Andddddddd...it re-begins >>> Moderna Announces it has Shipped Variant-Specific Vaccine Candidate, mRNA-1273.351, to NIH for Clinical Study businesswire.com/news/home/2021…

.NIH has extended the deadline to respond to RFI (NOT-OD-21-066) to receive feedback on our effort to end structural #racism in #biomedical #research through the #UNITE initiative. Submit comments through the submission website by April 23, 2021. bit.ly/2PWkLAH

Applying for an #NIHLRP award in September? Here are few things that you should keep in mind. The upcoming cycle will open on September 1, 2021 💻bit.ly/2y7n3CG #ecrchat #AcademicTwitter

Incredible progression with gene therapy for #SickleCell Baseline HbF: 28.3% After 6 months: HbF = 43.3% After 12 months: HbF = 49.7% with 99% F cells!! j/k, it was actually #hydroxyurea Remind me again why this isn't a universal treatment?

Our pre-print, "SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines Elicit Durable Immune Responses in Infant Rhesus Macaques" is live! cc: Barney Graham, MD, PhD A wonderful collaboration with Sallie Permar MD PhD, Duke Human Vaccine Institute, UNC School of Medicine micro/immuno, & 3M pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33851156/

Dr. Lisa Cooper, daughter of a Liberian immigrant, reviews vaccine data. She can assure our parents vaccines are safe. Learn more about her and others on the pathway from discovery to treatment: go.usa.gov/xHTsy #NIHCEAL #VaccineReady

Thank you CDC Mandy K. Cohen, MD, MPH for this table of who and when and where and what. Please keep keeping us informed. #KnowledgeIsPower #COVID19 #COVIDVaccination #GetVaccinated

Honored to announce that my mentor, Barney Graham, MD, PhD, and I have been chosen as 2021 "Service to America" Finalists. If we are your choice, "The People's Choice"... VOTE every single day through July 2nd. servicetoamericamedals.org/peoples-choice… RT/Share/Set a calendar reminder. lol

#Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S. and marks the beginning of America’s journey toward justice. #NIH is committed to recognizing past injustices and instituting ways to support diversity, equity, and inclusion within the biomedical research enterprise.

Sunday, January 23, 2022 is Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. International Day of Prayer. There will be Regional Prayer Vigils and every Soror is to lift a personal prayer for the family,chapter, line sisters,sorors and the sorority of our National President Cheryl A. Hickmon.

Dr. Michael DeBaun, of Children's at VUMC, has been elected president-elect of the American Pediatric Society (APS). Dr. DeBaun will become president of the 1,800-member society in 2023. spr.ly/6011zrp3Z

Every year, I get excited to share my summer playlist because I learn about so many new artists from your replies—it’s an example of how music really can bring us all together. Here’s what I’ve been listening to this summer. What songs would you add?

An 18 month obsession coming to an end. Draft finished and sent to co-authors. Work we are proud of - will make a positive impact regardless of where it appears. Nothing to do now but take evening off, put feet up, and wait for comments...

The NIH has awarded a five-year, $7.7-million grant to a project I am leading on investigating barriers to #accesstocare for #sicklecelldisease care. I am thrilled to be part of these efforts. #uabmedicine sicklecellanemianews.com/news/nih-award…

🥳 Join us! ➡️The Global Cure for Sickle Cell Disease Community & Family Day 🤩October 8 2022 9A - 12P CDT 💡Register tinyurl.com/GlobalSCD2022 SCDAA Courtney Fitzhugh The Cure Sickle Cell Initiative (CureSCi) @VUMCHealth Johns Hopkins Hematology Johns Hopkins Medicine NHLBI Bethesda Labs #CureSickleCell

👏🏽 Dr. Courtney Fitzhugh for pointing out there is no data that #hydroxyurea increases risk of malignancy compared to those not taking, and the benefits are so great, should not be withheld from patients w/ #sicklecell

Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Journal Erfan Nur etal Physical, Mental, and Social Health of Adult Patients with Sickle Cell Disease after Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: A Mixed-Methods Study astctjournal.org/article/S2666-…

Tanzania opens Bone Marrow Transplant Centre for Sickle Cell Hospitali ya Benjamin Mkapa (BMH) in Dodoma, #Tanzania Wizara ya Afya Tanzania 🇹🇿 Ofisi ya Waziri Mkuu #SickleCell #bonemarrowtransplant #Africa