Health research

Axios - Trump administration spending cuts and freezes to federal grants are roiling major academic medical research programs, prompting layoffs, and leading administrators to rescind admissions offers to graduate students.

Experts predict the face of university research could be permanently changed, affecting work on treatments for cancer, Alzheimer's, and diabetes, among other conditions, along with studies on the underpinnings of disease. "NIH is the single-largest funder of science in the nation and you can't just sort of shift costs from other areas to cover this," said Jonathan Teyan, CEO of the Associated Medical Schools of New York.

The University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School rescinded provisional offers to dozens of biomedical Ph.D. students this month, "to ensure that our current students' progress is not disrupted" amid funding uncertainties, a spokesperson told Axios.

• Johns Hopkins University last week moved to eliminate more than 2,200 staff positions, including 247 in the U.S., following the termination of more than $800 million in USAID funding.
• The termination of more than 400 NIH grants to Columbia University over its handling of Gaza protests will directly impact Alzheimer's and cancer research, Notus reported...

Some U.S. scientists affected by the cuts are being recruited to work abroad, and foreign-born researchers are beginning to consider the jump, Nature reported. But those nations may have funding troubles of their own and can only absorb so much talent.

It's still possible that courts could reverse some of the cuts, as they have the dismissals of provisional federal employees at certain departments and agencies.  More