Kim Davis Lab

Announcing the 2025 Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease buff.ly/iQc4H0H #bwfpath

With @NIH cuts making research funding harder to secure, CRI is stepping up! We’re committing $2.5M to support 10 additional postdocs so that promising #CancerResearch doesn’t get left behind. Learn more: bit.ly/4iEQNsJ

Abstract, registration deadlines for this year's Wind River Conference on Prokaryotic Biology have been extended until April 11th! Check out wriver.sites.unlv.edu ! In it's 69th year, and for the second year in Breckenridge, CO, WR is is an historic, trainee-focused meeting.

Registration and abstract submission is open! Come to beautiful Breckenridge for the 69th Annual Wind River Conference on Prokaryotic Biology June 2-6, 2025 at the Beaver Run Resort and Conference Center! Abstracts due April 1, lodging due May 2. wriver.sites.unlv.edu

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