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Federally Funded Clinical Trials Play a Vital Role in Cancer Research, Especially for Rare and Pediatric Cancers

An analysis evaluating the quantitative role of federally funded cancer clinical trials vs those funded by industry sponsors found that early-phase, multimodality, dose de-escalation, rare cancer, and child-focused drug and biological agent clinical trials were more likely to be conducted by federally sponsored research groups.

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Nobel Medicine Laureate Defends US Research Funding In Face Of Trump Cuts

Since January, Trump has blitzed US funding for research institutions and universities, and overseen mass layoffs of scientists at federal agencies. His cuts have raised the possibility of the United States losing its position as the world leader in research.

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When Politics Meets Science: How US Universities Are Fighting For Their Survival

Federal support for scientific inquiry, once considered a pillar of the nation’s innovation and global competitiveness, is facing unprecedented disruption.

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Republicans Seek Deep Cuts to HIV Prevention and Treatment Funding

Cuts proposed by the Trump administration and House Republicans could drive up new HIV cases by more than 200,000 by 2030, one expert projects.

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NIH Races to Spend Its 2025 Grant Money — But Fewer Projects Win Funding

Despite political obstacles, officials are on track to disperse all of the reseach funds allocated to US biomedical behemoth.

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NIH Temporarily Reinstates Suspended UCLA Grants Following Federal Judge Decision

Nearly two months after the federal government froze over half a million dollars in research funding to UCLA, the National Institutes of Health has temporarily reinstated their suspended grants Tuesday – abiding by a federal judge’s Monday ruling.

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AACR Cancer Progress Report Highlights Breakthroughs in Blood Cancers and How NIH Funding Uncertainty Threatens Advances

According to the AACR Cancer Progress Report 2025, due to the budget cuts across all federal health agencies—coupled with grant delays, canceled clinical trials, mass layoffs throughout the research workforce, and political interference—the cancer research and clinical care community is “facing its most serious funding crisis in a generation.”

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Trump Admin Cuts $38.4 Million in Research Funding at UNC: Climate Change, AIDS, DEI

Alongside the grant terminations are 29 active "stop work orders," which are formal directives to pause all or part of a research project.

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Changes at NIH Give Trump Political Appointees Greater Power to Fund or Block Health Research

The Trump administration has given notice that political appointees, rather than scientists, will ultimately decide who gets grant money from the world’s largest biomedical research funder — the federal government’s National Institutes of Health.

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NIH Grant Cuts Throw Science into a ‘Downward Spiral,’ Researchers and Advocates Say

When Geza Kogler, a former professor at Kennesaw State University, lost his National Institutes of Health grant, he didn’t just lose funding; he lost a program he believed in and, quite possibly, his career in academia.

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Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer

America’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives, is under threat in one of its most productive moments.

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UCLA Researchers Host Science Fair to Showcase Work Suspended by the Trump Administration

On Thursday evening, dozens of researchers hosted a science fair at UCLA aimed at showcasing the work that’s been suspended by the Trump administration.

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Rochester Has the Most NIH Funding Per Capita. Budget Cuts Could Spell Job Losses, Analysis Finds

A nonpartisan research institute estimated how the Rochester area's labor market would be impacted if significant cuts to the National Institutes of Health's budget come to pass.

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Gov. Evers: Urges Congress to Reject Trump’s Reckless Cuts Hurting Wisconsin’s Kids, Families, and Schools

Gov. Tony Evers, during 2025 the Year of the Kid, sent a letter to every member of Wisconsin’s Congressional delegation urging bipartisan opposition to President Donald Trump’s proposed budget and calling on Congress to reject the president’s reckless cuts to critical programs and services that support Wisconsin’s kids, students, schools, and families.

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Democrats Accuse Trump Administration of Blocking More than $400B in Federal Funding

Top Democratic lawmakers are accusing the Trump administration of blocking billions of dollars in federal funding that they say is at risk of lapsing at the end of the month.

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Trump Science and Medical Grant Cuts Impact Ohio Universities and Children’s Hospitals

Ohio research institutions face a $16.75 million loss as recent NIH grant cuts impact over 30 projects statewide.

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Oklahoma Among Hardest Hit by CDC Grant Cuts, Analysis Finds

Democratic-led states that sued to block the cuts kept much of their funding, while Republican-led states lost the bulk of theirs, according to a new analysis from health research organization KFF.

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Judge overturns Trump funding cuts to Harvard University

A federal judge in Boston sided with the Ivy League school on Wednesday, ruling the cuts amounted to illegal retaliation for Harvard’s rejection of White House demands for changes to its governance and policies.

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Changes at NIH Give Political Appointees Greater Power to Fund or Block Research

Since 1946, the NIH has doled out funds based mainly on merits established by a scientific review process that ranks each proposal based on innovation, importance and feasibility.

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Whistle-Blower Complaints Detail Tension Over Vaccines at N.I.H.

Two former agency leaders said the administration’s “hostility” toward vaccines had spread to the agency’s top ranks.

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Construction of UI Health Care's $1.5B Inpatient Tower Postponed, School Cites Funding Cuts

Over the next decade, the Congressional Budget Office estimates a 10-year reduction of more than $1 trillion for health care. Iowa faces an expected $9.5 billion reduction,

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Why Some of the Most Important Money in Tech Might Be About to Disappear

From GPS to GLP-1 drugs, game-changing ideas often start with federal research dollars funding wacky experiments. Slashing it risks the trillion-dollar industries of tomorrow.

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Republicans propose 6 percent HHS budget cut

The bill includes $100 million for HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again initiative.

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California voters across parties agree – UCLA, UC research is important, beneficial

L.A. Times: Poll shows widespread agreement on the UC’s value among registered Republican, Democratic voters

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Utah State University Lays Off Researchers After Trump Administration Cuts Federal Grants

It is the first public university in the state to confirm employee cuts in response to President Donald Trump’s administration canceling many awards for advancing science.

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RFK Jr.’s HHS Slashes $122M Across Nearly 200 DEI, LGBT-Focused Research Projects

The grants, funding 195 different projects, were determined by the Trump administration to focus too narrowly on sexual or racial minority groups — drawing outrage from some holdover officials from the Biden administration and contributing to at least one high-profile resignation this week.

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Racing Against Antibiotic Resistance

The pattern of bacteria evolving to overcome our best treatments is one of medicine’s most fundamental problems.

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US Funding Cuts ‘Widen Global Gap Between Research and Disease’

Misalignment between science and disease will accelerate “without sustained US public funding”, study warns

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Mass. Biopharma Industry Loses jobs, Hits Lowest Level of Funding in Years

The state's biopharma industry has shed jobs and hit a new low in funding not seen since 2017, according to a new report released Tuesday by MassBio.

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Philadelphia Cancer Survivors, Doctors Call on Congress to Protect Research Funding

In the shadow of Independence Hall, the symbol of liberty and American advancement, cancer survivors and advocates are fighting to save medical research from Mr. Trump's proposed cutbacks.

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