Dritan Agalliu

As of today @Columbia has not received ANY of the terminated funding and many non-competitive renewal of federal grants. Therefore, last week the university starting laying off postdocs. If you care about PANDAS research please support my postdoc joinus.cuimc.columbia.edu/index.cfm?fuse…

Science literacy is collapsing. And with it, the foundations of civilization. People fear vaccines more than viruses. So diseases we once defeated are coming back. They fear GMOs more than hunger. So we reject tools that could feed millions. They fear nuclear more than climate…

Ever wonder who your cells are talking to? Now you can find out. Plasmids to perform the non-invasive gap junction tracing described in our recent Cell study are now available from Addgene! You can find them here: addgene.org/browse/article…

CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons. Watch and share his message.

In accordance with Executive Order 14292, the Office of the Director asked NIAID to identify projects that could potentially fall under the definition of dangerous gain of function (dGOF) research. The NIAID staff identified those projects, but then inappropriately made an…

The NIH has decided that scientists can only submit 6 grants a year. OK. But you need a score that’s < 10% at least to get funded. Meaning, at best, 1 out of 10 grants you submit will have a chance (YMMV of course). 🫠

I fully agree. We cannot replace animal studies with in vitro studies to understand the complex biology of organ interactions.

While I’m a big fan of new technologies that help us study human biology…there’s still no replacement for animal research! I wrote an article outlining this in @GENbio genengnews.com/topics/transla…

We invite investigators in various fields of cancer epidemiology and genetics to submit their manuscripts for this Special Issue of Cancers Journal for Urological Cancers: Epidemiology and Genetics mdpi.com/journal/cancer…

Journal of Cell Science is published by a not-for-profit charitable organisation (@Co_Biologists) that exists to benefit science, not shareholders. We provide Travelling Fellowships, Training Grants, support for ECRs and more. For details, visit: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/reas…

Denmark has proposed a law to give citizens copyright to their faces, voices and likeness in a bid to curb unauthorized deep fakes. The law gives folks legal ground to go after anyone who uses their image to produce AI generated content without consent. vice.com/en/article/den…

Today, @NIH announced a new policy to cap how much publishers can charge NIH-supported scientists to make their work publicly accessible. This reflects our broader effort to restore public trust in public health by creating an open, honest, and transparent research atmosphere.…

Differences of the 6N and 6J Substrains of C57BL/6 Mice in the Development of Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mc…

Summary Table of the massive defunding of biomedical research in the United States nytimes.com/interactive/20…

On the cover of Science Signaling! Levey, Abedin, Zhang et al. show that endothelial-specific deletion of MDM2—a key negative regulator of p53—disrupts blood-CNS barrier integrity by regulating Norrin/Frizzled4 signaling. Proud of the team! 🔗 science.org/toc/signaling/…

NIH announces end to funding for animal-only studies drugdiscoverytrends.com/nih-announces-…

I love this article in Science. I keep telling this to my students but they keep comparing themselves to their peers. Getting a PhD is an individual endurance journey that can lead to personal and scientific growth and resilience.

LGBTQIA+ Health Research Is Being Defunded — and the Consequences Are Devastating. We wrote about the termination of LGBTQIA+ health research grants and the ripple effects this is having on our communities’ lives and livelihoods. tinyurl.com/saveLGBTQIAres…

🚨 This week at NIH: News you don’t want to miss! ➡️NIH to Fund $10M in Long-Term Health Studies After Ohio Train Disaster ➡️New NIH office to reduce use of animals in research ➡️NIH-funded science must now be free to read instantly

Congratulations to all the 2025 #GreatImmigrants — naturalized Americans who enrich our world through their lives, their work, and their examples. So honored to be included in this list. Thank you @CarnegieCorp 🙏🏼 carnegie.io/3xzRl0X

Our latest review on "Neuroimmune pathophysiology of long COVID" is out today! Amazing work of @jannamoen and @bakermind 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 It is open-access; please share widely. #Neuroimmune #PAIS #LongCovid onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pc…