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BWF Climate Health Center of Excellence Grant to Advance Climate and Health Research awarded to Rice, Baylor College of Medicine and University of Texas School of Public Health news.rice.edu/news/2026/rice… #bwfchex
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Congratulations!
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Our @Nature paper is out!
It's been known for a while that long-term dietary habits can affect how our immune system behaves. But what about much briefer changes in diet?
In mice, we found that even a few days of dietary change (think cheat days...or perhaps salad Sundays) at the onset of inflammation can profoundly alter disease severity and establish lasting inflammatory memory in tissues, even after the diet changes back.
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
This work was led by two extraordinarily dedicated and inexhaustible members of our lab: former graduate student @OwenJ457 and former technician John Tayeri. It was also an exercise in collaborative science as many labs @UCSF and @Stanford came together to bring this over the finish line - special thanks to @gardnerlabUCSF, @Molofsky_lab, @alexis_combes, @Treg_Mike. Deeply grateful to everyone who contributed!
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📢 Funding Opportunity!
BWF is accepting applications for Career Guidance for Trainees grants of $15K–$25K to support innovative approaches to preparing scientists for fulfilling careers within and beyond academia.
📅 Deadline: Jan. 13, 2027
🔗 bwfund.org/grants/career-gui…
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Rice launches the Center for Climate and Environmental Health. The event introduced FORECAST; a Burroughs Wellcome Fund grant shared with Baylor College of Medicine and UTHealth Houston.
Read about the event at this link: tinyurl.com/46emdc26
#RiceU#EnvironmentalHealth
ALT Launch event for Rice University's Center for Climate and Environmental Health: five staff pose smiling before a screen reading "Center for Climate and Environmental Health."
ALT Event audience watching presenters and dual slides titled "THIS IS BECOMING A CROWDED SPACE (WITH GOOD REASON)"; overlaid caption explains CCEH converts meteorological and environmental data into actionable health research, public communication, and policy.
ALT Audience attending a university presentation about cross‑sector partnerships; slide and caption state: "The center establishes a collaborative framework between higher education, health systems, and civic organizations."
Congratulations to @nardhygomez
Learn more about the NGPI award mechanism and funding application here:
➡️ lnkd.in/eBeESxZC
Deadline: November 17, 2026
#bwfngpi #PreTermBirth #BiomedicalResearch
Excited to share our new paper in @ScienceTM !
We built a comprehensive multi-omic atlas of chronic placental inflammation.
Congrats to @LevensonDustyn and our amazing team! #NGLlab #CRepHS @WashU_OBGYN @washu_pathology science.org/eprint/RPMKE3RWF…
From nature reviews cancer - Mapping the functional dark proteome in cancer
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A multiomic atlas reveals distinct immune landscapes in preterm and term chronic placental inflammation | Science Translational Medicine science.org/eprint/RPMKE3RWF… #bwfrepro
Orchard receives Burroughs Wellcome Fund award for viral lipid metabolism research - Center Times Plus, UT Southwestern utsouthwestern.edu/ctplus/st… via @utswnews
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Two early-career researchers win Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career awards princeton.edu/news/2026/09/2… #bwfcasi
Breaking and entering: how parasites prepare host cells for invasion wi.mit.edu/news/breaking-and… #bwfpath
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Ten simple rules for elevating Indigenous partnerships in research
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From Nature Genetics - Type 1 interferon perturbates clonal competition by reshaping human blood development
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Hosted the @BWFUND 2026 #bwfnctoy #bwfnckenan #bwfncctetoy #bwfncbtoy for orientation and an introduction to the grantee network! #bwfed #bwfenrichment
The importance of indoor airflow patterns in spreading airborne disease | Researchers explore how a key factor can mitigate or promote tuberculosis transmission.
news.mit.edu/2026/indoor-air… #bwfpath
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Congratulations to Sharon Patray (@BB_UPenn/ @yiweichang Lab) & Nicolas Shealy (@CHOP_Research/ @joeyzacks Lab) on being named 2026 @BWFUND Postdoctoral Enrichment Program Awardees! @PennBPP tinyurl.com/c5escauc
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Honored to receive the CAMS Award from @BWFUND. I’m incredibly grateful for the support of @bcmhouston. Excited to launch my lab, advance research on inborn errors of immunity, and help the next generation of scientists and physician-scientists succeed at @TexasChildrens and BCM
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Congratulations @AminNassarMD, announced as a recipient of a 2026 Career Award for Medical Scientists (CAMS) by @BWFUND!
bwfund.org/news/bwf-announce…
@SmilowCancer @YaleHemOnc
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UIC's Lauren Palmer received the @BWFUND Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease award. 🏆
She studies antimicrobial-resistant bacteria, specifically A. baumannii, a leading cause of antimicrobial-resistant infections in hospitals.
▶️bwfund.org/grants/infectious…
ALT Lauren Palmer.