I discuss the urgent crisis from the loss of federal support of science in the US and recent clinical gene editing breakthroughs with Walter Isaacson & Christiane Amanpour on Amanpour and Company, airing on PBS tonight at 11 pm ET, and on CNN International earlier today. Pls share! youtube.com/watch?v=8YhJM6…

WHAT A CONFERENCE! This was the brain child of Adrienne Dorrance and executed to perfection by an army of people including the amazing folks at Sundance Resort. Thank you to all our incredible attendees, speakers, and sponsors. We couldn’t have done this without all of you! #WBC2025

Love my UofU, CU, and OHSU colleagues who all made this super special ❤️

In case you needed a smile this Tuesday: 10-month-old baby KJ, who received a bespoke gene-editing therapy after a six month scientific sprint - "graduated" from the hospital today and went HOME! YAY SCIENCE! Here's his story: wapo.st/451ZQjT

❤️

Always a bittersweet moment when a PhD student from the lab graduates.Terrific work and what a thesis defense talk Rema Iyer ! Congratulations on your degree!

ASH has made an unprecedented investment of more than $12 million. Including ~$9 million increase in award funding. Total awards commitment of more than $20 million over the next 12 months....providing support for an additional 600+ awardees at all career stages. ASH

ASH Bridge Award direct cost floor was already raised to $500K/yr. Now the number of applications funded is dramatically increasing, with a rapid turn around...and a brand new additional cycle this year. ASH

Under-appreciated fact: in low-transparency, low-objectivity areas like geopolitics or self help, confidence is a signal of phoniness. In high-transparency high-objectivity areas like math, confidence signals authority because in these areas anyone bullshitting is caught and

I’ll be speaking at IGIB in Delhi on 11 July at 3 PM about “The Microbial Century” and India’s role in microbial science. If you’re in Delhi and curious about where microbes are taking us next, come join: bit.ly/Microbial-Quor…