🚨 The Senate is on the verge of taking away #healthcare coverage from at least 15M people, including children with asthma and people undergoing cancer treatments. Tell your Senators to stop the cuts to #Medicaid, healthcare and #cleanair programs. lung.quorum.us/campaign/Senat…

NIH will reinstate 900 grants in response to court order | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

The Trump administration has ended several U.S. science agencies’ subscriptions to Springer Nature journals, including the prestigious Nature titles. scim.ag/3GiR9HU

More than scientists, because if labs close this will lead to losses in jobs that support R&D nationally. Our #SCIMaP analysis estimates that FY26 NIH cuts alone will lead to $46B in economic losses and 202K lost jobs in communities throughout the US. scienceimpacts.org/fy26

Please everyone engaged in preclinical research - take a deep breath. Wait for the formal NIH notice of policy change to be released (it’s not online yet). Alternative model systems have always existed and are incorporated in many of our grants now. drugdiscoverytrends.com/nih-announces-…

nature.com/articles/d4158…

Two new PhD candidates in the Burger lab! Congrats Alyssa Granados alyssa granados and Rohan Chaudhari! A great way to celebrate summer! 🎉

🚀 Join CongLab Stanford University! We’re hiring postdocs to create lab-in-the-loop self-evolving AI agents, open benchmarks, to design, test & learn—advancing safer gene & cell therapies. Build on CRISPR-GPT, RNAGenesis model, Genome-Bench, for innovative medicines. #PostdocJobs

NCI Interim Funding Policy: “With these considerations, we expect to fund through the 4th percentile for those established investigator applications.” “It is expected that funds will be available to reach the 10th percentile for those Early Stage Investigator applications.” 😢

I cannot stress this enough: pairing a 4% funding line with the largest cut in NCI history will devastate the future of cancer research - and patients. We would be turning our backs on decades of progress.

A glimmer of hope! “To the scientists wondering if there will even be an NIH by the end of this administration: This committee’s resounding message is ‘yes,’” she said. “Congress has your back…” science.org/content/articl…

COEXIST — a new algorithm to align serial multiplex tissue imaging (MTI) sections at single-cell resolution. By integrating spatial + molecular features, COEXIST overcomes biological heterogeneity to unlock deeper insights into the tumor microenvironment. doi.org/10.1371/journa…

Phil and Penny Knight announced today a record-breaking $2 billion gift to the Oregon Health & Science University’s Knight Cancer Institute to transform the future of cancer care and set a new standard globally. Thank you to Phil and Penny Knight for their incredible generosity.

Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife, Penny, are donating $2 billion to Oregon Health & Science University’s Knight Cancer Institute—the largest known single gift to a U.S. university, coming at a time when colleges’ public funding is under siege on.wsj.com/47tIiOE

Huge day OHSU Knight Cancer Institute! A ✌️two billion gift from Phil and Penny Knight that will be transformative for cancer care at the time it is most needed! The Burger Lab is doing their part to answer the calling of curing cancer as we know it and is incredibly grateful for this generosity!

Join us for this year’s Early Detection of Cancer conference! 🗓️ Oct. 21-23 📍Portland, OR 🤝 Science and Innovation at Cancer Research UK, Canary Center at Stanford The conference will be packed with discussions, lightning talks from submitted abstracts, and networking opportunities. Register: bit.ly/3In0wHu

Join us for this year’s Early Detection of Cancer conference! 🗓️ Oct. 21-23 📍Portland, OR 🤝 Science and Innovation at Cancer Research UK, Canary Center at Stanford The conference will be packed with discussions, lightning talks from submitted abstracts, and networking opportunities. Register: bit.ly/3In0wHu

Happy Halloween from the Burger lab!

It’s Lung Cancer Awareness Month! A 15 min CT scan can catch lung cancer early and save lives! Happy to be spreading the word at OHSU’s Pink and Pearl Campaign with members of the Burger lab and Thoracic Oncology team. OHSU Knight Cancer Institute

#MondayMotivation: Overall #LungCancer survival rates are nearly double what they were 20 years ago. Research makes a difference! Spread the word and help bring that total even higher. We've got work to do! LCRF.org/LCAM #LCAM