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Abstracts due August 3 - Submit your abstract

The OMB proposal (OMB #2026-0034-0001) proposes significant changes in how federal research grants are evaluated and administered and, if enacted, will diminish our research enterprise.

Almost 500,000 were submitted by the July 13th deadline but the work is not over!

Attend Research!America's live advocacy event on August 11th.

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Image from the lab of Ondine Cleaver. Image of an Esm1 expressing tip cell lineage traced in the developing mouse kidney using a pulse of low dose tamoxifen at E12.5 of development. Green, lineage traced myrTom labeled cell. Pink, Cdh5 immunofluorescent stain. White, Six2 immunofluorescent stain. Image by Peter Luo, MSTP student UTSW.

NAVBO Meritorious Award Recipients:

Anne Eichmann - Earl P. Benditt Award
Yajaira Suarez - Judah Folkman Award
Mahdi Garelnabi - Florence Sabin Award
Klaus Ley - Stephen Schwartz Award for Outstanding Mentorship
Callie Kwartler - Spring Junior Investigator Award