Tyler Nelson, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Florida focusing on pain neurobiology, faces funding challenges due to President Trump's executive order that impacts grants supporting underrepresented researchers, including those with disabilities. After working for months on his grant application to the NIH, Nelson found out that his application was set to be discarded because it fell under a now-invalidated diversity funding category. Thanks to an anonymous tip-off, he managed to withdraw and resubmit before the deadline, raising concerns about the discriminatory effects on other researchers in similar positions.
"What this does is discriminate against people who are underrepresented," said an N.I.H. reviewer who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation. The situation illustrates the fallout from the executive order on diversity funding.
"I've tried to call probably 150 times," he said. Unofficially, he learned that the agency was planning to pull his submission altogether rather than move it to the general award pool for consideration.
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