Trump has sharply cut funding to cancer research in the US, threatening the country’s scientific standing and the health of Americans.
The United States‘ standing as an important place for cancer research is under threat.
As the New York Times reports, the Trump administration has dramatically slashed funding to US-based cancer research, endangering the country’s overall leading position in science research — not to mention the fates of cancer patients across the country.
„We are great in science“, Harold Varmus, former director of the National Institute of Health (NIH) and a Nobel prize-winning scientist, told the NYT. „Why would we want to destroy one of our greatest assets?“
In the first three months of his second term, Trump has slashed $2.7 billion from the NIH’s budget. Federal cancer research, in particular, has seen drastic reductions, which critics say will hamper any advancement in finding effective treatments. This has translated into mass layoffs and the freezing of important ongoing studies.
In addition, Trump has proposed another round of cuts for next year, such as reducing the budget of the NIH agency, the National Cancer Institute, from $7.
