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Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert

@drsakiyama.bsky.social
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Professor of @UWBioE, @UWMedicine Biomaterials for Nerve Injury, opinions are my own.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 20/06/2026
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Opinion | The Science That Turned Lizard Venom Into GLP-1s Is Under Attack
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Jason C. Marvin, Ph.D. (he/they) 🏳️‍🌈 @jasoncmarvin.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I'm looking forward to attending my first SFB Annual Meeting next week! Don't miss @aimbe-official.bsky.social's advocacy workshop on March 25. We still have complimentary registration codes available. Even if you've already registered for the meeting, you can apply one of these codes!
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🤘🏼 Christizo Mephizto ❌👑 @alchemicaluproar.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
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
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.
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UW Medicine @uwmedicine.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
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.
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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....
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University of Washington School of Medicine @uwsom-wwami.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
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
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Simpson Lab at UW @simpsonlabuw.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
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!
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Merkel Cell Carcinoma Collaborative (MC3) Institute @mc3-institute.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
🎉 Thrilled to announce the #NCI has renewed a $14.3M project grant — “Immunobiology & Immune Therapy for Merkel Cell Carcinoma” — led by Dr. Paul Nghiem! 🔗 tinyurl.com/y62adf2f Funding will support 60 scientists at: @fredhutch.bsky.social @uofwa.bsky.social @uofmichigan.bsky.social Uni of Virginia
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UW Medicine @uwmedicine.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Medical discovery has the power to improve lives — but research needs support to continue. #ResearchImprovesLives
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Research Improves Lives
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Madeleine Oudin @madeleineoudin.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
What? Some good news on a Friday? Parent Fellowship Notices of Funding Opportunities are up! F30, F31, F32, F33 grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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PA-25-422: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (Parent F31)
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (Parent F31) PA-25-422. NI...
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UW Medicine Newsroom @uwmnewsroom.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The potential exodus of scientists could impact domestic medical innovation for generations to come. @uwmedicine.bsky.social @drsakiyama.bsky.social
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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...
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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 21/05/2025
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/...
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Scientists design gene delivery systems for cells in the brain and spinal cord
NIH-funded breakthrough could enable targeted therapies for many neurological disorders.
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Evan Bush @evanbush.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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...
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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.
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Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert @drsakiyama.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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/...
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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.
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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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. cbsn.ws/4daiCrv
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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.
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Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert @drsakiyama.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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...
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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.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
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.
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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 ...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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.
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."
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Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert @drsakiyama.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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
Photo of four UW BioE faculty with the Capitol in the background
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John A. White, Ph.D. 🇨🇦 @johnawhitephd.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Jennifer West, the 2025 winner of the Pierre Galetti Award from AIMBE.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
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 a 🧵
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.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved
graph of NIH basisfor new drugs
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Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert @drsakiyama.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
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-...
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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 ...
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
This is heartbreaking and enraging.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
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) wapo.st/4hDlvkS
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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.
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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
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
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Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert @drsakiyama.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
‘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...
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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.
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Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert @drsakiyama.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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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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...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Bluetorial: My NIH grant got funded; The money is in the bank What happens behind the scenes with NIH fund transfers
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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 06/03/2025
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...
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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.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The no cost extension button is back and at least some are being granted. If this applies to you, go for it. PLEASE SHARE
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Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD @rburdine1.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Make sure you, your trainees, and anyone else who might listen to you understands what "indirects" actually are, how they are established, and what Universities contribute. H/T @rodallab.bsky.social Please share widely! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxTD...
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Facilities and Administrative (F&A) Costs Explainer
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American Institute for Medical & Biological Engineering (AIMBE) @aimbe-official.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
AIMBE has developed a new advocacy letter on the changes to NIH indirect cost rates: aimbe.org/advocate/wri... We urge the broader biomedical research community to customize this letter (<1 minute) to contact your congressional representatives about the severe consequences of this new policy 👇
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Write Your Lawmakers - AIMBE
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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Trials abandoned due to the stop-work order on USAID-funded research:
The Times identified more than 30 frozen studies that had volunteers already in the care of researchers, including trials of:

malaria treatment in children under age 5 in Mozambique

treatment for cholera in Bangladesh

a screen-and-treat method for cervical cancer in Malawi

tuberculosis treatment for children and teenagers in Peru and South Africa

nutritional support for children in Ethiopia

early-childhood-development interventions in Cambodia

ways to support pregnant and breastfeeding women to reduce malnutrition in Jordan

an mRNA vaccine technology for H.I.V. in South Africa
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UW Medicine Newsroom @uwmnewsroom.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Watch the moments when David Baker @uwmedicine.bsky.social, Demis Hassabis & John Jumper from GoogleDeepMind step up to receive their 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry from Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf during award ceremony Dec. 10 in Stockholm.
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UW Medicine Newsroom @uwmnewsroom.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
ICYMI This a.m. David Baker @uwmedicine.bsky.social gave his #NobelPrize Lecture on designing proteins to perform new functions. He forecasts applications in immunotherapies, harvesting sunlight, growing semiconductors, stopping cell damage tied to Alzheimer's & more.
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2024 Nobel Prize lectures in chemistry | David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper
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Erica D. Pratt @pratted.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
The 2024-2025 BME TT Faculty jobs list has 126 positions. #FacultySearch #BME #BMEJobsList Add a job: forms.gle/HPzAKkS1x44t... Jobs list: ericaprattlab.com/bme_jobs_list/
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Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert @drsakiyama.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Wonderful evening celebrating Nora Disis’s trailblazing work in cancer vaccines with the Wayne Kuni Award for Innovation in Cancer Research. Amazing to meet patients alive today thanks to her persistence. @uwcvi.bsky.social @uwmedicine.bsky.social
Photo of Nora Disis speaking after receiving the award.
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Peyton Lab @peytonlab.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Travel Award Announcement! @lolaumich.bsky.social and @kellystevens.bsky.social have won an NIH center grant, Humanity Unlocking Biomaterials (the HUB): www.humanityunlockingbiomaterials.org
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Prof. Brian Aguado @brianaguado.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Anyone else divorcing Twitter? @santicorreaphd.bsky.social started a Biomaterials Starter Pack to find folks in our community! Follow this growing list of #biomaterials and #tissueengineering researchers!! go.bsky.app/DymaVAp
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