Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert

Poster showing red-tinted Statue of LIberty with "National Day of Action" on March 7 from 12-3pm at Seattle Center's Mural Amphitheater to take back our Science, Health & Democracy. Sponsored by Stand Up For Science.

Hey #Seattle, come join the National Day of Action on March 7 from 12-3pm at #SeattleCenter and rally around Science, Health & Democracy with @standupforscience.bsky.social

Ohio State and Washington: Opponents on the field but teammates in science COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- This weekend, all eyes are on the football field as Ohio State takes on Washington in Seattle. But off the field, the two universities have been teammates for decades....

University of Washington vs. Ohio State: rivals on the field, partners under the microscope. 🏈 🔬

Meet the scientists who’ve spent 20+ years working together to solve some of the toughest problems in infectious disease.

This summer, 8 @gonzagauniversity.bsky.social undergrads joined @uwmedicine.bsky.social @uwsom-wwami.bsky.social labs through the UW–Gonzaga Summer Research Program, gaining hands-on biomedical research experience.

We are so very proud of their work + UW–GU partnership!

#WWAMI #BiomedicalResearch

Michael Martin gave a great talk on his project @uwdermatology.bsky.social testing new Rx for #HaileyHailey disease, a #genetic #skin #blistering disorder. Thx @drsakiyama.bsky.social & @amyserafino.bsky.social for fostering undergrad collab @uwmedicine.bsky.social & @gonzagauniversity.bsky.social!

🎉 Thrilled to announce the #NCI has renewed a $14.3M project grant — “Immunobiology & Immune Therapy for Merkel Cell Carcinoma” — led by Dr. Paul Nghiem!

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Funding will support 60 scientists at:
@fredhutch.bsky.social
@uofwa.bsky.social
@uofmichigan.bsky.social
Uni of Virginia

Research Improves Lives YouTube video by UW Medicine

Medical discovery has the power to improve lives — but research needs support to continue.

#ResearchImprovesLives

BME UNITE @bmeunite.bsky.social is launching Year 5 of our Future Faculty Program! BME Faculty candidates from marginalized groups on the job market - apply here by July 11th to present your work and receive mentorship to successfully navigate the academic job market: forms.gle/sVto2GRQauNA...

What? Some good news on a Friday?

Parent Fellowship Notices of Funding Opportunities are up!

F30, F31, F32, F33

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Washington scientists say ‘brain drain’ has begun as researchers consider moving abroad amid Trump cuts With the Trump administration gutting research funding, imperiling science-related jobs, and stalling the grant-approval process for clinical studies and research centers, many U.S. scientists are con...

The potential exodus of scientists could impact domestic medical innovation for generations to come. @uwmedicine.bsky.social @drsakiyama.bsky.social

Scientists design gene delivery systems for cells in the brain and spinal cord NIH-funded breakthrough could enable targeted therapies for many neurological disorders.

We've launched the Armamentarium, a new toolkit for targeted gene delivery to the brain and spinal cord.

This #OpenScience resource was made possible thanks to support from the NIH BRAIN Initiative and teamwork with our collaborators.

🧠📈 www.nih.gov/news-events/...

The best and brightest young scientists are looking beyond the U.S. as cuts hit home Top scientists are cutting staff at their labs. Postdocs are leaving the country. Here's how the Trump cuts are playing out at the University of Washington.

Top scientists are cutting staff. Postdocs are leaving the country. Promising students – can't find labs. How the Trump cuts to science are playing out. @uwnews.bsky.social
www.nbcnews.com/science/inno...

See Where Federal Dollars Flow to Universities Around the Country (Gift Article) The Trump administration has targeted a few elite universities with its threats to freeze funding. But many more schools around the country are vulnerable.

Federal research funding flows to all 50 states and is a critical part of the economy in many college towns around the US. Federal research funding "has now become one of the few drivers of innovation that is widely distributed across the country". www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

How cuts at the National Institutes of Health could impact Americans' health Cuts and layoffs to the National Institutes of Health threaten medical research around the U.S., agency insiders warn.

The National Institutes of Health, the largest funder of biomedical research in the world, has fired 1,300 employees and cancelled more than $2 billion in federal research grants. https://cbsn.ws/4daiCrv

Scientists fear Trump administration cuts to NIH could impact the health of Americans for generations Former National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins, who abruptly left his NIH research lab in February, fears aggressive downsizing could impact Americans' health.

This is a great 60 Minutes piece on the impact of NIH cuts on patients including those with Alzheimer’s. Great job by Kristin Weinstein from University of Washington highlighting the impacts on students (9:00). @uwmedicine.bsky.social www.cbsnews.com/news/scienti...

Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...

Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI.

“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.

The image is a screenshot of a tweet from Brandon Bradford (@BrandonLBradfor ). The tweet reads: "Deporting Americans without due process then saying they no longer get due process because they aren’t in America means no one has rights, FYI. Nightmare scenario."

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

Photo of four UW BioE faculty with the Capitol in the background

Visiting 9 WA legislative offices today with some awesome BioE colleagues to stand up for science! #AIMBE2025 @uwbioe.bsky.social @neuroamyo.bsky.social @lizwaynephd.bsky.social

Jennifer West, the 2025 winner of the Pierre Galetti Award from AIMBE.

US map via scienceimpacts.org visualization of economic loss due to IDC cuts to 15% as part of Feb 7, 2025 executive order, with shading denoting intensity of cuts.

Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs.

Find out how your community may be impacted.

Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org

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That is horrible! ESTEEMED program is such a wonderful training program for undergraduates and helps students see themselves as researchers early in their UG years. It is also highly competitive just to get an award, speaking as a reviewers for the program for many years.

graph of NIH basisfor new drugs

A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved

How far could Trump’s NIH funding cuts set medical innovation back? By decades, UW researchers warn The Trump administration has cut NIH funding levels and paused new and existing grants from the agency, which totalled $35 billion in 2023. That’s left critical studies of various illnesses and drugs ...

Many families including mine have been impacted by Alzheimer's disease. NIH funding delays and cuts could set research back by decades, including key funding for Alzheimers's disease research centers across the US. Almost half of these centers are up for renewal now! www.kuow.org/stories/how-...

This is heartbreaking and enraging.

Her research grant mentioned ‘hesitancy.’ Now her funding is gone. A medical researcher may have erroneously lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in grant money because she was swept up in Trump administration efforts to ban studies of vaccine hesitancy and uptake.

There really aren’t words for how moronic (but harmful) this is. And I am confident that this isn’t an isolated example…

(Gift link)

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The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB

Rachel I am so sorry. This is devastating for your lab and for all the cancer patients that could have benefited from the treatments that will now not be developed.

Bioscience Funding Confusion Threatens U.S. Innovation ‘With the current turmoil, China could surpass the U.S. in the near future,’ Nobel Prize winner David Baker warns.

‘With the current turmoil, China could surpass the U.S. in the near future,’ Nobel Prize winner David Baker warns
www.wsj.com/articles/bio...

NIH Cuts Hit Young Scientists the Hardest - TimmermanReport.com [Editor’s note: David Baker gave this speech to Seattle community leaders Mar. 10, at a celebration of his 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.] Let me just briefly tell you how innovation arises in biomedi...

David Baker captures the long term impacts of the current federal funding uncertainty very clearly. "NIH cuts hit young scientists the hardest." timmermanreport.com/2025/03/davi...

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Bluetorial: My NIH grant got funded; The money is in the bank

What happens behind the scenes with NIH fund transfers

Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology lands $10M to support ‘DNA Typewriter’ technology The Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology is receiving a $10 million grant to support the training of new scientists and the launch of biotech startups.

The Washington Research Foundation awards $10M to SeaBridge - a program at #SeaSynBio dedicated to DNA recording research, training scientists, and launching startups pursuing disease therapies.

🧪 Thanks to @geekwire.com for covering this great news! www.geekwire.com/2025/seattle...