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‘Complete shock and dismay’: scientists unite against Trump’s $1tn grant attack

‘Complete shock and dismay’: scientists unite against Trump’s $1tn grant attack

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/20/trump-grant-funding-attack-scientists 

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A protest over threats to research funding at the University of Illinois Chicago. Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty Images

‘Complete shock and dismay’: scientists unite against Trump’s $1tn grant attack

OMB proposal would upend entire grant-making system – and put vast sums into hands of political appointees

It was a late Friday afternoon in Boston when Harvard School of Public Health professor Nancy Krieger, a social epidemiologist, received an email that would reshape the next year of her life.

It was from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) – her nearly $1m grant to study how discrimination affects population health was canceled.

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