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www.rogatskylab.org at Immunology Graduate Program @wcm-imp.bsky.social at the Hospital for Special Surgery and Weill Cornell Medicine #transcription #inflammation #NuclearReceptors #epigenetics #glucocorticoids

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Rogatsky Lab @rogatskylab.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
and here's more from the @wcm-imp.bsky.social year end party :) including @josephsunlab.bsky.social @theresalulab.bsky.social and all of us!
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Rogatsky Lab @rogatskylab.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Been a long time since we posted :) But end-of-year @wcm-imp.bsky.social BBQ is a great excuse to resume! here's some highlights that prominently feature Will Stein who is leaving us for Med School and the HSS labs - @theresalulab.bsky.social Ivashkiv lab, Niewold lab and us!
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Rogatsky Lab @rogatskylab.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
It's been a great & productive summer, we had fantastic #undergraduates :) but September is HERE and we are looking for new #POSTDOCS - effective immediately! please spread the word and if interested - let us know! We are into #transcription #inflammation #epigenomics #NuclearReceptors #macrophages
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
New hair-raising piece from CNN about the National Cancer Institute... www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/h...
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World’s premier cancer institute faces crippling cuts and chaos | CNN
The Trump administration’s broadsides against scientific research have caused unprecedented upheaval at the National Cancer Institute, the storied federal government research hub that has spearheaded ...
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American Society for Cell Biology @ascbiology.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Today, @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social staff sent a powerful letter to the NIH Director outlining serious concerns about the agency’s direction. Thousands have already signed in support—add your name. – Mary Munson, ASCB President www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
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Bethesda Declaration — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
Support NIH Staff Now!
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Rogatsky Lab @rogatskylab.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Honored to be a new Honorary Fellow of @aaas.org - #AAAS some pix from the ceremony in Washington!
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Rogatsky Lab @rogatskylab.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Congratulations to our very own Dr. Marija Dacic!!!
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Who's calling the shots at NIH? Sworn testimonies and internal e-mails reveal for the first time the breadth of DOGE's control over the world's largest public biomedical funder. DOGE has provided lists of hundreds of grants to cut, and DOGE is now reviewing ALL NIH awards before they're released
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NIH killed grants on orders from Elon Musk’s DOGE
Court documents and internal correspondence show the cost-cutting force has broad control over the world’s largest public biomedical funder.
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Rogatsky Lab @rogatskylab.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Our spectacular @wcm-imp.bsky.social 1st year Immunology grad students Kasra Askari, Andrew Lim, Isabelle Johnson and Riley Outen wrapped up their 3rd rotation :) Awesome talks!
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Rogatsky Lab @rogatskylab.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
We had our little moment today having received 3%-ile (!!) on our #NIH #NIDDK grant application. Let's hope there is actually some $$ because we sure need it! :-)
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Science Magazine @science.org · 24/04/2025
Exclusive: The director of the National Science Foundation announced his resignation today, 16 months before his 6-year term ends, in a letter to staff obtained by Science. scim.ag/42vc3fn
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Exclusive: ‘I have done all I can’: NSF director announces he is resigning
Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led the agency since 2020, leaves amid mass firings and grant terminations
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Rogatsky Lab @rogatskylab.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
REPRESENT at yesterday's massive #HANDSOFF march in #NYC
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Science Magazine @science.org · 03/04/2025
Ten principal investigators who were fired from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke as part of the massive reduction in force at federal agencies on Tuesday are back at work, at least for now, Science has learned.
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After ‘coding error’ triggers firings, top NIH scientists called back to work
Neuroscience institutes tells 10 scientists placed on leave it’s working on a “long-term” solution to officially reinstating them
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
This doesn't look good, folks www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving
More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.
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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Science is being actively destroyed, and it feels like no one cares. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Trump officials will screen NIH funding opportunities
Staff at biomedical agency worry about political interference in setting priorities
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Chrystal Starbird @drstarbird.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Just want to say again I’m grateful for the people doing their best to hold it down at the NIH despite the chaos and uncertainty. I see you 🙌🏾
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Rogatsky Lab @rogatskylab.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
It's quite an honor!! We should celebrate! #AAAS @hspecialsurgery.bsky.social
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Martin Enserink @martinenserink.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
A "chilling" new level of political interference: NIH's solicitations for grant proposals will from now on be reviewed to check if they align with Trump's priorities. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @sarareardon.bsky.social)
science.org
Trump officials will screen NIH funding opportunities
Staff at biomedical agency worry about political interference in setting priorities
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
This is what breaks my heart. These young people who are so eager and full of promise and who are the next generation of Nobel Prize winners, scientists inventors, teachers. #Trump and #Musk have destroyed it all. www.wired.com/story/the-ch...
wired.com
The Chaos of NIH Cuts Has Left Early-Career Scientists Scrambling
As graduate programs lose spots and labs face shutdowns following Trump administration cuts to science funding, the path to a science career for students and researchers just got a whole lot harder.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 21/03/2025
IMLS, the primary source of federal support for U.S. libraries and museums, is one of seven independent agencies that President Donald Trump wants to dismantle because he believes what they do is “unnecessary.” scim.ag/4iryNlY
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Trump order could wipe out federal support for U.S. science museums
Institute of Museum and Library Services now run by Department of Labor as part of proposed dismantling
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Eva Estébanez-Perpiñá, Ph.D. @estebanezlab.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 22/03/2025
Women are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease as men. A feature in Nature Medicine reports how the changes to the female brain during menopause, along with social and cultural factors, might affect disease risk. #medsky #alzsky 🧪
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Women twice as likely to develop Alzheimer's disease as men - but scientists do not know why - Nature Medicine
Changes to the female brain during menopause, together with social and cultural factors, might affect disease risk.
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Rogatsky Lab @rogatskylab.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Huge congratulations to Ketsia Seide, our #postbac fellow, who is heading to Graduate School at #SUNYBuffalo this summer! We will miss you but we are so proud of you!!!
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This isn't going to get the attention of Columbia, but it's at least as bad: the University of Maine is having its funding cut off because the governor of Maine dared to challenge Trump.
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Santosh Vardhana @santoshvardhana.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
This disinformation will literally kill children. So is the new HHS secretary too incompetent to limit preventable child deaths, or immoral enough not to care?
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Science Magazine @science.org · 10/03/2025
NIH is abruptly terminating at least 33 research grants for projects studying why some people are hesitant to receive vaccines or evaluating strategies that could encourage vaccine uptake. scim.ag/4how23i
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NIH to ax grants on vaccine hesitancy, mRNA vaccines
Move reflects vaccine skepticism of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
apnews.com/article/trum...
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Universities are facing big cuts to research funding. At Duke, it's a time for 'damage control'
Facing the potential loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding, Duke University is preparing for the worst.
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Rogatsky Lab @rogatskylab.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
#standupforscience represent!! @josephsunlab.bsky.social Morgan Huse @diehllab-mskcc.bsky.social @wcm-imp.bsky.social in #NYC
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Nature @nature.com · 07/03/2025
The mood was defiant at many of the rallies, where chants of “Scientists will not be silenced”, “Facts over fear” and “What do we want? Peer review! When do we want it? Now!” were heard. go.nature.com/3F8T6FX
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‘Scientists will not be silenced’: thousands protest Trump research cuts
Researchers at Stand Up for Science rallies voice defiance against the policies of US President Donald Trump’s administration.
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Rogatsky Lab @rogatskylab.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Big congratulations to our very own Dinesh Deochand of the @rogatskylab.bsky.social - the winner of the #postdoctoral Adele Boskey Prize for Innovative Research at the Hospital for Special Surgery #HSS Research Institute!
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org
standupforscience2025.org
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
March 7, 2025. Washington DC and nationwide. Because science is for everyone.
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Rogatsky Lab @rogatskylab.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Congrats to our 1st year @wcm-imp.bsky.social students Andrew Lim, Isabelle Johnson, Riley Outen, Kasra Askari and Bella Somoza (representing Huse, Cubillos-Ruiz, Lu @chrysothemisbrown.bsky.social and @diehllab-mskcc.bsky.social lab respectively) on the 2nd round of great rotation talks!
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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Are you a scientist whose work is being affected by changes in the Trump administration? Get in touch with @nature.com reporters @maxkozlov.bsky.social @dangaristo.bsky.social @heidiledford.bsky.social Jeff Tollefson & yours truly. Let us know what's on your mind & what we should be writing about.
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Are the Trump team’s actions affecting your research? How to contact Nature
Use this form to share information with Nature’s news team, or to make suggestions for future coverage.
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Endocrine Society @endocrinesociety.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
We are excited to announce the 2025 John D. Baxter Prize for Entrepreneurship winner is Donald Patrick McDonnell, PhD! Dr. McDonnell is being recognized for his research on the molecular basis of the nuclear receptor action. Learn more: bit.ly/42Q3oEC #endocrinology #ENDO205
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
BREAKING: Federal judge temporarily blocks NIH indirect costs rate cap issued Friday as applied to states that sued over the act this morning. Judge Angel Kelley, a Biden appointee, ordered further briefing as well, and set a hearing on Feb 21 in the case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF STATES’ EX PARTE
EMERGENCY MOTION FOR TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER
ANGEL KELLEY, D.J.
Plaintiff States’ Ex Parte Emergency Motion For Temporary Restraining Order [Dkt. 4]
is GRANTED. Defendants and their officers, employees, servants, agents, appointees, and
successors are hereby enjoined from taking any steps to implement, apply, or enforce the Rate
Change Notice (NOT-OD-25- 068) within Plaintiff States until further order is issued by this
Court. Counsel for Defendants shall file a status report with the Court within 24 hours of the
entry of this Order, and at biweekly intervals thereafter, confirming the regular disbursement and
obligation of federal financial assistance funds and reporting all steps that NIH, HHS and their
officers, employees, servants, agents, appointees, and successors have taken to comply with the
Court’s temporary restraining order.COMMONWEALTH OF
MASSACHUSETTS, ATTORNEY
GENERAL DANA NESSEL ON BEHALF
OF THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF
MICHIGAN, STATE OF ILLINOIS,
STATE OF ARIZONA, STATE OF
CALIFORNIA, STATE OF
CONNECTICUT, STATE OF
COLORADO, STATE OF DELAWARE,
STATE OF HAWAI’I, STATE OF
MAINE, STATE OF MARYLAND,
STATE OF MINNESOTA, STATE OF
NEW JERSEY, STATE OF NEW YORK,
STATE OF NEVADA, STATE OF NEW
MEXICO, STATE OF NORTH
CAROLINA, STATE OF OREGON,
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, STATE OF
VERMONT, STATE OF WASHINGTON,
and STATE OF WISCONSIN, plaintiffs.
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Daniel Gorelick @danielgorelick.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Trainees who applied for an NIH diversity fellowship whose applications were withdrawn/not being reviewed, there's a NYTimes reporter who wants to talk, especially interested in applicants with disabilities. DM me & I'll put you in touch, will keep all contact confidential. Please amplify
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Rogatsky Lab @rogatskylab.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
www.aplu.org/news-and-med...
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APLU Statement on Cuts to Reimbursement of NIH Facilities & Administrative Costs - APLU
Washington, DC – APLU President Mark Becker released the following statement on the National Institutes of Health’s announcement it will cut reimbursement of research facilities and administrative cos...
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Science Magazine @science.org · 08/02/2025
The National Institutes of Health plans to severely cut the percentage of its grant money that can be used for overhead costs rather than research.
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NIH slashes overhead payments for research, sparking outrage
Move to cut indirect cost rate to 15% could cost universities billions of dollars
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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 27/01/2025
Canceling all review panels at NSF and NIH. Trump is slamming the brakes on science and engineering research in the US.
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Santosh Vardhana @santoshvardhana.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Beautifully and terrifyingly summarized by @pauloffit.bsky.social. We are not sufficiently appreciating the dangers of RFK influencing health policy. Don’t Call Kennedy a Vaccine Skeptic. Call Him What He Is: A Cynic. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/o...
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Opinion | RFK Jr. Is a Vaccine Cynic, Not Skeptic.
My job is to ask tough questions of vaccine makers. That’s not what he is doing.
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Rogatsky Lab @rogatskylab.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
www.endocrine.org/awards/delbe...
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Delbert A. Fisher Research Scholar Award/Clark T. Sawin Memorial History of Endocrinology Lecturer
Each year, the Delbert A. Fisher Research Scholar Award provides a $2,000 honorarium to a scholar demonstrating exceptional work in the preservation of the history of endocrinology. The scholar also d...
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Eva Estébanez-Perpiñá, Ph.D. @estebanezlab.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
🎯 We present our lab's newest bioRxiv 🚀 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The multimerization pathway of the glucocorticoid receptor
The glucocorticoid receptor (GR) is a leading drug target due to its anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive roles. The functional oligomeric conformation of full-length GR (FL-GR), which is key for i...
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Rogatsky Lab @rogatskylab.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
@natrevrheumatol.bsky.social just did a write-up about our #CDK7 work! www.nature.com/articles/s41... published in Science Translational Medicine last month
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Blocking CDK7 attenuates inflammatory arthritis - Nature Reviews Rheumatology
In a new study, inhibition of CDK7 disrupted the RNA polymerase II transcription cycle, leading to anti-inflammatory effects and metabolic reprogramming in macrophages and attenuation of arthritis in ...
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Rogatsky Lab @rogatskylab.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Massive congratulations to Dinesh Deochand - a winner of Adele Boskey Prize of Innovative Research at #HSS for his work on "Homeostatic Macrophage Programming" published in Nature Communications in October! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Mechanisms of epigenomic and functional convergence between glucocorticoid- and IL4-driven macrophage programming - Nature Communications
IL4 and glucocorticoids elicit a homeostatic phenotype in macrophages. Here the authors show that these disparate stimuli yield converging epigenomic and transcriptomic changes, enacted by transcripti...
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Rogatsky Lab @rogatskylab.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Awesome rotation talks today from the 1st year students @wcm-imp.bsky.social Immunology & Microbial Pathogenesis Graduate Program!! congrats to Reily Outen, Catherine Somoza, Kasra Askari, Izzy Johnson and Andrew Lim representing Hannash, Niec, Iliev, Vardhana and Li labs, respectively!
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Immunology & Microbial Pathogenesis (IMP) Program @wcm-imp.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
For Throwback Thursday (is that allowed here?🤣) We're remembering our annual IMP Retreat!🧪 A perfect mix of science, community, and great vibes. 🔥💡. Can’t wait for next year! #TBT"
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The expansion of GLP-1 drug efficacy evidence in 2024, a concise review by Daniel Drucker, a pioneer of the field nature.com/articles/s41...
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Expanding applications of therapies based on GLP1 - Nature Reviews Endocrinology
The evidence base in support of the use of medicines based on glucagon-like peptide 1 beyond glucose control and weight loss was substantially bolstered in 2024, as clinical trial data report benefits...
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Rogatsky Lab @rogatskylab.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Massive congratulations to Dinesh Deochand - a winner of Adele Boskey Prize of Innovative Research at #HSS for his work on "Homeostatic Macrophage Programming" published in Nature Communications in October! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com
Mechanisms of epigenomic and functional convergence between glucocorticoid- and IL4-driven macrophage programming - Nature Communications
IL4 and glucocorticoids elicit a homeostatic phenotype in macrophages. Here the authors show that these disparate stimuli yield converging epigenomic and transcriptomic changes, enacted by transcripti...
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Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Come to be our colleague @pasteur.fr! center of Paris, great colleagues, outstanding facilities, permanent position, crème brûlée every Friday - what else could one want?
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Becca Riggins 🇻🇮 ⛵️🧪 @profriggins.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
ENDO (Endocrine Society) abstract submission for the 2025 Annual Meeting will open today!! This is my absolute favorite meeting for all things #nuclearreceptors and hormone-dependent cancers 🧪...and catching up with my @nrimpact.bsky.social peeps. Watch this site 👇 for updates
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Join Us at ENDO 2025
Join us in San Francisco, CA, July 12-15, 2025, for ENDO 2025 at the Moscone Convention Center. With over 7,000 attendees, nearly 2,500 abstracts and over 200 other sessions, ENDO is the leading globa...
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