The Trump administration stormed his position, shot loudly and closed diversity programs. But behind the scenes, it also brought biomedical research to the brink of the crisis by holding a lot of $ 47 billion that the United States spends in this field every year.
The world’s leading medical laboratories can be found in the United States, and depends on grants from the National Institutes of Health. The agency has stopped examining future studies on cancer, Alzheimer’s, heart disease and other diseases. Trump aides said they only need time to review the spending of their predecessors who promised him, but what they are not looking for in the national health institutes or when scientists can expect the money to receive again.
In the newsletter today, I will walk you during what happened – and why it matters.
Complex
Late last month, when the Trump administration froze government grants, a federal judge said he could not break the money that Congress agreed to spend. But spending money in the national health institutes, which grant more than 60,000 grants annually, is not a simple matter.
This is because the new grants carry a torrential bureaucracy. The agency must notify the public of grant review meetings in the federal registry, a government publication. Then scientists and officials meet the National Institutes of Health to discuss proposals. The problem is that the Trump administration banned those ads “indefinitely.” Therefore, new search projects cannot be approved.
In fact, scientists say that the Trump administration is defrauding the court. Health officials did not prevent research directly, but by closing the process, they still do not spend a lot of funds allocated to the various research goals.
The administration has also suggested other major changes, saying that universities should bear more “indirect costs” for research: maintaining the laboratory space, and paying support staff. Trump aides say the changes will turn administrative bloating and free more government money to search.
Hit the laboratories stop
Scientists feel panic and hundreds of studies in complete stopping, including those related to pancreatic cancer, brain injuries and child health. Last week alone, the National Institutes of Health canceled 42 out of 47 scheduled meetings to evaluate the new grants. Some examples of suspended projects:
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For years, Stephanie Strashdi of the University of California San Diego drug users continued to search for overdoses, which kills about 100,000 people in the United States every year. The investigation of HIV in that group was ready to start – but it was a sudden stop when the National Institutes of Health canceled the meeting of this month’s review committee. She told me, “Everything is completely frozen.” “He will only sit there, hanging in forgetfulness.”
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Anthony Richardson of the University of Pittsburg was expected to weigh a review committee in implementation of infections on staphylococcus in diabetics, a disease that suffers more than ten Americans. It never happened. He said, “I am not 100 percent sure of their motives.”
In response to all uncertainty, universities cut them. The University of Petsburg, PhD, freezes admission. Columbia University Faculty of Medicine has stopped employment and spending. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has frozen employee employment without faculty members.
Some laboratory leaders told me that they were developing emergency plans to launch scientists. Graduate students are looking for new sources of financing.
What next?
It is difficult to determine the duration that Holdup will continue. The Trump administration has not presented a new meeting to review the grant to the federal registry one day after he took office. Even if you start adding new tools, the agency gives traditional notice for several weeks.
At risk not only tens of thousands of grants for the National Institutes of Health Awards every year, but also American domination of biomedical medical research. Every dollar spends the agency on research generates more than two dollars in economic activity, the National Institutes of Health said. Dozens of patents follow. Through some measures, the United States produces more influential research on health sciences than the next ten countries combined.
Science is revealed throughout the country, including the red states, where legislators complained about the proposed changes on indirect costs.
These results often feed pharmaceutical developments, which puts the basis for medicines and vaccines long before that private financiers believe that this work is worth investing in.
Even OzemPIC tracks its roots partly again to work in the National Institutes of Health on animal poison. Scientists have found that the poison from the Gila Monster lizards seems to have special physiological effects, which eventually helps in one of the most profitable drugs in the world.
Scientists say new developments such as these people are in danger.
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