Related to our previous post- if you had a grant terminated, Pro Publica wants to hear from you. Your work was funded because it was good, important science meant to help Americans. Reach out, and make your voice heard.
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ATS MEMBER WHO’S WHO: Meet Jarrod Barnes, PhD, MBA! Dr. Barnes is an associate professor of medicine at University of Alabama at Birmingham. Additionally, he is co-chair of the ATS’s PhD and Basic and Translational Scientist Working Group.
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The ATS joins the @ama-assn.org and over 75 other medical societies and organizations in signing an open letter to the American public on respiratory virus vaccines.
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The plan to vaccinate all Americans, despite RFK Jr.
The effort comes as the Trump administration has replaced members of the key federal vaccine advisory panel. wapo.st/3TBmtVd
The ATS Research Program has announced that five researchers have been selected to receive unrestricted research grants.
Congrats to Chaofan Li, PhD; Monica Liu, MD, PhD; Luciana Padua Tavares, PhD; Richard Ramonell, MD; and B. Shoshana Zha, MD, PhD.
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has been linked to sustained federal investment in research,” said the American Cancer Society Action Network. This commitment has helped lead to the remarkable statistic of over 18 million cancer survivors currently living in the U.S. today.
The Trump administration’s billion-dollar cuts to the National Institutes of Health include a $2.7 billion blow to the National Cancer Institute slashing more than a third of its funding. “For the past 50 years, every significant medical breakthrough, especially in the treatment of cancer,
"If the proposal is enacted, Americans today and tomorrow will be sicker, poorer, and die younger”
an $18 Billion cut
Only 3 NIH Institutes will remain in place, and even they will have their funds markedly reduced
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Dear scientists,
Susan Collins of Maine is a critical vote in the Senate going forward and this event will bring pressure on her. If you’re in Maine, please see if you can help!
Does anyone know academics at UMaine, Bowdoin, Bates, or USM? If so, please tag them.
#ATS2026 is just a year away! The ATS is seeking input for sessions in all areas of respiratory, critical care and sleep medicine with a clinical, basic science and/or translational focus. Be sure to submit before June 25, 2025.
Learn more and submit today: conference.thoracic.org/program/call...
A bar chart showing the change from baseline in forced vital capacity at week 52 in the overall trial population
In the FIBRONEER-IPF phase 3 trial, nerandomilast slowed disease progression in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis as compared with placebo. Full trial results: nej.md/4mgWcIU
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In the PREDMETH trial, first-line treatment of pulmonary sarcoidosis with methotrexate was noninferior to that with prednisone regarding the change at 24 weeks in the percentage of the predicted forced vital capacity. Full trial results: nej.md/4kdaf0o
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Wow! What a day for #CureIPF & #ATS2025! First positive drug trial in 10 years in IPF!! Treatment with Nerandomilast -> ⬇️FVC decline compared to placebo in patients on antifibrotics or untreated. Kudos Drs Richeldi and Wijsenbeek and #FibroneerIPF team!!! www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
See you soon, San Francisco! 🫁
Looking forward to seeing friends and colleagues, and presenting my work on Staph-induced lung injury and repair (come see me at mini-symposium D97 on Wednesday!)
#ATS2025 #RCMBatATS @ats-rcmb.bsky.social
Come say hi and learn more about how to get involved at the RCMB Assembly Membership Meeting!
Monday, May 19th, 5-7pm
Moscone West Building, Level 3
Rooms 3000/3002/3004
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Check out these exciting sessions at the Science and Innovation Center (including TWO from RCMB's own, @elizabethredente.bsky.social!)
San Francisco is ready for you! It’s not too late to join us at #ATS2025 On-site and same-day registration available. Conference.Thoracic.org
It’s almost science time!! 🫁
Always innovative and fun at the SIC. Cannot wait to see you there!
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will direct federal health agencies to explore potential new treatments for measles as the U.S. faces its largest outbreak in 25 years. Experts fear the decision could have grave consequences, as studies show the existing vaccine is 97% effective in preventing infection.
Budget released today:
40% cut to NIH
50% cut to NSF
If enacted, this will destroy academic research in the United States. It will also have a major trickle down effect on the entire academic ecosystem
President Trump has proposed a miserly budget for America with potential for untold suffering. What's at risk? Public health, patient care, the environment, America's universities, as well as the economy and state budgets. Congress, fix this mess!
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Put incompetent people in charge of important things and bad outcomes will happen
The vaccine is 97% effective
97%
Nothing is this effective in medicine
Nothing
This is not a serious person
Why are they trying to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs? #WithoutNSF the US would not be at the forefront of science innovation in the world. #SaveNSF #StandUpForScience www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...
The AJRCCM 2025 ATS International Conference Abstract Issue is out! With nearly 7,000 abstracts, organized into 36 pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine categories, this issue is full of innovative research that will be presented at #ATS2025
Read now: www.atsjournals.org/toc/ajrccm/2...
I am excited to have the opportunity to serve on the ATS BOD! Please vote and put me to work for you and the society!
There are few things as cost effective as Narcan, especially in a country where (entirely preventable) opioid overdoses have been a leading cause of death for years. For every 6 kits distributed 1 OD is prevented. The $56M in this grant trained >66K people and distributed >282,500 kits in 2024 alone
Infant standing wearing raincoat with text Pneumonia is biggest infectious cause of death in children.
Pneumonia is the single largest infectious cause of death in children worldwide. Immunizing children against Hib disease, pneumococcus, measles and whooping cough (pertussis) is the most effective way to prevent #pneumonia.
#VaccinesWork
#WorldImmunizationWeek #WHO
“If NIH budget money, designated by Congress to be spent on medical cures, doesn’t go out over the next few months, all US scientists are looking at budget cuts that will not just take away cures but harm local economies.”
URGENT!
I knew the U.S. higher education system was a massive draw for foreigners, but I did not know the U.S. sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it did natural gas and coal combined. Great piece by @crampell.bsky.social
