Sallie Permar, MD, PhD
salliepermar.bsky.social
Sallie Permar, MD, PhD
@salliepermar.bsky.social
Chairwoman and Nancy C. Paduano Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatrician in Chief at NewYork Presbyterian Komansky Children's Hospital. Lab research goal: Develop vaccines to prevent neonatal viral infections such as #HIV and #CMV
This bottleneck in research funding threatens research that took decades to build, as well as the cures of tomorrow. Publicly-funded research is the highest economic yield there is, with 2.5X of economic gains for every $.

Call your Senator and Rep to ask them to protect federal research!
So what's happening with medical research in the US? This is the cumulative award count from the NIH for the year.

Doesn't look so good.

But it gets worse.
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March 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Reposted by Sallie Permar, MD, PhD
The addition of blinatumomab after induction chemotherapy in children with standard-risk disease of average or higher risk of relapse significantly improved disease-free survival. Full AALL1731 phase 3 trial results: nej.md/49CVkc1

#MedSky #PedSky #Hematology
March 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Thrilled to author this article with two renowned pediatrician scientists, vaccinologists and friends, Drs. Stanley Plotkin and Mark Schleiss, as we await results of the 1st phase 3 trial of a #CMV vaccine!

JCI - A vaccine against cytomegalovirus: how close are we? www.jci.org/articles/vie...
JCI - A vaccine against cytomegalovirus: how close are we?
www.jci.org
January 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM