Matt Sikora
Assoc Prof at CU Anschutz, Cancer biologist, focus on #lobular breast cancer and gyn cancers, estrogen receptor pharmacology, and basic mechs in cancer disparities. Posts are my own. He/Him.
www.sikoralab.com
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- We've routinely asked our pediatrician "Do you have any MORE vaccines you can give them?" at every check up.
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- Reposted by Matt SikoraThe President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
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- grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... This is going to be a fun next few grant cycles....
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- Reposted by Matt SikoraWhile the government was shut down, 379 NIH study section meetings (containing 24,380 grant applications) were postponed. NIH is committed to getting these reviewed, but please be patient and understanding with staff, as this is a complex and heavy lift.
- This on top of having the October submissions to process, and recruit/assign reviewers. Hard to imagine how CSR just picks up where they left off with the depletions and chaos.
- Reposted by Matt SikoraSave the date: our faculty job market series continues this Wed, Nov12 at 3pm ET / 12p PT! Topic: on-site interviews + seminars Come hear our junior faculty share our thoughts/advice! There will also be time for Q&A. Registration link in flyer - see you soon!
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- Reposted by Matt SikoraBeshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
- For Halloween, the Sikora Lab is excited to announce the release of the debut self-titled album from **MITOTIC CATASTROPHE** with chart topping hits: - Pour Some Agar on Me - You Give Science a Bad Name - Sweet Graph 'o Mine - We're Not Gonna Fake it - Welcome to the Data - Back in Lab Rock on!!!
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- I know & trust that NIH staff will get this round of reviews done. Yet having done my own CSR reviews 'for nothing' & with my own R01 sitting unreviewed now, working on another NIH grant has never felt so painful and futile. A quiet impact on science, perhaps, robbing the joy from looking ahead.
- Reposted by Matt Sikora. @cucancercenter.bsky.social member @mjsikora.bsky.social, PhD, is a leader in research into lobular breast cancer, an understudied cancer type that’s on the rise in American women and has sharply lower survival rates several years after diagnosis than more common breast cancers. #cucityofhealth
- Reposted by Matt SikoraAfter Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.
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- Reposted by Matt SikoraSometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.
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- Reposted by Matt SikoraThe Jane Goodall Institute of Canada has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1st, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, has passed away due to natural causes. She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.
- This is going to be the most unhinged well-being survey ever.
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- This is right up there with interviewing Peter Navarro the other day - pandering to MAGA isn't going to get your funding back, NPR. There is no 'both sides' to acetaminophen and autism, it's a safe drug during pregnancy.
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- Reposted by Matt Sikora"STAT’s analysis of NIH Reporter data reveals that the agency will still fund far fewer new projects this year, due to a change in how it awards grants...the number of R grants issued has dropped much more precipitously — from 5,633 to 3,758 newly funded projects."
- Sigh. Our 8th percentile R21 officially misses the crazy 7%ile payline at NCI. At the same time, my R01 gets Y4-5 funded together, when instead of that multi-year funding, they could've funded new work on the R21!
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- NIH's NOSI on Women's Health Research was edited to expire as of yesterday, in case you were worried that the clowns in charge were finished axing research that they don't understand. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
- Reposted by Matt SikoraThis is awesome. @ellecordova.bsky.social
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- My wife and I are both PhDs and both at U. Colorado - I'm faculty and she's in admin. Most of our work convos about each other's roles end something like "lolz no thanks, better you than me".
- I had the amazing opportunity to chat w @projbridgeco.bsky.social to talk about the lab, my career, studying #lobular breast cancer, and working w patient advocates. Loved talking re where I've been & talk about what's important to me as a PI and mentor! Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0NBd...
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- A Ryan Warner interview with Mike Lamp, though sad for Mike's sign off, might be the greatest audio-based therapy ever conceived. @cprnews.bsky.social
- In today's soul-sucking waste of time tasks brought on by the current administration, I had to write a budget consolidation request and proposal to re-allocate funds intended for foreign collaborators on my R01, to comply with NOT-OD-25-104. We either end the foreign sub, or end the R01.
- It must be nice when you can just "find" whatever conclusions you want, rather than have to rely on rigorous study and data analysis.
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- 🦆DAY 21 of #31DaysOfAction Help us send a clear message that they must impeach & remove RFK “The Quack.” $3 donation = someone dressed in a duck costume will deliver a rubber duck stamped with IMPEACH THE QUACK to your Rep’s office. Help us flock the halls of Congress - Link: tinyurl.com/sufsci
- Reposted by Matt SikoraJESUS, MARY, AND JOSEPH! This gave me old Google back! It killed the AI results dead!
- 4 hour study section with one 5 (five!!!) minute break in the middle
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- I rarely am poking around in tissue culture these days, but was showing some cells to the family of one of our summer students this afternoon. Apparently I left the microscope light on. I'll let you guess what kind of shit I'm getting in the lab Teams chat right now.
- Reposted by Matt SikoraI doubt that there is a single family in America that hasn’t benefitted directly from the NIH.
- Reposted by Matt SikoraHell yeah, keep the pressure on. If you live in one of these states, call your Senators, thank them, and remind them that there are related issues where their states and the nation needs their support and willingness to stand up.
- Reposted by Matt SikoraI could not be more excited to finally announce that my lab will be moving to The Wistar Institute in Philadelphia in early September! While this is somewhat of a homecoming for me, it is a new adventure for the 6 lab members moving with me! More details to come about new roles and opportunities!
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- Grant review needs to be part of this discussion, particularly with more submissions for tighter pay lines. Eg can we leverage LOI phases better so that 20 reviewers aren't reading 60 applications in full, burning hundreds of hours to make one award?
- Cool lightning presentation from Outstanding Abstract Awardee Emily Zboril (Harrell Lab @vcumassey.bsky.social ) on the agonist activity of the anti estrogen lasofoxifene in bone, shows protective activity and blocks bone loss while suppressing tumor growth. #ENDO2025
- Reposted by Matt SikoraMy favorite talk of #Endo2025 is @liisagalea.bsky.social but also the entire sex differences session full of things we know but for some reason have ignored: females are different than males. Not more complex. Not more dynamic. Different. It’s not sexist to use funds to study this; it’s necessary.
- Beautiful talk from Dr Camilla Hughes @pennstateuniv.bsky.social on NR5A1/SF1 in regulating follicle development in the ovary. Impt role in micro environmental structure and serial steps of follicle maturation. #ENDO2025 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Dr. Ilmatar Rooda @ki.se shows really lovely integration of single-cell & spatial transcriptomics to define + map cellular subpopulations of cells within ovary, eg refining types of stromal cells and types of oocytes and how composition changes over age. #ENDO2025 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39168975/
- #ENDO2025 - workshop with NIH program officers this morning, interesting gem that the timing of your application vs timing of Fed budget changes funding decision timelines. Councils in fall often do not yet have a budget, and are very conservative w decisions until winter/spring.
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- Congrats to Early Investigator Awardee Dr. Matt Taves! Continuing a recent tradition of @nrimpact.bsky.social members on the next gen star stage 💫 @endocrinesociety.bsky.social
- Huge congrats to Early Investigator Awardee @quinascience.bsky.social! So pleased that someone so dedicated to @endocrinesociety.bsky.social is being recognized as a star in our field. #ENDO2025
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- After a day with our Early Career Forum attendees yesterday, Inga Harbuz-Miller and I realize that we're still trainees at heart ❤️ #ENDO2025 Credit @lmfendo.bsky.social for the photo and pose 😆
- If you're wondering, yes, @endocrinesociety.bsky.social will use your pictures for promo material 😂 #ENDO2025 Pretty cool to have @nrimpact.bsky.social folks featured: @profriggins.bsky.social @zmadake2.bsky.social @ayeshashafi.bsky.social @cittellylab.bsky.social Drs Cordoba-Chacon & Treviño
- #ENDO2025 kicks off today with a call to action from society prez Dr. Newell-Price, for US-based members to contact their Congresspeople in support of NIH. Proud of @endocrinesociety.bsky.social for not shying away from the challenges we face. secure.everyaction.com/PK0t2cj5NUyh...
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