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Universities Struggle to Keep Cancer Research Afloat Amid Trump Funding Cuts
- The Trump administration cut more than 58,000 federal research jobs and froze nearly $3 billion in grants by early 2025, affecting universities like Harvard and Columbia.
- These actions followed executive orders targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and campus protests related to the Gaza war, prompting lawsuits and criticism from Senate Democrats.
- Harvard Medical School lost about 350 federal grants supporting cancer research, forcing layoffs and jeopardizing projects from Biden's Cancer Moonshot initiative that once invested over $1 billion since 2016.
- Harvard's president and provost pledged $250 million to sustain key research temporarily, while experts warn these funding cuts risk long-term harm and delay scientific progress nationwide.
- Affected researchers are pursuing alternative careers, retraining, or considering moves abroad, signaling a possible loss of U.S. research talent and a bleak job market in science.
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Universities that run the risk of failing, scientists who lose their jobs and projects stalled: in the US a state-of-the-art system is dismantled and the EU is running out...
The Bakersfield Californian
Another casualty of Trump research cuts? California students who want to be scientists
This spring, the National Institutes of Health quietly began terminating programs at scores of colleges that prepared promising undergraduate and graduate students for doctoral degrees in the sciences.
The threat to the NIH
What is the National Institutes of Health?It's the largest funder of biomedical research in the world by far and the force behind some of the biggest medical breakthroughs of the 21st century. Begun as a single-room laboratory in a Staten Island hospital in 1887, the NIH has ballooned into a $47 billion organization with thousands of employees. Through grants to hundreds of thousands of researchers, the NIH has aided in the discovery of semaglut…
NIH staff stage walkout during director’s town hall as tensions persist over research cuts, ideology
Twenty-seven minutes into a town hall with staff last week, US National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya acknowledged that he was going to get into uncomfortable territory.
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