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Prof. Brian Aguado @brianaguado.bsky.social · Aug 2

Hi Bluesky! 👋 I’m Brian Aguado, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at UC San Diego. My lab investigates sex differences in cardiovascular disease using biomaterials and tissue engineering tools. Let’s dismantle the science patriarchy & perform equitable science for all. I also pretend to surf! 😜

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Jason Williams @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social · 13d

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment.

The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP

jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

jasonjwilliamsny.github.io

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UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering @jacobsschool.bsky.social · 15d

Step inside the brand-new @ucsandiego.bsky.social Bioengineering Instructional Lab spaces, which are ready for students this fall! Bioengineering lab courses will benefit from a larger, sleeker space, while bioengineering design projects will come to life in a cutting-edge makerspace.

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American Institute for Medical & Biological Engineering (AIMBE) @aimbe-official.bsky.social · 15d

🚨 AIMBE calls on the scientific community to urge Congress to ensure timely passage of the FY2026 budget 👇

Strong, sustained funding for our nation's health and science agencies is essential for economic prosperity, U.S. global competitiveness, and public heath.

takeaction.io/aimbe/protec...

Protect Research: Finalize FY2026 Budget Now

Use AIMBE's letter template below to send an email to your Members of Congress on issues that matter. We encourage you to edit and personalize the note, sharing your individual experience. Please note...

takeaction.io

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Prof. Brian Aguado @brianaguado.bsky.social · Jul 3

Happy 4th bday to the #AguadoLab! Made my signature BBQ chicken and played games - Chameleon was super fun!! Thankful for this team always and everything they do! 💙

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Prof. Brian Aguado @brianaguado.bsky.social · Jul 2

Congratulations my friend!! Inspirational!! ⭐️

Prof. Brian Aguado @brianaguado.bsky.social · Jun 20

Kicking off summer celebrating my National Science Foundation CAREER Award! ☀️🔬 Your US taxpayer dollars will be invested in the #AguadoLab to learn how sex chromosomes modulate health & disease using our bioengineered cell culture platforms and educate future bioengineers about sex differences! 🙌

Brian Aguado smiling next to a confocal microscope.

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Prof. Brian Aguado @brianaguado.bsky.social · Jun 19

CRUSHING THE GAME!! Congratulations, @doctheagrif.bsky.social!! 💕

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Theanne Griffith, PhD 🇧🇧👩🏽‍🔬🇭🇷 @doctheagrif.bsky.social · Jun 19

I’m so honored to be selected as both a 2025 McKnight Scholar and 2025 HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar. And I couldn’t be prouder to share these honors with awesome @ucdavis.bsky.social colleagues 💙💛💙💛

health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlin...

UC Davis researchers honored by McKnight and Howard Hughes Medical Institute

UC Davis faculty Sergey Stavisky, Theanne Griffith and Elisa Zhang receive prestigious early-career recognition from McKnight Endowment Fund and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

health.ucdavis.edu

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ASMB @amsocmatbio.bsky.social · Jun 13

Have you seen the #scientific #session #topics at the ASMB 2025 Biennial meeting #ASMB2025?!

There is something for everyone in the #ECMatrix #Community.

Don't Miss Our Important Deadlines & #YOU could be presenting your work at #ASMB2025!

Details @ www.ASMB.net

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Santiago Correa, PhD (he/him) @santicorreaphd.bsky.social · Jun 10

I'm honored to join the amazing community of Beckman researchers! I want to thank all the mentors and friends who helped me reach this milestone -- it's too many to list!! This funding will support our work integrating synthetic and natural nanomaterials to develop new cancer immunotherapies

Beckman Foundation @beckman-foundation.bsky.social · Jun 10

Congratulations to our 2025 Beckman Young Investigator Awardees! Ten researchers to receive $6M in total science #funding for cutting-edge #research: www.beckman-foundation.org/latest-news/...
#BYI #beckman #science #grants #academia #chemistry #lifesciences

Beckman Foundation Announces 2025 Beckman Young Investigator Awardees

Beckman Foundation announces 2025 Beckman Young Investigator Awardees - 10 researchers selected to receive $6M in total science funding for cutting-edge research. #BYI

www.beckman-foundation.org

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Prof. Brian Aguado @brianaguado.bsky.social · Jun 7

Huge congrats to Brandon Vogt & friends on our on Science Advances @science.org paper!!! We leveraged hydrogel biomaterials & AI tools from Dean Ho’s lab at NUS to determine sex-dependent drug combinations that target valve myofibroblasts! 🎯
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@jacobsschool.bsky.social

Celebrating the latest Aguado Lab publication with a Strawberry Fraisier cake! L to R smiling: Megan Chavez, co-author, Brandon Vogt, first author, and Brian Aguado, senior author/PI.

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Monica Ohnsorg, Ph.D. @monicaohnsorg.bsky.social · May 20

I am THRILLED to officially announce that I have accepted a position as an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison starting January 2026! My lab will use expertise in polymer science, biomaterials, and ECM engineering study osteochondral disease! 🦡 🔬🧪🧫 🦴

Me holding a scarf that says biomedical engineering while wearing a UW-Madison branded winter hat and quarter zip

Me popping a bottle of champagne while wearing UW-Madison quarter-zip standing on a balcony in front of the Flatirons

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Sonya Neal @neal-lab.bsky.social · May 9

Huge thanks to @joann-trejo.bsky.social for delivering a powerful and inspiring keynote at the @bummpatucsd.bsky.social annual symposium. Your words lit a fire in the room and reminded us why pursuit of bold science, mentorship and community matter♥️

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ASMB @amsocmatbio.bsky.social · Apr 30

Join us Thursday 05/08 @ 12:30pm for another exciting #Esymposium about Similarities &Differences in Extracellular Matrix Remodeling by Sex/Gender.

#MeetTheSpeaker #1, Dr. Brian Aguado (@BrianAguado), Assistant Professor Bioengineering at @UCSD
REGISTER: www.asmb.net/e-symposia

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Upendra Chalise, PhD @uppenn.bsky.social · May 5

Join us for the ASMB eysmposium this Thursday, we have amazing speakers lined up for the event.

REGISTER: www.asmb.net/e-symposia

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American Institute for Medical & Biological Engineering (AIMBE) @aimbe-official.bsky.social · May 5

🚨 AIMBE is calling on the biomedical research community to take a minute to send our 3 new advocacy letters urging Congress to:

1. Protect the STEM Training Pipeline (e.g., NIH MOSAIC, T32s, MARC, etc.)

2. Oppose Indirect Cost Caps

3. Support Research Funding in FY2026

aimbe.org/advocate/wri...

A screen capture of the AIMBE advocacy webpage with 3 advocacy letters outlined in red boxes: STEM Training Pipeline, NIH & NSF Indirect Cost Caps, and FY26 Funding.

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Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert @drsakiyama.bsky.social · Apr 30

Federal research funding flows to all 50 states and is a critical part of the economy in many college towns around the US. Federal research funding "has now become one of the few drivers of innovation that is widely distributed across the country". www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

See Where Federal Dollars Flow to Universities Around the Country (Gift Article)

The Trump administration has targeted a few elite universities with its threats to freeze funding. But many more schools around the country are vulnerable.

www.nytimes.com

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Christman Lab @christmanlab.bsky.social · Apr 28

Great work with our long time collaborator Nathan Gianneschi, PhD on a new minimally invasive treatment strategy for acute myocardial infarction with implication for other inflammatory and ischemic conditions. Our outstanding former PhD students Josh Mesfin and Kendal Carrow, PhD led the work.

UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering @jacobsschool.bsky.social · Apr 25

This injected, protein-like polymer helps tissues heal after a #heartattack: work by @ucsandiego.bsky.social @christmanlab.bsky.social & Northwestern: today.ucsd.edu/story/this-i...
#bioengineering #heartfailure #engineeringinmedicine

This Injected Protein-like Polymer Helps Tissues Heal After a Heart Attack

Researchers have developed a new therapy that can be injected intravenously right after a heart attack to promote healing and prevent heart failure. The therapy both prompts the immune system to encou...

today.ucsd.edu

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Erika Cyphert, PhD @elcyphert-phd.bsky.social · Apr 23

Big milestone for the Cyphert lab - check out our first publication in npj Antimicrobials and Resistance! This paper was led by a team of amazing grad students: Tanya, Aryak, and Yumie and undergraduates Julie, Arlene, and Sidhant. @jacobsschool.bsky.social #newPI www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Leveraging the microbiome to combat antibiotic resistant gynecological infections

npj Antimicrobials and Resistance - Leveraging the microbiome to combat antibiotic resistant gynecological infections

www.nature.com

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · Apr 21

Good job team America
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · Apr 19

This framing is disingenuous. The government became dependent on universities to produce science, social science & technology. This was never a charity relationship. Government invest in what is useful to it. It’s not mysterious & govt has frankly gotten a good deal.

Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · Apr 19

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/u...

How Universities Became So Dependent on the Federal Government

For decades, universities got billions in federal dollars for research. The relationship was mutually beneficial, until President Trump decided it wasn’t.

www.nytimes.com

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Prof. Brian Aguado @brianaguado.bsky.social · Apr 11

POV: Plenary lecture at the Society For Biomaterials - definitely my best SFB selfie yet! 📸 Thank you to the SFB community for the 2025 Young Investigator Award - my lab is committed to our mission to understand sex chromosome biology & develop better treatments for all! @jacobsschool.bsky.social

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Jeff Saucerman @jsauce7.bsky.social · Apr 7

Terrific paper by post-doc @aclark.bsky.social in @plos.org
Comp Biol. This tutorial enables students and biologists to simulate biological networks with our tool Netflux, no programming required! #sysbio #cardiosky 🧪

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Elaine Jeong @elainejeong.bsky.social · Apr 3

Next week, I will be at Humanities Unlocking Biomaterials' inaugural meeting and 50th Annual Meeting of Society For Biomaterials in Chicago! Come meet me to discuss your work and learn about Cell Biomaterials!
#HUB, #SFB, #Biomaterials

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American Institute for Medical & Biological Engineering (AIMBE) @aimbe-official.bsky.social · Apr 3

Thank you to everyone for making the #AIMBE2025 Annual Meeting a highly engaging and productive event!

Now more than ever, your scientific voices and collective advocacy are crucial as we continue these conversations back in your local communities.

We look forward to seeing you all again soon!

A group photo of past and current AIMBE Presidents with Executive Director Dawn Beraud (rightmost) at the 2025 President's Circle Reception at The Cosmos Club.

A group photo of the 2025 AIMBE awardees during the banquet.

A group photo of the inaugural 2025 AIMBE Emerging Leaders Program cohort.

A group picture of >100 AIMBE advocates participating in our largest-ever Hill Day.

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