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Oliver lab @lymphaticsprox1.bsky.social · Aug 5

Cuts ripple across Northwestern, as faculty warn of dire situation www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/04/n...

Cuts ripple across Northwestern, as faculty warn of dire situation

Northwestern University faculty say their work has been pummeled by a $790 million funding freeze imposed by the Trump administration.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Oliver lab @lymphaticsprox1.bsky.social · Jul 31

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Oliver lab @lymphaticsprox1.bsky.social · Jul 31

Please share this link as it is very important that colleagues and the general public are aware that since the end of April all NIH funding at Northwestern University remains frozen.

US funding freeze threatens biomedical research | Science www.science.org/doi/full/10....

www.science.org

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Oliver lab @lymphaticsprox1.bsky.social · Jun 23

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www.cnn.com/2025/06/23/h...

NIH froze funding for clinical trials at a major university. By fall, they’ll run out of funding | CNN

Northwestern University hasn’t received any funding from the NIH since the end of March. Not only could patients potentially stop receiving treatments that trials provided, the research itself could b...

www.cnn.com

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Oliver lab @lymphaticsprox1.bsky.social · Jun 15

Please share! Let people know about the devastating impact that NIH funding freeze is having at Northwestern University (and in many other ones in the US as well)
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

How Trump Blew Up Northwestern’s Business Model

The federal government froze the university’s research funding. It hasn’t offered the school a way to get it back.

www.wsj.com

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Oliver lab @lymphaticsprox1.bsky.social · Jun 14

Great to see and listen great talks from former postdocs Sathish Srinivasan, Xiaolei Liu, Noelia Escobedo, Ying Yang and Josh Scallan at the Lymphatic Forum in Chicago. Really needed spark in the middle of this dark time in history and so many uncertainties about the future of research in the US.

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Oliver lab @lymphaticsprox1.bsky.social · Jun 10

apnews.com/article/nih-... scientists publish declaration criticizing Trump's deep cuts in public health research

NIH scientists publish declaration criticizing Trump's deep cuts in public health research

President Donald Trump’s National Institutes of Health director says some employees’ critical letter to him has “fundamental misconceptions about the policy directions the NIH has taken.”

apnews.com

Oliver lab @lymphaticsprox1.bsky.social · May 19

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Miguel Torres @miguel-torres-1963.bsky.social · Mar 24

Essential roles of epicardium in coronary lymphangiogenesis unrelated to coronary blood vasculature development. VEGFD cooperates with VEGFC but only in females. Ester de la Cruz and Vanessa Cadenas in my lab + collaboration with Guillermo Oliver made it possible.

www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Epicardial VEGFC/D signaling is essential for coronary lymphangiogenesis | EMBO reports

imageimageSignals from the epicardium are essential for fetal coronary lymphangiogenesis. VEGFC and VEGFD produced by the epicardium target the subepicardial space, where they are essential for the formation of the lymphatic vasculature in a dose-...

www.embopress.org

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Oliver lab @lymphaticsprox1.bsky.social · Mar 20

Safeguarding the future of biomedical science in the United States: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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Oliver lab @lymphaticsprox1.bsky.social · Mar 7

Despite the weather the Chicago scientific community (including prospective young PhD students) gathered today to Stand UP for Science and show that science is for everyone and that NIH support is critical to keep labs running.

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Oliver lab @lymphaticsprox1.bsky.social · Mar 6

x.com/nature/statu...

nature on X: "In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet “agency priorities”. https://t.co/ALQlFtfuVd" / X

In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet “agency priorities”. https://t.co/ALQlFtfuVd

x.com

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Oliver lab @lymphaticsprox1.bsky.social · Feb 28

Oliver lab @lymphaticsprox1.bsky.social · Feb 23

Beautiful sunrise today in Chicago. Helps to make you feel better for sometime.

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Oliver lab @lymphaticsprox1.bsky.social · Feb 11

A direct hit | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A direct hit

Late last week, the Trump administration set off a frenzy in the US scientific community when the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that indirect cost reimbursement for federally funded re...

www.science.org

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Oliver lab @lymphaticsprox1.bsky.social · Feb 4

Beautiful Chicago sunrise today

Oliver lab @lymphaticsprox1.bsky.social · Jan 17

Chicago views of frozen lake yesterday afternoon and this morning

Oliver lab @lymphaticsprox1.bsky.social · Dec 17

Worth reading this BBC note about lymphatics, lymphedema and other lymphatic malfunction promoted diseases. Circulate around so people become familiar with this condition affecting millions of individuals around the world.

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Lymphoedema: The 'hidden' cancer side-effect no one talks about

Patients who beat cancer can be left with an incurable, chronic and painful condition. Sufferers and doctors alike are fighting to bring this hidden condition to light.

www.bbc.com

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Oliver lab @lymphaticsprox1.bsky.social · Dec 8

Sunset in Chicago and Zoo lights

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Oliver lab @lymphaticsprox1.bsky.social · Dec 8

Beautiful autumn sunrise over Lake Michigan in Chicago

Oliver lab @lymphaticsprox1.bsky.social · Dec 6

As a follow up on lymphatic research, here in the US NIH launched a National Commission on Lymphatic Diseases to generate a plan to better educate about lymphatics and to accelerate research in this topic.

www.nhlbi.nih.gov/advisory-and...

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Oliver lab @lymphaticsprox1.bsky.social · Dec 6

As more people and institutions become interested in the novel findings about the lymphatic vasculature in health and disease, I was encouraged to share this YouTube interview from a year ago where we discussed some of these recent progress and future possibilities.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAwK...

Lymphatic Vasculature with Dr. Guillermo Oliver: Novel Functional Roles in Homeostasis and Disease

YouTube video by Stop Chasing Pain

www.youtube.com

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Oliver lab @lymphaticsprox1.bsky.social · Nov 25

Terrific first paper from the Liu's lab on the role of CXCL12/CXCR4 signaling in the lymphatic vasculature (and also they got the cover)! Congratulations Xiaolei and many more papers to come

journals.biologists.com/dev/article-...

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Oliver lab @lymphaticsprox1.bsky.social · Nov 18

Great seeing former lab members Xin Geng, Ying Yang and Xiaolei Liu presenting the great work going on in their own labs at the AHA meeting in Chicago

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Oliver lab @lymphaticsprox1.bsky.social · Nov 17

Oliver lab will now use this social media instead of X

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