The Trump administration’s planned reductions for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) not only threaten the US’s essential biomedical research, but also threaten the livelihoods of researchers, as well as some are serious about leaving the country. We are considering this.
The January 27 management and budget memo directed federal agencies to suspend fund allocations to ensure Donald Trump’s targets.
On February 7, the administration implemented a policy that cuts NIH funding to research institutions in more than two-thirds. The federal judge then blocked the cut – for now.
Biomedical scientists rely on funding employment to the NIH. Many people are expected to cover most of their salary with NIH grants. Scientists studying neuroscience, diabetes, autism and avian flu have become emotional as they told their guardians about the possibility of losing their job in life.
“For the past 50-75 years, the NIH has been the largest funder of biomedical research in the world. At one point, most advances in medicine have been sown with NIH funding. And we have a science When we became a person, we bought it for this system. This is how it works. John Tutil, who runs the Institute of Neuroscience at Washington University in Seattle, said:
Tuthill is scheduled to hold a seminar at NIH on February 3rd, and when he was informed that his speech had been cancelled due to the direction of the Trump administration banning communication between the federal health agencies and the public, he was already in Washington. I was traveling to DC. The ban was to be lifted on February 1st. That wasn’t the case.
“This is the pain people are feeling within the NIH, dripping outside, to affect the rest of us,” he said.
Tuthill is currently reevaluating the plan as the cut threatens his entire field of expertise. His parents had planned to move to Seattle to get closer to their granddaughter. Now they don’t know if that makes sense or not. Tuthill is considering working abroad.
“If US science collapses, it would be very difficult for people to leave the country and get a job, to absorb that,” he said.
Haloon Popal, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Maryland, says the cut means that his studies are likely to be over.
“I’m not a professor (a); I’m not a full-fledged independent scientist yet. So losing these grants is like an entire generation of scientists can’t continue,” he says. I did.
Popal won the NIH Grant. This allowed me to continue my research into brain development and autism while still staying close to my sick father.
“It was extremely difficult to get the grant. I’ve failed twice more,” he said.
The award was part of an initiative to strengthen neuroscience’s DEI. The grant webpage was then removed as part of the Trump administration’s attack on DEI.
Popal has always prioritized impacting making money and is currently applying for a data science job, but is not excited by the options available, such as supporting banks with HR. He is considering moving to Canada where his family is, but he is his father’s caregiver and does not want to leave him.
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Pilowsky, a July study of bird flu at the Cary Institute, has already applied for a visa to work remotely in Spain.
“In my personal case, frankly, as a transgender scientist, I’m worried about being discriminated against for who I am,” they said.
Pilowksy hopes they can continue to study avian flu overseas, but hopes that NIH’s cuts in funding could also threaten futures for their research. Advances in research on avian flu are essential.
“I don’t want to induce panic. I want to make it very clear that there is a lot of uncertainty about avian flu,” Pirovsky said, “If you start to start sending from humans to humans, it’s more dangerous than covid. I said it before admitting that there could be. The new strains are more deadly and remain in the environment for a long time, they added.
The administration’s decision to leave anyone who has already hurt avian flu research.
“The virus doesn’t care about countries or borders. They don’t know they exist. They need to coordinate globally to keep track of what’s going on with the virus and learn from each other. There is,” explained Pirowski.
Luke Norton, an associate professor studying diabetes at the University of Texas, is already looking for a way to return to his native UK, where he is from, but he is confident he can continue his research there.
“The United States is zero on the ground with type 2 diabetes (studies),” he says. He feels “lucky” to return, but he says that going back would feel like a failure. ”
“I really don’t want to go back,” Norton said. “I’ve worked so hard to establish myself here… Now I’m a citizen. I have a family. I have a child born here.”
