Denis Wirtz

Who might have guessed that actual skills, math, hard science, hard work and effort are of value? Also: 75% first gen immigrants. Yup. Read that again.

Proud to share @niseto’s (new PI @TheCrick) paper: As a postdoc (@CSHL/@HopkinsMedicine), he found #NETs in necrotic tumors—I shrugged. But he looked closer: NETs block tumor vessel perfusion, causing necrosis, hypoxia, EMT & #Metastasis. nature.com/articles/s4158… @JHU_BDP @Nature

Welcome @datcumings, who joins @JohnsHopkins as the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Infectious Disease Dynamics. An esteemed epidemiologist, Cummings is joining the Preparing and Responding to Emerging Pandemics cluster. hub.jhu.edu/2025/07/17/der…

Grant terminations have grabbed the headlines and have seen legal action, but even more damaging to the US research enterprise has been the massive decrease in research grants issued by federal agencies NIH: -57% in the number of awards and -63% in value compared to FY24

The N.I.H. has terminated hundreds of diversity grants awarded to young researchers, many of whom come from the very places that supported Trump. nytimes.com/2025/07/10/us/…

Welcome to our newest Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, internationally recognized economist @DomenicoGiannon, who joins @JohnsHopkins as the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Economics and Statistics. hub.jhu.edu/2025/07/08/dom…

Johns Hopkins Gets the Most Federal Money, but Now Much of It Is at Risk "The university’s troubles show how a Republican campaign against higher education could decimate the nation’s research enterprise" nytimes.com/2025/06/26/us/…

This month, @ACasadevall1 hosted a Reddit AMA on #fungi, #microbiology and life as an academic researcher. Here are a few highlights!

Ted Koppel interviews my Hopkins colleague Prof. Liz Jaffee, world expert in pancreatic cancer, about the devastating cuts and slow roll out of cancer research funding by the NIH. See this CBS Sunday morning show video here: youtube.com/watch?v=CLwcYQ…

Immune cells do crazy things...Monocytes form ordered patterns on soft matrix via Turing-like local activation and global inhibition. Like active materials, only better. More here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Will appear soon.

Join the 1st Global Summit on Occupational Health in Music where scholars will discuss the pressing need for health promotion, health education, research, and professional accountability within music schools. occupationalhealthinmusic.org

Supported by the @NIH, Johns Hopkins researchers have created LiftOn, a new software tool that can transfer annotations between the genomes of different species to map out new genomes far more quickly than current methods. bme.jhu.edu/news-events/ne…

Welcome @ghadfield, who joins @JohnsHopkins as the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of AI Alignment and Governance. An esteemed scholar, Hadfield is joining the hub for Promoting and Governing Technological Advances. hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/26/gil…

Research Saves Lives! See what NIH-funded research has helped accomplish at Johns Hopkins University: researchsaveslives.jhu.edu

Altogether, the winning project teams—chosen from 274 proposals—include 150 individuals representing 12 Johns Hopkins entities. Of the 39 funded projects, five include biomedical engineering faculty. bme.jhu.edu/news-events/ne…

Johns Hopkins has named 20 early-career faculty as 2025 Catalyst Award winners. Recognized for their academic impact and research potential, each awardee will receive a $100k grant and mentoring support to advance their work. hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/17/joh…

3D imaging and nuclear morphology. Through extension of our CODA platform, we integrate 3D imaging with nuclear segmentation to analyze nuclear morphological features in human tissue. More here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

CODA reveals two different types of pre-cancer lesions in the human pancreas. CODA can map large volumes of tumors/tissues in 3D and at single-cell resolution. Red, PanIN lesions; navy blue: duct; light blue: nerve; green: blood vessel

What a great privilege to get to know and support the truly stellar faculty at Johns Hopkins, especially early in their career. We just announced the 2025 cohort of Catalyst Award recipients. List: research.jhu.edu/major-initiati…

A fully functional organoid has to have the right form. We have developed a multi-compartment assembloid of a human organ, whose design converges iteratively towards the 3D map of that organ via CODA. Proof of principle for the human fallopian tube: science.org/doi/full/10.11…