Friday, March 14, 2025

100s of Research Grants at Columbia Canceled

Hundreds of researchers at Columbia University Irving Medical Center are starting to get notice of canceled grants as President Donald Trump's administration slashes $400 million in federal funding to the university.

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BREAKING: Immigration officials arrest a second person who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Columbia University.

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-- The Associated Press (@apnews.com) March 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM

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Jamie Daw
@jamiedaw.bsky.social

I received one of the 232 NIH grant "terminations" sent to scientists at Columbia last night. My research focuses on improving maternal and child health in the US. Also affected: ongoing clinical trials, research training programs, and research centers that aim to improve the health of Americans.

#1 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-03-11 05:43 PM

The Republicans don't see the masses as people, but exploitable resources. The oligarchs can afford excellent medical care, private surgeons, organ transplants, or months of platinum treatment at the Mayo Clinic. The masses cannot and therefore rely on prevention, NIH research, or Medicare. The oligarchs lead a Kali-like death cult AKA Republican voters. That's why Americans have no gun control or universal health insurance, an army of anti-vaxxers and trolls helping spread disease like COVID or measles, and less safe skies. Malthusian comes to mind.

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-03-11 06:03 PM

The Fat ------ is a ------- moron.

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-03-11 07:20 PM

Got to protect the genociders at all costs.

#4 | Posted by ExpectingReign at 2025-03-11 07:30 PM

Screw Columbia University. Imo.

#5 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-03-11 07:50 PM

I am truly disgusted by my country

Like do these ------- not understand that they may need those medical advances in the future

------- magat scum

And I ask again how does this benefit anyone?

#6 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-03-11 08:23 PM

My neighbor knows exactly what they're going through. And he's pissed since his funding was pulled. You should be too, now we may never know if bears actually ---- in the woods.

#7 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-03-11 10:18 PM

You should be too, now we may never know if bears actually ---- in the woods.

#7 | POSTED BY NAMBLAturds

We know that you cop-killing MAGAts ---- in the Capitol Rotunda.

#8 | Posted by Reinheitsgebot at 2025-03-11 10:33 PM

Ending funding for medical research trials that are already underway is a waste of taxpayer money as well as being cruel and unusual treatment for the participants in those trials and the people who are anxiously and hopefully awaiting their results. Better hope you and your neighbor never find yourselves in the position of needing the results of those trials yourselves.

#9 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-03-11 10:42 PM

This FUBAR cutting of medical research is unfortunately not limited to Columbia University but is an essential feature of Musk and his DOGE bros assault on the federal government:

Chaos at the V.A.: Inside the DOGE Cuts Disrupting the Veterans Agency

Clinical trials have been delayed, contracts canceled and support staff fired. With deeper cuts coming, some are warning of potential harms to veterans.

At the Veterans Affairs hospital in Pittsburgh, researchers spent months preparing for a clinical trial of a new drug to treat advanced cancers of the mouth, throat and voice box.

They were ready last month to start enrolling patients--veterans whose cancer had spread to other tissue and who had run out of treatment options.

Then a problem arose.

The hospital was unable to renew the job of a key staff member involved in running the study, a typically routine process thwarted by a hiring freeze imposed under the government-cutting project led by President Trump and Elon Musk. Suddenly, the clinical trial was on hold.

"They were ready to enroll," said Alanna Caffas, the chief executive of the Veterans Health Foundation, which administers the trials. "They had the lab kits on site. They had the drug to dispense. But they couldn't get the clinical research coordinator renewed."

www.nytimes.com

Inefficiency, stupidity and cruellty. But what else would you expect from 2 narcissistic billionaires and their small-minded Republican backers?

#10 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-03-11 11:07 PM

For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, the total value of the endowment was $14.8 billion. Columbia University produced a return of 11.5% on the managed assets in its endowment portfolio for FY24. The University's trailing five and ten-year returns are 8.5% and 7.4%, respectively.

#11 | Posted by homerj at 2025-03-12 07:10 AM

Not renewing funding for medical research trialsis one thing, especially if you give people a heads up so that they can plan and prepare for those cuts. Cutting off funding for trials already underway is another thing entirely. This is true for any of the cuts Musk/Trump are making. People should be given time to plan, prepare, look for other funding sources or wind down programs that can't be sustained. The cruelty is the point though. But they want to traumatize people as Russ Voight said, and in that they are succeeding. And in the process they are also wasting all the time and money that went into the trials/programs that were underway and are suddenly cut off. It didn't have to be this way.

#12 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-03-12 09:14 AM

Got to protect the genociders at all costs.

#4 | POSTED BY EXPECTINGREIGN

STFU idiot.

#13 | Posted by jpw at 2025-03-12 11:06 AM

I'm sure the free speech warriors will be along shortly to condemn the specific targeting of a university by a lawless potus wielding an unconstitutional power to punish the entire institution for the protests of the minority.

Punishing us all, really, since the fruit of that research would have been enjoyed by all.

#14 | Posted by jpw at 2025-03-12 11:14 AM

You should be too, now we may never know if bears actually ---- in the woods.

#7 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

STFU idiot. Just because your betters don't want to go through life as a mouth breathing dumbf*^+ like you doesn't mean your ignorant, s^*+ opinion should be voiced.

#15 | Posted by jpw at 2025-03-12 11:16 AM

"the total value of the endowment was $14.8 billion"

which never seems to serve a purpose other than to brag about the size of your endowment.

Continuing your research would be an appropriate use of this endowment, if you believe in the value of your research.

But no....let's start firing everyone instead the instant the government funding stops....even when you're sitting on almost $15 Billion.

#16 | Posted by eberly at 2025-03-12 11:36 AM

16- Yup

#17 | Posted by homerj at 2025-03-12 11:53 AM

Continuing the research would be an appropriate use of taxpayer money too, if you believe in the value of the research.

#18 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-12 12:52 PM

Endowments aren't slush funds. Donations are almost always given with specific strings attached and the passive income from the endowments is what is used for things like scholarships, endowed professorships, new buildings/services/departments.

But way to excuse this blatantly authoritarian behavior because, you know, meh ...

#19 | Posted by jpw at 2025-03-12 01:09 PM

"which never seems to serve a purpose other than to brag about the size of your endowment."

Quick, what's the monthly interest income on $14.8 billion?

I guess that income serves no purpose!

#20 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-12 01:12 PM

"STFU idiot"

At least you're being true to yourself and staying originally retarded.

#21 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-03-12 03:03 PM

Obviously this was done by Hamas supporters./s

#22 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-03-12 03:17 PM

-But way to excuse this blatantly authoritarian behavior because, you know, meh ...

you just can't help yourself. The biggest victim in the world, aren't you?

you're such a massive victim, you can't be bothered to read or comprehend anything.

I didn't excuse anything. I was talking about their endowment.

#23 | Posted by eberly at 2025-03-12 05:26 PM

Republicans don't care what Trump does in order to pass another tax cut for himself.

#24 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-03-12 05:32 PM

The biggest victim in the world, aren't you?

What are you blathering about?

If your response to a woman being assaulted is "but what was she wearing?", and I point out how s^*%% that is, that's not making myself a victim.

It's just pointing out how s^*%% it is.

#25 | Posted by jpw at 2025-03-14 08:40 AM

-What are you blathering about?

That I in no way whatsoever excused or defended this funding cut.

But you can't help yourself. That's obvious.

#26 | Posted by eberly at 2025-03-14 08:45 AM

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