Seattle – Andrea Gilbert believed that she knew what would happen to her brain.
The 79 -year -old retired lawyer, who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease and receives care at the Harburvio Medical Center in Seattle, agreed to donate him to research in 2023. I suffer from helping scientists open keys to her disease that left writing notes to remind herself if she is already brushing her teeth.
The fate of this program is now in a state of forgetfulness because the Trump administration has raised the system that funds biomedical research.
“The matter will go in one way or another. I don’t take it with me,” said Gilbert from the hospital bed. “I hope it is used well. But, as you know, you can’t guarantee anything.”
Thousands of grants have been arrested, including many public universities and political topics such as Alzheimer’s disease, while critics say it is an unprecedented slowdown in the American research system that threatens universities and stops progress towards medical innovations, treatments and treatments.
Even the temporary slowdown threatens to obstruct the SCUTLE programs that were contracts – some of which are actively handling patients.
The National Health Institutes has been the main financier of Alzheimer’s Research Center at the University of Washington (ADRC) since 1985. The program supports the brain bank that accepts more than 200 donations annually and maintains more than 4000 brains. The funding of the center, which is awaiting renewal, ends at the end of April. But grant decisions throughout the country slowed down to crawl, according to court files.
The program focused on detecting the basic biology of the disease and the factors that contradict it. He discovered or helped determine three genes caused by mutations in Alzheimer’s disease.
The situation left the neurologist, Gilbert, Dr. Thomas Japovsky, confused. What will happen to care for patients and reduce brains to search in Harburvio?
“We have gone through a set of emergency planning,” said Japovsky, also ADRC director. “When you start to look like multiple, multiple, several months, there is no good answer to your question.”
“Federal financing dries, he will go to almost any end” to honor the gift of “people’s donation.
Kane said: “I will ask, I will borrow. I don’t think I will steal, but I will do everything I can to find the money,” Kane said.
Legal battle
Universities are reeling. The Trump administration has carried out a set of research grants in general, Special institutions such as Jones Hopkins and Princeon University. In the case of the last court against the National Institutes of Health, the American Civil Liberties Union argued that The administration targeted the discounts on the topics that distort it Like diversity, LGBTQ issues and sexual identity.
Among the public universities, Washington University is one of the most difficult successes, and researchers and students have said that the repercussions of discounts have pushed their career and forced some to think about leaving the United States
“We will get a great migration in the United States in the United States to these truly talented persons,” said Chile Sakaama Elbert, Deputy Dean of Research and High Education at UW Medicine. “It is not just a switching key, right? If people move to another direction with their career, they often do not return.”
In a statement by NBC News, NIH said it was dedicated to the restoration of “golden science, based on evidence.”
