Cindy Leifer
@CindyLeifer
Professor at Cornell University and enthusiast of the immune system. @cynthialeifer on threads #Immune. http://microbe.tv/immune
This spells disaster for American science. #braindrain
BREAKING: 75% of the 1600 US scientists who answered a Nature poll say they’re considering leaving the US. I want MAGA to explain to us all how this is remotely a good thing that Trump has caused. Let’s hear the spin.
#Allergies can develop at any time during life, so some people develop them for the first time as adults. @CindyLeifer explains this could be because they move to a new area or are already increased risk to develop allergies. #ImmunologyExplained: ow.ly/mXyz50VBHei.
Funding from the @NIH contributed to the development of 354 out of 356 (99.4%) of the new drugs approved by the FDA between 2010 and 2019, and 🚨 100% 🚨 of FDA approved drugs btw 2010-2016. @NIH funding is the backbone of American biomedical innovation. #protecttheNIH
Dr. Mandi de Mestre, professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences & the Dorothy Havemeyer McConville Professor in Equine Medicine, is the new director of the Baker Institute for Animal Health effective Feb 16, 2025. @mandidemestre vet.cornell.edu/about-us/news/…
Faculty Positions @Cornell The Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology + @CornnellCFI + Center for Antimicrobial Resistance in beautiful Ithaca, NY, invite applications from scientists who work at the cutting-edge of immunology, virology, bacteriology or parasitology. Join us!!
“Why don’t universities pay research costs with their endowments” is a bad argument. Grants aren’t charity. These are contracts where universities are being paid to carry out work on behalf of the public. Why shouldn’t the government be expected to pay the full cost of the work…
What are “indirects costs” and why are they so high ? These are the institutional costs that allow the research to be conducted across all studies like: Utilities like heat, AC, water, electricity, phone & internet costs Facilities costs like rent, costs of the building and…
Many colleges are spending more on student services partly due to changes in college demographics, as more first-generation, low-income, older and other nontraditional college students with varying needs make up a growing proportion of student populations
HVAC, electricity, building/ground maintenance, distilled H2O, dry CO2, N2, gases, radioactive, chemical, biohazard waste disposal/spills, instrument repairs, email, PPE, grants mgr, IT, IACUC, IRB, ethics/training courses, HR, payroll, mail, etc consume >>15% above res. grants.
direct costs support researchers' salaries and equipment. indirect costs pay for heat, water, and electricity in the buildings, machine shops, libraries, infrastructure, repairs in the buildings, facilities, etc, without which research is impossible. administration is a small…
The indiscriminate and ill-conceived slashing of indirects by the @NIH yesterday must be amended if want to restore America’s leadership role biomedical research. 15% simply isn’t enough for institutions to provide the basic infrastructure needed to run a successful lab. I say…
NIH indirect costs fund the backbone of research: maintaining labs, ensuring safety, and supporting admin work. These are essential for groundbreaking discoveries. Drastic cuts to NIH indirect rates are detrimental to academic biomedical research.
Jamie’s paper is out! We made Chimeric antigen receptor for feline infectious peritonitis, a deadly cat disease. While this is only preclinical, we hope to develop this in the future. instagram.com/p/DDpSnYZOIpL/…
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A new #Immune dropped! On this episode we discuss a snippet on how olfactory macrophages maintain neurons and a paper on failure to establish long lived plasma cells following mRNA vaccination. youtu.be/niecXH7an_k
While I enjoy finding new science and chatting about various things, I won’t be doing much of it on this platform any longer. I can be found on basically every other platform.
