Posted on 08/14/2025 8:41:35 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Scripps News speaks with vaccine experts who say HHS funding cuts targeting mRNA vaccines could hinder other vaccine research and development.
Dr. Elias Sayour is working on groundbreaking research toward a universal cancer vaccine, and he’s concerned that a recent decision from the Department of Health and Human Services could impede his team's work and the research of others hoping to develop new vaccines for diseases.
Sayour, a pediatric oncologist and professor at the University of Florida,is leading a team that’s using mRNA technology to help create a vaccine that fights cancer.
On Thursday, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced his department would wind down nearly $500 million in mRNA vaccine development for respiratory infections like COVID-19 and the flu.
In an exclusive interview with Scripps News on Monday, Kennedy said those funding cuts won’t impact other areas of research.
“We're still doing the research on oncology, on cancers, where it may be very, very effective,” Kennedy said.
Vaccine experts push back
Sayour, and several other vaccine experts who Scripps News spoke with, say the HHS cuts could hinder other vaccine research and development.
“It creates concern about, well, are these other areas potentially going to be affected? And even if they're not affected, the concern also is all of these areas learn from each other,” Sayour said.
“You cannot disconnect these fields from one another. They help each other. We learn from each other, and that actually enables us to make bigger breakthroughs faster, better, for not just the area we're focused on, but across human malady and human disease.”
Hua Wang, who is working on an mRNA cancer vaccine at the University of Illinois, where he’s an associate professor of materials science and engineering, called the decision from HHS disappointing, saying it will affect “many, many researchers.”
Other experts echoed the sentiments of Sayour and Wang.
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Its only 500m…. Chump change for the liberal elites that love the mRna vax so much. Paging Bill Gates…..
IIRC-—THERE HAS BEEN YEARS & YEARS OF CANCER RESEARCH WITHOUT mRNA VACCINES
ANOTHER THREAD STATED THAT AMERICA’S BLOOD SUPPLY IS GETTING CONTAMINATED WITH BLOOD FROM mRNA DONORS.
I WANT FAUCI IN PRISON-—FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE.
“‘This could adversely affect cancer vaccine research’: Experts worry about Kennedy’s mRNA vaccine cuts”
if this is such a promising and lucrative avenue of research, then private funding should be no problem whatsoever ... just more “sky is falling” bullshit from the anti-MAGA, TDS propaganda media ...
NOW!!!
Since when did politicians and bureaucrats become doctors and medical experts.???
Gov't has its own agenda and each individual has their own agenda and America is about letting each individual follow their own agenda free from gov't interference.
ENOUGH ALREADY!!!
This is what is important - protecting the 'unvaccinated' from the larger population of 'Vaxxed to the Max and Shedding'.
P
Experts worry…..Experts warn……blah blah blah.
“Could adversely Pharma profits”...
Pharma might have to cut back on the billions of dollars they spend on advertising prescription drugs.
And buying off Congressmen.
“HHS funding cuts targeting mRNA vaccines could hinder population control research and development.”
The ever ubiquitous “could”. Many things “could” happen.
It is great for individualized, targeted treatment of high risk patients where the risks of the mRNA treatment is far outweighed by the potential benefits of a cure. .
mRNA should not be used as a vaccine imposed on the general public
Congress should pass a law clearly defining what a vaccine is and remove the three letter agencies ability to define them. I would prefer the definition used before the justification for clot shot kickbacks.
Keep that MRNA garbage away!
Come at me with it and I will shoot.
Everything I needed to know about mRNA I learned from The Great Covid Hoax and its continuing death toll.
If the research has merit, big pharma will fund it. If not, then the US shouldn’t fund it. $37 Trillion debt.
Either it will, or it won’t. There is no could
this is like throwing the parts cannon at your car, you have no idea what might fix it, but you are hoping something will.
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