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PhD losing sleep over NIH frozen funds 🤬🧊

  1. $790 million in NIH funding to Northwestern was frozen in March with no warning and no guidance to restore it. 1,300+ research projects disrupted. The university is now covering tens of millions a month to keep clinical trials going. Patients are already being affected. #NIHFunding #FundScience

    Frozen without any warning or explanation: That's what Northwestern says happened to millions of dollars of their federal funding for medical research back in March.

    Federal funding still frozen for NU medical research: 'It truly is unsustainable'

    Frozen without any warning or explanation: That's what Northwestern says happened to millions of dollars of their federal funding for medical research back in March.

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  2. A few months ago I posted about cuts to medical research & got lots of comments (on the other site) about how the deficit was too big + we needed to spend less. Now we're spending billions on ICE + a potential war. Money flows only when we are terrorizing people at home or bombing them abroad.

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  3. The Trump administration’s freezing in April of $790 million in federal research funding for Northwestern University has left concerned lab directors without key grant money from the National Institutes of Health.

    The Trump administration’s freezing of $790 million in federal research funding for Northwestern University has left concerned lab directors without key grants and forced the university to spend mi…

    Worried Northwestern lab directors describe ā€˜bleak’ atmosphere in wake of Trump research funding freeze

    The Trump administration’s freezing of $790 million in federal research funding for Northwestern University has left concerned lab directors without key grants and forced the university to spend mi…

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