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July 16, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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ATS can be overwhelming so our @atsearlycareer.bsky.social group has made a roadmap to help you find all AII-related content! Make sure to check it out!

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April 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Per source, NIH has been instructed to hold off from issuing ALL awards to Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Brown, and Northwestern (including med schools)

Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants
April 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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The US National Institutes of Health has terminated nearly 800 research projects at a breakneck pace, wiping out significant chunks of funding to entire scientific fields

Read the full story: https://go.nature.com/3EuFRPV
A graphic showing that 50.6% of research projects with "LGBT" search terms have been cancelled. 45.8% of grants with "transgender" in the search terms have been cancelled. 45.5% of research grants with "vaccine hesitancy" have been cancelled. 3.4% grants with "HIV" or "AIDS" have been cancelled.
April 18, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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"With Sadness and Resolve: Why I Resigned as Chief Medical Officer of an #NIH Institute and What Comes Next"

www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1513/... [open access @annalsats.bsky.social ]

Powerful essay, including resignation letter by Dr Josh Fessel in the tradition of
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With Sadness and Resolve: Why I Resigned as Chief Medical Officer of an NIH Institute and What Comes Next | Annals of the American Thoracic Society | Articles in Press
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April 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
korkmaz-lab.bsky.social
Hope we can continue to do this type of research. Sex-dependent differences are biological, not political.
science.org Science Magazine @science.org · Apr 7
In #ScienceAdvances, a special issue on #WomensHealth highlights a growing wave of research focusing on women’s unique biological and psychological experiences.

Learn more on #WorldHealthDay: scim.ag/3R59fPe
Science Advances’ special issue on women’s health highlights a growing wave of research focusing on women’s unique biological and psychological experiences. Articles cover a range of studies from the interplay between menopause and Alzheimer’s risk to the menstrual cycle’s influence on the brain-heart connection. It also describes the opportunities pregnancy provides to research aspects of both physical and mental health. By prioritizing women’s unique physiological and psychological experiences, research can expand the frontiers of knowledge in ways that benefit everyone.
April 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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science.org
Breaking news: A new lawsuit seeks to challenge the National Institutes of Health’s decisions to abruptly terminate hundreds of grants, totaling more than $2.4 billion, over the past month. scim.ag/3DZnylL
Lawsuit aims to broadly overturn NIH’s grant terminations
Multiple groups and NIH-funded scientists challenge agency’s decision as arbitrary and capricious
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April 2, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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This Thursday! Join us at 3PM ET for session #3 of the Grant Writer's Toolkit: Funding Opportunities for Early Career Professionals Beyond the NIH. Presented by the RCMB Early Career Professionals Working Group! Register here: site.thoracic.org/events/fundi...
American Thoracic Society | Funding Opportunities for Early Career…
The American Thoracic Society is the world's leading medical society dedicated to accelerating the advancement of global respiratory health through…
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March 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Nature research paper: Histological signatures map anti-fibrotic factors in mouse and human lungs

https://go.nature.com/4kEaYZF
Histological signatures map anti-fibrotic factors in mouse and human lungs - Nature
Transcriptomic and proteomic analyses of cells and matrix along the fibrotic trajectory in mouse lung identified PI16 as an anti-fibrotic factor with potential for therapeutic application in humans.
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March 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
korkmaz-lab.bsky.social
Happening today!!
March 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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ats-aii.bsky.social
Register now! Women in medicine series webinar on navigating the mid-career transition with panelists Rachel Scheraga, @bmoore-beth.bsky.social and Nirupama Putcha! Moderated by Lauren Eggert, Filiz Korkmaz and Erica Orsini. 3/17 @1pm EST
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Navigating the Mid-Career Transition. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Lauren E Eggert, MD from Stanford University, Filiz Korkmaz, PhD from the University of Iowa, and Erica Orsini, MD from Cleveland Clinic will moderate a panel of mid-career female discussants at diffe...
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March 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM