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Harvard University professor Alberto Ascherio opens a liquid nitrogen freezer used to store blood samples used for research at the university's T.H. Chan School of Public Health on Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025 in Boston. (AP Photo/Leah Willingham)
Aug 8, 2025

Harvard scientists say research could be set back years after funding freeze

Harvard lost $2.6B in federal funding amid a clash with the Trump administration, halting major research on MS, addiction, cancer, and more.

A sculler rows down the Charles River near Harvard University, at rear, April 15, 2025, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
May 27, 2025

Trump administration to cut $100M in federal contracts for Harvard

The Trump administration is asking federal agencies to cancel contracts with Harvard University worth about $100 million.

Virginia Tech Professor Ashley Dayer, shown in July 2023 in the Adirondacks, New York, says she was informed on Monday that her NSF funding for a research project examining the role of bird feeders had been canceled because the research touched on DEI themes. (Provided by Ashley Dayer)
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‘I was shocked and saddened’: Trump science cuts target multiple disciplines, including in MD

Hundreds of university researchers, including in Maryland, had their National Science Foundation funding abruptly canceled.

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