Computational Biomedical Engineering - Faculty

Mount Sinai

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#biomedical #biomedical_engineering #computational_health #neurogenetics #ScienceJobs #hiring #research
https://jobrxiv.org/job/mount-sinai-27778-computational-biomedical-engineering-faculty/?feed_id=95561

"Some of the National Institutes of Health's top brain scientists received layoff notices last month, weeks before Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified to Congress that no working scientists had been cut from his department...multiple sources familiar with the situation say their layoff notices have not been revoked."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-claims-no-working-scientists-fired-nih-cuts/

"But it also concerned vaccine experts that Mr. Kennedy seemed not to recognize the circumstances when placebo groups are neither ethical nor practical. The idea is widely accepted by scientists and enshrined in ethics frameworks for medical research.

'He’s asking for something that’s not ethical,' said Arthur Caplan, a leading bioethicist at the New York University Grossman School of Medicine."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/health/vaccine-placebo-trials.html

"The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee’s minority staff report...says that in the first three months of this year, the Trump administration cut $2.7 billion in National Institutes of Health funding for research. That figure is much higher than some separate estimates that previously suggested targeted grant terminations have affected more than $1.8 billion in NIH funding."

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/13/health/trump-administration-nih-funding-sanders-report

"A priceless treasure trove of biodata gathered from generations of Americans by Harvard University researchers may soon be lost due to additional funding cuts by the Trump administration...The latest round of cuts to Harvard by the Trump administration will halt funding for the upkeep of dozens of giant freezers filled with DNA, blood, urine, stool and tissue samples used for ongoing research..."

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/health/harvard-biodata-trump-cuts-wellness

The High Cost of Falling Behind
From #cancer breakthroughs to #AI-powered #drug discovery, the #US has long been a global leader in #biomedical innovation. But that leadership is not a guarantee - it’s a fundamental and intentional choice. Trump’s choices are putting that leadership in jeopardy.
In the past two months we’ve seen cuts to research funding, regulatory instability and a retreat from public-private partnerships. And now,: #HHS to cut more than 20,000 jobs.
https://scilight.substack.com/p/the-high-cost-of-falling-behind

#UMass Chan rescinds admission for biomedical sciences PhD program…
https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/umass-chan-rescinds-admission-for-biomedical-sciences-phd-program-amid-funding-cuts/3657096/
"With uncertainties related to the funding of #biomedical research in this country, this difficult decision was made to ensure that our current students’ progress is not disrupted by the funding cuts and that we avoid matriculating students who may not have robust opportunities for dissertation #research…"

‘Omg, did PubMed go dark?’ Blackout stokes fears about database’s future
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00674-3

A brief outage has focused attention on scientists’ reliance on the US-government-funded website.

Comment: a fundamental and vitally important biomedical resource, the importance of which cannot be understated.

The notices came all weekend, landing in the inboxes of federal #scientists, #doctors & #PublicHealth professionals: Your work is no longer needed.

At the #NIH, the nation’s premier #biomedical #research agency, an estimated 1,200 employees — including promising young investigators slated for larger roles — have been dismissed.

#Trump #TrumpCoup #law #science #medicine #disease #RFKJr
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/us/politics/fda-cdc-health-department-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

What if we cannot rely on Pub Med?
For now, page outages seem transient or random; most can be refreshed. Way-back machine also helps. More suggestions here: https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/02/14/what-if-we-cant-rely-on-pubmed/ #PubMed #research #biomedical

An interesting publication by the National Academy of Sciences: "Rethinking #Race and #Ethnicity in #Biomedical #Research"

#Science

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/27913/rethinking-race-and-ethnicity-in-biomedical-research

A new study from Oregon Health & Science University has uncovered how small #molecules within #bacteria interact with #proteins, revealing a network of #molecular connections that could improve drug discovery and #cancer research.
#Biomolecular #Biomedical #Biology #Medical #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/01/bmol01242501.html

Researchers have provided the #molecular explanation for why some #osteoporosis #drugs offer protection against #Covid-19.
#Biomedical #Medical #Pharmaceutical #Virology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/01/med01142502.html

Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Cyrus Biotechnology have now #engineered two #CRISPR nucleases, #Cas9 and #Cas12, to mask them from the #immune system.
#Biotechnology #Biomedical #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/01/biot01092501.html

In the USA, #NIAID's Visual & Medical Arts Unit & NIAID Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch (#BCBB) have created a library of #biomedical & #scientific #icons for use in figures, presentations, websites, & print. Images are #free to use and in the #PublicDomain. https://bioart.niaid.nih.gov/ H/T to @enniscath.bsky.social for pointing it out.

Bioengineers and Chemists design fluorescent 3D-printed Structures with potential medical Applications.

University of Oregon researchers have mixed fluorescent ring-shaped molecules into a novel 3D printing process. The result: intricate glowing structures that support the development of new kinds of biomedical implants.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smll.202400882

Hello #OpenScience folks,
we have a new #preprint on the BioRDM team's experience in #EdinburghUniversity,

"Daily life in the Open Biologist’s second job, as a Data Curator".

It's a practitioner's snapshot of the rewards and challenges of #opendata in #biomedical research. Thanks to our colleagues and collaborators for sharing their work with us!

https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-523

@toothFAIRy @LudoWaltman

What if you could build a knowledge graph for #biomedical tasks in weeks or days? BioCypher from Sebastian Lobentanzer makes the process of creating a biomedical knowledge graph easier.

An #opensource, #openscience #Python package, BioCypher is part of the #pyOpenSci ecosystem, and is built around the concept of a “threefold modularity”: modularity of data sources, modularity of structure-giving ontology, and modularity of output formats.

Docs: https://biocypher.org/