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Wanted to check-in with these new @NIH changes that are going to affect so many. First let me remind everyone: I run 6 hybrid clinical/research centers, each with a specific clinical focus. Unlike the vast majority of my colleagues, federal funding sources account for less 1/
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This would massacre most major R1 universities. Stanford, Harvard et al basically run entirely on NIH/NSF indirect cost reimbursements. Everything from librarians and computer clusters to real estate and lab space are paid out of these funds – there are no endowments that cover them.
Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as “indirect costs.” Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15%, above what many major foundations allow and much lower than the 60%+ that some institutions charge the government today. This change will save more than $4B a year effective immediately.
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My prediction is that the med schools, which are the most affected by NIH indirect cuts, will go after faculty salaries, # of graduate student slots, prices for core facilities and mouse housing, admin support. Although I hope this idiotic decision will be reversed due to legal implications.
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Impact of NIH funding in Georgia:
NIH AWARDS FUNDING: $780 M
JOBS SUPPORTED: 11,816
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY SUPPORTED: $2.18 B
Bio Industry Impact in the State:
Jobs: 37,031
Businesses: 3,284
Cutting NIH indirects will kill jobs and cause a recession. unitedformedicalresearch.org…
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It's not "breaking news" now, since it was announced by NIH yesterday. But it is breaking.......
washingtonpost.com/health/20…
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NIH has announced a cut in the "indirect rate" to 15% across the board, in a move that appears to be retroactive to even existing grants. This is a bloodbath for research institutions throughout the country.
Brief explainer for those not in this world:
buff.ly/3EtML7D
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The NIH 15% cap on indirect costs will kneecap biomedical research in the US.
Without essential infrastructure, there will be:
Staff cuts
Lab closures
Fewer research projects
Less scientific progress
Loss of talent
The US will no longer lead scientific & medical innovation.
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NIH indirect costs fund the backbone of research: maintaining labs, ensuring safety, and supporting admin work. These are essential for groundbreaking discoveries. Drastic cuts to NIH indirect rates are detrimental to academic biomedical research.
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1) Since there is a lot of confusion about the reduction of the overhead rate on NIH grants to 15% (see here: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/…) I'll do a little tweetorial (or X-torial?) about it.
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“The care I provided in the delivery room to ensure that this baby survived: 1.94 RVUs (code 99464). The bundle of services my obstetrical colleagues provided for this mother, including her 15 prenatal appointments, her labor, her vaginal delivery, and her postpartum care: 36.58 RVUs (code 59400). Elsewhere in the hospital, if my physician colleagues perform 30 minutes of hair removal by electrolysis: 264.87 RVUs (code 17380).”
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Watching the Deepseek r1 model reason through and basically one-shot complex medical scenarios is... humbling!
I've been plugging in some of my more complex recent cases, and it slices through them like a pro.
How long until people will trust the AI over human doctors?
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In my opinion, one of the best paragraphs ever written about medicine.
@VPrasadMDMPH
@adamcifu
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Congrats John and Geoff!
Both are former colleagues.
I did my postdoc in Geoff's lab in Toronto.
After that, I joined Bell Labs, where John was a part-time scientist (and a professor at Caltech).
In fact, John was the reason why the department I joined was working on neural nets.
I first met both of them in 1985.
I met John at a workshop in Les Houches in early 1985.
I met Geoff at the Cognitiva conference in Paris in June 1985.
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”
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"I'm in a cheap hotel in California which doesn't have a good internet or phone connection. I was going to have an MRI scan today but I'll have to cancel that!"
- New physics laureate Geoffrey Hinton speaking at today’s press conference where his #NobelPrize was announced.
ALT Illustration of Nobel Prize laureate Geoffrey Hinton.
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HUGE NEWS 👇👇👇I could not be more excited to be working with Mitchell Cohen again and welcome him to @StanfordChild @StanfordPedsGI! Mitch is the epitome of a servant leader. I’m so grateful for the opportunity to continue to learn from him!
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Mitchell B. Cohen as Chief Medical Officer at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health. A national leader in pediatric medicine, Dr. Cohen will help elevate the care and well-being of children and families. bit.ly/3Xi6i0u
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Thank you to all my mentors and collaborators 🥳 @ChrisKramerMD @mete_civelek @salernomdphd @SempreRossa @JLindnerMD @AmitRPatelMD @LabMcnamara @JamiesonBourque @SyedLabGI_AI @thriv_i @MattWolfMDPhD @NHosadurg – at Virginia, USA
Congratulations to Patricia Rodriguez Lozano MD for getting her K01 on novel therapies for coronary microvascular disease funded on the 1st try. Great stuff! @CardioUva @UVACardsFellows @UvaDOM @JLindnerMD @SempreRossa @salernomdphd @MohamedMorsyMD @VSoukoulis @MattWolfMDPhD
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I’m excited and honored to be the new Director of the Center for Advanced Medical Analytics at @MedicineUVA @UVAPediatrics 😊 @UVA_CAMA is a group of scientists leading the field of #PredictiveAnalytics Follow us for updates and announcements! @UVA_CAMA
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I used to think I was rational.
Then I read Daniel Kahneman's Nobel Prize-winning work on human decision-making.
He routinely asks 8 questions to expose cognitive traps you fall into daily.
Test yourself with these questions (it's the ultimate BS detector for your brain):
