By rssfeeds-admin Oregon Health and Science University research workers gathered outside their waterfront campus Wednesday after Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield joined several others in a lawsuit to block the cuts.
A federal judge put a temporary hold on these funding cuts but is expected to hear the case in court on Friday. Meanwhile, there is no guarantee the cuts will not happen.
The actual research grants are not the focus, but rather its federal dollars for the indirect costs ranging from equipment to support staff at medical research facilities — from universities to medical schools and research hospitals.
But if that money is cut back dramatically, scientists and other research staff say it would lead to layoffs and cutbacks for research funding applications. It would also incite worries about what will happen overall to scientific research underway at places like OHSU, where they undertake major health issues like cancer to brain research.
Teresa Newton is a grants and contracts coordinator with the OHSU Vollum Institute. When asked whether her job was in the bullseye for targeted cuts, she said, “Quite directly, yes indeed.”
“So that and pretty much the entire office,” said Newton, explaining that the funding proposed to be cut by the Trump Administration “is supporting all of us as staff who support the faculty as well as the facilities that keep everybody housed, cleaning the toilets, emptying the trash, reimbursing for business travel, purchasing equipment and supplies for research.”
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