Skye Opsteen @OASkye
MD/PhD trainee interested in all things ID/HIV. @UABMSTP | #MedEd #FirstGen | ‘22-‘23 CCTS TL1 trainee | she/her 🏳️🌈 Joined November 2011-
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Officially NIH-funded!🥳 Thankful for the strong support of my mentor Dr. Nathan Erdmann, lab members, and committee members
The NIH plans to defund the WHI, the largest clinical trial ever for women that was meant to catch up on missed research. This study has been a fountain of knowledge. The hatred of women from this administration is really from cradle to grave. science.org/content/articl…
🌟 FUTURE LEADERS: Skye Opsteen shares how curiosity, mentorship, and purpose shaped her career in #InfectiousDisease. Valuable advice for aspiring researchers! Read more about her inspiring story and career tips! touchinfectiousdiseases.com/insight/curios… @OASkye
Our NIH grant to discover coronavirus antiviral meds was terminated today. With this grant, we had developed a better SARSCoV2 inhibitor than Paxlovid, and we recently discovered an improved drug that looks better than Pfizer's own second-generation inhibitor.
We did not authorize or condone the White House’s use of our song “Closing Time" in any way. And no, they didn’t ask. The song is about joy and possibilities and hope, and they have missed the point entirely.
We're close to Cybertrucks having more rights than women
We're close to Cybertrucks having more rights than women
This decision — and other federal efforts to undermine well-established science about vaccine safety — puts everyone at risk, says IDSA President Tina Tan, MD, FIDSA, FPIDS, FAAP. Our statement in response to the cancellation of the FDA meeting: idsociety.org/news--publicat…
Intelligence officials are starting to leak to me now too. Here’s a memo Defense Intelligence Agency personnel received instructing them to suspend observances including: - Holocaust Remembrance Day - MLK Day - Juneteenth
Don’t buy this for a minute. The MD shortage is manufactured by Congress. It exists because of corruption. The number of residency training spots is capped by Congress under the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. While medical schools have increased enrollment to address physician…
Don’t buy this for a minute. The MD shortage is manufactured by Congress. It exists because of corruption. The number of residency training spots is capped by Congress under the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. While medical schools have increased enrollment to address physician…
Fluoride prevents tooth decay. Tooth decay is a factor in cardiovascular disease. That’s why.
Fluoride prevents tooth decay. Tooth decay is a factor in cardiovascular disease. That’s why.
Dark times keep getting darker.
they're calling it a PhD
Sorry I can’t make it, it’s dark by 6pm and I have an astigmatism and also I don’t want to.

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