Dr. Elodie Ghedin is studying the genome of the virus in her lab at New York University. The head of a research group that studies bat-borne coronaviruses in China similar to the COVID-19 strain that's ravaged the globe has warned that a U.S. government decision to cut funding … Not all scientists think that's achievable. The administrative building of the National Institutes of Health. Maureen Miller: I was shocked. The AHA projects that by 2035, up to half of all Americans will have heart disease. “The ERC is the key tool to offer prospects to the next generation of scientists, something badly needed to give them hope that they can advance in Europe better than elsewhere in the world,” explained Professor Bourguignon at the EU hearing, adding that the scheme was now “recognised as a global brand, which several countries outside Europe want to copy because of the extraordinary stimulation and opportunities it gives to the most ambitious and talented members of the research community.”. His work was considered so important that, last year, the grant was reauthorized and increased by the Trump administration. The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
How coronavirus will change the world permanently, Coronavirus cases, tracked state by state. Europe’s most senior scientist has called for an overhaul of Horizon Europe’s funding formula to ensure basic research receives at least €2 billion (£1.8 billion) a year. Peter Daszak: Well, the idea is that we know that viruses that affect people and pandemics tend to come from wildlife. EcoHealth Alliance's Daszak says his first "inkling" of the impact that this would have on funding for the China research project came in a series of emails from NIH that began shortly after Trump's April 17 press conference.
“It’s a jobs program.”. The team and its collaborators at the Wuhan Institute of Virology have collected about 15,000 samples from bats. "Our work has shown that between 1 [million] and 7 million people a year are exposed in rural China and rural Southeast Asia to these viruses," says Daszak. And what I do is I look at the evidence around a hypothesis. " he recalls. Scott Pelley: How often are NIH grants terminated in this way?
Peter Daszak is a scientist whose work is helping in the search for a COVID-19 cure.
It also increases medical spending for the Department of Veterans Affairs, increasing the overall VA budget by 6 percent to nearly $79 billion. President Trump is blaming China's government for the pandemic. As noted in an NPR story published last week, many scientists have discounted that theory as nearly impossible. Trump Proposes a Cut in Research Spending, but a Boost for AI. Maureen Miller: This is the first one I've ever heard of. "That's the hope. I have to do this through the correct channels. That settlement “barely guarantees €2 billion a year to the ERC”, which would be “far from the ambition the ERC founders had for it to represent 5 per cent of national funding”. Multiple organizations expressed shock and disappointment at Trump’s budget proposal, which adds $54 billion in defense spending but would slash nearly $6 billion from the National Institutes of Health, which funds most basic medical research in the country, as well as eliminate entirely dozens of other agencies and programs. ; The funding cuts to … Days after Trump’s briefing promise, Republican lawmakers wrote to leadership asking that no stimulus funding go to the Wuhan lab, citing State Department cables about safety concerns. We designed programs to help reduce those behaviors — things like the wildlife trade — and to try to persuade governments and communities to do things in a less risky way.".
Wimmer, the American Lung Association CEO, calls it a “radical change.". Maggie Fox is a senior writer for NBC News and TODAY, covering health policy, science, medical treatments and disease. “We work in the United States and in over 25 countries with institutions that have been pre-approved by federal funding agencies to do scientific research critical to preventing pandemics.
But Tulane's Garry agrees it's a reasonable — if challenging — goal. Reporter in White House press briefing: There's also another report that the NIH, under the Obama administration, in 2015 gave that lab $3.7 million in a grant. On April 14, Florida Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz claimed China's Wuhan Institute had, quote, "birthed a monster." Scott Pelley: And yet it was a high priority when the grant was reissued in 2019? What happens to the research that the project was doing? "You have to work with local collaboration and with the permission of the governments.
", Another part of the project that won't be able to continue: Over the next four years, Daszak says, they were going to dig deeper into how communities in rural China are getting exposed to coronaviruses. “We are furious because we know this approach is wrong,” he added. What’s next: Expect lawmakers to more closely scrutinize the decision to cut funding for the research. NHPA/NHPA/Science Source Mike Pompeo on ABC's "This Week": That's right. But, the falsehood spread like a virus, in the White House, and without verification, in the briefing room. Associate producer, Dina Zingaro.
He called on Horizon Europe to be “rebalanced” if this “worst-case scenario” prevails, adding that the “present erosion…has to be corrected to ensure researchers have enough room to develop their ideas and initiatives”.