Exceptionally proud of this new work from the Cohen lab led by the AMAZING @teganhoran.bsky.social. This was the major work from Tegan's K99, completely envisaged, led, and undertaken by Tegan. I was merely a bystander and cheerleader!! Congrats to Tegan!
academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...
OMB has posted the full-year apportionments for NIH.
openomb.org/file/11511545
I believe this means that NIH now has the spending authority to fund grants!
There may be nuances and I will be tracking these as best I can.
Sharing this screen grab from a friend at NIH (with permission).
This is a checklist program officers have to complete before a grant can be awarded.
The first question: "Is this grant All Clean/Clear in the NIH Text analysis Tool?"
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Grant terminations had deep impacts on all early career scientists, running counter to Bhattacharya’s stated interest in supporting them.
The terminations disproportionately harmed early career women.
www.fiercebiotech.com/research/nih...
substack.com/@elizabethgi...
Very proud of this tour de force from two former students, Stephanie Tanis and Leah Simon, with help from a huge team, including @charlesdanko.bsky.social highlighting a novel-overlooked intervention point for male contraception
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The 2027 Tri-state Symposium on reproductive sciences has begun! We have 270 attendees from our sister Tri-Repro institutions @upenn.edu, @mageewomens.bsky.social, and @rutgersupress.bsky.social, as well as Yale, NIH, UMassC Syracuse U, Nottingham U, etc. @cornellrepro.bsky.social welcomes you all!
Very exciting that our new paper on the forces exerted by the Rad51-Rad54 homology search complex is now online. This was a collaborative effort with the Wang here at Cornell, and this work performed primarily by a graduate student, Mitch Woodhouse
genesdev.cshlp.org/content/earl...
Tri-Repro 2027 has been amazing! 270 attendees from across the US (and UK!), supported by our co-host institutions, Penn, Pittsburgh, and Rutgers. Congrats to the Trainee Committee for an outstanding program, and thanks to our 5th Stuart Moss Memorial Lecturer, @schindlerlab.bsky.social!
Researchers from Cornell, Rutgers, U-Penn, and U-Pitt gathered at the 2026 Tri-State Symposium on Reproductive Sciences to advance collaborative research on infertility, repro-aging, embryo development, and maternal health.
Read more: bit.ly/4o9SVNf
@cornellrepro.bsky.social @cohenlab.bsky.social
Cohen Lab @Cornell
Jenna Norton
Developing safe, reversible, and nonhormonal male contraceptives has been hindered
by the lack of defined biological windows that can be transientl...
Reproductive health researchers from across the Northeast gathered at Cornell University April 30–May 1 to examine infertility, embryo development and reproductive aging at the 2026 Tri-State Symposiu...
Last year’s funding cuts at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) disproportionately impacted women and early-career researchers, according to a | Last year’s funding cuts at the National Institutes...
