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Abby Cheruiyot

@abbycheru.bsky.social
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Postdoc at Joslin Diabetes Center. Alum WashU, Colby College. Kenyan American. RNA and translation regulation, pancreatic islets, diabetes. MOSAIC NIDDK K99/R00 recipient 2024. #LeadingEdge Fellow #Keystone Fellow 👩‍🔬🧪

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Abby Cheruiyot @abbycheru.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Looking forward to connecting with RNA folks soon!
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Russell Vought is an evil man. This plan is nothing short of a personal take-over of federal grant making. It will affect ALL of us. Political commissars will now be in charge of all agencies, reporting to him. But we are not powerless. See what you can do below. 1/ www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Russell Vought’s Latest Plan to Gut the Government Should Terrify You
A proposed new rule changing the way the federal government hands out money could be absolutely devastating for every single person in this country.
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Lisa L. Ouellette @patentscholar.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I've submitted comments on OMB's proposal for political grant review: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... These draw on my forthcoming article: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... If you're interested in research funding, comment period is open until July 13! www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Screenshot of text that states: The proposed rule should not be finalized because it contains provisions inconsistent with program-specific federal statutes, raises serious First Amendment concerns, fails to demonstrate the reasoned decisionmaking required by the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), and would undermine the institutional design that has made federal science funding immensely valuable to the American public. These comments highlight three specific concerns: (1) proposed § 200.205 would require review of grants by political appointees for alignment with presidential policy priorities while providing that scientific peer review is merely advisory; (2) proposed §§ 200.205 and 200.300 would impose vague diversity-related restrictions that conflict with statutory inclusion mandates and invite viewpoint discrimination; and (3) proposed § 200.205(b)(3) would create an unexplained and ill-defined funding preference for institutions with lower indirect cost rates.
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Meike van der Heijden @meikeesther.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
So if you ever run into a nursing mom at a conference. Get her something nice: A coffee A water A glass of wine A cookie with lots of chocolate Tell her her hair looks nice and her outfit looks fire Thank you
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Abby Cheruiyot @abbycheru.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Interested in mRNA translation quality control in pancreatic beta cells? My lab is hiring for postbac position. More information here: cu.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Keystone Symposia @keystonesymposia.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Still buzzing from Keystone! 🎉 Our Islet Biology & Diabetes / Gut-Brain Axis meetings delivered top science + spring vibes ❄️☀️ Congrats to 14 @krfoundation.org scholars from around the world! #KSDiabetes26 #KSGutBrain26 @o-andersson-lab.bsky.social @linnemannlab.bsky.social @tunepers.bsky.social
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Alissa Armstrong @armstrongflylab.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Excited that Lena's undergraduate research efforts have been recognized by funding in the form of a Magellan Scholar Grant. We look forward to learning more about how RTK-mediated signaling allows fat tissue to communicate to ovarian tissue in #drosophila. 🪰🔬
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Abby Cheruiyot @abbycheru.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
I’m so excited to share that I’ve accepted an assistant professor position at the University of Colorado Anschutz, BMG department and Barbara Davis Diabetes center! I’m so grateful to many who have helped me get here, especially mentors at Joslin, @hmsbpa.bsky.social @leadingedgeprogram.bsky.social
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Abby Cheruiyot @abbycheru.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Our 5th annual HBPA symposium is coming up in 2 weeks! Friday December 12th at HMS We are now accepting abstracts for: -Poster presentation only Registration Link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Abstract Submission Link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Abby Cheruiyot @abbycheru.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Such a fitting honor for Zara! Her passion for science and Justice inspired us. Apply to join the 7th Cohort of LE, an amazing community of scientists that has given me tremendous support
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Chelsey Spriggs @drsprggs.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
It’s #BlackInMicro week! This year’s theme is HARMONY and we have a great program scheduled. You can find more info on our website: blackinmicrobiology.org. Register for free to check it out. Everyone is welcome! 🦠
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Abby Cheruiyot @abbycheru.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
We’re so excited for our 5th annual HBPA symposium, Friday December 12th at HMS We are now accepting abstracts for: -Oral Presentations -Poster Registration Link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Abstract Submission Link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Deadline for Abstract Submission: 10/31/25
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Abby Cheruiyot @abbycheru.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
I think this is on point! Universities must unite, and is time for Harvard to lead! www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Harvard Must Take a Stand Against Trump’s Compact | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard, rather than quietly pursuing its own appeasement strategy, should lead the way to preserve academic freedom and democracy.
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Abby Cheruiyot @abbycheru.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Really enjoyed this one too and learnt a lot!
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Samarth Hegde @samhegde.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
🔬Our paper from the @miriammerad.bsky.social lab is now online! This is a story shaped over years of cross-disciplinary endeavor at @sinaiimmuno.bsky.social and labs across the world. 🧵: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Myeloid progenitor dysregulation fuels immunosuppressive macrophages in tumours - Nature
An understanding of the molecular mechanisms promoting the generation of immunoregulatory and tumour-promoting monocytes and macrophages is key to breaking the cycle of tumour myelopoiesis and develop...
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Yasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
This looks like a great opportunity: #Tenure-track assistant #professor position at University of Lausanne on #MPMI career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...
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Career Opportunities: DBMV: Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in the field of Plant-organism (22484)
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MagnoliaBouton @magnoliabouton.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Listed are some of the many NIH research training programs that were terminated! Together, these programs supported thousands of trainees, whose careers are now in limbo. Such a great loss for discovery and innovation. We must protect our next generation of scientists! #HandsOffNIH #ProtectScience
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
I just sent this email to Director Bhattacharya and am sending him a hard copy by registered mail. 1/14
August 22, 2025

Dear Director Bhattacharya:

I write to you regarding your plans after the Supreme Court ruling yesterday. As you know, the Supreme Court did allow a stay on the required grant reinstatements based on a controversial jurisdictional issue but also found that the grant termination processes used were likely illegal.

I know you are deeply concerned about public trust in NIH. I hope that you understand that proceeding to fail to reinstate or to re-terminate grants that had been found to have been illegally terminated will not increase the public trust in NIH. This would also be substantially damaging to science.
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27 UNIHTED @27unihted.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
A joint statement with @savehealthresearch.bsky.social on the supreme courts decision today that will pave the way for hundreds of millions of dollars in NIH grant terminations. We are heartbroken and stand with the extramural community during this devastating time.
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Science and Freedom Alliance - SAFA @safa-science.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
The Supreme Court is reviewing a vitally important NIH case on its shadow docket. It is likely that the Court will back Trump, and say his (illegal) grant terminations are ok. We must speak up now. 1/
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Tell the Supreme Court: No Stay. Hands off NIH
The Supreme Court is poised to allow Trump to illegally terminate NIH grants. Let's speak out. There is not much time.
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American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology @asbmb.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Elizabeth Kaweesa was recently featured in ASBMB Today. Here's the link! ow.ly/k7EF50WykAJ
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From dust to discovery
From makeshift classrooms in Uganda to postdoctoral research in Chicago, MOSAIC scholar Elizabeth Kaweesa builds a legacy in women’s health.
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NIH Vigils @nihvigils.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Scientists stand together
3 female scientists with NIH, EPA, NASA written at the bottom
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Abby Cheruiyot @abbycheru.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
So joyful! Love to see it!
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Black In Neuro @blackinneuro.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
1/ 🎉 Black In Neuro is turning FIVE — and we’re celebrating with our first-ever in-person conference! 🧠✨ Join us for 3 days of connection, learning & celebration with the BIN community! 💥 📍 Sept 10–12 | Washington, D.C. Registration is LIVE so register today at the link below! tinyurl.com/BINW25
The image is an announcement graphic for Black In Neuro Conference 2025. The top and bottom features colourful geometric patterns. Below the geometric frame is bold orange text reads “BLACK IN NEURO CONFERENCE.” Event details follow: “Wednesday, Sept 10 - Friday, Sept 12, 2025, University of the District of Columbia.” An information box states "Register Now" with an arrow directed towards the registration link "HTTPS://TINYURL.COM/BINW25". Next to this is the Black In Neuro logo.The image is the conference schedule for Black In Neuro Conference 2025. The top and bottom features colorful geometric patterns. Below the top geometric patterns is bold orange text that reads "Conference Schedule" and below in italicized black text that reads "Celebrating 5 years of diversifying the neurosciences". Central to the image is the conference schedule: 10 Sept: #Black In Neuro Roll Call (breakfast); #Seminar Series (industry); #Neuro Across The Diaspora (symposium); #Exploring BIN (professional development workshop); #Picture a BIN Scientist (poster session); #Black In Neuro Family (social). 11 Sept: #Black In Neuro Roll Call (breakfast); #NeuroRacism (seminar); #Black In Neuro Futures (keynote); #Seminar Series (academic); #Black In Neuro Alt-Careers (symposium). 12 Sept: #BINterdisciplinary. An information box states "Register Now" with an arrow directed towards the registration link "HTTPS://TINYURL.COM/BINW25".
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Hypothesis Fund @hypothesisfund.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
🌠 Announcing our latest awardees! 🤩 These talented scientists are uncovering how viruses infect cells, decoding cell behavior, and exploring the hidden biology in the ocean: bit.ly/HFAwardees. Meet the awardees & hear about their bold projects from our #HFScouts 👇 /1
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 24/05/2025
David Liu @harvard.edu beautifully articulates the criticality of basic science funding for developing revolutionary therapeutics like life-saving base editors 👏 youtu.be/8YhJM6zxYDw?...
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Breakthrough Prize-Winning Biochemist on the Deadly Cost of Funding Cuts | Amanpour and Company
YouTube video by Amanpour and Company
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
🚨 Action alert: Two days left!! Help protect NSF/NIH from political interference. 👎 A new rule (Sched. F) would allow for replacing career program officers with political appointees. ➡️ Action: Object here by THIS FRIDAY. Comments can be brief and/or anonymous. Helps future litigation.
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Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing a rule to increase career employee accountability. Agency supervisors report great difficulty removing employees for poor performance or misconduc...
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Abby Cheruiyot @abbycheru.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
If I was hunting for a postdoc, I would definitely apply for this one! Dr. Gibbs truly cares about mentoring and pursuing really cool science. Apply! Apply!
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Melissa Wilson @sexchrlab.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
In December I accepted a position as a senior investigator at the NIH in the National Human Genome Research Institute & Center for Genomics and Data Science Research. Bringing the party in the desert to Maryland. We are hiring postdocs & postbacs! Please reach out :)
Smiling woman with brown hair, black jacket, green purse with a green baseball hat with a Gila monster on it, standing in front of a cherry tree covered in pink blossoms.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
New at Can We Still Govern: An anonymous NIH employee maps out the GOP budget gameplan to permanently gut our most important science agency. Impoundment, delay and red tape will create artificial "savings" that become the new benchmark for NIH budgets. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nih-bu...
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The NIH budget is on a fast track to disaster
An NIH insider explains what Republicans are likely to do next, and what we can do
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Christos Karampelias @ckarampelias.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Have a look on this upcoming meeting
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Jhullian J Alston @jjalston.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Announcing the Biophysics Week IDP Trainee Symposium on March 27 at 12pm CT hosted by @idpseminars.bsky.social & The BPS IDP Subgroup! Join via Zoom for talks by talented grad students & postdocs. Abstract submissions are open! See flyer for more details! #BiophysicsWeek @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
It's time to educate our neighbors about the importance of science funding. Local news papers still exist and are read by folks. Here is the op-ed I wrote for this week's "News of Orange", a local paper in Orange Co NC. Full text is on the alt-text 🧪
Science funding is key to the future of America and the health of our community

I am a Biology professor at UNC and this semester I am teaching a course called Cancer Biology to a group of juniors and seniors.  I began teaching this course 20 years ago and it’s been incredible to see and teach about the improvements in cancer treatment.  Between 1991 and 2019, the cancer death rate decreased 32%.  New treatments for breast cancer, colon cancer, and most recently melanoma have saved millions of lives—many of us know a cancer survivor.  Similar advances occurred in treating heart disease, with drugs like statins changing outcomes.  Even more exciting changes are starting to roll out:  these include the first gene therapy treatments for sickle cell disease and Type 1 diabetes.  It’s been exciting to be a small part of this—our lab helped define how signaling between cells goes wrong in colon cancer.
None of these new treatments arise in a vacuum.  All rest on decades of basic and translational research, and follow-up clinical trials, most of which is funded by our tax dollars via the National Institutes of Health (NIH).  North Carolina and especially the Triangle play an essential role in this, making science and technology key drivers of our state and regional economy.  In 2023 NIH awarded $2.28 billion (yes, with a b) in grants to NC institutions, and this helped us create more than 25,000 jobs.  Nationwide more than 400,000 jobs are supported by NIH grants, and this generates $92 billion in economic activity.  
The National Science Foundation, which funds scientific research more broadly, has a similar impact, fueling, for example advances in solar energy or helping us understand the impact of climate change on the NC coast.  NSF provided $220 million in grants to NC Institutions in 2023.  In total, UNC received $800 million in federal research funding in 2023, Duke $860 million and NC State $416 million.  This not only creates jobs directly but is also the reason …
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Valerie Horsley @valeriejhorsley.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Let's go @ascbiology.bsky.social #scientistsinaction #useyourvoice #leadership find your representatives www.govtrack.us Call daily!
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Chrystal Starbird @drstarbird.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Still waiting for publishers, institutions, companies, and individuals who care about science to stop making statements and start making a plan. You have the collective means to fund science that’s been attacked. Now is the time to use that rainy day fund to preserve the values you claim to share.
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Kara McKinley @karalmckinley.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I have a wonderful scientist in my lab who is looking to move to Europe. Is anyone looking for a staff scientist? She has a PhD. She is particularly in her element doing field work. Great skills with rodents and very open to non-rodent positions as well. Please send leads, please amplify!
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Abby Cheruiyot @abbycheru.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Apply! Apply! This group has been pure inspiration and practical support!
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Abby Cheruiyot @abbycheru.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I’m so honored to get a Spotlight from Keystone Symposia! I’m very grateful for this community of fellows and mentors.
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Brent Stockwell @brentstockwell.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The Dept. of Biological Sciences at Columbia is searching for an #AssistantProfessor in the area of #biochemistry — submit a one-page anonymized statement of research w/app. Apply here: : apply.interfolio.com/160181
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FMI science @fmiscience.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
📣 Please share: We’re hiring a tenure-track Group Leader in Multicellular Systems to explore the molecular and cellular mechanisms driving the formation, maintenance, or destabilization of tissues, organs and organisms. Apply at: www.fmi.ch/education-ca...
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Abby Cheruiyot @abbycheru.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
It’s happening! So excited to present my work and honored to introduce Dr. Engle from Boston Children’s Hospital to HBPA symposium, or special guest representing continuous partnership of BCH and HBPA to elevate excellence of historically underrepresented folks in science! Join us!
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zara weinberg @weinberz.witchlab.org · 10/12/2024
this seems pretty dope
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To spread its wealth, HHMI will exclude most top schools in special funding competition
Its flagship investigators program is heavily concentrated at handful of universities
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Krishna Mudumbi @krishnamudumbi.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
My lab is looking for a postdoc that is interested in working on EGFR mediated signaling kinetics using single-molecule microscopy approaches. Please pass this along to late stage grad students looking for a postdoc opportunity. Please repost for reach! www.vanderbilt.edu/postdoc/pros...
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Current Opportunities at Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt is committed to providing a meaningful, robust experience for postdocs. Below is a list of currently available postdoctoral opportunities. Postdocs interested in applying for a specific pos...
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Avery August @averyxaugust.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Click here to donate: buff.ly/3VaQxYZ
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Abby Cheruiyot @abbycheru.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
We’re so excited for our 4th annual symposium. Join us for exciting science, tasty Caribbean food, and great vibes 😁
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Abby Cheruiyot @abbycheru.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
@hmsbpa.bsky.social great to see HMS Black Postdoc Association here
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Kolade Adebowale Ph.D. @kolade-adebowale.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Excited to present our research to understand how monocytes move through complex mechanical environments at the "Mass General Brigham Engineering in Medicine Seminar Series" @ 4 p.m. EST tomorrow (Nov. 21). More details are in the attached flyer.
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Beronda L. Montgomery @berondam.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Delaying needed change & direct interventions w/faculty to conduct ANOTHER climate survey or share data on classroom/campus incivility & bias brings to mind Dr. @ruha9.bsky.social's "datafication of injustice"...in which the hunt for more & more data is a barrier to acting on what we already know."
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Katherine Aird @airdlab.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Hello to so many new followers! We recently received fundable scores on 2 R01s and are actively recruiting multiple postdocs. The broad theme of the lab is cancer cell metabolism, and I tailor projects to the postdoc’s scientific interests and career goals. See more: Airdlab.com
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Erik Herzog @erikherzog.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Know an undergraduate who wants to pursue a  neuroscience PhD? @WUSTL_ENDURE empowers participants in their path to graduate school and beyond. Includes $7000 per summer, travel, housing, two scientific meetings/year. Applications due by Feb. 3, 2025. endure.wustl.edu/apply/
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Apply | WUSTL ENDURE Program | Washington University in St. LouisWashington University in St. Louis
The summer research 2025 Online Application IS OPEN NOW! If you experience issues with getting to the summer programs applications, email us @ endure@wu...
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