Eric C. Greene

Eric C. Greene

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Higgins Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics at Columbia University | Genome Integrity & DNA Repair Mechanisms | Single Molecule Biophysics | https://substack.com/@ericcgreene

798 Followers 311 Following 15 Posts Joined Nov 2024
9 months ago
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The White House Vision for Dismantling Science in One Simple Plot Proposed NIH, NSF, and NASA budgets would be catastrophic for innovation and discovery. But they aren’t reality yet. The time to speak up is now.

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9 months ago
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Opinion | In the Future, China Will Be Dominant. The U.S. Will Be Irrelevant.

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10 months ago
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Has America Given Up on Children’s Learning?

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A New Isolationism Will Diminish American Leadership in Science Ongoing rule changes – including halting grant awards with foreign partners – represent a new isolationism that will diminish American leadership in science.

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Trump’s Cuts to Science Funding Could Hurt U.S. Economy, Study Shows Reducing federal support for research and development could cause long-run economic damage and reduce government revenue.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...

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America’s Global Advantage in Higher Education: How International Students Strengthen U.S. Higher Education The Benefits of Global Talent in American Higher Education

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Opinion | The White House Tech Bros Owe Their Fortunes to the Research They’re Killing Underlying many investments are breakthroughs in medicine and technology from great universities.

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Supporting medical science in the USA The pursuit of rigorous medical science is not compatible with capitulation to government demands aimed at weaponising and eroding science. On April 14, Edwin R Martin Jr, the Trump-appointed interim ...

“Science and medicine in the USA are being violently dismembered while the world watches.” -The Lancet

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10 months ago
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The Great Cootie Conspiracy: RFK Jr.’s Shocking Medical Breakthrough Consequences of Science Illiteracy in American Leadership

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Opinion | Larry David: My Dinner With Adolf When a private meeting goes unexpectedly.

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CUIMC Stands Up

Signs of Life at Columbia! www.cuimcstandsup.org

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Brooks and Capehart on Trump's faceoff with the courts YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

Watching this video is worth 11 minutes of your time: youtu.be/Hs2hrpPmx7k?...

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Reflecting on the importance of biomedical research to America Academic Research is America's Strength

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Opinion | It’s Time to Protect America From America’s President Trump’s authoritarian actions are vandalizing the American project.

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11 months ago

I am a professor at Columbia University. All of the student NIH training grants have been canceled and now there are reports that ALL funding will be frozen. Why are Universities not banding together and speaking out publicly and forcibly about governmental attacks on biomedical research?

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