Rebecca Heise, PhD
@rebeccaheise.bsky.social
Professor and Chair of BME at VCU
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Lung injury and repair
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Lung injury and repair
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You are not alone in this NIH grant game drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/05/21/y...
You are not alone in this NIH grant game
Many years ago I started blogging about the NIH system of extramural grant award because of my own frustrations with the system, as it appeared to be to me. Over time, I realized that there were a …
drugmonkey.wordpress.com
May 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
You are not alone in this NIH grant game drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/05/21/y...
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An accurate and terrifying description from @chrischirp.bsky.social. "This isn’t chaos—it’s a deliberate war on #science and #academic freedom". #academicsky #medsky
Censor, purge, defund: how Trump is following the authoritarian playbook on science and universities
I have mapped 35 of the Trump administration's attacks on science and universities to the authoritarian playbook - and consider what it means for attacks still to come
open.substack.com
March 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
An accurate and terrifying description from @chrischirp.bsky.social. "This isn’t chaos—it’s a deliberate war on #science and #academic freedom". #academicsky #medsky
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Due to the freeze on credit card use, my laboratory (in the FDA) risks losing the contents of our liquid nitrogen tanks which store INVALUABLE samples-they cannot be replaced, so they are literally priceless, and reflect about 50 years worth of research.
February 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Due to the freeze on credit card use, my laboratory (in the FDA) risks losing the contents of our liquid nitrogen tanks which store INVALUABLE samples-they cannot be replaced, so they are literally priceless, and reflect about 50 years worth of research.
Reposted by Rebecca Heise, PhD
As we watch all mention of diversity actively get scrubbed from the NIH website in real time it's important to know that, we were not taking over anything, we were just trying to exist.
- Only 2% of NIH R01 grants are awarded to Black investigators.
The goal is total erasure/elimination.
- Only 2% of NIH R01 grants are awarded to Black investigators.
The goal is total erasure/elimination.
January 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
As we watch all mention of diversity actively get scrubbed from the NIH website in real time it's important to know that, we were not taking over anything, we were just trying to exist.
- Only 2% of NIH R01 grants are awarded to Black investigators.
The goal is total erasure/elimination.
- Only 2% of NIH R01 grants are awarded to Black investigators.
The goal is total erasure/elimination.
Reposted by Rebecca Heise, PhD
Less than 1 month left to apply to our NSF REU in #Mechanobiology More info and application link here : egr.vcu.edu/departments/bi…
Please share with your students! Richmond is lovely in the summer#BMEM#BiomedicalScienceses
Please share with your students! Richmond is lovely in the summer#BMEM#BiomedicalScienceses
https://egr.vcu.edu/departments/bi…
January 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Less than 1 month left to apply to our NSF REU in #Mechanobiology More info and application link here : egr.vcu.edu/departments/bi…
Please share with your students! Richmond is lovely in the summer#BMEM#BiomedicalScienceses
Please share with your students! Richmond is lovely in the summer#BMEM#BiomedicalScienceses
Reposted by Rebecca Heise, PhD
Seems like a nice day for running around screaming questions at each other that we know full well have no answers
January 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Seems like a nice day for running around screaming questions at each other that we know full well have no answers