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Graduate leaders warn NIH cuts and detentions threaten UC research and academic freedom
Summary
Ryan Marquez, representing graduate and professional students, told the regents that proposed NIH funding cuts would imperil research, threaten the future pipeline of scientists and harm patients; he also raised concerns about federal detentions of student activists and urged the UC to defend academic freedom and research funding.
March 20 — Ryan Marquez, president of the UC graduate and professional council, told the Board of Regents that proposed cuts to National Institutes of Health funding and recent federal detentions of student activists pose existential risks to public research, graduate education and academic freedom.
“Over the last decade, 99.4 percent of all new FDA-approved drugs were developed with NIH funding,” Marquez said, describing NIH-supported research as central to medical…
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