Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology, Center for Alzheimer's and Neurodegenerative Diseases, UT Southwestern. My lab studies damaged things. Sometimes we fix them. https://www.davidwsanders.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidwsanders.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidwsanders.bsky.social/post/3mk5chz4ot22vSo excited that UTSW was able to retain your talent. Mol Bio SLAYS! [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Apr 2026 05:42 +0000at://did:plc:vtoyuvrc23fjnwbnrtk2tt7o/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk5chz4ot22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidwsanders.bsky.social/post/3mfpa6usbvs24The function of nuclear speckles is revealed! This is an incredibly important paper with absolutely beautiful data! Wow! https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(26)00098-X25 Feb 2026 17:43 +0000at://did:plc:vtoyuvrc23fjnwbnrtk2tt7o/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfpa6usbvs24https://bsky.app/profile/davidwsanders.bsky.social/post/3mf465dosh22iWhat is this? I didn’t know that I needed to pay my training fellowship loans….18 Feb 2026 03:45 +0000at://did:plc:vtoyuvrc23fjnwbnrtk2tt7o/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf465dosh22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/davidwsanders.bsky.social/post/3m4vke62pms2xDPRIT passes! $3-billion Texas investment in dementia research: https://www.alz.org/news/2025/texas-proposition-14-passes-nations-largest-state-funded-dementia-research-initiative05 Nov 2025 17:14 +0000at://did:plc:vtoyuvrc23fjnwbnrtk2tt7o/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4vke62pms2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/davidwsanders.bsky.social/post/3m3gb5bvg4s2eUt southwestern is recruiting! 3-milly start-up for tenure-track or tenured PI positions in O’Donnell Brain institute. Basic and translational neuroscientists both. If I can call myself a neuroscientist, so can you! Please consider reposting :) #DPRITisComing apply.interfolio.com/174927 https://apply.interfolio.com/17492717 Oct 2025 21:54 +0000at://did:plc:vtoyuvrc23fjnwbnrtk2tt7o/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3gb5bvg4s2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/davidwsanders.bsky.social/post/3m2pi2gotcc2xHumbled to announce that we received a New Innovator award. I thank the NIH’s civil servants for their hard work during a stressful funding cycle. I thank the leadership (and chair, Marc Diamond) at UTSW for betting on my lab’s high risk, high reward research. https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2025/oct-nih-directors-new-innovator-award.html08 Oct 2025 20:26 +0000at://did:plc:vtoyuvrc23fjnwbnrtk2tt7o/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2pi2gotcc2x