🔬 New STAT special report: How Trump's policies shattered American science

This series explores how the administration's actions in 2025 have disrupted labs, upended lives, and delayed discoveries.

Log In    Subscribe An eight-decade partnership between universities and the federal government made U.S. science preeminent. It took Trump less than a year to shred that crucial alliance. explore the series 'Nothing to replace it' The Trump administration has, with shocking speed, ripped up the longstanding social contract that existed between scientists and the federal government. For nearly all U.S. researchers, the last 10 months have revealed that the research enterprise that catapulted the country to the technological fore was much more brittle than expected. This multipart series explores how the administration's actions in 2025 have disrupted labs, upended lives, and delayed discoveries. explore the series Part 1 Trump has 'shaken the hell' out of the 80-year research pact between the government and universities. What now? Part 2 After the laboratory job is gone: Brittney Dockery's story Part 3 How CDC cuts in Atlanta impacted a West Virginia teen Part 4 John Quackenbush knew what was coming. It didn't help Part 5 What NIH cuts meant to young scientists in the MOSAIC scholar program Part 6 Trans researchers see more than funding threatened Part 7 Postscripts: Follow-ups from a year of research cuts Don't miss the final parts of the series when they publish next week. With a STAT+ subscription, you can get email alerts for our NIH reporting so you can be notified when the next part in the series is published. learn more STAT, 1 Exchange Place, Boston, MA ©2025, All Rights Reserved. I no longer wish to receive STAT emails Update Newsletter Preferences • Contact Us • Advertise with Us