Becky Willits (She/Her)

One of these federally funded breakthroughs that changed the world is GPS, which was invented at Hopkins.

::Lands in Canada for one second::

If you're at ECS, I have two talks this week. Come say hi. #ECSMontreal #ECS247

Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.

“These cuts are the height of self-inflicted harm,”

⛔️ UPDATE:

We obtained the full list of NIH terminations at Harvard. Lowlights:

- 659 total grants at Harvard in the NIH-created list
- $2.19 billion in total award value
- $960 million in award remaining

You can view them all using the "Harvard" tab on the airtable

grant-watch.us/nih-data.html

All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!

85% of children diagnosed with cancer are alive at least 5 years later. Just a few years ago, childhood cancer had a horrible prognosis. These advance were made by universities.

Yet, government has terminated terminating billions worth of competitive grants that will stop cold these advances.

Front page @nytimes.com today
1 of 6 charts of the 1st 100 days
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

National Institutes of Health lays off hundreds more staff, including at cancer research institute The cuts at the National Institutes of Health blindsided staff, after reassurances that no further layoffs were planned.

NIH laying off hundreds more staff, including the cancer research institute.

The US is now a country in full self-harm mode.

www.cbsnews.com/news/nih-lay...

We have updated our database of funding opportunities for Early-Career Researchers (private foundations, federal, international)

We have 456 entries, for which we provide $ amount, deadline, eligibility criteria, etc.

Download this massive database here for free: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Young, Pottinger Op-Ed: Funding for R&D Isn’t a Gift to Academia. It's Vital to U.S. Security. - Senator Young The following column by Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Matthew Pottinger, Former Deputy National Security Advisor of the United States, was published in The Washington Post on March 24, 2025. By Sena...

Important message. Also important to remember that federal funding for science isn’t “given” to university laboratories - it is awarded based on highly competitive process, profs spend months/years on proposals that are reviewed by experts, most are rejected.

www.young.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...

YouTube video by Cornell University Research at Risk: Life-saving heart pumps for babies

Devasting that clinical trial for Jim's PediaFlow baby heart pump is on hold due the stop on all DOD funding at Cornell.

Funded by DOD CDMRP, Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs, yet White House stopped Congress funds

#ResearchSavesLives #Standup4Science
youtu.be/a7aUBvBcPV4

Download and distribute our (massive) database of funding opportunities and fellowships for POSTDOCs

Cuts across all fields of research. 293 fellowships with info about deadline, amount, field, eligibility, etc.

Good luck!

Download this database freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

188 PhD/graduate fellowships from private foundations, federal agencies and international organizations.

Database can be downloaded here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

The time is now for your voice to be loud and clear. Congress must defend science.

A screen capture of the AIMBE advocacy webpage with 3 advocacy letters outlined in red boxes: STEM Training Pipeline, NIH & NSF Indirect Cost Caps, and FY26 Funding.

🚨 AIMBE is calling on the biomedical research community to take a minute to send our 3 new advocacy letters urging Congress to:

1. Protect the STEM Training Pipeline (e.g., NIH MOSAIC, T32s, MARC, etc.)

2. Oppose Indirect Cost Caps

3. Support Research Funding in FY2026

aimbe.org/advocate/wri...

The pact of the federal govt with universities was not a handout. It was a strategic decision to boost US leadership in technology, defense, and health. And it paid dividends. In tech, internet, in cancer drugs (for example), No other sector has invested in high risk high reward ideas like US govt.

Scientists fear Trump administration cuts to NIH could impact the health of Americans for generations Former National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins, who abruptly left his NIH research lab in February, fears aggressive downsizing could impact Americans' health.

This is a great 60 Minutes piece on the impact of NIH cuts on patients including those with Alzheimer’s. Great job by Kristin Weinstein from University of Washington highlighting the impacts on students (9:00). @uwmedicine.bsky.social www.cbsnews.com/news/scienti...

How cuts at the National Institutes of Health could impact Americans' health Cuts and layoffs to the National Institutes of Health threaten medical research around the U.S., agency insiders warn.

The National Institutes of Health, the largest funder of biomedical research in the world, has fired 1,300 employees and cancelled more than $2 billion in federal research grants. https://cbsn.ws/4daiCrv

We just announced the PIVOT and BRIDGE award funds, as well as enhanced university services to help researchers at Hopkins in these difficult times.

On and forward!

Read about these here: research.jhu.edu/jhu-research...

See Where Federal Dollars Flow to Universities Around the Country (Gift Article) The Trump administration has targeted a few elite universities with its threats to freeze funding. But many more schools around the country are vulnerable.

Federal research funding flows to all 50 states and is a critical part of the economy in many college towns around the US. Federal research funding "has now become one of the few drivers of innovation that is widely distributed across the country". www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Cancer misinformation kills. Chemotherapy saves lives. Rejecting evidence-based treatment in favor of false hope and wellness industry lies is deadly.

75% of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) cases are in kids under 6.

1960s: ALL survival was 10%.

Today: Survival is over 90%.

That’s because of chemotherapy.
Not supplements, “detoxes,” juice, or wellness bullshit.

Chemotherapy saves lives.
Misinformation kills.

Read more in Immunologic ⬇️

Testicular cancer was fatal in ~95% of cases before cisplatin was developed in the 1970s.

Today, survival exceeds 95%, even when cancer has metastasized.

That’s thanks to:
Chemotherapies
Scientific research
Biopharmaceutical therapies
Evidence-based medicine

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Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.

www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

President Donald Trump’s administration appears to be killing much, if not all, of a historic initiative that was the first, and is still the largest, National Institutes of Health effort centered on the health needs of women. scim.ag/4jLeLTJ

Johns Hopkins researchers decipher complex behaviors behind deadly cancers Engineer Denis Wirtz and colleagues are using artificial intelligence and multiscale imaging to reveal how tumors grow, spread, and vary across populations

The power of NIH funded research. @deniswirtz.bsky.social

hub.jhu.edu/2025/04/22/n...

Law Student Firm Pledge This pledge is being organized by law students collaborating across several law schools to counter the lawlessness of the Trump administration and major firms' cowardice in responding. We are the fut...

NEW: A coalition of students from more than 15 law schools across the country have signed a pledge not to work for any firm that “gives in to Trump administration demands…”

Signatories include students from Harvard, Georgetown, University of Chicago, UT-Austin…

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

NSURP.org National Summer Undergraduate Research Project

Although we are not federally funded for this summer, WE WILL STILL RUN The National Summer Undergraduate Research Project (NSURP) in 2025. We remain committed to the work that needs to be done and will continue to meet people where they are. 1/4 nsurp.org

This is what fascism looks like:

Attorney General Bondi threatening judges she claims are not cooperating with Trump immigration policies and saying “we will come after you and we will prosecute you. We will find you.”