NEWS ANALYSIS: Trump’s cuts to SA science jeopardise projects, lives and livelihoods
Hundreds of projects at universities and research institutions placed in jeopardy from US grant cuts
17 April 2025 - 05:00
Prof Kogie Naidoo was leading a team of researchers trying to figure out whether people infected with tuberculosis (TB) but not yet showing symptoms might be unwitting “superspreaders” when she received notice from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) withdrawing the project’s grant.
Now instead of wrestling with scientific problems she is trying to work out how many staff to retrench...
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