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U.S. Budget Cuts Are Robbing Early-Career Scientists of Their Future. Canceled grants and slashed budgets are disproportionately affecting junior health researchers, dealing a major blow to the future of science and society in the U.S.
Canceled grants and slashed budgets are disproportionately affecting junior health researchers, dealing a major blow to the future of science and society in the U.S.
But these lifesaving efforts—and Camilo’s hopes of a career focused on directly helping people in his community—came to a screeching halt one recent Friday afternoon: he opened an e-mail that said a National Institutes of Health grant, vital to his work, had been terminated. Senior researchers often have a diversity of funding streams, but for those starting out in the field, “grants serve as the foundation for an entire career of work,” says Megan Ranney, dean of the Yale School of Public Health. The termination letter for Calimo's grant, which is not affected by Judge Young's ruling, said that it “no longer [effectuated] agency priorities” and that “research programs based primarily on artificial and non-scientific categories, including amorphous equity objectives, are antithetical to the scientific inquiry, do nothing to expand our knowledge of living systems, provide low returns on investment, and ultimately do not enhance health, lengthen life or reduce illness.” Not only did these claims completely contradict the original score that NIH grant reviewers gave Camilo's application, reading the letter made him feel like he was being “attacked,” he says.
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