Robert Hoover
@bhoov4
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Chief of Nephrology @tulaneredbeans Howard University and UCLA School of Medicine alumnus. opinions my own.
New Orleans, LA
Joined August 2018
In a potentially dramatic change to how it chooses what science to fund, NIH is ending a long-running practice at many of its institutes of establishing, and making public, a threshold peer-review score needed for a grant application’s approval.
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Policy drops “paylines” based on peer-review scores and requires geography and other factors to guide approvals
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Due to the shutdown, NIH cancelled >370 study sections, impacting >24,000 applications Rescheduled meetings will only discuss 30-35% of applications, have simplified summary statements (no narrative paragraph), and a new category - "competitive but ND" https://t.co/GL6DN31uue
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Canada has joined a growing list of countries looking to take advantage of the turmoil in the U.S. scientific community and lure high-level researchers to its universities.
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Spending plan also calls for smaller research spending cut than feared
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Another year Moderating the ASN Kidney STARS career guidance panel. We have experts from peds-neph, transplant, private practice, and onconeph. A true testament to the Renaissance thats happening in Nephrology. @ASNKidney
#asnkidneywk2025
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And almost 3 decades later, in 2011, I prescribed immunotherapy for the very first time in my career and watched a patient’s melanoma melt away The gap between advances in basic science and progress in the clinic can be long but, without research, we won’t move forward at all!
#OTD in 1982 laureate James Allison published a paper in the Journal of Immunology identifying the protein structure of the T cell receptor, a previously mysterious ignition switch for immune response. His research led to a new way to treat cancer by using our own immune
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In a move that is amplifying fears of the politicization of science under President Donald Trump, the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has abruptly replaced the chief of NIH’s environmental health institute with a close friend of Vice President JD Vance.
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Unusual hiring process raises fears of political favoritism
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Implicit bias in academic medicine can impact: -clinical decision making -med school admissions -evaluating performance of students/trainees -medical record entries Proud to be an invited lecturer for 6 years in a row at the Harvard-BIDMC annual #HMSMedEd25 course.
.@DrQuinnCapers4 concludes Day 1 of #HMSMedEd25 with an important discussion on reducing implicit bias in medicine and healthcare.
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AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake…
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Medicaid cuts ahead prompt rural Georgia hospital to shutter childbirth unit. “Our fear is there’s going to be highway deliveries. There’s going to be women on the side of the road having babies and no prenatal care,”
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St. Mary’s Sacred Heart Hospital was already struggling. Funding cuts from Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act tipped the scales.
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Measles is highly contagious & very serious. A severe case can lead to pneumonia and encephalitis (swelling of the brain), or even death. This doesn't have to happen. The best way to prevent the spread of measles is to get vaccinated.
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“Anarchy is not loosed upon the world in a single cataclysm but in the daily acceptance that there’s nothing to be done, because if something does need to be done someone else will surely do it. But there is no someone else. There is only we—no one but us.” Always read
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Only one person shot Charlie Kirk. But we are all responsible for the state of our country.
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CONGRATULATIONS! 🎉 Dr. Heddwen Brooks received the @American_Heart Harriet Dustan Award for her pioneering research on "Sex Differences in Immune-Mediated Hypertension: Why Menopause Matters" https://t.co/FGvs43PvNF
#Hypertension25 @AJPRenalEIC
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Congratulations to Dr. Jia L. Zhou for winning the prestigious award Lewis K. Dahl Memorial Sponsored by the Council on Hypertension #Hypertension25
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Frankly, I have seen enough. Secretary Kennedy should be fired immediately. He's destroying the agency responsible for keeping diseases (like measles and Ebola) under control. This is deadly serious.
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Vaccines save lives. This is anti-science, anti-public health and will cause needless death and destruction. And the FACT that the face of this is a Nigerian American male physician hurts my heart. Lastly, never compare vaccine mandates to chattel slavery. 🗑️
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NINE former CDC Directors spanning every administration from Carter to Trump, have issued a rare public rebuke of RFK Jr., warning of the harm his rhetoric and attacks on public health is doing. Their message: this is a time to rally to protect the health of every American.
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The irony of all this is that few investments match the ROI of scientific research. Every $1 invested yields major returns in jobs, innovation, and better health for our country. Cutting it guarantees economic and health losses we’ll feel for decades.
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A bad day for science, and huge blow to our national security. This decision will have dangerous repercussions. Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts https://t.co/uHTwjzx6x1 via @NYTimes @apoorva_nyc @JenniferNuzzo @scotthensley
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That kind of shot was first used during the Covid-19 pandemic, but the health secretary has been sharply critical of the technology.
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No. Mr. President. In America, you do not fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for releasing a jobs report that you don’t like. That's what authoritarians do. We need serious economists in these positions, not hacks who will only tell you what you want to hear.
Breaking News: President Trump moved to fire the official in charge of jobs data, claiming, without evidence, that labor numbers were being “manipulated.”
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I am very proud to share the publication of our group by German Magaña-Ávila @GermanRick95 commanded by María Castañeda-Bueno @MARIACASTABU, showing the role of NRBP1 and TSC22D in WNK body formation and WNK4-NCC activation. Kudos María! https://t.co/p9bKiuRiqv
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The pseudokinase NRBP1 and its associated TSC22D proteins modulate WNK kinases to regulate sodium reabsorption in the kidney.
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