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Débora Vendramini-Costa, Ph.D

@debvendramini.bsky.social

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Pancreatic Tumor Microenvironment, immunosuppression and Fibroblasts + ECM. Assistant Scientist and co-Leader of the Vendramini-Francescone Lab at Henry Ford Pancreatic Cancer Center, HFH+Michigan State University, Detroit-MI. Breast cancer survivor 💪🏽

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Débora Vendramini-Costa, Ph.D @debvendramini.bsky.social · Nov 17

Hello 🦋! @rafrancescone.bsky.social and I co-lead a lab focused in dissecting mechanisms by how the tumor microenvironment in pancreatic cancer is created and sustained. This is especially important since most of the bulk pancreatic tumor is composed by stromal components and it is very fibrotic 1/

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Edna Cukierman - Tumor Microenvironment @tme-caf-ecm.bsky.social · 8d

#AACRPan25 @theaacr.bsky.social
Being a #ProudisimaPI & the opportunity of becoming a #ProudisimaColleague
is the best feeling ever!

#pancreaticcancer #foxchasecancercenter @jayeperview.bsky.social @debvendramini.bsky.social @saumyamarumdphd.bsky.social #AlexDolskii @brookepereira.bsky.social

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Débora Vendramini-Costa, Ph.D @debvendramini.bsky.social · 7d

Amazing talk by Dr Jaye Gardiner @jayeperview.bsky.social new PI at Tufts University, on the biology of ECM/CAFs in pancreatic cancer. I’m so proud of you, Jaye!

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Débora Vendramini-Costa, Ph.D @debvendramini.bsky.social · Jul 11

10 faculty positions!

Henry Ford + MSU is seeking up to 10 CANCER researchers to join our Detroit campus, who will collaborate closely with scientists and clinicians across MSU and Henry Ford Health.

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InfoReady

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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · Mar 22

The new Defense department budget erases $20 MILLION DOLLARS for pancreatic cancer research. $20,000,000 gone, for a disease with a 5-year survival rate of 13%.

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · Mar 22

Elbows up, Canada.

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · Mar 21

“If large numbers of academics working in the U.S. do decide to leave, Gold doubts other countries will be able to absorb them all. The end result, he warns, could be an exodus of talent from global science. “My biggest fear,” he says, is that “we’re going to lose a cohort of researchers.”” 🧪

Overseas universities see opportunity in U.S. ‘brain drain’

But many U.S.-based scientists seeking to leave may struggle to find positions in countries grappling with funding issues of their own

www.science.org

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Megan Radyk, Ph.D. @radykm.bsky.social · Mar 8

One of the day’s highlights was hearing from @debvendramini.bsky.social thank you for speaking up and sharing why research is so important!!

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Débora Vendramini-Costa, Ph.D @debvendramini.bsky.social · Mar 8

Thank you for sharing 💖

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PitarresiLab @pitarresilab.bsky.social · Mar 4

Anyone have experience doing phosphoproteomics with a company?

There are many options out there, so looking to see if anyone had a good experience with a company.

We have a relatively simple experimental design: Pancreatic cancer cell lines +/- our gene of interest (a kinase).

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Débora Vendramini-Costa, Ph.D @debvendramini.bsky.social · Mar 3

Will send ours! Can’t wait to connect with cancer researchers in Europe!

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Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · Mar 2

I beg my science colleagues to speak with the media about what's happening now.

When I was given the opportunity, I spoke with Nature about HHMI massive cut. I am an immigrant on a working visa, and I am not a professor. Anyone can talk. Silence in the face of injustice is injustice in action.

Nature news, Feb 7, 2025. Have Trump’s anti-DEI orders hit private funders? HHMI halts inclusive science programme
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a huge funder of biomedical research, has cut a $60-million initiative to boost diversity in science education.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Mar 2

We're Standing Up for Science on March 7th, in DC & Nationwide!

The future of science is bright, but we need to protect it—because science benefits everyone.

More information: www.standupforscience2025.org

☀️⬇️📣

teal background with white text that says, standing up for science is standing up for individuals with cancer.

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Chris ❌👑 @cgeerer.bsky.social · Mar 2

Michigan! Stand up! Lansing, Flint, Wayne State!

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Débora Vendramini-Costa, Ph.D @debvendramini.bsky.social · Mar 2

I will be in Lansing, MI!!!!!

Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Mar 2

WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!?

Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one!

#standupforscience2025

Map of Stand Up for Science events, with official SUFS events in Red and solidarity events in Blue

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Michigan4Science @michigan4science.bsky.social · Feb 23

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First CDC vaccine meeting under Trump administration is postponed

The panel of vaccine experts were supposed to hold their first meeting under the Trump administration in late February. It's not clear when that meeting will now take place.

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Michigan4Science @michigan4science.bsky.social · Feb 23

standupforscience2025.org

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

March 7, 2025. Washington DC and nationwide. Because science is for everyone.

standupforscience2025.org

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Michigan4Science @michigan4science.bsky.social · Feb 23

Michigan time to stand up!!!

Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Feb 21

TWO WEEKS UNTIL #STANDUPFORSCIENCE2025! 📣☀️🌎

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · Feb 21

Ok scientists & those who love science 🧪: here is another exhortation. Call Congress TODAY about the freeze on NIH Council Meetings and Study Sections. Emphasize that this means NO new grants are being funded & labs will soon start to shut down and fire employees. Phone numbers are at:
5calls.org

5 Calls

Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

5calls.org

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Débora Vendramini-Costa, Ph.D @debvendramini.bsky.social · Feb 22

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Sign the Petition

Restrict ICE Operations in Sensitive Locations such as Schools and Churches

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Débora Vendramini-Costa, Ph.D @debvendramini.bsky.social · Feb 18

💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Feb 9

My #Yale colleague Harlan Krumholz explains why the cuts to indirect costs are a disaster for biomedical research in the United States. Want to do something about it? I'll list those who have to hear from us below. Share, recruit friends and family to help. 1/ www.statnews.com/2025/02/08/n....

The NIH’s drastic cut to indirect cost rates is a critical threat to U.S. research infrastructure

The drastic reduction in indirect costs is not a path to innovation or cost savings — it’s a threat to U.S.’s position as global leader in medical research.

www.statnews.com

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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · Feb 1

I wrote this just two weeks ago - could not have imagined how broadly #science and #researchers in the US have been impacted since then

  Science is a #global community 🌍 🌎 🌏

We're all very concerned for our friends, colleagues, and young researchers in the US right now  

#solidarityforscience 🧪

Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · Jan 17

Seeing a huge increase in applications to our lab from scientists in the US 🧪 in the last few months

It feels like the coming years are going to have a far-reaching impact on global science..

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Jan 29

NSF grantees - people who have already received their grants based on a previously funded and approved research proposal - are being told to stop any activities related to DEI and accessibility.
Call this what it is: government censorship of ongoing research projects.
www.opm.gov/policy-data-...

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Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · Jan 26

Rates of #cancer in #young #adults have risen dramatically in recent years - as discussed in this article..

We urgently need to invest in #research 🧪 on early-onset cancers to understand - why?

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Ultra-processed food? Forever chemicals? Declining birth rates? What’s behind rising cancer in the under-50s?

Research into the disease has never been more far-reaching, but there is little consensus as to what is causing the rocketing rates of diagnosis in young adults

www.theguardian.com

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