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Manny Paniagua

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Manny Paniagua @mannypani.bsky.social · Nov 19

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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · Aug 11

These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers.

My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers.

We found 437 of them.

Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

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ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · Aug 7

Please share my 1 min video on the importance of maintaining NIH funding of infectious diseases and drug discovery research vs rising antibiotic resistance

Drastic budget cuts harm our health and imperil the next generation of scientists

More @UCSanDiego “Behind Every Breakthrough” bit.ly/3FlXQs3

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Dr. Jean Fan @jef.works · Jul 31

In this interview, I explain how university research, when funded by independent #NIH #NSF federal grants, brings oversight to biotech to fuel innovation while keeping science transparent, reliable, and in service of the public good: hub.jhu.edu/2025/07/30/j...

#ResearchMatters

University labs help power America's biotech innovation ecosystem

Hopkins researcher Jean Fan and her team create open-source tools that help bridge the gap between academic discoveries and life-saving treatments. Cuts to federal funding threaten to break this criti...

hub.jhu.edu

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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · Jun 2

Research Saves Lives

At Hopkins, we just went live with an expansive website showing the extraordinary value of research, the impact of cuts to research, what's at stake, resources for our research community, etc.

Check it out: researchsaveslives.jhu.edu

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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · May 29

Hopkins on the Hill!

Johns Hopkins faculty will showcase the value of their federally-funded research on the Hill in Washington DC, talking to US representatives and their staff

June 11, 5:30-7:30pm, Rayburn House Office Bldg, DC

AI, health care, space exploration, public health, education, etc

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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · Apr 30

Johns Hopkins is offering funds to researchers who lost federal grants

www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

Johns Hopkins To Offer Funds To Researchers Who’ve Lost Federal Grants

Johns Hopkins University will provide three new self-funded grant programs to help its faculty and students cope with the cancelation or interruption of federal funding.

www.forbes.com

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Ashani Weeraratna @ashi-w.bsky.social · Apr 24

The power of NIH funded research. @deniswirtz.bsky.social

hub.jhu.edu/2025/04/22/n...

Johns Hopkins researchers decipher complex behaviors behind deadly cancers

Engineer Denis Wirtz and colleagues are using artificial intelligence and multiscale imaging to reveal how tumors grow, spread, and vary across populations

hub.jhu.edu

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Dept of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology at Johns Hopkins @johnshopkinsmmi.bsky.social · Apr 22

Congratulations Baumgarth Lab

@Nature Immunology paper out today

Baumgarth Lab postdoc Antonio Cembellin Prieto is 1st author!

This research shows how B cells use the neurotransmitter acetylcholine to modulate early lung antiviral inflammatory responses

Paper here
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

B cells modulate lung antiviral inflammatory responses via the neurotransmitter acetylcholine - Nature Immunology

Cembellin-Prieto and colleagues find that B cells in the lung are capable of producing acetylcholine and that these regulate early macrophage activation and control influenza virus replication.

www.nature.com

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Manny Paniagua @mannypani.bsky.social · Apr 1

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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · Apr 1

2025 Sol Goldman International Think Tank

"Bringing hope where there was none, 20 years of pancreatic cancer research and discovery".

Amazing line up of speakers.
April 22, 8 am.

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Andy Pekosz @andrewpekosz.bsky.social · Mar 25

I got the news this morning on two COVID related grants that were being terminated because its no longer seen as a research priority by Health and Human Services. My people have been given their notice. I have no words to express my feelings.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

CDC is pulling back $11B in Covid funding sent to health departments across the U.S.

“Now that the pandemic is over, the grants and cooperative agreements are no longer necessary," federal health authorities wrote to funding recipients this week.

www.nbcnews.com

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Manny Paniagua @mannypani.bsky.social · Mar 7

📍 DC
📣 #standupforscience2025

Manny Paniagua @mannypani.bsky.social · Mar 7

📍 DC
📣 #standupforscience2025

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Manny Paniagua @mannypani.bsky.social · Mar 6

Congrats Denis!

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Manny Paniagua @mannypani.bsky.social · Mar 4

See you there!

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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · Mar 3

Some good news: The Federal Register has just posted NIH study sections, which are to meet in late March.

NIH announces some key grant-review meetings will restart in late March | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...