While the government of the United States cut i funding atHarvard UniversityThe harm at the research of the University becomes increasingly evident. The scientific magazine Nature he collected data and documents by calculating that university researchers have lost almost 1,000 scholarships for a value of beyond 2.4 billion dollars.
An email sent to Harvard from National Science Foundation (NSF) US lists 193 Sun subsidies for a value of almost 150 million dollarswhile one of the Department of Defense (DOD) US records 56 for a value of 105 million dollars. Other cuts are more modest: for example, the Department of Agriculture and the Department for Housing Building and Urban Development They interrupted three subsidies each. But the far more consistent tranche comes from National Institutes of Health (NiH) US, the world’s largest financier of Biomedical science: is cutting further 600 subsidies for a value of about 2.2 billion dollars in several years. The cuts do not include the Hosts affiliated to Harvard.
Through funding for research, the US government finance about the11% of annual budget of Harvard, equal to 6.4 billion dollarsand these cancellations will be devastatingthe researchers say. “Harvard he cannot, even with his huge resources, compensate for this loss of federal funding, “he says Joseph Loparoa biological chemist from the Harvard Medical School of Boston, Massachusetts, who lost two funding of the Nih for the study of DNA repair processesfor a total of 4.3 million dollars.
After the Department for Internal Security of the United States has announced that he has canceled the possibility for Harvard to register international studentsthe university has filed cause and a US judge has quickly temporarily suspended The policy ofTrump Administration Until you can keep a hearing. But in the meantime, the damage are dealt with, scientific and economic.
Although theTrump Administration has interrupted funding to other research institutions, such as the Columbia University of New York (where they were suspended beyond 400 million dollars of federal subsidies), «the cancellations ad Harvard they are of exceptional scope », he underlines Nature from its site. For example, the vast majority of funding Nih of the University has been interrupted. And i cuts different agencies include funding for priority declared by the Trump Administration, such as theartificial intelligence and the quantum physics. A financing of 20 million dollars for a Center of quantum materials has been deleted, together with several Multimilionary funding forquantum computer science. Many of these funding have multi-institutional collaborators “Whose financial situation is not clear.”
There White house and the Department of Defense did not respond to the Commentary request Of Nature.