Constance Bailey
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Constance Bailey
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#SynBio and #naturalproducts. Enzymology, heterologous expression, and bioengineering. Senior Lecturer in Chemical and Synthetic Biology
at the University of Sydney
.
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NIH is freezing funds for research abroad, threatening thousands of projects. 9/10
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NIH to suspend funds for research abroad as it overhauls policy
Move by US biomedical agency threatens thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more.
www.nature.com
May 1, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Reposted by Constance Bailey
Affected by the foreign subawards policy? Help run clinical trials abroad on a project with a subaward? I want to hear how this policy impacts you.

Send me a message on Signal at mkozlov .01 or email me at maxkozlov [at] protonmail [dot] com. You can stay anonymous.
May 2, 2025 at 2:38 AM
If anyone has concerns, the biosecurity bureaucracy of Australia should allay them!
April 23, 2025 at 7:11 AM
My biggest comment on paper I am reviewing today is going to be that their technical sales pitch jargon literally makes the paper hard to follow even though it's a pretty straightforward genetic circuit.
April 9, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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See this chart for one stark example: NIH funding has dramatically slowed down.

Grant awards are down *$3 billion* so far, compared to same time period last year

I asked the White House to explain.

“This is not a researcher entitlement program,” said an official, defending their new approach.
March 28, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Sounds like a grift
March 29, 2025 at 12:06 AM