My district is home to NIH and thousands of nonpartisan scientists who spur innovation and research cures for cystic fibrosis, lung cancer, heart disease and more. President Trump and the GOP are jeopardizing vital medical research.

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Bio-leaders, we must SPEAK OUT. Broad, indiscriminate cuts to the FDA, NIH, and CDC threaten the very foundation that makes the U.S. the global leader in biotech innovation. ALL systems have flaws—fix them with a scalpel, not an axe. Protect science. Protect patients.

This is a direct and potentially lethal attack on Universities that do scientific research in the USA. The system we have, with its flaws, is still the best in the world based on every metric, at least as of yesterday.

The person keeping you from dying from Listeria is a federal employee. The person making sure your plane doesn’t fall out of the sky is a federal employee. The person busting up drug rings is a federal employee. The person prosecuting terrorists is a federal employee.

I can't emphasize enough how disastrous the NIH cuts will be. If implemented as proposed, it could decimate universities and college towns. And it could mean every one of us in the US and around the world will experience shorter and less healthy lives.

Science is key to the US's success but this government's intention to dramatically reduce the part of the federal grants that go to the university (in addition to the researchers; the "indirects") is like removing the unseen roots of a tree & expecting it to continue to flourish.

This will gut the #UniversityofTexas, the largest recipient of NIH funds in #Texas, along with every other US research university and biomedical institute "Indirect costs" aren't padding. They fund core infrastructure for biomed research, from shared staff to keeping lights on

Gene editing technology began by people studying salt marshes. Ozempic began by folks studying the venom of Gila monsters. Support for basic science has empowered us to understand our world. Tethering it to applications health has transformed and saved countless lives.

Imagine running a restaurant & suddenly only having budget for ingredients & chefs—no rent, electricity, heat, water, support staff, insurance, trash, toilet paper. This is what 'cutting indirects' did to every major biomedical center & hospital in the US.

Resource on state economic activity & jobs that will be affected by $4B cut to NIH funding of research institutions-click on your state to see the impact #NIH #indirects unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-st…

To everyone thinking that cutting the research budget makes sense because of public debt, I want to remind them of Mary Lasker's words: "If you think research is expensive, try disease" Doing science is not a luxury we can't afford. It is investing in our future.

Not only has the NIH supported the most important drugs and treatments to date, the modern era of genomically driven drug discovery justifies greatly *increasing* the NIH budget. There are thousands of targets with known associatons in humans simply waiting to be characterized.

If you want to “Make America Healthy Again,” one of the worst things you can do is slash the budget of the world's largest public funder of biomedical research, the National Institutes of Health.

Here’s a reason why the incoming NIH Director, health economist Jay Bhattacharya, should know cutting indirect costs at NIH is self-defeating and stupid. Every $1 invested by NIH returns $2.5. So $4B “savings” is actually $10B we lost. nih.gov/about-nih/what…

It's clear that many do not understand what NIH-funded research does to improve health. It's time to revive a study published 10 years ago that provides incredible information about this. link in the comment Every single new drug approved by the FDA from 2010–2016 was built on

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Without NIH funds to run research labs at academic institutions, as a country we cannot train PhD students. No physician scientists. No undergraduates get experience in labs. Nothing. Industry does none of these things. Other countries will have to take the lead.

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