US EditionUniversities 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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DSU freezes hiring amid uncertainty on public funding
Why Should Delaware Care?Delaware State University is the second largest, four-year university in the state, enrolling thousands of students every year. With looming federal threats to higher education though, the university’s leaders are pausing hiring for a year, potentially slowing its historic growth in the last decade.Delaware State University has instituted a year-long hiring freeze amid concerns over federal and state funding support, pot…
'It's unimaginable': Creighton student, pediatric cancer survivor says NIH cuts are dangerous
A pre-med student at Creighton University who credits research for helping him enter remission. Recent threats to cancer research funding have him concerned for children battling the disease in the future.
Trump Adviser Blames “Scientific Slowdown” on DEI, Red Tape
Science policy adviser Michael Kratsios wants private research funding to make up for the “diminishing returns” he says federal investments have yielded. But data shows that federal R&D continues to produce enormous value. President Donald Trump’s science adviser and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy believes the recent, seismic cuts to federal research funding offer “a moment of clarity” for the scientific comm…
MIT reduces grad student slots by 8% as Trump cuts weigh on budget
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is enrolling fewer graduate students in its vaunted research programs and laying off employees as the Trump administration’s squeeze on universities muddles its financial outlook.
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