KhouryMD
khourymd.bsky.social
KhouryMD
@khourymd.bsky.social
Clinical researcher, rare diseases, eosinophils, healthcare leader, program director, allergy-immunology and AI. Bringer of chocolates, roaster of coffee #MedGrind. Music, art, soccer and food. Value based care mostly for my people. Opining for myself only
Intriguing exploration of role #eosinophils and adipose tissue/angiogenesis by @katequinlan.bsky.social at

#IES2025 #Montpelier
July 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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💜 Our team is at the International Eosinophil Society #ies2025 Congress in Montpellier!

🗣️Proud to represent the patient voice It’s an incredible chance to learn the latest from top experts and connect with attendees from 26 countries.

#PatientVoice #EosinophilicDiseases
July 8, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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My piece for @thenation.com on the bravery of NIH employees who are standing up to those that would destroy the institution, including the NIH director himself. www.thenation.com/article/acti...
NIH Staff Have Broken Their Silence
Civil servants usually keep a low profile. These NIH employees are putting themselves at risk by calling out the Trump administration.
www.thenation.com
June 12, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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This tiny device can shrink dangerous blood clots. It’s called the ‘milli-spinner’ and its invention was partly an accident…
June 10, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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concerned about the state of the world because of two powerful men fighting? doomscrolling again?

stop. breathe. enjoy the universe for a brief moment
June 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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We are looking for post-docs interested in studying T cell responses to M. tuberculosis infection…especially basic T cell immunologists who are interested in learning to work with BSL3 pathogens. The NIH intramural program is an amazing place to train!
May 30, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Honestly it doesn’t really matter. We should be providing healthcare to those who need it most and implementing or translating the discoveries.

I don’t buy the notion that we’re fixing chronic disease because at every turn there are cuts that impact the environment and medical care
May 21, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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New at Can We Still Govern: An anonymous NIH employee maps out the GOP budget gameplan to permanently gut our most important science agency.
Impoundment, delay and red tape will create artificial "savings" that become the new benchmark for NIH budgets.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nih-bu...
The NIH budget is on a fast track to disaster
An NIH insider explains what Republicans are likely to do next, and what we can do
donmoynihan.substack.com
April 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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🙏 We need your help 🙏

The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like.

We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants:

NIH:
forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP...

NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

w/ @noamross.net
April 19, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
April 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
I gotta say @sarahkendzior.bsky.social is one of the best writers I’ve come across in recent times. The writing is both beautiful and crushing at the same time. Can’t wait to read this one.
"I don't remember when I started mourning the future more than the past."

-- THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP
April 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Now available for preorders! My book, "Keep Your Ear to the Ground: A History of Punk Fanzines in Washington, DC," comes out October 1 via @georgetownup.bsky.social. A 100k word history of the D.C. punk zine community with 130+ full color images.

press.georgetown.edu/Book/Keep-Yo...
April 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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My sincere thanks to Jeanne Marrazzo for her service as NIAID director. She delivered the Merigan lecture last year & then kindly met w/our trainees & faculty, listening openly to ideas & suggestions for how to make NIAID stronger. A brilliant yet humble physician-scientist. This is such a loss
April 2, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA
March 22, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Science is an ecosystem, it’s all interconnected. It’s only a matter of time before labs and groups across the country are forced to pull back/close, PhD programs aren’t accepting apps, college grads can’t do internships. We will lose the next generation of physicians and scientists.
This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
March 15, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I guess we’re aiming for blissful ignorance. Good luck to the kids.
The Trump administration is planning to cancel its lease at a government laboratory in Hawaii, a site where scientists support key observations of surging greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, according to a list obtained by Democratic members of Congress and shared with The Post.
Trump moves to close facility that helps track planet-warming pollution
The lab is connected to the Mauna Loa Observatory, where scientists gather data to produce the Keeling Curve, a chart on the daily status of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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“Trump administration has imposed a new restriction on employment that could push out thousands of NIH’s senior scientists: The agency cannot retain scientists in 1-year to 4-year positions that have long been routinely renewed.”

These are high-performing labs — absolutely senseless destruction
More tragic news about NIH and NIH science. Grant system is frozen and intramural program is being slashed. All will claw back on treatments and cures for cancer and other human diseases. This can’t be what the public wants. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research
Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs
www.science.org
February 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Deep thanks to our many collaborators and all research participants. #immunology #science 🧪 @science.org @sarahhross.bsky.social

NIH funding was the lifeblood of this work, as it is for almost all biomedical discoveries and therapies in the U.S. @niaidnews.bsky.social
February 21, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Firings at FDA over the weekend taking out A.I. staff
www.statnews.com/2025/02/16/f... Note the subtitle.
FDA cuts hit AI division, even as Trump invests in the technology
Layoffs at the FDA appear to have hit the AI and digital health staff particularly hard. It also has a strained relationship with Musk’s company Neuralink.
www.statnews.com
February 17, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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A shining example....there are 1,000s of these fundamental science discoveries that NIH supports to promote human health
This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.

Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”

globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
globalnews.ca
February 9, 2025 at 10:08 PM