Bucks County nonprofits with unique missions brace for proposed funding cuts in biomedical research

Bucks County Nonprofits With Unique Missions Brace for Proposed Funding Cuts in Biomedical Research - Bucks County Beacon

Written by Freda Savana, Pennsylvania Capital-Star Three Pennsylvania nonprofits share a uniquely focused mission on public health. Looming federal cuts to scientific research, they warn, could unravel decades of their work.   While the Trump administration’s proposed funding cuts in biomedical research are reverberating nationally, they are also causing grave concern in Bucks County, home to the Hepatitis B Foundation, the Baruch S. Blumberg In…

Bucks County nonprofits with unique missions brace for proposed funding cuts in biomedical research

The home of the Hepatitis B Foundation, the Baruch S. Blumberg Institute and the Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center (PABC), one of the country’s primary biotech incubators, in Bucks County. (Photo by Freda Savana) *This story was corrected at 1:54 p.m. on June 23 to reflect $30 million is available in statewide funding for the life sciences industry and that the Division of Viral Hepatitis, based in Atlanta, has not been shuttered and remains in …