Been hearing some horrifying chatter about dealing with the new #NIH common form and #ScienCV system, so I put together a short video with some tricks for mitigating some of those pain points.
Hope it helps? 🧪
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Abstract submissions are due on January 16th for the 2026 annual meeting of the Brain Tumor Epidemiology Consortium! Please submit an abstract and join us in London this May. Travel awards are available for the highest scoring trainee abstracts. www.braintumorepi.org/events/annua...
I am recruiting a postdoc focused on analysis of 'omic' data with the goal of identifying cell types that modulate GBM predisposition.
An ideal candidate would have expertise in analysis of:
• Single cell/spatial sequencing.
• Bulk RNA
• WXS
• Genotyping array.
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Abstract submissions are due on January 16th for the 2026 annual meeting of the Brain Tumor Epidemiology Consortium! Please submit an abstract and join us in London this May. Travel awards are available for the highest scoring trainee abstracts. www.braintumorepi.org/events/annua...
Poster for upcoming BTEC conference
Abstract submissions are open for BTEC 2026! Please submit an abstract on your work on brain tumor epidemiology and join us in London next year. Travel awards are available for the highest scoring trainee abstracts. www.braintumorepi.org/events/annua...
few outcomes, except for 99% of FDA-approved drugs, 174 recipients of 104 Nobel Prizes, training ~30K MDs and ~10K PhDs per year to enter the workforce, and a 34% reduction in age-adjusted cancer deaths since 1990 -- the largest decrease in history
This is figure 3, which shows the effect of the zoster vaccine on new diagnoses of dementia.
The shingles vaccine reduced the probability of new #dementia diagnoses by around one-fifth over seven years, according to a large-scale study of a population in Wales, UK, reported in Nature. https://go.nature.com/4460AE4 🧪
Every spring, Karolinska Institutet has a call for funded faculty positions. It’s a great place for epidemiology and science in general. Keep a look out at this space! (New positions not posted yet)
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The Brain Tumor Epidemiology Consortium (BTEC) Mentoring Executive Committee is seeking applicants for fellowship training in brain tumor epidemiologic and clinical research. Applications are requested by December 15, 2024. sites.usc.edu/braintumorca...
Please join us next spring in Durham when we host the annual meeting of the Brain Tumor Epidemiology Consortium (BTEC) focused on brain metastasis! Registration and abstract submission open now with junior investigator travel awards available. sites.usc.edu/braintumorca...
