Cutting federal funding for academic research will hurt Wyoming

Cutting federal funding for academic research will hurt Wyoming

I started as an assistant professor of molecular biology at the University of Wyoming in 2001. Within a few years, I was running a bustling lab with support from both the American Cancer Society and the National Institutes of Health, the latter of which has continued to fund my research for my entire career at UW. I’ve been participating in a decades-old collaboration between the federal government and U.S. universities that has made our nation,…