportunities, w/ topic, eligibility, deadline, amount, and link for each. Download the searchable list here:
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We have produced two large databases of POSTDOCTORAL fellowships for research in .(1) Cancer.(2) Neuroscience. We provide description, $ amount, deadlines, eligibility criteria (e.g. citizenship). Download them here:
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Starting the new year with an updated version of our database of funding opportunities for EARLY-CAREER RESEARCHERS/FACULTY. For each of the 496 entries, we provide description, link, deadline, amount, eligibility criteria. Download for free here:
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We just updated our list of PhD fellowships. There is a myriad of fellowships, beyond the better known NSF-GRFP and NIH fellowships. Our list of 194 fellowships provides description, $ amount, deadline, and eligibility criteria. Download it here:
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@Francesco_Bia Two neighboring houses are projecting the blue and gold on the facade of the embassy.
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Massive database of PhD fellowships you should apply to. Having a fellowship provides you with more freedom to pick your lab and topic of research for your PhD. Here we list 197 different types of PhD fellowships:
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Starting as a faculty at a university or research institute and looking for funding?. Download this updated and vastly expanded database of 563 (!) funding opportunities for early-career researchers: Description, amount, eligibility criteria, deadline.
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Email from @JohnsHopkins President Ron Daniels sent to the JHU community, announcing the historic gift of $1.8 billion by Michael Bloomberg.
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Trump expected to suspend H-1B visas until end of year to prevent international students/postdocs from coming to the US. Academic research in the US used to be the envy of the world in no small part because it opened its doors to international scholars.
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This order is an unmitigated disaster for US academia and for the country. It will have a chilling effect on the ability of the US to attract the world's best scientists and engineers even if lifted by a new administration because of the uncertainty it creates.
Today Trump's executive order would:.1. Blanket ban of all H1B visas (new visas, not visa holders currently in the US). Still waiting on guidance for re-entry. 2. Ban all new J visas for those who are interns, etc. but should not affect universities. 1/2.
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Great news!. We have received a @theNCI U54 center grant to launch a Cellular Cancer Biology Imaging Research (CCBIR) at @JohnsHopkins and housed in @INBT_JHU. We will develop CODA, a method to image in three dimensions large volumes of tumors at single-cell resolution.
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Bloomberg Philanthropies gives $1B to Johns Hopkins University. This gift makes the School of Medicine tuition-free for students from families earning under $300,000, and students from families earning up to $175,000 will receive a full ride, including living expenses.
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Rather stunning, but here we are: we have identified 552 funding opportunities that are specially targeted to early-career faculty. We list subject, deadline, amount, link for each opportunity. Download here:
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With this lawsuit in place, we invite all US universities and colleges to join us and file amicus briefs. All schools along with their international students would suffer incalculable damage from this terrible rule.
Johns Hopkins files federal lawsuit in support of international students.
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I just learned I have been elected to the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium. Apparently it’s a first for a non-MD and an engineer. I feel much humbled by this honor and recognize the immense contributions of my students, fellows and colleagues @JohnsHopkins and elsewhere.
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Get a PhD fellowship! . Why? It gives you more freedom to choose your research group and topic of thesis. How? Start by downloading our extensive list of 197 PhD fellowships and research opportunities:
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We have just updated our database of (496!) funding opportunities for early-career researchers/faculty. For each entry, we provide link, $ amount, deadline, eligibility criteria. Download this database for free here:
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We @JohnsHopkins are prepared to take action if this order comes to pass.
Trump expected to suspend H-1B visas until end of year to prevent international students/postdocs from coming to the US. Academic research in the US used to be the envy of the world in no small part because it opened its doors to international scholars.
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Johns Hopkins University launches a new school: .The School of Government and Policy. - The school will hire 35 full-time faculty. - will serve 200-250 graduate students.- will offer coursework for undergraduate students.- housed at 555 Penn Ave., two blocks from the Capitol
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Just updated!. We updated our massive database of funding opportunities for POSTDOC fellowships. Each entry (316!), we provide the $ amount, deadline, eligibility criteria, description, and link to funder. Download this database freely here:
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Price of COVID vaccines?. Oxford/AstraZeneca: €1.78.Johnson & Johnson, $8.50.Sanofi/GSK: €7.56.BioNTech/Pfizer: €12.CureVac: €10.Moderna: $18. Accidentally revealed by Belgian secretary of state .
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We just UPDATED our massive database of funding opportunities for EARLY-CAREER RESEARCHERS. For each of the 496 funding opportunities, we provide information, link, eligibility criteria, $ amount, and deadline.
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IMF Report on the significant economic return of investment in basic research. "We find that basic scientific research affects more sectors, in more countries and for a longer time than applied research (commercially oriented R&D by firms)". See it here:
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I have never seen so many negative results published in so many prestigious journals.
Another day, another report on hydoxychloroquine absence of efficacy. New @NEJM trial published today.
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Just updated: our expansive database of POSTDOC fellowships. We list 316 types of fellowships, including description, amount, eligibility criteria, and deadline . Download it here:
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JUST OUT: Institutions reporting the largest R&D expenditures in FY 2021.1 Johns Hopkins $3.2B.2 UCSF $1.7B.3 U. Michigan $1.64B.4 Penn $1.63B.5 U. Washington $1.5B.6 UCLA $1.45B.7 UCSD $1.42B.8 U Wisconsin $1.38B.9 Stanford $1.27B.10 Harvard $1.25B.More: .
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UPDATED: our massive database of funding opportunities for EARLY-CAREER RESEARCHERS . For each of the 496 (!!) listed opportunity, we provide description, link to funder, $ amount, deadline, and eligibility criteria (e.g. citizenship). Dowload here:
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Our ever larger database of PhD fellowships and funding opportunities for graduate research has been updated. We now show 193 fellowships. Freely accessible. Description+amount+eligibility+link+deadline. Download it here:
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Database of 316 funding opportunities/fellowships for POSTDOC fellows. For each entry, we provide description, link to funder, deadline, $ amount, discipline/field, and eligibility criteria (e.g. citizenship). Download it here:
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These 12 states have reached or surpassed 70 percent of adults: . California, Maryland, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Maine, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Hawaii, and Vermont. (Source:
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We may have outdone ourselves: we found 389 different postdoctoral fellowships. We provide description, deadline, amount, eligibility criteria for each fellowship. Fellowships give you more freedom to pick your lab. Download here:
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If you don't get it, you don't get it. Download our (updated) massive database of POSTDOC fellowships. We list 373 fellowships w/ description, $ amount, deadline, and eligibility criteria (e.g. citizenship). HERE:
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Updated, searchable, downloadable list of 303 funding opportunities for postdocs. In this list, you'll see a short description of the award, a link to the website, the deadlines, the amount, and eligibility criteria.
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If you are an early-career faculty, here is a rather exhaustive list of funding opportunities. My office has found 473 sources of funding. Updated every 2-3 months.
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Updated: our massive database of PhD fellowships. We have identified 190 fellowships. For each, we provide description, deadline, $ amount, link to funder, and eligibility criteria. Download the database here:
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UPDATED: We have identified 492 funding opportunities for early-career researchers/faculty. Download for free the database here: For each entry, we provide description, deadline, $ amount, eligibility, link to funder.
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If you applied for but did not an NSF GRFP felloship, recycle your fellowship application!. Here is a myriad of PhD fellowships you should consider apply to. Free, searchable, downloadable database of PhD fellowships:
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We need to staple a green card to every PhD diploma earned by an international student. Trump's executive orders have hurt the reputation of the US for its openness to international scholars. We need to more than repair this calamity and canceling these orders won't suffice.
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Find below a massive (just updated) database of postdoc fellowship and funding opportunities. This database lists amount, eligibility, deadline, etc. We found 393 types of fellowships. Download here: #postdoc #AcademicTwitter
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.@JohnsHopkins has launched a nationwide study to determine how many people have had “ Long COVID” or post-acute symptoms from COVID-19 infection, so-called “long haulers”. NEEDED: As many people as possible with COVID-19. ENROLL HERE:
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Which US university does not take legacy status into account. It’s a very short list. Here are some:. 1. MIT.2. Caltech.3. U.C. Berkeley .4. Johns Hopkins U. 5. U. Washington .6. Cooper Union. Any other university? . (Vast majority of public universities are not on that list)
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Largest recipients of NIH funding for FY2023. 1 Johns Hopkins U $843M.2 UCSF $789M.3 Penn $703M.4 Duke $702M.5 U Michigan $698M.6 Mass Gen Hospital $675M.7 Pitt $658M.8 Wash U $633M.9 Columbia U $633M.10 Stanford $629M. Universities only; Source: NIH RePORT
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Download our curated list of postdoctoral fellowships here:. Once a month, we post an updated list; this month we list 385 types of fellowships across many fields of study.
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5-year survival by type of cancer vs. volume of research as measured by number of entries in PubMed.
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Got a bad score on an NIH RO1 application we had worked really hard on. Disappointed for a moment, then I look outside my office @JohnsHopkins and remember I still have the best job.
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3D pathology. Using serially cut H&E sections and AI-based automatic annotations of cells and non-cell components, we can map the architecture/compositions of large volumes of human tissues/tumors at single-cell resolutions.More here:
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You're starting a faculty position or contemplating one? Here is a rather staggering list of funding opportunities:. We found 479 funding opportunities for early-career faculty!
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UPDATED!.We have updated our large database of POSTDOC fellowships. 373 types of fellowships in all fields. Each entry provides a description, link, $ amount, deadline, eligibility criteria. Download this database here:
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Our self-propelled CAR T cells expressing synthetic “velocity” receptors infiltrate pancreatic tumors like its butter (bottom). Control CAR T cells can’t (top). Game over. Works in any solid tumor; can transform any CAR T of your choice into a Ferrari.
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