In one month of a bomb blast after another (and at the same time), the Trump administration can be difficult to detect the damage. But contrary to attacks on prediction issues Dai. And foreign aid, on Friday, the announcement that the National Health Institute will reduce financial support for medical research, does not create a blasphemous political feeling. This is a decision that will jeopardize the health of Americans, against decades of bilateral support, and can export the torch to one of the country’s most striking, productive and jealous industries. On Monday, a Federal District Court judge temporarily stopped the deductions, but the administration’s case is unlikely to quit the matter.
NIH was certainly announced in the language of “performance”. “Can you believe that tens of billions of universities are going away from the amount of 60 % of the research awards for ‘overhead’?” Elon Musk wrote. “What a cherish!” The actual percentage is less than half, but certainly, it puts it all in the wooden chapar.
The problem with doing so is that this grant is one of the main reasons why the United States has the most advanced infrastructure of biomedical research. The NIH Awards gives more than 300,000 researchers in more than 2,500 entities, including Mayo Clinic and MD Anderson Cancer Center in Texas. – With the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies. The NIH grant stimulates $ 2.09 in each dollar economic activity, and every million investment of 100 million is 78 patents and $ 598 million more research. Account. They help cover the “overheads” basic infrastructure that make them all possible
Grant has been a source of new treatment for cancer, heart disease, diabetes, stroke and HIV. Amazing drugs such as ozampic; IVF and laparoscopy such as ground breaking techniques. They will cut the pipeline significantly to the future treatment and drugs.
Some of the biggest victims will be public institutions, especially in the red states. It is no surprise that in this period of Donald Trump’s Republican Party’s complete dominance, Junior Senator, Katie Burt, from Alabama, demanded “a smart, targeted approach”. “Life will not be a hindrance, high acquisition will not hinder research.”
Encourage it? Perhaps the reason is that Alabama University, Birmingham, is one of the biggest employers in his state, Received more than $ 1 billion in recent years From NIH, with impressive records of results. Only in the financial year 2023, the NIH Grant Texas had a total of $ 1.85 billion, and Florida was $ 914 million. Tennessee received 70 770 million And Then then. Burt is one of the long line of Republicans who has fought the NIH work with federal research dollars and higher education for universities. In 2015, Newt Gingrich discussed Double NIH’s budget, because of all other benefits, saves money from good health. On the contrary, after the severe deductions announced on Friday Playbok advocated by Project 2025Who maintained such payments, “Cross the left -wing agendas.”
It is true that the wealthy universities on the East Coast, which were called by Kasturi, will probably be able to weather the storm. But they cannot have cousins in the red state.
By lawAll applicants for NIH grant Divide their budget Between “direct costs” – research itself – and “indirect”, which are more common costs such as lab equipment, utility bills, payroll services and so on. Indirectly dangerous chemicals, also helps meet NIH’s most expensive needs to track hazardous waste, radiation protection, fire security, etc.
It is especially difficult to calculate (how much did you spend 10 hours of lights last Tuesday?) So decades ago, the government decided to do it as a percentage – written in terms of grant – full ۔ Which is Original Effective way to do this.
So this is $ 1 billion that Alabama University, Birmingham, derived from NIH in recent years? If the NIH was deducted, the school would have to bring about $ 228 million to the school to maintain the lights and comply with all the rules. Since Whole The promise of UAB is about $ 1 billion, it just couldn’t write a check. Instead, exempt. He had to close a good deal of his research.
Now multiply this effect in all labs across the United States that have better diabetes medicines, new medicines to fight childhood cancer, chronic pain and long -lasting work to help with bad back and trapped knees and all things Do This will make Americans get sick again, and move US companies behind the fast moving and highly profitable industry.
One of the basic research that NIH has financed is the main research on which pharmaceutical companies rely – and to which they rely on producing their products – but will not fund, because with sure It is not possible to say that research will be led.
Take a blockbuster weight loss medicine. Its origin is in basic science research that makes fun of being useless: Two NIH scientists in the 1980s Using Guinea pigs as a proxy for human physiology, the wet monster was studying the poison effect of the lizard. When scientists saw this There is a special reason because of this To spike the pancreatic enzyme, however, they realized that they had a new diabetes drug. Science Their results were taken to Eli Lily, Bristol Mayers, Scab, Sanofi and Novo Nordesk, all rejected. He eventually took an interest in a startup, and today, because of this research, not only is a new diabetes drug but also a megasler we know as Ozampk. Tens of billions In the economic activity born.
Scientists from all over the country have strongly explained on social media that their organization will have no choice but to dismiss people and to stop most of their research.
Don’t make a mistake, NIH needs change. The reduction in indirect prices can be justified for certain entities. It is appropriate to ask if NIH is very comfortable with something. Other ways to pay for one of these costs may be better. The NIH audit may be improved. Many parts of higher education have administrative blot, and the NIH award process has increased rapidly bureaucratic and incredible.
Hang On, some more complaints: Many scientists say that NIH is playing a very safe, funding clearance, but instead of taking some smart opportunities on big swings, less expensive conditions are imposing, Especially from junior scientists. Finally, China, which just set up the AI world with DPCSK, is roaming over the heels of the United States Also in biomedical research.
Therefore, cost savings and reforms can be on the new NIH direct agenda.
Wait The selection to guide Trump’s organization, Dr. J. Bhattacharya has not yet been installed. Why this rush to these clean changes before your first day on a job?
It is not as if he is promising to keep the stagnation. Bhattacharya has been subjected to severe and sharp criticism of NIH, I always did not agree, but he was fine that many pandemic policies deserve criticism and diagnosis. NIH has been slow and excessive defense.
But it appears that Bhattacharia will not be able to reach its new location before the most stringent changes in the NIH decades – not by it, but the Dodge, this group is named for a dog. Which was an internet meme that became one. Serious cryptocoin. Can’t wait. A built -in is needed to confuse the enemy.
It is nice to get the world’s most important, very important medical research infrastructure. But quite
To the wooden chapper!
