Mehul D. Patel, PhD
@mehul919.bsky.social
Researcher, Area Code 919, https://mehuldpatel.web.unc.edu/
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Some personal news 🎉... updated faculty website: unc.live/3EjiFng
Not sure where to start with this one...serious bacterial infection in 1 year old (scary), no lights and sirens (good), better if driven myself (no), no health insurance (yep), health care sharing ministry (what?), No Surprises Act doesn't cover ground ambulances (ridiculous)
Not Serious Enough To Turn on the Siren, Toddler’s 39-Mile Ambulance Ride Still Cost Over $9,000 kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Not Serious Enough To Turn on the Siren, Toddler’s 39-Mile Ambulance Ride Still Cost Over $9,000 - KFF Health News
After her son contracted a serious bacterial infection, an Ohio mother took the toddler to a nearby ER, and staffers there sent him to a children’s hospital in an ambulance. With no insurance, the fam...
kffhealthnews.org
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Not sure where to start with this one...serious bacterial infection in 1 year old (scary), no lights and sirens (good), better if driven myself (no), no health insurance (yep), health care sharing ministry (what?), No Surprises Act doesn't cover ground ambulances (ridiculous)
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A mess: “The court’s order is not the last word, and the case will proceed in lower courts. The upshot of the scrambled ruling, subject to ongoing litigation, appears to be that grants already canceled will not be immediately reinstated but that recipients may be able to sue in a specialized court.”
Supreme Court Lets Trump Administration Cut N.I.H. Grants for Disfavored Research
www.nytimes.com
August 22, 2025 at 12:22 AM
A mess: “The court’s order is not the last word, and the case will proceed in lower courts. The upshot of the scrambled ruling, subject to ongoing litigation, appears to be that grants already canceled will not be immediately reinstated but that recipients may be able to sue in a specialized court.”
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Cancelling NIH grants harms all Americans, including those waiting for treatments for themselves or their loved ones. The AAMC is urging the Supreme Court to ensure grants are reinstated throughout the litigation that seeks to restore them. www.aamc.org/news/press-r...
August 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Cancelling NIH grants harms all Americans, including those waiting for treatments for themselves or their loved ones. The AAMC is urging the Supreme Court to ensure grants are reinstated throughout the litigation that seeks to restore them. www.aamc.org/news/press-r...
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Important new document available regarding SCOTUS and NIH grants.
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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.
scienceandfreedomalliance.substack.com
August 7, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Important new document available regarding SCOTUS and NIH grants.
scienceandfreedomalliance.substack.com/p/tell-the-s...
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scienceandfreedomalliance.substack.com/p/tell-the-s...
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Where's the COALITION?! Trump admin is pickin em off one by one. First, Columbia and Harvard and now Duke. I wouldn't fault Duke for giving in (like Columbia) because when you stand alone, what choice is there? Univ leaders thinking they can lay low and not get noticed need to rethink the strategy.
July 31, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Where's the COALITION?! Trump admin is pickin em off one by one. First, Columbia and Harvard and now Duke. I wouldn't fault Duke for giving in (like Columbia) because when you stand alone, what choice is there? Univ leaders thinking they can lay low and not get noticed need to rethink the strategy.
"We have identified savings of approximately $70 million (about 2% of our total operational budget)..."
Just the beginning here at #UNC...
www.unc.edu/posts/2025/0...
Just the beginning here at #UNC...
www.unc.edu/posts/2025/0...
Message from University leadership: Update on financial planning | UNC-Chapel Hill
In an email to campus, Chancellor Lee H. Roberts and other leaders shared steps taken by the University to identify operational savings of approximately $70 million.
www.unc.edu
July 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
"We have identified savings of approximately $70 million (about 2% of our total operational budget)..."
Just the beginning here at #UNC...
www.unc.edu/posts/2025/0...
Just the beginning here at #UNC...
www.unc.edu/posts/2025/0...
"...multi-year grants must be funded with funds from this year — fiscal year 2025 (FY25).
The new policy means that the number of grants that can be funded this year will drop dramatically."
The new policy means that the number of grants that can be funded this year will drop dramatically."
New, from an anonymous NIH insider: Trump is being pushed to spend more NIH money. The White House is ordering NIH to do multi-year budgets for awards. This budget trick means fewer awards, fewer labs funded, and lower paylines for researchers. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/alert-the-...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/alert-the-...
Alert: The Trump administration is quietly slashing new NIH grant awards, and it's not via the budget
NIH’s sudden move to multiyear grant funding is forcing shocking cuts in the number of grants funded. This is an effective budget cut. It's bad, folks.
donmoynihan.substack.com
July 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
"...multi-year grants must be funded with funds from this year — fiscal year 2025 (FY25).
The new policy means that the number of grants that can be funded this year will drop dramatically."
The new policy means that the number of grants that can be funded this year will drop dramatically."
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Hi folks! Want to reintroduce a thing I'm leading at @cos.io: the Registered Revisions (meta) Trial.
This project about new peer review policy and a WILD new way of doing actionable evidence generation via RCTs. A LOT of RCTs.
Now piloted and ready for the main stage, and looking for partners! 🧵👇
This project about new peer review policy and a WILD new way of doing actionable evidence generation via RCTs. A LOT of RCTs.
Now piloted and ready for the main stage, and looking for partners! 🧵👇
July 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Hi folks! Want to reintroduce a thing I'm leading at @cos.io: the Registered Revisions (meta) Trial.
This project about new peer review policy and a WILD new way of doing actionable evidence generation via RCTs. A LOT of RCTs.
Now piloted and ready for the main stage, and looking for partners! 🧵👇
This project about new peer review policy and a WILD new way of doing actionable evidence generation via RCTs. A LOT of RCTs.
Now piloted and ready for the main stage, and looking for partners! 🧵👇
📰 our research on improving access to acute #stroke care for #rural communities made possible by #NIH #funding and the fact that our target population is old white people
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Mehul Patel is saving time for rural stroke patients
NC TraCS Institute
tracs.unc.edu
July 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
📰 our research on improving access to acute #stroke care for #rural communities made possible by #NIH #funding and the fact that our target population is old white people
tracs.unc.edu/index.php/ne...
tracs.unc.edu/index.php/ne...
www.science.org/content/arti...
"...FAIR, under which universities would document exactly what they spend to support each project and include those costs in the overall budget submitted with each grant application."
As a PI, this sounds like a nightmare.
"...FAIR, under which universities would document exactly what they spend to support each project and include those costs in the overall budget submitted with each grant application."
As a PI, this sounds like a nightmare.
U.S. research community says new indirect cost model is still too complicated
Proposed changes to avert huge cuts in reimbursement get pushback at town hall
www.science.org
July 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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"...FAIR, under which universities would document exactly what they spend to support each project and include those costs in the overall budget submitted with each grant application."
As a PI, this sounds like a nightmare.
"...FAIR, under which universities would document exactly what they spend to support each project and include those costs in the overall budget submitted with each grant application."
As a PI, this sounds like a nightmare.
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Hey #ChapelHillNC #CarrboroNC - please help us identify and document disruptions in critical ped/bike #infrastructure due to tropical storm #Chantal!
We're working on an editable map, but in the meantime, please drop photos & locations in the thread.
#BikeSky #greenway
We're working on an editable map, but in the meantime, please drop photos & locations in the thread.
#BikeSky #greenway
July 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Hey #ChapelHillNC #CarrboroNC - please help us identify and document disruptions in critical ped/bike #infrastructure due to tropical storm #Chantal!
We're working on an editable map, but in the meantime, please drop photos & locations in the thread.
#BikeSky #greenway
We're working on an editable map, but in the meantime, please drop photos & locations in the thread.
#BikeSky #greenway
Tillis warned "that the Medicaid cuts alone could haunt the Republicans in the midterms."...EXCEPT MEDICAID CUTS DON'T KICK IN TIL 2027 AFTER THE MIDTERMS!!!
The Medicaid cuts are the most politically risky move the Republicans have taken with this legislation
The largest retraction of health insurance coverage in history, leading 16 million more uninsured
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
The largest retraction of health insurance coverage in history, leading 16 million more uninsured
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Analysis | Race to define Trump’s legislation to voters is next political test
Republicans spent months selling the bill to themselves. Now they have to talk to a wider audience with many voters saying they don’t know what’s in it.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 6, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Tillis warned "that the Medicaid cuts alone could haunt the Republicans in the midterms."...EXCEPT MEDICAID CUTS DON'T KICK IN TIL 2027 AFTER THE MIDTERMS!!!
🚨Rural Emergency Medical Services Perspectives on Improving Acute Stroke Care: A Qualitative Study www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/... (1/3)
Rural Emergency Medical Services Perspectives on Improving Acute Stroke Care: A Qualitative Study
For underserved rural communities with limited geographical access to comprehensive stroke centers, emergency medical services (EMS) play a crucial role in timely, high-quality acute stroke care. T...
www.tandfonline.com
April 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
🚨Rural Emergency Medical Services Perspectives on Improving Acute Stroke Care: A Qualitative Study www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/... (1/3)
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First NIH Funding Opportunities & Notices email since January 17th, and it reads:
"Funding Opportunities
(none)"
"Funding Opportunities
(none)"
April 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
😅😢😅😢😅😢😅😢
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Let's normalize refusing to review obviously bad papers. Just bounce it back to the editor who shouldn't have sent it to you in the first place.
statsepi.substack.com/p/the-review...
statsepi.substack.com/p/the-review...
April 4, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Let's normalize refusing to review obviously bad papers. Just bounce it back to the editor who shouldn't have sent it to you in the first place.
statsepi.substack.com/p/the-review...
statsepi.substack.com/p/the-review...
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Major update over the weekend to our spreadsheet tracking terminated NIH grants. 👇
Improvements include:
- more grant metadata, including Congressional reps and their phone numbers
- data from more sources to complement PI-submitted information
- better data integrity and reproducibility
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Improvements include:
- more grant metadata, including Congressional reps and their phone numbers
- data from more sources to complement PI-submitted information
- better data integrity and reproducibility
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Rescinded NIH Grants
docs.google.com
March 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Major update over the weekend to our spreadsheet tracking terminated NIH grants. 👇
Improvements include:
- more grant metadata, including Congressional reps and their phone numbers
- data from more sources to complement PI-submitted information
- better data integrity and reproducibility
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Improvements include:
- more grant metadata, including Congressional reps and their phone numbers
- data from more sources to complement PI-submitted information
- better data integrity and reproducibility
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The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up.
If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes.
Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.
If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes.
Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.
Cancelled NIH grant information submission form
Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NIH grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025.
Data from this form will be used to update the Rescinded NIH...
forms.gle
March 21, 2025 at 3:32 AM
The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up.
If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes.
Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.
If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes.
Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.
intrigued...would love to read it but don't have the money!
Congress created a unique plan to save rural hospitals — but few are using it
Congress created a unique plan to save rural hospitals — but few are using it
'A stopgap to the hospital closure crisis' has been used by only 38 facilities because of the strings attached.
buff.ly
March 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
intrigued...would love to read it but don't have the money!
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see, this plane got measles and was perfectly fine
March 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
see, this plane got measles and was perfectly fine
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Following the $400 million fund cut at Columbia and $800 million at Johns Hopkins, the U.S. Department of Education released a list of 58 additional universities which may face similar "punishment", from UC-Berkeley to Harvard to UNC-Raleigh. This is quite the list:
U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights Sends Letters to 60 Universities Under Investigation for Antisemitic Discrimination and Harassment
The Office for Civil Rights today sent letters to 60 institutions of higher education warning them of potential enforcement actions if they do not fulfill their obligations under Title VI of the Civil...
www.ed.gov
March 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Following the $400 million fund cut at Columbia and $800 million at Johns Hopkins, the U.S. Department of Education released a list of 58 additional universities which may face similar "punishment", from UC-Berkeley to Harvard to UNC-Raleigh. This is quite the list:
Important 🧵 ...even though the NoA is for the year, the NIH doesn't send the total awarded amount to the university.
Bluetorial: My NIH grant got funded; The money is in the bank
What happens behind the scenes with NIH fund transfers
What happens behind the scenes with NIH fund transfers
a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on
ALT: a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on
media.tenor.com
March 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Important 🧵 ...even though the NoA is for the year, the NIH doesn't send the total awarded amount to the university.
As a mostly NIH-funded researcher, I'm getting curious about DOD funding opportunities to support my work on improving survival following traumatic injury.
It's kinda freakin me out.
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It's kinda freakin me out.
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March 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
As a mostly NIH-funded researcher, I'm getting curious about DOD funding opportunities to support my work on improving survival following traumatic injury.
It's kinda freakin me out.
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It's kinda freakin me out.
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"[the plaintiffs are] also asking for triple damages to be awarded to themselves and anyone in the U.S. who has peer reviewed papers for the defendants’ journals since Sept. 12, 2020."
Show me the money! 🤑
Show me the money! 🤑
Researchers have sued six big academic publishers, arguing their practices are illegal and anticompetitive.
Scientists’ suit against top academic publishers lays bare deep frustration over unpaid peer review
Researchers have sued six big academic publishers, arguing their practices are illegal and anticompetitive.
buff.ly
March 10, 2025 at 10:17 PM
"[the plaintiffs are] also asking for triple damages to be awarded to themselves and anyone in the U.S. who has peer reviewed papers for the defendants’ journals since Sept. 12, 2020."
Show me the money! 🤑
Show me the money! 🤑
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This is why all NIH-funded scientists simultaneously trying to diversify their science funding portfolios is not a real solution.
March 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This is why all NIH-funded scientists simultaneously trying to diversify their science funding portfolios is not a real solution.
I find it strange that a major School is "excited to announce" four new associate deans in the midst of an existential threat to higher ed and the academic research enterprise. Read the room people.
March 4, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I find it strange that a major School is "excited to announce" four new associate deans in the midst of an existential threat to higher ed and the academic research enterprise. Read the room people.