Local Health Officials Call HHS Decision to Pull Vaccine Funding ‘Unethical’; Say It Will Affect Research, Employment

Scientists: mRNA Vaccine Research Cuts Blow to Innovation

Scientists say HHS’s decision to stop investing in mRNA vaccine research is another sign of the growing politicization of research, which will stymie the country’s medical breakthroughs. Academic researchers are worried that the government’s plans to stop investing in the development of messenger RNA vaccines, a technology university scientists first used to help develop the COVID-19 vaccines, will undermine the United States’ standing as a glob…

‘This could adversely affect cancer vaccine research’: Experts worry about Kennedy’s mRNA vaccine cuts

Dr. Elias Sayour is working on groundbreaking research toward a universal cancer vaccine, and hes concerned that a recent decision from the Department of Health and Human Services could impede his team's work and the research of others hoping to develop new vaccines for diseases.Sayour, a pediatric oncologist and professor at the University of Florida,is leading a team thats using mRNA technology to help create a vaccine that fights cancer.On Th…

Column: Canceling mRNA vaccine research will cost lives

I’m no fan of either President Donald Trump or many members of his administration, some of who I consider incompetent. One of the most incompetent is the U.S. Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr., who seems to have made it his personal mission to kill Americans under a 1984-inspired “newspeak theme” of “Make America Healthy Again.” Much of what he is doing will, in fact, do the exact opposite, as witnessed by his claim that mRNA vaccines are inef…

RFK shuts down government-sponsored mRNA vaccine research

In a reversal of one of the most prominent biomedical investment trends of the past five years, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced on August 5 a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development efforts under the Bio...

Emory University contract part of the Trump administration’s recent vaccine research ‘wind-down’

A research project at Emory University is among the 22 grants and contracts that are being cancelled as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services begins a “coordinated wind-down” of research studying mRNA vaccine technology.

RFK Jr. Cancels $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Development That Has Posed ‘More Risks Than Benefits’ – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced plans on Tuesday to cancel 22 mRNA vaccine development contracts totaling nearly $500 million. The move follows a “comprehensive review of mRNA-related investments” from the Department of Health and Human Services, which found that mRNA vaccines were ineffective against respiratory infections like COVID and the flu. Kennedy said in the statement, “We reviewed the science, listened to the experts, …