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Congress Set to Reject Trump’s Major Budget Cuts to NSF, NASA, and Energy Science

Appropriators agree instead to keep this year’s spending nearly level

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Proposed Federal Cuts Threaten Nursing Programs and Research Funding for Missouri

Nearly $7 million that supports nursing education and research in Missouri is at risk under federal proposals to eliminate key Title VIII workforce programs.

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Luz Rivas Warns That Capping Indirect Costs For Research Funding Will Result In Massive Cuts To NIH

During a House Science Committee hearing before the Congressional recess, Rep. Luz Rivas (D-CA) spoke about caps on indirect costs for federally-funded research programs.

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Trump Supporters Distrust Science. We Need New Ways to Engage

The evidence is now clear that the modern American structure of science can no longer survive as an apolitical entity that enjoys consistent, bipartisan support. Science is now suffering a generational catastrophe, not just in terms of funding, but in terms of political and public support.

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Lyme Disease Research at Johns Hopkins in Jeopardy Due to Federal Funding Delays

Maryland has some of the highest cases of Lyme disease in the nation, yet funding for research is in jeopardy.

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A Year in Review of Trump's War on Science

It’s been a tough year for science south of the border. Budgets slashed. Scientists fired. Protections erased. Since 20 January 2025, the Trump administration has decimated science and research across the U.S., and it’s having very real impacts on Canada’s research community.

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Federal Funding Protects California’s Future

Sustained Government Funding Powers FIP Treatment, Alzheimer’s Technology and Water-Efficient Farming

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Federal Judge Prevents Trump Administration From Cutting UC Funding

This decision comes after the Trump administration demanded that the UC pay nearly $1.2 billion in fines and overhaul its policies as a response to claims of antisemitism and civil rights violations by UCLA.

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The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine

A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.

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Trump’s HIV Cuts Are Devastating California’s Black and Latino Communities

The $1.5 billion in federal funding cuts will shutter testing, outreach and housing programs—while one LA nonprofit has already lost more than half its budget.

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NIH Funding Cuts Have Affected Over 74,000 People Enrolled in Experiments, a New Report Says

Between the end of February and mid-August, funding ceased for 383 studies that were testing treatments for conditions including cancer, heart disease and brain disease. The cuts disproportionately impacted efforts to tackle infectious diseases like the flu, pneumonia and COVID-19, researchers found.

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Research Funds in Nevada Are Limited. Federal Cuts for Medical Studies May Make it Worse.

Federal funds helped spur every major advancement in life sciences in the last half century. Private foundations can’t fill the gap if it drops significantly.

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As Funding Falters, Young Brain Scientists Rethink Careers in Research

Ongoing disruptions in federal funding are causing many young brain scientists to reconsider their career choice, according to leaders of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), which represents more than 37,000 researchers and clinicians.

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What's at Risk When Federal Research Funding to Universities is Cut

Federal research funding to universities has fueled breakthroughs for years. The White House is pressuring universities to align with the president's political agenda, or risk losing their funding.

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Research on Thin Ice

Federal funding cuts and challenges strain OSU research efforts

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Francis Collins Issues Call to Action at Liver Meeting

He said most Americans aren’t aware of how decades of federally funded research have led to today’s lifesaving breakthroughs. To help reconnect people to that, he’s assembling a “storybook” with tales from patients whose lives have been transformed by medicine.

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AAMC Leaders: Navigating today’s uncertainties requires a steadfast commitment to medicine’s core values

Caring compassionately for all patients, conducting groundbreaking research, and training the next generation of physicians will remain academic medicine’s North Star, even in the face of considerable political headwinds.

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Uncertain Future: HIV Programs Face Deep Funding Cuts in Congress

As Congress struggles to resolve the ongoing budget standoff, advocates, and lawmakers, are expressing growing concern that key HIV and AIDS programs could face steep reductions.

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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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