Michael Smolens: San Diego life science industry still faces ‘headwinds,’ despite reversal of Trump cuts

Michael Smolens: San Diego life science industry still faces ‘headwinds,’ despite reversal of Trump cuts

Congress is moving forward with reversing many of President Donald Trump’s sweeping budget cuts, particularly to science-related federal agencies and grant programs. For example, the House and Senate have agreed not only to restore Trump’s reductions of nearly 40 percent to the National Institutes of Health budget, but added a slight increase. Spending for the National Science Foundation and NASA’s science research budget would remain essentiall…