Trump Is Shutting Down the War on Cancer

[Coventina]

Rachael Sirianni first learned her lab might be in trouble just a few weeks into the new year. A professor at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, in Worcester, Sirianni focuses primarily on an aggressive form of pediatric brain cancer known as medulloblastoma. Researchers have made great strides in treating these tumors, but they are still often fatal, and even successful treatments can come with devastating side effects. Sirianni had spent the last several years working on a potentially transformative approach to treating the most malignant type of medulloblastoma and was making real progress.

Pediatric brain cancer research is expensive. UMass Chan pays for some of Sirianni’s work, but most of her funding comes from the federal government. Entering 2025, she had three active grants at the National Institutes of Health that were all set to expire either this year or in 2026. She was prepared. In 2024, she submitted two new applications to continue her research. Both proposals had cleared the first hurdle at the N.I.H., earning strong scores from a panel of independent experts in the field. They were scheduled for another review at the agency in late January.

But then, in the days after Trump’s inauguration, Sirianni started hearing rumors that he was planning to disrupt the N.I.H.’s grant-making process. As it turned out, he did much more than that. In late January, his administration ordered the N.I.H. to cancel meetings to consider pending grant applications.

Sirianni received her first federal research grant more than a decade earlier and had never even had an application-review meeting postponed. She scrambled to learn anything she could about the status of her proposals. This turned out to be difficult, because the new administration had ordered the N.I.H. to temporarily cease all external communications. Scientists were unsure whether they could even speak with program officers at the agency.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/magazine/cancer-research-grants-funds-trump.html?

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MAHA my ass.

[Initech]

1. I'd much rather shut him down.

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Fuck you Donny.

[kimbutgar]

2. I hope an invasive fast growing cancer metastasizes in him asap!

[IbogaProject]

5. I disagree

A debilitating stroke where he has reduced mobility and very reduced speach clarity but where is remains aware but trapped. I'd prefer for him to be stuck in that phase for an extended period and watch the world ignore him, his family and he becomes irrevelant.

[young_at_heart]

3. My poor husband!

His future was already in doubt, now it will be so much worse.

[KT2000]

4. I think of a friend

who was given 5 years for a form of leukemia. The usual treatment would not work on him due to certain genetics. He is still here 10 years on because he was given an experimental medication. I wonder how many others will be denied such success and hope because of this hateful sick creature.

[lame54]

6. Is that one of the wars he brags about stopping

[PufPuf23]

7. Less checks on environmental pollution, less knowledge and tools to treat cancer.

A recipe to thin the population, poor people first.

Gag the scientists and blow off investment in and use of research.

Cruelty and murder.