"The United States is by far the world's biggest funder of cancer research mostly through its National Cancer Institute. But since Donald Trump returned to the White House, he has cancelled hundreds of grants for cancer research projects. He's slashing billions of dollars from the National Cancer Institute's budget. He's even ordered a review of all grants for research involving supposedly woke' keywords including the word women'."
"And last month, Trump's health secretary Robert Kennedy Jr cancelled half a billion dollars' worth of research into mRNA vaccines. He did it based on totally false conspiracy theories about these life-saving vaccines. The same type of vaccines that protected us from Covid just a few years ago It is hard to express the cruelty and stupidity of cutting off research into medicine that has the power to save so many lives."
Ed Davey will use a keynote to criticise the Trump administration for cancelling hundreds of cancer research grants, slashing billions from the National Cancer Institute budget, and ordering reviews of grants containing supposedly 'woke' keywords including the word 'women'. The address highlights a recent move by Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr to cancel around half a billion dollars of mRNA vaccine research, attributing that action to false conspiracy theories. The comments call those cuts cruel and damaging to life-saving medical research, note Nigel Farage's party applauded the decision, and propose a UK fellowship scheme to recruit affected US cancer researchers.
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