Birnbaum has spent the last several years working on a therapeutic that increases cells speed and capacity to heal wounds and regenerate damaged nerve endings. It would allow the body to heal wounds twice as fast. Without the two govt grants she was promised, this research will be put on hold.

In an interview with @thexylom.com Rayna Birnbaum, PhD, a post-doc at Albert Einstein University and an organizer of the #StandUpforScience2025 rally in #NYC rally has had two of her grants frozen by recent NIH cuts.

After LeCun’s remarks, I found Victor Schuster, a Biomedical Researcher at Albert Einstein University who studies the overproduction of fat cells in humans, carrying a sign corroborating the above stat. Asking for his source, he smiled and said “NIH.gov”

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Yann LeCun, Turing Prize-winner, Chief AI Scientist at Meta, and the Silver Professor of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at #NYU reminds the audience at #StandUpforScience2025 that the seeds of new scientific discoveries are planted with government funding to universities.

Claire Pomeroy, MD, MBA,
Quoting John Dewey to #StandUpforScience2025 in #NYC “Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.” she continues, “We must also be audacious our outreach, audacious in our defense, and audacious in our defiance.”

Organizers estimate more than 2,000 showed up at Washington Square Park today for #StandUpforScience2025
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