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Honored to get Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award for my work on #mitochondria #peroxisomes and be 1st neonatologist awardee! $700K to start my lab = exciting #organelles #metabolism research to help medicine’s smallest patients! #neotwitter bwfund.org/news/bwf-annou…

Thrilled to join the Rita Allen Scholars community (ritaallen.org/stories/2025-s…) and grateful for the support! Glad to (re)discover many inspirational colleagues as current and former award in pain scholars.

Is it time to tame the brain’s fire? Neuroinflammation is emerging across Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, neurodegeneration and beyond. An important new Science article from Shi and colleagues pulls back the curtain on neuroinflammation. Could this be a silent driver of destruction in

Congratulations to Walter Chen, M.D., Ph.D., who is the recipient of a 2025 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award for Medical Students. He is the first neonatologist to receive the prestigious award. Read more: bit.ly/3ZCTvIc

This should be required reading by all graduate students and postdocs | A brief guide to statistical analysis of grouped data in preclinical research nature.com/articles/s4225…

Nature research paper: Nerve-to-cancer transfer of mitochondria during cancer metastasis go.nature.com/3HYTQie

This is a great funding opportunity for early career scientists with great ideas that advance science and health. Please apply!

Researchers funded by the NIH will be required to make their scientific papers available to read for free as soon as they are published go.nature.com/3Gh7Rr8

Enjoyed a nice lunch at the faculty club with the lab following my talk during our Center for Hypothalamic Research seminar series.

Triglycerides are an important fuel reserve for synapse function in the brain go.nature.com/4nvjk7k

I am happy to share that I’ve been awarded tenure here at Columbia University. Alhamdulillah. I thank my wife, parents, mentors, colleagues, friends, & family. I thank my lab members, present and past, for entrusting their careers in my hands and making this a thrilling journey.

1st Job Posting! Open-Rank Research Assistant positions (Entry to Senior) in the Oliphant Lab! Join me in beautiful Colorado to study tumor initiation, metabolic reprogramming & drug resistance in breast cancer using patient-derived organoids & multiomic approaches! Link Below!

Congratulations to Honggui, Jiankun, and Tan for improving the single-cell 3D genome resolution by a factor of 4 (to 5 Kb). This allowed direct visualization that multiple enhancers cluster to a particular gene promoter at the same time in a single cell. nature.com/articles/s4158…

NIH DP2 2nd submission on the Neuroepigenetic Control of Body-Weight Set-Point made it to the 2nd round with 17% of all applicants --> 24 impact score (no %tile) with reviewers using the full range of scores (1-9) to help differentiate b/w the group. Apparently it very likely

Frankie D Heyward, Ph.D. Clearly a strong revision. Hopefully, the work will be recognized in a future submission!

Frankie D Heyward, Ph.D. Insane if a 24 doesn't get funded - I'm rooting for you!!!

Implementation and validation of single-cell genomics experiments in neuroscience nature.com/articles/s4159…

BWF is proud to announce the 2025 recipients of its Postdoctoral Diversity Enrichment Program (PDEP), which provides critical support to postdoctoral researchers pursuing careers in biomedical and medical research. buff.ly/RLaqMmd #bwfpdep

A common virus once thought harmless to humans might be linked to Parkinson's disease, a new study says. The germ, Human Pegivirus (HPgV), was found in half the autopsied brains of patients with Parkinson's, but not in any brains from healthy people. 1/