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Xris Vileson
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Also spoke with researchers like
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Heard story after story about heart-wrenching decisions affecting their labs now — and the consequence of fewer cures for patients and families later.
Rachael Sirianni, a bioengineer at U-Mass. Chan Medical School working on treatments for pediatric brain cancer, said her lab is among the many teams that have been effectively paralyzed as funding has dried up. In an interview, she listed the ramifications: no new supplies; no new experiments; no guarantee that she can retain her staff, let alone recruit new team members.
“It’s unbearable,” she said, adding that the consequences of the research slowdown will eventually affect all Americans. Sirianni pointed to paused studies and clinical trials that she said offered hope to cancer patients and their families. “Right now, what’s happening is that hope is being yanked away,” she said.
March 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Agreed!
March 31, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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I’m a biomedical researcher who lost his wife to cancer. Finding cures is personal to me. What’s happening at the NIH is devastating. Here’s my editorial in my hometown newspaper.

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DOGE ends America’s golden age of biomedical research
Biomedical research impacts all of us. I became curious about how drugs work after my mom was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis when I was a small boy. She received “gold shots” as treatment, which ...
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March 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM