• What happens when billions of dollars in research funding goes away

  • Feb 20 2025
  • Duração: 9 minutos
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What happens when billions of dollars in research funding goes away

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  • Federal funding from the National Institutes of Health has driven the biomedical research industry in cities across America including Birmingham, Alabama. It's helped support research into life-saving treatments for cancers, strokes and Parkinson's. But, the Trump Administration says the NIH is getting ripped off in how those grants are calculated. We take a look.

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