Medical Research at Columbia Is Imperiled After Trump Terminates Funding
Source: New York Times
March 18, 2025 Updated 12:06 p.m. ET
Cancer researchers examining the use of artificial intelligence to detect early signs of breast cancer. Pediatricians tracking the long-term health of children born to mothers infected with the coronavirus during pregnancy. Scientists searching for links between diabetes and dementia. All these projects at Columbia University were paid for with federal research grants that were abruptly terminated following the Trump administration’s decision to cut $400 million in funding to Columbia over concerns regarding the treatment of Jewish students.
Dozens of medical and scientific studies are ending, or at risk of ending, leaving researchers scrambling to find alternative funding. In some cases, researchers have already started informing study subjects that research is suspended. “Honestly, I wanted to cry,” said Kathleen Graham, a 56-year-old nurse in the Bronx, upon learning that the diabetes study she had participated in for a quarter of a century was ending.
At Columbia’s medical school, doctors said they were in shock as they received notice that their funding was terminated. Some expressed resignation, while others sought a stopgap solution and asked whether the university could fund some of the staff on the projects in the short term, according to interviews with five doctors or professors who had been affected. “The most immediate need is to bridge in the short term and figure out what the longer-term plans are,” said Dr. Dawn Hershman, the interim chief the division of hematology and oncology at Columbia’s medical school. “That’s what is being worked out.”
About $250 million of the $400 million in cuts imposed this month involved funding from the National Institutes of Health. Each year, the N.I.H. distributes billions of dollars in research funding to universities for biomedical and behavioral research. Those grants are a major engine of medical progress — and, for many scientists and medical researchers, of successful careers.
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One of the most storied research universities--not only in his state, but in the country, and he doesn't fight for that $400 million Trump pulled back from them?
Has Schumer said anything SINCE? I'm raging mad for them. 
was that President Obama attended it for the latter part of his undergrad studies and graduated from there.
Published January 18, 2009 • Updated on January 18, 2009 at 3:15 pm
Columbia University is throwing a campus party to celebrate the latest accomplishment by one of its most famous graduates: the inauguration of Barack Obama, Class of '83, as president. "So you can't make it to D.C.?" reads an e-mail invitation from university president Lee C. Bollinger to alumni. ``Come celebrate Obama's inauguration with the Columbia community.''
Just inside the university's iron entrance gates, a framed poster of a smiling Obama looks onto a plaza where a giant television screen will be set up for the broadcast of Tuesday's ceremony in Washington, barring extreme weather. Hot chocolate and warm cider will be served.
"He's everywhere! This semester has been completely Obama," said junior Anna Brauer, vice president of Columbia's Democratic club. "Happy days are here again!" reads a flier tacked to the window of a pub near campus. "Celebrate President Obama '83."
Obama attended the university's Columbia College from 1981 to 1983, the last two years of his undergraduate studies, majoring in political science with a specialization in international relations.
So one could do this -
and see another reason for 45 doubling down on them. 
