Juan Fuxman Bass

Scientist. Associate Professor at Boston University. Systems Biology, gene regulation, immunology, cancer. He/him 🏳️‍🌈

[Juan Fuxman Bass @fuxmanlab]

Standing up for science in Boston!

[Nik Joshi @Joshilabyale]

Without NIH funds to run research labs at academic institutions, as a country we cannot train PhD students. No physician scientists. No undergraduates get experience in labs. Nothing.
Industry does none of these things.
Other countries will have to take the lead.

[Kate Fitzgerald @FitzgeraldKate]

Invest in NIH. Invest in life

[Olivier George @brainaddiction]

It's clear that many do not understand what @NIH-funded research does to improve health. It's time to revive a study published 10 years ago that provides incredible information about this. link in the comment

Every single new drug approved by the FDA from 2010–2016 was built on NIH-funded research—that’s all 210 drugs. But what the public sees is just the tip of the iceberg.

Pharma takes credit for the final product, but beneath each drug developed, there are ~20 years of basic research, and 90% of the cost is from basic research funded by the NIH, which discovers drug targets, understands disease mechanisms, and creates life-saving treatments.

Figuring out how cancer evades the immune system, how addiction rewires the brain, and how heart disease develops is the role of the NIH, creating the foundation for the breakthrough drugs that come 20 years later, and the NIH does all that with only 0.8% of the US budget.

Without NIH, there would be no cancer immunotherapy, no anti-overdose medication, no anti-heart attack or stroke medication, no cutting-edge treatments.

If NIH funding is cut, the iceberg will melt. That means fewer cures, more suffering, and more lives lost.

The science beneath the surface keeps us afloat.
Invest in NIH. Invest in life

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

The person keeping you from dying from Listeria is a federal employee.

The person making sure your plane doesn’t fall out of the sky is a federal employee.

The person busting up drug rings is a federal employee.

The person prosecuting terrorists is a federal employee.

[The Lancet @TheLancet]

Read our latest issue in full ➡️ https://t.co/M1BE31WuMg

[Dr. Carmen Muñoz-Ballester @Canxuki]

To everyone thinking that cutting the research budget makes sense because of public debt, I want to remind them of Mary Lasker's words:

"If you think research is expensive, try disease"

Doing science is not a luxury we can't afford. It is investing in our future.

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

If you want to “Make America Healthy Again,” one of the worst things you can do is slash the budget of the world's largest public funder of biomedical research, the National Institutes of Health.

[Dr. Angela Rasmussen @angie_rasmussen]

Here’s a reason why the incoming NIH Director, health economist Jay Bhattacharya, should know cutting indirect costs at NIH is self-defeating and stupid.

Every $1 invested by NIH returns $2.5.

So $4B “savings” is actually $10B we lost.
https://t.co/3yzyI7B43o

[Sasha Gusev @SashaGusevPosts]

Not only has the NIH supported the most important drugs and treatments to date, the modern era of genomically driven drug discovery justifies greatly *increasing* the NIH budget. There are thousands of targets with known associatons in humans simply waiting to be characterized.

[Itai Yanai @ItaiYanai]

Science is key to the US's success but this government's intention to dramatically reduce the part of the federal grants that go to the university (in addition to the researchers; the "indirects") is like removing the unseen roots of a tree & expecting it to continue to flourish.

[Neil Shubin @NeilShubin]

Gene editing technology began by people studying salt marshes. Ozempic began by folks studying the venom of Gila monsters. Support for basic science has empowered us to understand our world. Tethering it to applications health has transformed and saved countless lives.

[Ellen Foxman @EllenFoxman]

Resource on state economic activity & jobs that will be affected by $4B cut to NIH funding of research institutions-click on your state to see the impact #NIH #indirects https://t.co/2bI1cFPBz7

[Edward Marcotte @edward_marcotte]

This will gut the #UniversityofTexas, the largest recipient of NIH funds in #Texas, along with every other US research university and biomedical institute

"Indirect costs" aren't padding. They fund core infrastructure for biomed research, from shared staff to keeping lights on

[Emma J Chory @chorye]

Imagine running a restaurant & suddenly only having budget for ingredients & chefs—no rent, electricity, heat, water, support staff, insurance, trash, toilet paper.

This is what 'cutting indirects' did to every major biomedical center & hospital in the US.

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

I can't emphasize enough how disastrous the NIH cuts will be. If implemented as proposed, it could decimate universities and college towns. And it could mean every one of us in the US and around the world will experience shorter and less healthy lives.

[Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin]

My district is home to @NIH and thousands of nonpartisan scientists who spur innovation and research cures for cystic fibrosis, lung cancer, heart disease and more.

President Trump and the GOP are jeopardizing vital medical research.

[Aaron Edwards @aedwards02]

Bio-leaders, we must SPEAK OUT. Broad, indiscriminate cuts to the FDA, NIH, and CDC threaten the very foundation that makes the U.S. the global leader in biotech innovation. ALL systems have flaws—fix them with a scalpel, not an axe.

Protect science. Protect patients.

[Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein]

When you think about the institutions that would be hit hard by the cap in indirect costs from NIH, you quickly hit on research powerhouses in red states: the Cleveland Clinic, MD Anderson, UAB and more. They are core economic drivers for their states. Will this be considered?