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Tommy Martin
@dr-tommy-martin.bsky.social
Cardiovascular scientist, biotech entrepreneur
Huge night for Arkana Therapeutics! We won the Lab Venture Challenge at CU. Excited to continue expanding our therapeutic platform inspired by nature’s extreme biology 🐍
October 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Reposted by Tommy Martin
Do sarcomeres disassemble when a cardiac myocyte (heart muscle cell) enters mitosis as the literature suggests? Not completely. Here is a cardiac myocyte in metaphase. There are plenty of stacks of myosin II filaments (the core of each sarcomere) hanging about. #CellBiology
October 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Reposted by Tommy Martin
Out today in @nature.com, a new paper from @doudna-lab.bsky.social lab, co-first authors @erinedoherty.bsky.social + @benadler.bsky.social and collaborators at @ucsandiego.bsky.social unveils a powerful new defense strategy in the arms war between viruses + microbes. Read here: ow.ly/mPQI50X5g68
October 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Reposted by Tommy Martin
SDR-seq is a droplet-based single-cell DNA-RNA sequencing platform for studying gene expression profiles linked to both noncoding and coding variants.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
September 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Reposted by Tommy Martin
We’re looking for curious, innovative science leaders at EMBL Heidelberg! 🔬🧬🦠

Join a vibrant, interdisciplinary community where collaboration and innovation are nurtured at all levels.

Take a look at these four open positions 👇
August 7, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Proud to share new work led by the amazing #junedh_amrute identifying RUNX1 as a key regulator of human cardiac recovery. A druggable macrophage epigenetic program that governs organ recovery. Grateful my lab was part of this effort. #LavineLab @gladstoneinst.bsky.social @amgen.bsky.social
Targeting RUNX1 in Macrophages Facilitates Cardiac Recovery
Despite major advances in disease treatment, our understanding of how damaged organs recover remains limited. The molecular mechanisms that govern organ plasticity and drive recovery from pathological...
www.biorxiv.org
July 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Researchers’ chances of winning a grant from the National Institutes of Health have dropped under a new policy. scim.ag/4f7uew2
Odds of winning NIH grants plummet as new funding policy and spending delays bite
Funding multiyear grants up front will sharply cut number of investigators receiving awards
scim.ag
July 28, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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A call to stand up and show support for the Bethesda Declaration, the NIH, and for federally funded science in general.
The Bethesda Declaration
www.science.org
June 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Titin evolution, titin force and muscle contraction instruct sarcomere dimensions in insect muscles to allow high frequency flight, larval crawling and max force to cut leafs. @ibdm.bsky.social @mpi-nat.bsky.social @jfrupprecht.bsky.social @vincent-loreau.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
May 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Reposted by Tommy Martin
We have updated our database of funding opportunities for Early-Career Researchers (private foundations, federal, international)

We have 456 entries, for which we provide $ amount, deadline, eligibility criteria, etc.

Download this massive database here for free: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
May 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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"Science is an investment.

We will put forward a new 500 million package for 2025-2027 to support the best and the brightest researchers and scientists from Europe and around the world."

— President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu at the ‘Choose Europe for Science' event at La Sorbonne 🇫🇷
May 5, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Reposted by Tommy Martin
Sen. Ossoff: Who out there in the American public is sitting at home demanding that we shut down cancer research and Alzheimer's research?
April 30, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Reposted by Tommy Martin
Here's a database from UCLA on Non-NIH funding opportunities ranging from grad students to faculty from a wide range of biological and medical disciplines: biofund.healthsciences.ucla.edu/crt-funding/...
BioFund - a Non-NIH Funding Database | crt-funding
biofund.healthsciences.ucla.edu
April 29, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Reposted by Tommy Martin
Researchers have revealed a secret behind horses' exceptional endurance—a mutation in the KEAP1 gene that boosts energy production while protecting against cellular oxidative stress.

Learn more in Science: scim.ag/3Ydm4uU
Running a genetic stop sign accelerates oxygen metabolism and energy production in horses
Horses are among nature’s greatest athletes, yet the ancestral molecular adaptations fueling their energy demands are poorly understood. Within a clinically important pathway regulating redox and meta...
scim.ag
April 2, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Novel
What is the most overused word in your industry?

Let it out.
April 1, 2025 at 12:20 PM