The cancellation of $400 million in federal grants by the Trump administration has left numerous PhD students and researchers at Columbia University devastated. Daniella Fodera, a student studying fibroids, lost her F31 fellowship, an essential source of income. The funding cuts, announced due to alleged ongoing harassment issues, primarily impact NIH grants that support early-career scientists. Concerns over future research efforts, personal financial stability, and the broader impact on academia are prevalent among the affected individuals, which include over 400 research grants that have been terminated.
Several university lab leaders, PhD students and postdocs have expressed concern to Nature about their future in science and their ability to support themselves and their families.
It was traumatic,” Fodera says. “I immediately just broke into tears.
The agency announced on Monday that it was terminating more than $250 million in funding - including more than 400 research grants - to Columbia.
Most of those affected are researchers and students whose grants and fellowships come from the US National Institutes of Health, the world's largest funder of biomedical research.
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