provide scientific and career advice. The institution, mentor and the advisory committee members are committed to the success of the candidate. CAREER DEVELOPMENT/TRAINING ACTIVITIES: This 4- year career development plan will complete Dr. Bullock's transition to scientific independence as an academic hematopathologist. Mentoring will be more focused and formal during the first 2 years of the award and maintained at a lower intensity during the last 2 years of the award to facilitate scientific growth. A major goal of the independent research strategy described in this proposal is to obtain R01 funding during the third year. RESEARCH PLAN: Erythropoietin (Epo) is an essential cytokine for efficient red blood cell (rbc) production. Iron deficiency suppresses Epo-mediated rbc production by an unknown mechanism and causes anemia despite elevated serum EpoIt’s hard to be disappointed by Donald Trump. Unlike his predecessors, he never promised to heal the nation. Or if he did, nobody believed him.

George W Bush said he was a uniter, not a divider. Barack Obama said there was no red America and no blue America. Only the United States of America. The closest thing to a unity message from Donald Trump came at his curiously underpopulated inauguration, when he said: “When America is united, America is totally unstoppable.”

Sadly, the only unstoppable part of America under Trump is his increasingly outlandish brain farts on Twitter. His best shot at uniting the nation is to create a bipartisan sense of disgust at his outbursts.

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