Posted on 04/13/2025 5:41:32 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A pause to NIH funding has researchers scrambling for contingency plans at the University of Washington’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. The center’s brain bank is preserving more than 4,000 brains for research.
SEATTLE — Andrea Gilbert thought she knew what would happen to her brain.
The 79-year-old retired attorney, who has Alzheimer’s disease and receives care at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, agreed to donate it for research in 2023. She hoped to help scientists unlock the keys to a disease that had left her writing notes to remind herself if she’d already brushed her teeth.
The fate of that program is now in limbo because the Trump administration has upended the system that funds biomedical research.
Universities are reeling. The Trump administration has executed a flurry of research grant terminations at large, private institutions like Johns Hopkins and Princeton University. In a recent court case against NIH, the American Civil Liberties Union argued that the administration targeted cuts to grants about topics it disfavors like diversity, LGBTQ issues and gender identity.
Among public universities, the University of Washington is one of the hardest hit, and researchers and students have said the fallout from the cuts has upended their careers and forced some to consider leaving the U.S.
“We’re going to have a big brain drain in the U.S. of these really talented folks,” said Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert, the vice dean of research and graduate education at UW Medicine. “It’s not just a switch that you flip, right? If people move out into another direction with their careers, they often don’t come back.”
In a statement to NBC News, NIH said it was dedicated to restoring “gold-standard, evidence-based science.”
A legal battle is ongoing over the cuts and funding pauses, but any permanent resolution is likely months away.
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Ah, one of N daily “we are doomed ‘cuz of Trump” joke articles oozed out by our journalism majors.
N is a very large number.
Journalism...when one hasn’t got the ability to get a studies degree.
With the defict of brains on Capitol Hill, Congress could put those brains to good use.
University of Washington endowment = $8 billion
Boo hoo.
They had one in the White House for 4 years and did nothing with it.
Who wants to preserve 4000 leftist brains?
Let then rot, they are half rotten anyway !
I can unlock it quite quickly for most: Stop taking Statins
Your brain will thank you AND you’ll remember why
Those universities have tremendous endowments and could easily fund their own research.
Waking up to that news makes me do a happy dance.
They’ll forget all about it soon
BRRAAAAIIIINNNNSSSSS!
When I was in college a sociology professor said in class that researchers couldn’t study the cause of homosexuality because the politics would get you shunned by the scientific community. This was 30 years ago. Do we really believe that this research wouldn’t be politically motivated now?
Oh my goodness! What a big meanie pres Trump is! He single handedly stopped all funding to all critical research! /s
It’s always about money. ONLY MONEY. It’s always money. This Sanders/Sandy Oligarchy Malarkey is commie RAT donkey pucky. All the old Woodstock Boomer Walker Kamala losers turned out to watch Joan Baez give them the clap while Bernie did the Quasimodo Shuffle around the stage in his Dodgers hat. 34,000 Kamala old geezer losers bouncing up and down like the next Presidential Election is next week. I realize the Santa Ana winds made them all homeless but I don’t think this regressing back to Woodstock is going to help them much.
Why should a university spend their own money when they can scam us out of our money?
Lol.
[[Universities are reeling. The Trump administration has executed a flurry of research grant terminations at large, private institutions like Johns Hopkins and Princeton University. In a recent court case against NIH, the American Civil Liberties Union argued that the administration targeted cuts to grants about topics it disfavors like diversity, LGBTQ issues and gender identity. ]]
I’ll have to see if I can’t fire up my Boo-hoo-inator” and see if I can’t conjure up some tears over that lol
You have to wonder if they haven’t already discovered the answer to, and fix for, alzheimer’s but are keeping it secret just to keep the money rolling in and facilities which treat patients full.
I hate to be that cynical but the left truly are demon driven pukes all about th3mselves and their pals.
I am that cynical as well.
My rule—never trust anyone who can make money by lying to you.
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