US EditionResearch Cuts Pose ‘Existential Threat’ to Academic Medicine and Put Nation’s Health at Risk, New Report Says
- Dr. Sarah Rossetti at Columbia University lost $400 million in NIH funding in March 2025, halting her 15-year sepsis AI research project.
- The administration plans to eliminate funding for over a thousand grants, totaling approximately two billion dollars, supporting biomedical research at U.S. medical schools and hospitals in 2025.
- Rossetti's AI study published in Nature Medicine found mortality risk lowered by 35%, sepsis risk by 7.5%, and hospital stays shortened by over half a day.
- Heather Pierce of AAMC stated, “there's no substitute for that partnership” with the federal government, essential for research, education, and clinical care infrastructure.
- These research funding cuts threaten academic medicine's capacity and could impair health progress nationwide, as institutions make difficult decisions about their futures.
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OSU falls victim to budget cuts, putting a damper on scientific research
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) -- The awarding of an OSU microfluidics research fund of $45 million has been called off by the Trump administration, leaving researchers fumbling for options. Microfluidics, the scientific study of the behavior of liquid on a microscopic level, is a recently established field and is hoped to aid in the medical realm as well as the manufacturing of semiconductors, a partially conductive component of many day-to-day electron…
Research cuts pose ‘existential threat’ to academic medicine and put nation’s health at risk, new report says
Federal research funding cuts pose an “existential threat” to academic medicine that will have repercussions for patient care in the US, according to a new report from the Association of American Medical Colleges, highlighting what it calls significant damage already done to the nation.
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Sen. Collins grills NIH director on research cuts
The Trump administration is proposing a 40% cut in the NIH for 2026, and Sen. Susan Collins said federal cutbacks are disrupting research into Alzheimer's and other diseases.
Senator Collins Questions NIH Director on Cuts to Alzheimer’s Research_ Cap on Indirect Costs (US Senate Committee on Appropriations)
) 06.10.25 Alzheimer's Research Q&A: Click HERE to watch and HERE to download Cap on Indirect Costs Q&A: Click HERE to watch and HERE to download Washington, D.C. - At a hearing to review the Fiscal Year 2026 budget request for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Senator Susan Collins, Chair of the Appropriations Committee, questioned NIH Director Jayanta Bhattacharya on proposed funding cuts to Alzheimer's research and a 15 percent ca…
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