David Walt AThe presidential medalIn January, for the inventions that enabled the laboratory fertilization of the laboratory, a better diagnosis of diseases and improving crop resistance. His latest work included early detection of Le Girge’s illness, or Als, with the aim of developing new drugs to manage muscle loss of control of this condition.
But on Tuesday morning, Walt obtained an unwanted update: The Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services was asking to work to stop his government contract of 650 thousand dollars, part ofan effortTo force Harvard University to comply with the demands of the Trump administration.
Walt said: Unless he can find alternative money, his research on Als will end.
“Patients will suffer unnecessarily and some will die unnecessarily,” Walt wrote in an email letter.
The Walt project is one of the many who are arrested in the middle of what is preparing to become a long political and legal Fight On the government’s ability to dictate the conditions for private universities in the country, which receive billions of dollars in federal financing through grants and contracts. The White House continued to escalate its battle with Harvard University on Friday, as the Ministry of Education claimed that Harvard University made the inaccurate and incomplete disclosures regarding the financing of foreign sources.
The Trump administration says it seeks to protect Jewish students on the campus. Harvard University President, Alan Garper, He said The university is ready to work with the government, but its demands will not deal with “anti -Semitism in a cooperative and constructive manner.” Instead, Harvard said that the White House was seeking to control those who employ the university, the students who recognize it and how to manage the ideological diversity. The school pledged that it “would not give up its independence or constitutional rights.”
The government has suspended more than $ 2.2 billion in contracts and grants to Harvard University in response. The Ministry of Education said that the financing of hospitals related to the university is not affected. But this still leaves a lot of scientific work in danger.
The federal government pledged $ 2.5 billion for more than a thousand research projects at Harvard University before freezing financing. Nearly half of these were already in an operation, with the vast majority of money coming through the National Institutes of Health. These resources support studies on infectious diseases, children’s health and aging effect.
Researchers at Harvard University discover one person after another, whether their projects are affected.
Walt’s colleague, Donald Inge, the founding director of the Harvard Wes Institute, also received orders to stop working for two decades. It reaches about 20 million dollars and is linked to the search for human organs – the devices designed to imitate the real organs that can help in replacing animal tests in the studies of drug development and support on reducing the side effects of radiation.
“We will never get to Mars without developing ways to overcome the deadly effects of high -energy radiation, which an astronaut will face during that long journey,” said Ingeber. President Donald Trump and Eileon Musk called for ambitious plans to send humans to Mars. Ingber seeks to obtain other funds to continue working and keep nearly 20 researchers to help him.
The WYSS Institute is funded by Harvard Business College graduates Hansjörg wyss, Swiss billionaire.
However, it is unlikely that there is enough money from other sources to replace the government’s role in supporting scientific research.
Harvard Public Health College has also received orders to stop working for at least three decades: one for $ 60 million for tuberculosis research and the smallest to search for a breast cancer tumor sequence and a study on the relationship between coffee and cancer.
The spokeswoman Stephanie Simon, a spokeswoman for the spokeswoman, said the school is facing a major budget crisis due to the common effects of freezing federal financing and threats to join international students. Federal financing constitutes 46 % of the Public Health School budget.
Simon said: “We expect other suspension work orders,” Simon said.
Walt, a researcher at Als, temporarily transferred some employees to other projects that were not affected by the freezing of the Trump administration. He said it was just a stopping procedure in the gap, and not sustainable unless the money begins to flow again.
Walt said, “The cessation of funding” will lead to “the exposure of the scientific workforce at risk and will lead to severe damage to the economy.”
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