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• Former NIH director Francis Collins, once beloved in Washington, now worries for his safety there

  By Anil Oza, Katherine MacPhail| STAT Verified CAMBRIDGE, Mass

  By Anil Oza, Katherine MacPhail · STAT

  Mar. 10, 2025

• At ‘Stand Up for Science’ rally, Francis Collins warns major NIH research programs ‘at severe risk’

  By Anil Oza, Katherine MacPhail| STAT Verified WASHINGTON, D.C. — Days after retiring from the National Institutes of Health, the agency’s former director warned that two signature programs — an initiative to decipher how the brain works, and another to build a massive and diverse genomics database — are threatened by Trump administration actions

  By Anil Oza, Katherine MacPhail · STAT

  Mar. 07, 2025

• Q&A: How Trump’s USAID freeze halted the effort to develop an effective HIV vaccine in Africa

  By Katherine MacPhail| STAT Verified Last month, researchers in South Africa were preparing to administer two experimental HIV vaccines in a Phase 1 clinical trial. The staff was trained, immunizations were ready, and participant screening had begun. Then, they received a stop-work order: The $45 million in funding from USAID to support the project was frozen under a 90-day review — and could be withdrawn completely

  By Katherine MacPhail · STAT

  Feb. 26, 2025

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